Postsecondary And Workforce Readiness: Stakeholder Involvement And Pwr Development Process

POSTSECONDARY AND WORKFORCE READINESS Stakeholder involvement and PWR development process – Fall 2008 tour/online survey, Standards Stakeholder and Facto-Fac input, WestEd research – 13 regional meetings: Gunnison, Colorado Springs, Denver, Ft. Collins, Grand Junction, Alamosa, Pueblo, Sterling, Steamboat Springs, Glenwood Springs, Durango, Boulder, Limon – 1 business-only meeting, hosted by the Denver Chamber of Commerce – 1,000+ early childhood, K-12, higher education, business, parents, other community members – Colorado Succeeds survey of business and community college leaders

POSTSECONDARY AND WORKFORCE READINESS Main considerations about PWR in CO: – ALL students – School readiness and PWR provide anchors for revising standards – Incorporates what’s needed for success after HS without need for remediation – Incorporates what’s needed to compete in global economy – Locally driven and the description is locally created – Milestone for P-12 and higher education in Colorado, representing joint agreement from CDE and DHE about what a prepared graduate looks like

POSTSECONDARY AND WORKFORCE READINESS Adopted by the State Board of Education/CCHE in June 2009: “Postsecondary and workforce readiness” describes the knowledge, skills, and behaviors essential for high school graduates to be prepared to enter college and the workforce and to compete in the global economy.   To be designated as postsecondary and workforce ready, secondary students shall demonstrate that the following content knowledge and learning and behavior skills have been achieved without the need for remedial instruction or training. This demonstration includes the completion of increasingly challenging, engaging, and coherent academic work and experiences, and the achievement of proficiency shown by a body of evidence including postsecondary and workforce readiness assessments and other relevant materials that document a student’s postsecondary and workforce readiness.

Collaborati on

Work Ethic

Creativity & Innovation Find and Use Information & IT

Social Studies & Social Sciences

Civic Responsibili ty

Communicati on

Personal Responsibili ty

Learning & Behavior Skills

Global & Cultural Awareness

Postsecondary & Workforce Ready

Literacy • Read with

Content Knowledge

• Social, cultural, historical concepts • Interpret sources, evaluate evidence, build conceptual frameworks • Civic responsibility & political process • Interpret from a global perspective

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Arts & Humanities • Shaping of

culture • Instruments of social & political thought • Awareness of innovators

Science Mathematical Sciences • Be quantitatively literate • Algebraic & geometric principles • Problem solving • Data & statistics

Scientific method • Draw conclusions • Core concepts of disciplines • Scientific concepts can be challenged •

understanding & write coherently • Employ English properly & fluently • Use logic & rhetoric • Access primary & secondary sources