SWG Graduation Pathways 2021-05-18 Meeting

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Nancy Wilson, Ann Su - Ed-Fi Governance Support

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Refer to the PPT  for additional details on the meeting minutes and discussions.

The meeting was held on 2021-05-18 2:00Pm -3:30pm CT  via WebEx

Agenda and Notes

• This topic will be an on-going conversation for SWG.
  • Ed-Fi Data Handbook for Graduation Plan
    • https://schema.ed-fi.org/datahandbook-v320/index.html#/GraduationPlan562
• Indiana
  • Changing high school graduation requirement starting with 2023 school year
    • More proactive in tracking where student are along the pathway
    • 3 requirements
      • High school diploma - x amount of credits and y amount of areas
      • Employability skills - 3 options
        • Project-Based Learning Experience
        • Service-Based Learning Experience
        • Work-Based Learning Experience
      • Post-secondary competency
        • Honors Diploma
        • ACT
        • SAT
        • ASVAB
        • State-and Industry-recognized Credential or Certification
        • Federally-recognized Apprenticeship
        • Career-Technical Education Concentrator
        • AP/IB/Dual Credit/Cambridge International courses or CLEP Exams
        • Locally Created Pathway
      • Over 100 unique plans for each available combination of requirements
    • Make sure students understand pathways and help engage in planning process
      • Focus on “Outcome”
        • Transcript
        • Academic Record
        • Diploma
      • Data Elements for Progress
      • CTE not under the realm of IN DoE
      • INTERS (technical education)
        • Logics built in
      • Working with vendor and other IN agencies on data model
• Wisconsin
  • WI’s Graduation Plan - JSON
    • Collects most of the same data as IN
      • Program, course, and combination of program/course data
      • Districts have to submit in the Fall their graduation requirement
      • User interface in data quality portal
      • Data quality validation
      • Replaced an aggregate form previously submitted by districts
    • Collect through student CTE participation based on CTE indicator in the course catalog & LEA references their local course code to the state course code; also include grade level and other key factors
      • LEA have their own internal business rules re student concentrator/career
      • Multiple courses can meet requirements in multiple areas and it is up to student as to which area they are concentrating on
      • CTE Participants
        • https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/cte-participant
      • For CTE courses, we use SCED 8 which we use to build our state course master which has a CTE indicator
      • LEAs can query our course master (or SIS can do get on /courses API and filter to display CTE courses https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/data-elements/coursereference
    • WI has only been collecting data since 2018-19
      • No credit requirement or course association
    • Career Education Data Reporting https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/cte/CPACTEERS/2020_02_26_how-CCR-CTE-relate_19-20.pdf
    • Project based learning
      • this Excel file from NCES site has a CTE tab that connects SCED to CTE https://nces.ed.gov/forum/xls/SCED_Version_8_FINAL_02012021_508.xlsx
• South Carolina:
  • Collecting data but not storing in Ed-Fi model yet - in transition
  • Individualized plan
    • Student might have multiple plans; counselor/parent/student meet to lock 1 plan in
    • Identify course options is strong indicator in CTE
• TEA 
  • Discontinued to collect CTE indicator
    • Using all related information from CTE to calculate CTE concentration value
    • Will share with the group
  • SC - Wendy Stephens/Wyatt Cothran
    • Does any state have plans or reporting for assessment, proficiency, competency based requirement?
    • Looking at mapping of work base learning experience
    • Track record with SIS provider
• MN 
  • Project based learning
    • One implementation of Project-based is that we are using a placeholder LEA course offering and section and then the student enrollment and grade is associated with an SEA course. So the project can be broken into the academic courses and grades and credits assigned.
    • Available for collection, but does not have the student information system to support the data.
    • Using locally created SCED code to connect to CTE
  • CTE has one-off courses and programs
    • For MN, CTE has to be Carl Perkins
  • Work with DoubleLine

Action Items:

• IN, SC, and MN to learn from what WI has done on CTE side
• IN to have short interview with MN (Karen) on PBL requirement and mapping

Next meeting: 01 Jun 2021 

Last Update: 28 May 2021