what’s inside your toolbox? core competencies for youth development practitioners webinar by:...

What’s Inside Your Toolbox? Core Competencies for

Youth Development Practitioners

Webinar by:

Brodrick Clarke & Lynn Sobolov

March 19, 2015

Dial in: 866.740.1260 Access Code: 2073334

Core Competencies Toolkit: A Youth Development Practitioners Guide to Professional Development

Designed to serve as a resource to help improve and support a practitioner’s work with children and families

User friendly guide to aid in one’s journey seeking knowledge and training to further one’s career

Montgomery County Collaboration Council, Excel Beyond the Bell excelbeyondthebell.org

Objectives

What are the Montgomery County Core Competencies and why are they important?

Who are these tools intended for and why? What’s inside our Toolkit? How do you implement the Core Competencies

and align them to your organizations work?

Document Link: http://excelbeyondthebell.org/professional/core_competencies.html


http://excelbeyondthebell.org/professional/core_competencies.html


Excel Beyond the BellOur Vision

Our Excel Beyond the Bell Collaborative is a public-private partnership created by the

Montgomery County Collaboration Council to inspire our youth to realize their full potential by

offering safe, quality and accessible out-of-school time programs.


Goal of Our Core Competencies

To promote professionalism in the out-of-school time arena by establishing standards and providing a foundation for aligning professional development efforts & Youth Development activities

To foster an effective and high quality out-of-school time workforce leading to quality programs that produce positive outcomes for children and youth.


What Are Core Competencies?

A set of skills, abilities, and knowledge essential to youth development practitioners and their work.


Core Competencies: What’s their Purpose?

To identify knowledge and behavioral expectations

To outline a set of characteristics and attributes that define a continuum of professional development, that develops over time, along multiple pathways, and supports effective job performance

To create a common language


Core Competencies: What’s their Purpose?

To provide a blueprint for developing, tracking, supporting and promoting staff qualifications

To establish a framework that allows professionals to achieve recognition in the field, provides access to competency-based trainings/education, and ensures compensation commensurate with educational achievement


A Closer Look…


The 4 Domains:

Youth Development Practitioners AS… Resources to Youth Partners with Families Partners with Schools and Communities Partners with Colleagues and Organizations


Levels

The Core Competencies are divided into three levels of skills and knowledge Entry Intermediate Advanced & Administrative

Practitioners may be at different levels within the competency areas depending on their background, experience and training

Levels and competencies build on one another enabling career progression – providing clear expectations for skill acquisition & professional growth


Core Competencies Toolkit: A Youth Development Practitioners Guide to Professional Development

Resources that allow practitioners to reflect on their own practices, plan and track professional development, and demonstrate their understanding and achievement of the Core Competencies

Enable staffs to more uniformly evaluate competency levels and knowledge necessary to support professional growth and improve program quality within organizations


Toolkit Components

Core Competencies Core Competency aligned Checklist Training Collaborative Resources Electronic Portfolios Digital Badging Universal Job Description Templates Interview/Screening Questions


How Are Core Competencies & Toolkit Resources Used?

Clearly defined job descriptions, skill classifications, effective hiring, evaluation, rewards, incentives, interview screening, reference checks, trainings & professional development and higher education course development Providers, Youth Practitioners, Teachers… Directors, Program Administrators… Trainers… Higher Education Faculty, Staff, Administrators…


Ways a Program Director Could Use the Core Competencies…

Assist in describing job skills and expectations of staff

Promote professional growth Self reflection Staff evaluation & Peer Observation

Specific levels of training / education for individual roles


Professional Development Resources

Domain, Sub-Domain and Item (s)

Timeframe

Person(s) Responsible and Task

e.g. observing a peer with expertise in program implementation in a similar program

Domain 1, D. Program Activities, item (s) 1. 2. 5, 6, 8

February 2015 through May 2015

Executive Director—provide support to the program manager and site coordinator in terms of encouragement and funding if possible or necessaryProgram Manager— contacting other site locations or organizations to arrange visit Site coordinator—logistics working with staff, may fill in to accommodate peer observation


Resources to Address Program Quality & Professional Development Other youth development practitioners

On-line classes (e.g. OST-PD, CypherWorx) Webinars & Roundtable Discussions

(Brown Bag Lunches & Breakfast Briefings) Live trainings College classes for credit (credentialing

and certifications, eg. Montgomery College at (cms.montgomerycollege.edu/OSTProfessionals )

Peer observations & Peer CoachingMontgomery County Collaboration Council, Excel Beyond the Bell excelbeyondthebell.org

http://www.cms.montgomerycollege.edu/OSTProfessionals

http://www.cms.montgomerycollege.edu/OSTProfessionals

Resources to Address Program Quality & Professional Development Provide resources to become a trainer for workshops in

the Youth Program Quality Intervention model (www.cypq.org )

Free on-line resources (see www.excelbeyondthebell.org for examples)

Weekly meeting time with staff Connect with your statewide afterschool network

(Maryland Out of School Time Network, www.mdoutofschooltime.org )

National outlets like National Afterschool Association (naaweb.org) National Summer Learning Association (www.summerlearning.org )

Advancing Youth Development (visit the DC Trust at www.cyitc.org )


http://www.cypq.org/

http://www.excelbeyondthebell.org/

http://www.mdoutofschooltime.org/

http://www.summerlearning.org/

http://www.cyitc.org/

Testimonials

Organizational/Personal Spotlights - Reaction and/or use… M-NCPPC – excitement/energy for adoption Ellie Mitchell – statewide perspective


Summary

Provides a roadmap for training and curriculum development while illustrating advancement opportunities, informing organizational hiring & evaluation practices in the youth development field.

Enriches practices and strengthens the knowledge and skills of practitioners

Core competencies are most successful to the extent to which they are viewed as one piece of a larger professional development plan and fully integrated into the entire organization.


Next Steps?


Where Do You Go From Here?

Use Your ToolkitDocument Link: http://excelbeyondthebell.org/professional/core_competencies.html

Check out Our Websitewww.excelbeyondthebell.org

Professional Development Implementation Plans





Professional Development Implementation Plan

Be One of the First to…. Provide an organizational professional development

plan as it relates to your staff and overall Program Quality Improvement efforts.

In aligning the plan to the Montgomery County Core Competencies, we ask that you identify at least 1 goal under each Domain outlining the activities you will pursue, measurement outcomes and a timeline for implementation.


RFP Details

Submissions will be reviewed and awarded a minimum of $1250, with a maximum of 4 organizations selected.

The award funds can be used to assist organizations in the implementation of their improvement plans.

Deadline for Submission: April 24, 2015 Award Announcement: May 1, 2015 Submit RFP to: [email protected]

with subject line: PD implementation planMontgomery County Collaboration Council, Excel Beyond the Bell excelbeyondthebell.org

mailto:[email protected]

Contacts

Lynn Sobolov

Manager, Excel Beyond the Bell

Montgomery County Collaboration Council for Children, Youth and Families, Inc.

12320 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852

301.354.4913 (direct)

www.collaborationcouncil.org

www.excelbeyondthebell.org

Brodrick Clarke

Youth Education and Policy Specialist

Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation

Special Programs Division

7833 Walker Drive, Suite 110

Greenbelt, MD 20770

301-446-3422

www.pgparks.com

www.BrodrickClarke.com


http://www.collaborationcouncil.org/


http://www.pgparks.com/

http://www.BrodrickClarke.com/

what’s inside your toolbox? core competencies for youth development practitioners webinar by:...

Documents

core competencies toolkit

bell collaborative

youth partners

practitioners work

school time programs

school time workforce

school time arena

quality programs