Is your team ready? Linked Learning Certification Visit.

Is your team ready?Is your team ready?Linked Learning Certification Visit

Is your team ready for a Linked Is your team ready for a Linked Learning Pathway Quality Learning Pathway Quality

Review?Review?

Knowing your Team

Knowing Linked Learning

Collaborating with your team

Consulting your support

Reminder- Reminder- Certification is a checkpoint not the goalCertification is a checkpoint not the goal

•Marathon of preparing all students for college and career

•Continuous Improvement using 40 criteria

•Process should invigorate, inspire and challenge your team

Knowing Your TeamKnowing Your Team

Projects

Work based learning

Interventions

Common Beliefs about Teaching and Learning

Key Questions: Key Questions: ProjectsProjects

Are projects a nice extra or a part of your culture?

Are projects guided by agreed upon student outcomes and your theme?

Are technical and academic skills developed through the projects?

Would business partners see the authenticity in the projects students complete?

Would your students speak to the value of the projects?

Key Questions: WBLKey Questions: WBLIs WBL an extra or is it a vehicle for reaching your desired outcomes for students ?

Do you have an active advisory board that is seeking out WBL experiences for all students in your pathway?

Is there an intentional sequence to the WBL experiences for students?

Can students speak to the value of the WBL experiences they are having?

Key Questions: Key Questions: InterventionsInterventions

Does your team take mutual responsibility for helping struggling students ?

Do you use student data to identify individual student needs?

Would students and parents report a high level of individualized support?

Common BeliefsCommon Beliefs

Does you team operate with a common set of high expectations for students?

Does your team generally agree about the best approaches to teaching and learning?

Are common processes evident in your team?

Knowing Linked Knowing Linked LearningLearning

Four foundations of Linked Learning

Linked Learning Value statements

40 Criteria and rubric

Collecting EvidenceCollecting EvidenceDocumenting your work allows you to build on it.

Most evidence should be artifacts, natural by-products of your work.

Some evidence is created to organize, summarize, or provide clarity for "others."

How good is good enough? ( future presentation )

Collaborating with Collaborating with your teamyour team

Team Self-Assessment

Make sure team members know what a certification visit entails

Align tasks to individual skills on you team- Distribute Leadership

Consulting your Consulting your supportsupport

SLC Coordinator

Principal(s)

District Pathway Coach

Key PointsKey PointsIs your team ready to schedule a Is your team ready to schedule a

Pathway Quality Review?Pathway Quality Review?

Knowledge of your team and of Linked Learning are equally important in making a decision.

Certification is a checkpoint, not the goal.

Decision should be done with your team and other supports.

"Not ready" does not "Not ready" does not mean "not good" mean "not good"

Having some of the elements is good for kids and is better than not having any of the elements.

Continuous improvement process implies building, aggregating, learning, and growing while staying focused on your outcomes for students over a period of years.

A mock review done within the district may provide important feedback.