"Walk the evaluation team through what implementation will actually look like. Address curriculum development, educator engagement, student experiences, authentic career integration, and stakeholder engagement." - 15 min
Our notes:
Intake – interview administrators, coaches, and teachers to learn highlights/challenges; current instructional practices; community/workforce connection opportunities; available resources and technology subscriptions
Drafting career-related PBL topics across content areas and collaborating with stakeholders for their feedback and insights
Revise based on feedback
Design a complete unit per course (working with district designees using shared docs to comment)
Need to know instructional materials
Work with instructional coaches when designing the student activities
Including career integration activities
Addressing access for all, including students with disabilities and English Language Learners
Addressing advanced options for gifted students
Not publishing our own texts
Show new SoWork Design Floor
Following is the process we will use for designing the career-infused curriculum:
District Background - Our "Homework"
We already have identified and will be again reviewing the following information in order to generate questions for the district:
GA DOE website, and particularly information on Career, Technology, & Agricultural Education
Georgia’s K-12 Standards for English Language Arts
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) for Science and Social Studies
Various websites related to the Columbia/Muscogee County regional economy and the Georgia economy
Review of the RFP requirements
Intake - Meeting With You!
We will meet with district leadership to learn more about the logistics and planning timeline for the school
We would like to interview district and school individuals (as identified) including representative 6th grade teachers of ELA, math, social studies, and science to learn more about students and what instruction currently looks like.
We want to determine available student resources in terms of online subscriptions; physical materials, manipulatives, books, etc.
Our Design Resources
We will develop the following resources for use in our design process:
Standards grid for each subject and grade level 6-8
Durable skills grid, including:
District's Durable Skills Domains
Cross-referencing to the World Economic Forum's list of most sought-after sklls for 2030
Cross-referencing to IDE Corp.'s list of Durable Skills
Further broken down into the executive function skills that support these skills
High-Demand Career Clusters
Available student-facing resources as determined during the Intake step