Education INCC. Implementation, Networking, Collaboration, Curriculum Jathan Paris Blackline Masters/White Paper TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Page 3 Proposal Page 4 Equity Page 5 19-20 School Year EOY 19-20 Marketing Building Bridges (Infrastructure) Page 6 Visual Data Page 7 Conclusion Page 8 2 INTRODUCTION Collaboration to build curriculum and possible digital badge certification for Community Policy class at Vista Academy to start in the 2019-2020 school year. The class will be backwards designed from the University level in partnership with Journey through our Heritage, UCD, UCCS, DPS/Vista Academy, CDE, etc.….template creation. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Build cross-curriculum Curriculum will transfer to post-secondary credit Internships and community service Digital Badge Certification Development This curriculum process will lead to community and academic Pathway as well as set the parameters for next pathways, which will focuses on life skills and mentoring. Partnerships built will lend value to the outcome at a postsecondary level which will be represented in the form of digital badge credentials, college credit and/scholarships and paid internships within a specific period. 3 PROPOSAL The following submission guidelines & requirements apply to this Request for Proposal: 1. Partnerships with professors for curriculum creation, CDE for Certification process, DPS 2. All parties involved will be intent on creating these partnerships as open sourced material or shareable with any educational entity worldwide, free or the lowest cost available. 3. The initial objective is to create an academic pathway created for students interested in public policy, community service, business development, business law, selfadvocacy, academic excellence, soft skills, newsworthy, environmental sustainability, leadership, freedom and justice. All these can be individualized within the pathway by differentiating individuals with community partnerships. 4. Partnerships will create funding opportunities for individuals involved through networking, investment, traditional and creative means. 5. Conceptualize digital badge credentials as foundational source of educational currency for everyone involved in the process. 6. Understand potential within ourselves to build partnerships, one on one, open source membership one on one. Currency divided or shared or both? 7. Books to micro credentials, contract to membership How to- inclusive altruism 4 EQUITY 19-20 SY End of 19-20 1. Pathway is capable of being individualized according to student need and community partnership. 2. Curriculum can be placed in any community at any time and benefit any student. 3. Cut cost at the postsecondary level by making pathway designed by university and high school and community coop. 4. Choose your own adventure in education Everyone involved gets ownership. We all matter. Implement the curriculum and network in order to increase engagement and equity. School by school district-by-district, worldwide goal of education equity, partnership and information. Marketing ongoing 1. K-12 is partnered with PostSecondary, Adult and Workforce development. 2. Conferences for information and collaboration 3. Open source information sharing. Low priced yearly membership for all participants. 5 Building Bridges (Infrastructure) Curriculum is built already in several sectors for the purpose of child, teen and adult learning. Learning is lifelong, learning is global. Education is altruistic in nature and a bridge for equity. Connecting the many networks in order to build greater student achievement. In these networks are students, families, educators, business and governments. All are moving parts of the same machine. Education INCC. is the idea of education being specifically designed to empower every individual student by providing a global open source of information that can be utilized by communities to implement the ideas that will build networks that are likeminded and goal oriented. The foundation being curriculum designed for the purpose of optimal engagement. This system is constantly revised through collaboration. Digital Badge credentials are the perfect vehicle to set standards the curriculum should meet in order to become valuable within education partnerships. They serve as bridges. These brides have tollbooths designed to set a value. The values should be set based upon the factors for set standards, pathway, personal achievement and life-experience. The goal is to have the Badge become currency recognized by all educational institutions. Supported through membership, private funding, legislation and current funding sources. 6 VISUAL DATA Class curriculum build example: Student interest gathered by survey. All students included that show interest. Data gathered from testing that give information on reading, language, writing and math. Supports prepared for success. Collaborate with dual credit or concurrent enrollment partners. Network with community organizations for real world experiences. Build Curriculum Bridge. Code class. Yearlong class Vista Academy: Community Policy Pathway Survey interest from 48 students. Seventeen students willing to engage in all areas of curriculum. Online college credit option from UCCS. Up to six credits. Criminal Justice and Political Science. Network with Protegete who provides curriculum, community activities and internships. Journey Through Our Heritage provides college campus experience, curriculum and activities. Badge credential will be built in house or through Credley. Possible class codes: CRJ 125, 127, 1000, 2041 Social Studies CTE Career Development 7572 CTE EdConnect 82095, 82096 Enviro History outside Steward 2540 Social Studies PLTW 82109, 82110 Science WBL Apprenticeship and Internship? 21st Century Skills 01304 Elective 7 Workforce partnership? What does the curriculum look like that one would need to do an internship, or be prepared before graduation to work in the profession they seek to some extent? CONCLUSION The overall goal is to have curriculum drive collaboration, build networks that are focused on the student and community. Develop or expand a currency that can be used in education that is equitable. Engage everyone who chooses or has to be in education from youngest to oldest by truly being altruistic. Education cannot be predatory, deceitful so on and so forth by any means, at any time on in any corner of this planet. Key Takeaways Education is a Business The business model is out of date People are the customer People are the greatest resource Education has no borders 8