Career Aware, Career Prepare: Using Innovation and Collaboration In a Comprehensive High School Career Model
Mark Thomas, Principal Northview High School Sarah Gammans, School Counselor Northview High School Shelli Tabor, Teacher Northview High School Sai Naik, CEO Mavin Holdings Company 2
Vision Mark Thomas Principal
It starts with an vision... Create an educational environment that gives students experience with career/post-secondary options and prepare them to be agile in the 21st century workforce. Provide students opportunities to learn and practice traits and ◇ skills valued in the workforce Align grading system to take subjectivity out of academic grade, ◇ while focusing on the importance of employability skills. 4
Employability Skills4Success Technology Literacy ❖ Collaboration & Global Thinking ❖ Communication ❖ Critical Thinking & Problem Solving ❖ Flexibility & Adaptability ❖ Ethical Citizenship ❖ Personal Accountability ❖ 5
Using the Whole Child Model to Prepare students for school, work and life. 6
Michigan Jobs by Sector Michigan Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives 7
MiGPS at Northview
Fundamental 4 Traits & Functional 5 Skills Foundation for success both in and out of school Functional Skills Fundamental Traits Science ◇ Communication ◇ Technology ◇ Collaboration ◇ Engineering ◇ Attendance/Time-Management ◇ Art ◇ Productivity ◇ Math ◇ 9
Teacher Collaboration Shelli Tabor English 12 Teacher
CAP Class Career Aware, Career Prepare Grade-level advisory classes w/ same teacher throughout high ● school Meets twice a month ● Goals of the CAP Class: ○ Career awareness and preparation in partnership with their academic learning. Expansion and evolution of supportive and caring ○ relationships among and between students and staff members. 11
CAP Class Experience STUDENT: Hands on ◇ Exploratory ◇ Student Focused ◇ TEACHER: Supported ◇ Lesson Plans ￭ CAP Class Website ￭ Guided Curriculum ◇ Student Focused ◇ Collaborative ◇ 12
NGFP activity (T) 13
Employer/Technology Collaboration Sai Naik, Mavin Holdings
Mavin Holdings - Vertical Farming “Population-Precision Food” Construction, skilled trades, energy and utilities: ● electrical and gas Food-Processing ● Warehousing and Logistics ● Information Technology ● Healthcare ● Customer Support ● 15
The goal of Mavin Global, the talent-division of Mavin Holdings, was to develop a FREE PLATFORM which contains a series of Apps for schools and workforce agencies. We wanted to ensure we could create: talent required to fill our own current and ◇ future jobs one data-sharing platform which would be ◇ built by educators for educators
Special Thanks to Collaborators 17
Mi-GPS: The Background Counselors Work-based CAP Class experiences TECHNOLOGY Teachers Employers
CAP & STEAM Fundamental Habits & Functional Skills Fundamental Four Habits Communication ◇ Collaboration ◇ Attendance (time management) ◇ Productivity ◇ Functional Five Skills Science ◇ Technology ◇ Engineering ◇ Art ◇ Mathematics ◇
Input from key stakeholders to improve student outcomes Counselors Would like more ways to provide students of college-options, ◇ career-readiness, vocational industries, and jobs Would like to engage students at younger ages to more ◇ effectively develop their EDPs Teachers Interested in more real-world perspectives and applied-skills ◇ scenarios to integrate into curriculum as they see fit Keep students more engaged and motivated ◇ Employers How do we increase visibility for the jobs of today and ◇ tomorrow? How do we ensure that graduates have the competencies ◇ needed to fill available jobs? How do we eliminate actual and implicit bias so all qualified ◇ individuals have opportunities to fill available jobs?
Inspiration Imagination Implementation Three objectives built into the platform to enhance students’ educational experience 1. Increase Awareness 2. Facilitate the Process 3. Provide the Assessment 21
Inspiration Can you hum that tune? Inspiration Repetition
Inspiration Popup Ads? Unavoidable 23
Inspiration Drivers Test? Pay attention! Inspiration 24
Imagine If... There was a common platform that could provide all the capabilities that schools and employers seek at no cost. The platform could also help make students into mavins : (noun), {plural} experts based on having gained the combined knowledge of others . 25
Imagine If... There is an app that has courses. A Student lands on their course page 26
Imagine If... A video pops up as they go to the course page to check on the homework assignment. Students must complete this video to get to the assignment. The video is about a how skills are applied at a real world job, with an employer from the region, featuring the valuable products and services offered to customers, and which offers career path guidance to students interested in that job? 27
Imagine If... The video had a communication question selected by the teacher but simulating employers’ real-world expectations for employees. Requires fair, unbiased data about each student-user’s will and ability to comprehend and communicate about the subject. 28
Imagine If... After answering the communication question , popup adds a collaboration question , asking if the student likes the job, career, pathway, or employer featured in the video; preferences are stored to their record so their counselors can reference when for EDP-planning. 29
Imagine If... Teachers could also develop popups after each class lecture to test students on what they learned that day or to solicit collaborative feedback to see how well the student grasped the day’s lesson. Imagine if the responses went into a stream on students’ records that they could keep for life. 30
Imagine If... These pop ups autonomously provide unbiased scoring around the Fundamental Four, Place your screenshot here creating an objective measure of students’ habits and behaviors (apart from academic grades), which employers also care about. 31
Imagine If... We reward students through minnow coins so they can purchase products through a .com which also shares with students how STEAM skills and jobs are involved in the products they wish to purchase. 32
Imagine If... Counselors and teachers could evaluate how well students are applying these fundamental four traits and intervene faster to provide support. 33
Imagine If... Counselors could share videos to students on how to handle bullying, mental health and wellness issues, assessments, or emotional abuse to ensure they are safe and healthy enough to engage in coursework, develop skills, and fairly be evaluated on their demonstration of the fundamental four behavior traits. 34
Imagine If... All of this information would go on students’ extended profiles alongside their grades and competencies that counselors, parents, and teachers could monitor and reference. 35
Imagine If... This information can then be integrated into the EDP-building process for middle school and high school, so students can confidently select the right courses to match their interests while also meeting the new State of Michigan statutory requirements. 36
Imagine If... The whole educational process should be engaging, fun, and exciting; virtual reality videos really help students experience the real-world environment of work more vividly. 37
Implementation Not imagining anymore...MiGPS is a roadmap created to ensure a better future for Michigan students, teachers, counselors, principals, administrators, employers and citizens that is free to use and meets the state’s new EDP-requirements. 38
Platform Test Drive Sarah Gammans School Counselor
MiGPS Rollout Phase 1: 2016-2017: Creation of MiGPS Core Team Define the Fundamental Four Phase 2: 2017-2018: Develop MiGPS strategic plan Roll out S2B Videos Phase 3: 2018-2019: Deploy CAP class 2nd semester Roll out Kombee Videos and Teacher F4 Cards Phase 4: 2019-2020: Deploy full year CAP curriculum Roll out LMS/Courses/EDP/Whole Child Integrated 40
Thanks! Any questions? Mark Thomas, Principal Sarah Gammans, School Counselor Shelli Tabor, Teacher Sai Naik, CEO Mavin Holdings Company 41
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