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Major Clusters Porterville College January 11th, 2019 -- Flex Day Guided Pathways

A Brief Check-In! Capturing Guided Pathways Responses Individually, please think about and note on post-its, with respect to guided pathways: ⬛ : what you have squared away? ⚫ : is still circling in your mind? ▲ : what three things do you need to move forward? Guided Pathways

Major Clusters Porterville College January 11th, 2019 -- Flex Day Guided Pathways

CCCCO Welcome! Laura Lara- Brady, Ph.D Guided Pathways Regional Coordinator, Central Valley CCCCO

Career Ladders Project Luis Chavez Amal Amanda Issa Senior Director Senior Program Manager Guided Pathways

17 September 2018 10-11:30 AM

Guided Pathways Supports Workshops Coordinated Targeted Support to the Learning In Person Central Valley Clusters Support Region Tools (Vision Resource Center) Guided Pathways

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Porterville College Primavera Arvizu VP Student Services Guided Pathways Admin Lead Guided Pathways

14 Key Elements INQUIRY DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION Cross Functional Inclusive Decision-Making Practice and Integrated Academic and Inquiry Structures Student Supports Shared Metrics Intersegmental Alignment Integrated Technology Infrastructure Integrated Planning Guided Major and Career Strategic Professional Development Exploration Opportunities Improved Basic Skills Aligned Learning Outcomes Clear Program Assessing and Documenting Learning Requirements Guided Applies Learning Opportunities Pathways

Porterville College ● Summer 2018 Planning Meeting Kick-Off ● Key faculty leads from every division were identified for the GP workgroups ● September 2018 Feedback from Leading from the Middle Team (LFM Momentum Proposal) ○ Marketing and Communication Workgroup formed ● October 2018 Porterville College Pathways Session Workshop ● November 2018 Achieving the Dream ICAT Focus Groups and Guided Pathways discussions ● Based on recommendations the Guided Pathways Planning Group was folded into the Success and Equity Committee with the following workgroups: ○ Mapping Existing Curriculum/Academic Clusters ○ Communication/Marketing ○ Entry ○ Student Support/Advising ○ Data Team ● Leads have been identified for each workgroup. Guided Pathways

Career Ladders Project and Guided Pathways …Reflections from the field … Guided Pathways

What Works Collaboration Is Key Examining Progression & Gaining Buy-In Ownership Guided What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015) Pathways By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

Collaboration • Collaboration at all levels is critical to implementing guided pathways Is Key • Work together to map out program pathways • Cooperating within and across departments to define sequences of courses that students can take to fulfill program requirements • Work together to guide, monitor, and support students as they enter and make progress along program pathways. • Faculty must also collaborate to assess students’ mastery of learning outcomes and to improve instruction across programs, not just within individual courses, so that students build skills as they progress through the curriculum. • And collaboration is necessary to strengthen teaching—especially in gateway courses (basic Skills) that are critical to success in particular programs. Guided What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015) Pathways By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

Starting the • Colleges need to know which programs students are in, how far along they are toward completing Process: program requirements, and when they are straying from their plans Examining & • To begin a steering team—made up of faculty, Gaining Buy In student services staff, and administrators from across the college—who will examine (inquiry Ownership phase) the clarity of current pathways and how effectively the college monitors student progress, facilitate discussion of the need for guided pathways widely College data is key for GP team(s) (at all levels) to • understand current status and where further inquiry is needed. Guided What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015) Pathways By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

Key Questions about Student Pathways Guided Pathways

Timeline for Planning and Implementation Guided Pathways

Sorting Activity Follow these steps: 1. Introductions 2. Each team should have a bag of candy. Empty the contents and examine each piece 3. Sort the candy into clusters that make sense to you 4. Discuss the process of decided the clusters for your groups. 5. List the guiding principles your team used 6. Once you’ve completed your sort, move around and learn about how other teams sorted their candy 7. Share out Guided Pathways

Why Major Clusters? ● Behavioral economics research suggests that clustering options into similar buckets makes decision making manageable for individuals (Scott-Clayton, 2012). Goals with Clustering ● To help students choose a major ○ earlier in their career ○ Informed decision based their interests, knowledge, skills and abilities ○ Empower students to select classes that relate to a specific degree Guided Pathways

Common Elements of Major Clusters Major Clusters are aligned with local labor ● market demand. Each major cluster includes a clear program ● map. General education core courses and electives ● are aligned with each major cluster. Counseling and student services are aligned ● with the student’s major cluster. Guided Pathways

National Examples of Major Clusters *Please note, while some examples provided are already student facing, others are shared in draft form to highlight Meta Major inquiry and design process is quite iterative. Guided Pathways

Cleveland State Community College Guided Pathways

CUNY Guttman Programs of Study Guided Pathways

Georgia State University Guided Pathways

California Examples of Major Clusters *Please note, while some examples provided are already student facing, others are shared in draft form to highlight Meta Major inquiry and design process is quite iterative. Guided Pathways

Butte College Guided Pathways

Cabrillo College Career and Academic Pathways ● Creative Arts & Design ● Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics ● Health and Public Service ● Entrepreneurship & Business ● Global & Human Studies Guided Pathways

Mira Costa College Guided Pathways

NORCO College The College has developed four schools with the intent of helping students choose a major and degree based on their interests, knowledge, skills and abilities. The four schools are: ● Arts & Humanities ● Business & Management ● Social & Behavioral Studies ● STEM (with subdivisions of Science & Health and Technology, Engineering & Math) Within each School, a community of learners is created amongst students with similar academic interests. Guided Pathways

Involving Students in Redesign One of the most important things Guided ● Pathways offers is strategies for structural, evidence-based guided exploration that empowers students to identify relevant programs of study early. One of these structural elements is major ● clusters (in some cases referred to as cluster or interest areas). Guided Pathways

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Building Blocks to Meta Majors

MOR Journey Questions: Meta Majors 279 Faculty, Staff, Administrators ● participated Around 70% of Faculty participated ● 120 Students participated in ● groupings 52 Total Groupings ranging from ● 4-12 Meta Majors

Continuing the Journey : Narrowing Down Meta Majors Narrowed options down from 52 Options to 10 ● 5 Faculty/Staff and 5 Student ● ● Entire college reviewed and chose their top 3 Students will choose in September ● All Campus Vote in October ●

Reedley College Guided Pathways

Reedley College Guided Pathways

Student Voice Next Steps 2018-2019 Leading from the Middle Team Project ● ● Goal - Collecting and disseminating student voice data to inform Guided Pathways process at Reedley College ● Video Survey - following freshman students from orientation through second semester - recording Q&A at new student orientation, mid-semester, end of semester, and beginning of second semester ● -

Guided Pathways Inquiry and Design: Degree and Certificate Sorting for Meta Majors Guided Pathways

Degree and Certificate Sorting for Meta-Majors Can be used as an… INQUIRY TOOL to explore the concept of meta-majors or as a DESIGN TOOL when a college is prepared to create draft meta-majors Designed to encourage greater involvement in Guided Pathways, college-wide, by offering an opportunity for experiential learning and inter-departmental discussions . Guided Pathways