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24-Credit Graduation Requirements
Implementation Workshop
Linda Drake, Director of Career- and College-Ready Initiatives
Agenda
3:00-3:30
Sign-in
3:30-3:35
Role Call and Instructions for K-20 Participants
3:35-3:50
Welcome
3:50-4:15
Overview of Requirements and Flexibility within the 24-Credit
Graduation Requirement Framework
4:15-4:25
Identify Additional Key Questions or Topics: Small Group
Discussion
4:25-4:35
Break
4:35-4:55
Key Questions and Topics: Answers and Discussion
4:55-5:40
Learning from Each Other: Solutions, Experiences,
Innovations, Good Practices: Small Group Discussion
5:40-6:00
Report Out and Closing Thoughts
Who is Here Today?
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Purpose of the Workshop
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Share information
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Answer questions
• Several opportunities to get questions addressed
• Questions will be compiled and a document with resources will be created
and distributed to participants
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Think about creative solutions
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Phase-in
• From Class of 1985 to Class of 2012, 19 credits were required for graduation.
• Phase in of 24-credit graduation requirements include:
Starting with Class of: Graduation Requirement Change
2013
2016
One additional math credit, increase in total credits to 20.
2019
One additional lab science credit, three Personalized
Pathway Requirements (or one arts and two world
language credits), and increase in total credits to 24.
One additional English credit, and .5 credits of social
studies.
Graduation Course-Taking Requirements
Career- and College-Ready Diploma
Key Content Knowledge
• Key terms and
terminology
• Factual Information
• Linking ideas
• Organizing concepts
Key Cognitive Strategies
• Hypothesize/strategize
• Identify/collect
• Organize/construct
• Analyze/evaluate
• Monitor/confirm
Key Learning Skills &
Techniques
• Time management
• Study skills
• Goal setting
• Self-awareness
• Persistence
• Collaborative learning
• Student ownership of
learning
• Technology proficiency
• Retention of factual
information
Key Transition Knowledge &
Skills
• Postsecondary program
selection
• Admissions and financial
aid requirements
• Career Pathways
• Affording college
• Postsecondary culture
• Role and identity issues
• Agency
© 2011 David T. Conley
Standards and
assessments
Instruction and credits
24 Credit Career- and College Ready Diploma
High school and
beyond plan
Possible Impact
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Percentage
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2008
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2009
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2010
2-yr
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2011
2012
12-grade
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2013
Extensions to Implementing Requirements
• 22 districts submitted an extension to the requirements for the Class of 2016.
• 78 districts have submitted a postponement of the requirements for the Class of
2019, as of November.
• 16 districts submitted for both.
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Challenges
1.
Credit retrieval
2.
Staffing
3.
Facilities
4.
Exploring changes to school schedule
5.
Counseling, High School and Beyond Plan, Personalized Pathway Requirements
6.
Communications plan for parents and students
7.
Career and Technical Education course equivalencies
8.
Unique district challenges
Topics to Discuss
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Flexibility in the 24-Credit Framework
For
Students
Electives and Personalized Pathway
Requirements
Two Credit Waiver for Individual
Students
CTE Course Equivalencies/
2-For-One
For
Districts
Waiver to Delay Implementation
Flexibility in the Definition of a Credit
Time removed from the definition of a credit
Competency-based crediting
Definition of a Laboratory Science
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Personalized Pathway Requirement
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(b) "Personalized pathway" means a locally determined body of
coursework identified in a student's high school and beyond plan that
is deemed necessary to attain the post-secondary career or
educational goals chosen by the student;
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(c) "Personalized pathway requirements" means up to three course
credits chosen by a student under subsections (6) and (8) of this
section that are included in a student's personalized pathway and
prepare the student to meet specific post-secondary career or
educational goals. (WAC 180-51-068)
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Intentionality in high school course-taking
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High School and Beyond Plan
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Career Guidance Washington
(http://www.k12.wa.us/SecondaryEducation/Car
eerCollegeReadiness/)
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WSIPC My School Data
(http://www.wsipc.org/products/my-schooldata/)
• No cost to districts, whether WSIPC
members or not
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SBE High School and Beyond Plan
webpage
(http://www.sbe.wa.gov/HSBeyondPlan.php#.Vk
z9mTbTlD8)
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Changing the High School Schedule
• Planning
• Cost
• More opportunities for students to earn credit
• Possibility of more electives that engage students
• Districts have gone through this transition and are willing to share their experience
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Individual Student Credit Waivers
• E2SSB 6552 authorized districts to waive up to two credits for “individual students
based on unusual circumstances” (Sec. 202).
• E2SSB 6552 directed Washington School Directors Association to create a model
policy for unusual circumstance (Sec. 203), which has been done.
 http://www.wssda.org/Services/PolicyandLegal/FeaturedPolicies.aspx
WSSDA Model Policy
• Homelessness;
• A health condition resulting in an inability to attend class;
• Limited English proficiency;
• Disability, regardless of whether the student has an individualized education
program or a plan under Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973;
• Denial of an opportunity to retake classes or enroll in remedial classes free of charge
during the first four years of high school;
• Transfer during the last two years of high school from a school with different
graduation requirements.
• Other circumstances (e.g., emergency, natural disaster, trauma, personal or family
crisis) that directly compromised a student’s ability to learn.
Waiver for Fitness/Physical Education
• “Two health and fitness credits (.5 credit health; 1.5 credits fitness). Students may
be excused from the fitness requirement under RCW 28A.230.050. Such excused
students shall be required to demonstrate proficiency/competency in the knowledge
portion of the fitness requirement, in accordance with written district policy.” (WAC
180-51-067 and WAC 180-51-068)
• “All high schools of the state shall emphasize the work of physical education, and
carry into effect all physical education requirements established by rule of the
superintendent of public instruction: PROVIDED, That individual students may be
excused from participating in physical education otherwise required under this
section on account of physical disability, employment, or religious belief, or because
of participation in directed athletics or military science and tactics or for other good
cause.” (RCW 28A.230.090).
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Credit Retrieval
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Summer School
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Online courses
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Competency-based crediting
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Credit for High School and Beyond/Advisory
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Other strategies?—share information with other districts
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Competency-based Credit
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Credit earned by students through demonstration of knowledge and
skills and acquired through a more flexible approach to learning than
scheduled classroom instruction.
• In 2009, the SBE and partners started exploring competency-based credit
for world language.
• In 2010, WSSDA created a model policy for Credit for
Competency/Proficiency (for world language, but could be adapted for
other subjects).
• In 2011, the SBE amended WAC 180-51-050 to eliminate the time-based
definition of high school credit.
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Course Equivalency
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State and locally identified Career and Technical Education Course
Equivalencies
(http://www.k12.wa.us/CareerTechEd/Clusters/CourseEquivalencies/CTEStatewideCour
seEquivalencies.pdf)
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Permits students to meet two graduation requirements with one
course— “Two for One”
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Particularly important for Skills Center students
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Twenty-one course equivalencies approved for the state in 2015
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WAC 180-51-050
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(1) Grades nine through twelve or the equivalent of a four-year high
school program, or as otherwise provided in RCW 28A.230.090(4):
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(a) Successful completion, as defined by written district policy, of
courses taught to the state's essential academic learning
requirements (learning standards). If there are no state-adopted
learning standards for a subject, the local governing board, or its
designee, shall determine learning standards for the successful
completion of that subject; or
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(b) Satisfactory demonstration by a student of
proficiency/competency, as defined by written district policy, of the
state's essential academic learning requirements (learning
standards).
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High School Courses Taught in Middle School
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(4) If requested by the student and his or her family, a student who has
completed high school courses before attending high school shall be given
high school credit which shall be applied to fulfilling high school graduation
requirements if:
(a) The course was taken with high school students, if the academic level of
the course exceeds the requirements for seventh and eighth grade classes,
and the student has successfully passed by completing the same course
requirements and examinations as the high school students enrolled in the
class; or
(b) The academic level of the course exceeds the requirements for seventh
and eighth grade classes and the course would qualify for high school credit,
because the course is similar or equivalent to a course offered at a high
school in the district as determined by the school district board of directors.
(5) Students who have taken and successfully completed high school courses
under the circumstances in subsection (4) of this section shall not be
required to take an additional competency examination or perform any
other additional assignment to receive credit. (RCW 28A.230.090)
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Staffing/Facilities Challenges
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Definition of Laboratory Science:
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(a) "Laboratory science" means any instruction that provides
opportunities for students to interact directly with the material world,
or with data drawn from the material world, using the tools, data
collection techniques, models and theories of science. A laboratory
science course meeting the requirement of subsection (3) of this
section may include courses conducted in classroom facilities specially
designed for laboratory science, or coursework in traditional
classrooms, outdoor spaces, or other settings which accommodate
elements of laboratory science as identified in this subsection; (WAC
180-51-068).
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