Planning for Students’ Successful
Transition To Postsecondary and
Employment Toolkit Workshop
Session 3
Regional Centers of Excellence
2015
“Leading for educational excellence and equity. Every
day for every one.”
Agenda
Welcome / Introductions
• Personal Learning Plans Legislation: Statute 120B.125
• What is a Personal Learning Plan?
• Personal Learning Plans: The Implementation Process
Break
• Strategies for Gaining Whole-school Buy-in
• Grade Level Milestones
Lunch
• Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data in Personal Learning
Plans
• Action Planning
• Share Planning Ideas
Wrap Up and Next Steps
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Personal Learning Plans Legislation
Statute 120B.125
Using the handout with the Personal Learning Plans
Legislation, review and discuss your understanding of
the nine components with your team.
Any questions?
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Activity:
What is a Personal Learning Plan?
At your table, review the handout “What is a Personal
Learning Plan?”
• Discuss which items you consider to be most
important to communicate to students, parents, staff
and stakeholders.
• Share your ideas with the group.
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Personal Learning Plans:
The Implementation Process
Goal: Build capacity to move from “paper implementation” to
effective sustained implementation that will improve student
outcomes.
Exploration
Installation
Initial
Implementation
Full
Implementation
2-4 Years for School Based Implementation
For more on Implementation Science:
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu
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Stages of Implementation
Exploration
• Assess needs
• Assess fit and
feasibility
• Identify structural
and functional
changes
• Promote “buy-in”
For more on Implementation Science:
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu
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Stages of Implementation
Installation
• Structural
changes made
• Define and
initiate training
• Develop
coaching plans
• Evaluate
readiness of
data systems
For more on Implementation Science:
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu
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Stages of Implementation
Initial Implementation
• Adjust
implementation
drivers
• Manage change
• Deploy data
systems
• Initiate
improvement
cycles
For more on Implementation Science:
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu
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Stages of Implementation
Full Implementation
• Maintain and
improve skills
• Policies
regularly
changed to
support work
• Data systems in
use, reliable and
efficient
For more on Implementation Science:
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu
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New and Improved Formula for Success
WHAT
WHO HOW WHEN
WHERE
Effective &
Usable
Interventions
Effective
Implementation
Methods
Enabling Contexts
For more on Implementation Science:
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu
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Implementation Stages
For more on Implementation Science:
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu
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Activity:
Stages of Implementation Analysis
With your team, review the handout “Stages of
Implementation Analysis: Where Are We?”
• Identify which stage of implementation you are
in.
• Which activities are currently “In Place” or
“Partially in Place”?
• Which activities are “Not Yet in Place?”
• Share your discussion with the large group.
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Activity:
Strategies for Gaining Whole-School Buy-In
With your team, review the handout “Strategies for
Gaining Whole-school Buy-in”
http://www.ncwd-youth.info/ilp/how-to-guide/section-2/strategies-for-gainingwhole-school-buy-in
• Discuss the different strategies and which ideas
may work at your school.
• Share your ideas with the large group.
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Activity:
Grade Level Milestones
Using the “Grade Level Milestones Chart”,
determine or discuss which activities fit best at
each grade level
• Consider which activities correspond to the
different Personal Learning Plan components
and when they can occur during the year.
• Consider how these activities can be
implemented with fidelity.
• Share out your ideas.
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Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
School Reports:
• Student Score Reports
• Presentation Packet
• Profile Summary Report (Group Scores)
• Item Analysis Reports
• Early Intervention Roster
• Student Data File on CD
• Student Roster (Individual Scores)
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Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
Student Score Reports:
• Your Scores
• Your Plans for After
High School
• Your Estimated
PLAN/ACT Composite
Score Range
• PLAN only: Admission
Standards
• Your High School
Course Plans
• PLAN only: Profile for
Success
• Your Reported Needs
• Your Career
Possibilities
• College Readiness:
English, Mathematics,
Reading, Science
• Your Skills & Your
Individual Item
Responses
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Sample PLAN Score Report
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Sample PLAN Score Report
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Sample PLAN Score Report
Profile for Success
Your Career Area Preference
Engineering & Technologies
Successful college sophomores in majors
related to your preferred Career Area
typically have ACT Composite scores of:
24-28
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ACT World-of-Work Map
Personalized ACT Interest Inventory results are provided on
the PLAN, EXPLORE and ACT student score reports in the
World-of-Work map.
•
It highlights the Career Areas
the student indicated that they
liked the best, as well as Career
Areas related to their interests.
•
To help your students see what
career options are best suited
to them, use the Interactive
World-of-Work Map, which
organizes thousands of
occupations into an easy-tounderstand system.
http://www.act.org/world/world.
html
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Becoming Career Ready
To become career ready, students should:
• Identify career fields
• Describe career fields
• Connect career fields to personal interests, skills and
values
• Identify how current courses relate to career fields
• Become aware of the skill and entry requirements for
careers
• Engage in additional learning opportunities
• Become aware of additional skills and development they
need
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Activity:
Student Score Report
Complete the “PLAN Test Interpretation
Activity”, using the PLAN Test Student Score
Report.
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Strategies for Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
• Advising – counselors/advisors/mentors/teachers
• Ask students to self-record scores/plans (MCIS or
other career planning forms)
• Use software (such as Naviance)
• Plan early interventions for struggling students or
those who have no postsecondary plans
• Implement additional support programs (such as
Ramp Up To Readiness, AVID)
• Track college readiness scores for EXPLORE, PLAN,
ACT (and Compass for some)
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Strategies for Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
(continued)
• Track College Readiness scores for EXPLORE,
PLAN, and ACT (and Compass for some)
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Ideas for Integrating EXPLORE and PLAN
Data into Personal Learning Plans
• Conduct pre-administration session to help students
• Implement student-led conferences to share results
• Have students put scores in MCIS or other systems
• Distribute results in classes with student interpretation
worksheets as part of personal learning plans
• Provide opportunities for parent/student involvement
with scores
• Meet in small groups of students with similar scores;
follow-up sheet
• Use advisories to teach study skills and career/college
planning
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Ideas for Integrating EXPLORE and PLAN
Data into Personal Learning Plans
• Use results in career classrooms to connect careers with
course plans
• Use results in preparation for registration and credit
review meetings- annual review
• Share results at registration with students (& parents)
• Use results in preparation for college fair
• Use results for online research for careers
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Ideas for Staff
• Conduct session to help staff understand the testing
• Preview of purpose with students by staff
• Provide item response info to teachers to show areas of
need and link results to interventions for reading skills
and graphs
• Use results to link interests to new programs
• Assist with understanding results and personal learning
plans in advisories
• Provide data to teachers to help determine at risk
students
• Incorporate testing questions from PLAN and ACT into
curriculum
• Have middle school counselors provide spreadsheet of
info for high school counselors
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Ideas for Parents
• Include test information at fall parent meetings
• Send letter or brochure home to explain tests
• Conduct parent information night to share results:
overview and interpretation student worksheet
• Conduct parent night: guest speakers, booths/career fair,
students’ worksheets
• Conduct parent sessions at conferences with PowerPoint
• Post presentations for parents on Web site
• Create student assignment to share results with parents
• Have advisors discuss results at conferences or
registration
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Example
• Opportunities Day: “Cougar Trail Guide to Success”
• Self Paced PLAN Instruction Video for all 10th
graders during Cougar Den Session
• Students fill in test interpretation activity handout
with PLAN information.
• Students record academic and career information
into their personal learning plans.
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Activity:
Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
At your table, generate ideas for tools or resources
to assist students, staff, and parents in using or
understanding the information provided by
EXPLORE and PLAN.
• Record on chart paper and post
• Large group sharing
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Activity:
Action Planning Sheet
Using the “Action Planning Sheet”, indicate your
next steps to implement initiatives related to
Planning for Students’ Successful Transition to
Postsecondary and Employment.
Be ready to share your action plans to the large
group.
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Wrap Up
Continue your work back home using the following handouts
and resources:
• Stages of Implementation Analysis: Where Are We?
• Grade Level Milestone Chart
• Action Planning Sheet
• Blank Toolkit Template
• 120B.125 Toolkit, available on the MDE College and Career
Planning Resources page http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/EdExc/CollegePlan/
• Resources from the National Collaborative on Workforce and
Disability (NCWD) - http://www.ncwd-youth.info/ilp
• Resources from other states, available on the Office of
Disability and Employment Policy (ODEP) website at the
following link - http://www.dol.gov/odep/ilp/map/
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