Career Explorations and Pathways

February 24, 2020

CT and WOW Updates

▰ BOE Policy 6:10

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Overview of Today

▰ World of Work and Career Exploration▻ Increase opportunity at all levels to explore

careers

▰ Computational Thinking▻ Update to our work with Digital Promise

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Help all students grow socially, emotionally, and academically

World of Work

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Where We Are

▰ Professional learning with Ed Hidalgo

▰ Teacher collaboration

▰ Professional learning for new teachers

▰ RIASEC parties

▰ Curricular connections

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Education & World of Work

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What is WOW

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World of Work Framework

Mission of Me is a 3-Core process that often

repeats itself, as we constantly assess

ourselves and our level of engagement,

making changes and adjustments based on

our own self-awareness, our unique

academic and career journey to create our

own story.

World of Work & SEL

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RIASEC

▰ Realistic: Doers

▰ Investigative: Thinkers

▰ Artistic: Creators

▰ Social: Helpers

▰ Enterprising: Persuaders

▰ Conventional: Organizers

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World of Work & SEL

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Education & SEL

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Education & World of Work

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Goal:

• Exploration• Exposure• Keep options open• Connections

between skills• Relevance

between classroom learning and the world of work

• Support teacher learning about careers

• Differentiation across RIASEC

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Where are we going?

▰ World of Work exposure for more students

▰ Making K-12 connections

▰ RIASEC themed parties

▰ Curricular connections

▰ Industry collaboration

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Help all students grow socially, emotionally, and academically

Computational Thinking

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Where We Are

▰ Collaboration with Digital Promise

▻ The why and the what

▰ Pilot group of educators

▰ Professional learning

▰ Curricular connections

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The Current Landscape

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Ten years from now, much of what we’ve taught our students will be obsolete, but

the thought processes will still be relevant. The thought processes that parallel a

computer’s processing enables students to be lifelong learners and incorporate

computing tools regardless of how the tools change.

Source: Code.org & US Bureau of Labor Statistics & ISTE/CSTA Computational Thinking Leadership Toolkit

Connecting the Dots

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CT vs. CS vs. Coding

▰ Coding: a technical skill

▰ CS: an academic discipline

▰ CT: a problem-solving process

Computational Thinking in 204

Our goal is to help all

learners become

computational thinkers who

can harness the power of

computing to innovate and

solve problems.

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Computational Thinking in 204

▰ Decomposition: Breaking down a complex problem

or system into smaller, more manageable parts

▰ Pattern Recognition: looking for similarities among

and within problems

▰ Abstraction: Removing details from a solution so that

it can work for many problems

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Computational Thinking in 204

▰ Algorithms: Developing a step-by-step solution to the

problem or the rules to follow to solve the problem

▰ Working with Data: Collection, representation, and

analysis

▰ Creating Computational Artifacts: embraces both

creative expression and the exploration of ideas to

create prototypes

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Where are we going?

▰ Shared vision and common language

▰ Professional learning

▰ Curricular connections

▰ Industry collaboration

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Thank you!

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