21st Century Life and Career
Skills - Standard 9
State Board Meeting
August 6, 2014
Composition of Standard 9
Current
Proposed
9.1 - 21st Century Life Skills
Career Ready Practices
9.2 - Personal Financial
Literacy
9.1 - Personal Financial
Literacy
9.3 - Career Awareness,
Exploration &
Preparation
9.4 - Career & Technical
Education
9.2 - Career Awareness,
Exploration &
Preparation
9.3 - Career & Technical
Education
Overview of Updates
• Convened content specific work groups for input
and discussion
• Reviewed national standards:
– Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) published by the
National Association of State Directors of Career Technical
Education Consortium (NASDCTEc)
– National Standards for Financial Literacy published by the
Council for Economic Education (CEE)
– ASCA National Standards for Students published by the
American School Counselor Association
Responses from Educators
• “Smooth and seamless transition”
• “Directed, but flexible”
• “Practical, usable, more clarity”
• “User friendly, flexible and clear concepts”
• “Teachers may need training in how to address skills
across grade levels”
• “Would help in developing interdisciplinary connections”
Current 9.1 – 21st Century
Life and Careers Skills
• Remove current 9.1 and 66 CPIs
• Adopt the 12 Career Ready Practices of the
Common Career Technical Core
– Describe skills that students will need to
develop and practice to be career ready
– Implement across grade levels, over time
– Developmentally appropriate
– Parallel mathematical practices of CCSS
Current 9.2 – Personal
Financial Literacy
• Renumbered 9.2 as 9.1
• Minor revisions to align with the National
Standards for Financial Literacy
• Delete some standards; move a few to different
grade levels
• Condense standards deemed duplicative by
personal financial literacy teachers and financial
management practitioners in industry
Personal Financial Literacy
Example of Additional Standard
• 9.1.12.C.8 – Identify the types and characteristics of
predatory lending practices (e.g., payday loans, car
title loans, high-risk mortgages)
• Rationale: Stakeholder groups and research
indicate a need for individuals in NJ, especially in
low-to-moderate income communities, to be aware
of ways in which they are targeted by predatory
lending practices. This is especially prevalent in
communities with immigrants.
Current 9.3 – Career Awareness,
Exploration, and Preparation
• Renumbered 9.3 as 9.2
• Reduce the number of standards at the middle
school and high school levels by synthesizing
indicators into succinct overarching standards
• Align to the ASCA National Standards for
Students
• Provide educators more flexibility in helping
students achieve mastery; less prescriptive
Current 9.4 – Career and
Technical Education (CTE)
• Replace 9.4 with the Common Career
Technical Core (CCTC) for CTE programs
and renumber as 9.3
– Developed by 44 States
– Informed by Business & Industry
– Sample performance indicators in
separate document
Alignment Report
• First-ever analysis of state-approved standards
for secondary and postsecondary CTE
• Compared state-approved standards to CCTC
• Indicated that NJ is 97-100% aligned in all
Career Clusters®
The Common Career Technical Core Alignment Study: State of New Jersey
National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium
CCTC and Standard 9.4
Currently, 1,923 Career Cluster®/Pathway-level
CPIs in Standard 9.4
617 Career Cluster®/Pathway-level CCTC
standards
Benefits
• Enhance Project-Based Learning (PBL)/
Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Support the implementation of the Common
Core State Standards
• Provide opportunities for Experiential Learning
Next Steps
• Development of rubrics for student and teacher reflection
for Career Ready Practices
• Samples of implementation across grade levels
• Resources on Website
• Continue the development of Model CTE Programs
• Implementation – September 2015
– CTE already aligned
Questions