Teacher Externships & PBL

November 6, 2015Ken Talley

Diane MacKenzie

Ryan Deal

Welcome

• Expectations of Workshop

• Experiences with Externships

• Experiences with Project-Based Learning

How JCPS Began

• 2005: Teachers with Industry

• 2008: 5-Star School Reorganization

• 2012: Ford NGL Planning

The Big Picture • Redesign comprehensive high

schools to focus on career themes• Provide equal access to themes

within each geographical networks• Provide experiential learning

opportunities for students interested in careers

• Create schools of studies within schools and provide opportunities for credentialed diplomas

THEMATIC GRID Theme: Cultivating Leadership and Innovation

Career Emphasis: Business & Information Technology

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Class Act Academy of Business and Finance ™

Accounting and Financial Services Business Management

Information Support and Services Multimedia and Dynamic Web Development Geographic Information Systems

Band Chorus Orchestra Drama Fine Arts

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High School of Business ™ Program Business Management Consumer and Family Management

Information Support and Services Web Development and Administration Computer Programming Network Security and Administration Computer Graphic Design Multimedia Design and Production

JROTC Instrumental Music Pan-African Studies Performing Arts Visual Arts Vocal Music

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Automotive Technology Collision Repair Technology Computerized Manufacturing and Machining

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• 5-Star School Structure—– Access to all career themes, along with integrated

academic and technical content

• Teacher Externships—– Connect teachers to business and community partners,

along with continuing support from the business community as teachers and partners develop PBL units.

• Project-Based Learning—– Connects the technical and academic content within

each small learning community.9

Transforming Schools, Teaching & Learning, and Business/Civic Involvement

Externship Planning

• Created a game plan that included:– Work Breakdown Structure (Tasks)– Scheduling and Logistics– Responsibility Matrix (communications)– Work Based Learning Guide (Teachers)– Document Repository (Knowledgebase)– Marketing and presentation docs

Work Breakdown Structure

RACI Responsibility Matrix

• Responsibility

• Accountable

• Consulted

• Informed

Link to WBS

Externships 14-15 & 15-16

Business Recruitment

Remember: It’s about context and expectations.

Have a sales packet to cover a continuum of discussions.

•A formal 15-20 min presentation•Timeline and expectations info•A 30 second pitch•An ask document in

• Hand out• Email• Verbal pitch• A paragraph narrative • PPT Slide

•Outlook calendar invites

2 Minute check

• What would go in your sales package to help recruit businesses?

Business Planning

• Help Businesses plan externships– Give best practices– Recommend options– Volunteer to help plan– Year 2: promote

exemplar work

Teacher/Business Training

• Provided separate orientations in Spring for both teachers and businesses.

• Presented in the format: – The Overview– The Experience – The Plan– The Work– Teacher session: teacher testimonial

Teacher Training

• 2 hour formal meeting in Spring

• Informal meeting with each team

at the school

• Teacher workbook

• Specialists/coaches

accompany teams

2015 Teacher Timeline

SpringSpring SummerSummer Fall/WinterFall/Winter

Externship Week(s)

• Allocate district staff resources to fix last minute problems

• Take pictures / video

• Have payroll plan in place

• Have fun!

Switching Gears…

The Big Picture Recap

• Career theme schools offer relevant programs of study

• Alignment of common core classes with themes

• Project Based Learning as a strategy for delivering instruction

• Industry specific “wrap around” support for community

Project Based Learning

The famous educator John Dewey said:

“Give the pupils something to do,

not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

This practice is at the very center of PBL and STEM.

- Michael Gorman

Project Based Learning

PBL PD 14-15 & 15-16

    

Connecting Systems

PBL Blended Model

SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

• Your Community• Current Events• Real-World Problem• Your Content Standards• Externships • Your Colleagues• Your Students• Online Project Libraries• Project Search @ bie.org

PBL

• Select Significant Content for Project

• Develop a Project Idea

• Determine the Driving Question – DQ

• Decide on Launching Activity

• Decide on Major Student Products

• Decide on a Public Audience

DECIDE ON MAJOR STUDENT PRODUCTS

Written Products Presentations Media & Tech ProductsResearch ReportLetterBrochureScriptBlogEditorialBook ReviewTraining ManualMathematica/Engineering AnalysisScientific Study/Experiment ReportField Guide

SpeechDebateOral DefenseLive NewscastPanel DiscussionPlayMusical Piece or DanceLessonPublic EventSales Pitch

Audio RecordingSlideshowDrawing/PaintingGraphic DesignCollage/ScrapbookPhoto EssayVideo/AnimationWebsiteComputer Program/AppDigital Story/Comic

Planning products Constructed Products OtherSmall Scale ModelConsumer ProductDevice/MachineVehicleInventionScientific InstrumentMuseum ExhibitStructureGarden

ProposalBusiness PlanDesignBidEstimateBlueprintTimelineFlow Chart

 

PBL in ACTION

Leading Others to successfully engage in PBL (2’ discussion)

• How much PBL knowledge– District coaches– Principals– Assistant Principals– Counselors

should …have? and why?

• What is needed to develop a PBL culture?

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)• 8 days PBL to externship teams

• 4 days PBL to Adv. externship teams

• 50 days districtwide across 16 HS

• 10 half day sessions to Pathway Specialists

• 10 half day sessions district leadership coaching

Buck Institute for Education (BIE) 2014-2015• Career Pathway Specialists participated

in PBL 101 training in Atlanta, GA (one week)

• One Career Pathway Specialist participated in PBL World in Napa, CA (one week)

PBL LEADERSHIP (1 minute discussion)

• Something I’m most likely to see

• Something that I will have to support to see

• Something I’d most like to see

PBL & TPGES

Driving Question (2’ discussion )

• How could I lead my organization into PBL? – Your current school context (district or

school goals, initiatives)– The stakeholders you serve– What teacher practice currently looks like– Any challenges you are facing

How could I lead my organization into PBL? • Description of the success you anticipate and

the outcomes you hope to see from your work• Description of the anticipated challenges, as

well as your solutions to the plan.• Evidence of concrete actions that you will

take in your school to support the culture of PBL

• The artifacts that you will collect to illustrate the PBL work you’ll do in your school

How could I lead my organization into PBL? SUCCESSES CHALLENGES

ACTIONS to support PBL culture ARTIFACTS

The Green Bronx Machine

PBL = Changing Lives

• Stephen Ritz and the Green Bronx machine is teaching by Nurturing Minds & Gardens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWjQRwJP1w8

TEACHERS CHANGE LIVES SO CAN YOU!

Summary & Next Steps…

• Identify Academic & Technical Content to be integrated.

• Identify Teachers.

• Identify Business & Community Partners.

• Develop an Implementation Plan.

• Questions?