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Major Clusters Porterville College January 11th, 2019 -- Flex Day Guided Pathways A Brief Check-In! Capturing Guided Pathways Responses Individually, please think about and note on post-its, with respect to guided pathways: : what you

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Guided Pathways

Major Clusters

Porterville College

January 11th, 2019 -- Flex Day

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Guided Pathways

A Brief Check-In!

Capturing Guided Pathways Responses

Individually, please think about and note on post-its, with respect to guided pathways:

⬛: what you have squared away? ⚫: is still circling in your mind?

▲: what three things do you need to move forward?

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Guided Pathways

Major Clusters

Porterville College

January 11th, 2019 -- Flex Day

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CCCCO Welcome!

Laura Lara- Brady, Ph.D

Guided Pathways Regional Coordinator, Central Valley CCCCO

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Guided Pathways

Luis Chavez Amal Amanda Issa Senior Director Senior Program Manager

Career Ladders Project

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17 September 2018 10-11:30 AM

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Guided Pathways

Targeted In Person Support Tools (Vision Resource Center) Workshops Coordinated Support to the Central Valley Region Learning Clusters

Guided Pathways Supports

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Guided Pathways

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Guided Pathways

Primavera Arvizu VP Student Services Guided Pathways Admin Lead

Porterville College

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Guided Pathways

14 Key Elements

INQUIRY DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION Cross Functional Inquiry Inclusive Decision-Making Structures Practice and Integrated Academic and Student Supports Shared Metrics Intersegmental Alignment Integrated Technology Infrastructure Integrated Planning Guided Major and Career Exploration Opportunities Strategic Professional Development Improved Basic Skills Aligned Learning Outcomes Clear Program Requirements Assessing and Documenting Learning Applies Learning Opportunities

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Guided Pathways

  • Summer 2018 Planning Meeting Kick-Off
  • Key faculty leads from every division were identified for the GP workgroups
  • September 2018 Feedback from Leading from the Middle Team (LFM Momentum Proposal)

○ Marketing and Communication Workgroup formed

  • October 2018 Porterville College Pathways Session Workshop
  • November 2018 Achieving the Dream ICAT Focus Groups and Guided Pathways discussions
  • Based on recommendations the Guided Pathways Planning Group was folded into the Success

and Equity Committee with the following workgroups: ○ Mapping Existing Curriculum/Academic Clusters ○ Communication/Marketing ○ Entry ○ Student Support/Advising ○ Data Team

  • Leads have been identified for each workgroup.

Porterville College

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Guided Pathways

…Reflections from the field …

Career Ladders Project and Guided Pathways

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Guided Pathways

What Works

Collaboration Is Key Examining Progression & Gaining Buy-In Ownership

What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015) By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

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Guided Pathways

Collaboration Is Key

  • Collaboration at all levels is critical to implementing guided

pathways

  • Work together to map out program pathways
  • Cooperating within and across departments to define

sequences of courses that students can take to fulfill program requirements

  • Work together to guide, monitor, and support students as

they enter and make progress along program pathways.

  • Faculty must also collaborate to assess students’ mastery of

learning outcomes and to improve instruction across programs, not just within individual courses, so that students build skills as they progress through the curriculum.

  • And collaboration is necessary to strengthen

teaching—especially in gateway courses (basic Skills) that are critical to success in particular programs.

What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015) By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

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Guided Pathways

Starting the Process: Examining & Gaining Buy In Ownership

  • Colleges need to know which programs students

are in, how far along they are toward completing program requirements, and when they are straying from their plans

  • To begin a steering team—made up of faculty,

student services staff, and administrators from across the college—who will examine (inquiry phase) the clarity of current pathways and how effectively the college monitors student progress, facilitate discussion of the need for guided pathways widely

  • College data is key for GP team(s) (at all levels) to

understand current status and where further inquiry is needed.

What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015) By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

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Guided Pathways

Key Questions about Student Pathways

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Guided Pathways

Timeline for Planning and Implementation

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Guided Pathways

Follow these steps: 1. Introductions 2. Each team should have a bag of candy. Empty the contents and examine each piece 3. Sort the candy into clusters that make sense to you 4. Discuss the process of decided the clusters for your groups. 5. List the guiding principles your team used 6. Once you’ve completed your sort, move around and learn about how other teams sorted their candy 7. Share out

Sorting Activity

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Guided Pathways

  • Behavioral economics research suggests that clustering options into similar buckets

makes decision making manageable for individuals (Scott-Clayton, 2012).

Why Major Clusters?

  • Goals with Clustering

○ To help students choose a major earlier in their career ○ Informed decision based their interests, knowledge, skills and abilities ○ Empower students to select classes that relate to a specific degree

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Guided Pathways

Common Elements of Major Clusters

  • Major Clusters are aligned with local labor

market demand.

  • Each major cluster includes a clear program

map.

  • General education core courses and electives

are aligned with each major cluster.

  • Counseling and student services are aligned

with the student’s major cluster.

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Guided Pathways

National Examples of Major Clusters

*Please note, while some examples provided are already student facing, others are shared in draft form to highlight Meta Major inquiry and design process is quite iterative.

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Guided Pathways

Cleveland State Community College

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Guided Pathways

CUNY Guttman Programs of Study

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Guided Pathways

Georgia State University

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Guided Pathways

California Examples of Major Clusters

*Please note, while some examples provided are already student facing, others are shared in draft form to highlight Meta Major inquiry and design process is quite iterative.

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Guided Pathways

Butte College

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Guided Pathways

Cabrillo College Career and Academic Pathways

  • Creative Arts & Design
  • Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • Health and Public Service
  • Entrepreneurship & Business
  • Global & Human Studies
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Guided Pathways

Mira Costa College

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Guided Pathways

NORCO College

The College has developed four schools with the intent of helping students choose a major and degree based on their interests, knowledge, skills and abilities. The four schools are:

  • Arts & Humanities
  • Business & Management
  • Social & Behavioral Studies
  • STEM (with subdivisions of Science & Health and Technology, Engineering & Math)

Within each School, a community of learners is created amongst students with similar academic interests.

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Guided Pathways

  • One of the most important things Guided

Pathways offers is strategies for structural, evidence-based guided exploration that empowers students to identify relevant programs of study early.

  • One of these structural elements is major

clusters (in some cases referred to as cluster

  • r interest areas).

Involving Students in Redesign

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Des...

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Building Blocks to Meta Majors

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MOR Journey Questions: Meta Majors

  • 279 Faculty, Staff, Administrators

participated

  • Around 70% of Faculty participated
  • 120 Students participated in

groupings

  • 52 Total Groupings ranging from

4-12 Meta Majors

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Continuing the Journey : Narrowing Down Meta Majors

  • Narrowed options down from 52 Options to 10
  • 5 Faculty/Staff and 5 Student
  • Entire college reviewed and chose their top 3
  • Students will choose in September
  • All Campus Vote in October
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Guided Pathways

Reedley College

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Guided Pathways

Reedley College

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Student Voice Next Steps

  • 2018-2019 Leading from the Middle Team Project
  • Goal - Collecting and disseminating student

voice data to inform Guided Pathways process at Reedley College

  • Video Survey - following freshman students from
  • rientation through second semester - recording

Q&A at new student orientation, mid-semester, end of semester, and beginning of second semester

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Guided Pathways

Guided Pathways Inquiry and Design: Degree and Certificate Sorting for Meta Majors

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Guided Pathways

Can be used as an… INQUIRY TOOL to explore the concept of meta-majors or as a DESIGN TOOL when a college is prepared to create draft meta-majors

Degree and Certificate Sorting for Meta-Majors

Designed to encourage greater involvement in Guided Pathways, college-wide, by

  • ffering an opportunity for experiential

learning and inter-departmental discussions.

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Guided Pathways

Goal: help understand the challenges faced by students navigating the options for degrees and certificates offered by the college

Inquiry/Process Development

Involving Students -- engage students in this activity prior to designing meta majors, in order to provide faculty and staff with insights into the ways students may think about the clustering of majors.

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Guided Pathways

Goal: The main goal as a design tool is to create a draft of meta majors, with supporting design principles, to be furthered developed and finalized at a later stage in the design phase. Recommended Use: as an inquiry tool before utilizing it as a design tool Once in the design phase it is essential to have a “critical mass” of counseling, student support and instructional faculty, administrators, and staff from across the college to ensure all stakeholders have input in the design.

DESIGN

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Guided Pathways

Degree and Certificate Sorting Activity

Prework 1. Determine activity goals and logistics 2. Gather all of the colleges degrees and certificates 3. Prepare degree and certificate materials

The Process of Sorting - Pt 1

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Guided Pathways

Degree and Certificate Sorting Activity

Degree and Certificate Sorting 1. Language and information norming 2. Form Cross-Functional teams of 5-10 people 3. Intentional Sorting - Design Principles

a. Create before sorting b. Determine after sorting

The Process of Sorting - Pt 2

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Guided Pathways

Example of Design Principles

Skyline College

Skyline College faculty and staff have developed a set of design principles to guide their work:

  • Agreed upon set of guiding principles that others can

use to inform their work.

  • Reflect the colleges mission, vision, and values.
  • Useful for addressing points of contention or

uncertainty.

Design Principles

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Guided Pathways

Degree and Certificate Sorting Activity

Statement of Logic Descriptor Worksheet

The Process of Sorting - Pt 2 cont

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Guided Pathways

Degree and Certificate Sorting Activity

Postwork 1. Synthesize Community Data 2. Analysis (DESIGN ONLY) 3. Communicate Findings

The Process of Sorting - Pt 3

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Guided Pathways

  • Mt. SAC and Sierra College
  • Cross-functional college and community process
  • Included students, and adult ed/noncredit or K12 lens

College Approaches

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Guided Pathways

Bakersfield

  • Connected certificates and degrees to regional

workforce labor market information

College Approaches

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Guided Pathways

Skyline and Butte

  • Iterative! Faculty and staff team grew and changed with

the work.

  • Meta Majors are drafts (e.g. 13 to 5!)

College Approaches

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Guided Pathways

Mesa CC, AZ

  • Faculty and staff engaged in deep sequencing, including

SLOs, program outcomes, & ILOs CUNY LaGuardia and Bakersfield*

  • Organization of teams around career pathways/interest

areas CUNY system and LA Trade Tech

  • Provision of student support services in pathways

West Hills Coalinga/Lemoore

  • Opportunities Career Exploration in Instruction

Sharing College Learnings

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Guided Pathways

RESOURCES

www.careerladdersproject.org https://visionresourcecenter.cccco.edu/

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Guided Pathways Guided Pathways Inquiry Guide Major Clusters and Program Mapping

  • Learning Cluster focused on Reedley College’s college-wide process to engage in cross-functional teams and equity data to inform

their Meta Majors journey (ppt slides).

  • A description of activities colleges can undertake to sort out their meta-majors
  • A webinar and presentation on the program mapping process at Cabrillo College – and one result, Cabrillo’s “Career and

Academic Pathways” handout

  • GP Stories: Read how Skyline College approached the project of mapping its meta-majors

Integrating student services

  • A webinar on how Modesto Junior College is integrating counselors and other supports into guided pathways reforms (also

available as presentation only)

  • A webinar on three experiences using technology in integrating student supports in reforms (at Bakersfield College, Chaffey

College, and Contra Costa Community College District); here’s the presentation only

  • GP Stories: Read how Santa Monica College brought student voices into their reform process

Student Voice

  • Bringing Student Voices to Guided Pathways Inquiry and Design: Findings from Student Focus Groups at Two California

Community Colleges

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Guided Pathways

Guided Pathways Inquiry Guide

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Guided Pathways

THANK YOU! Laura Lara-Brady, Guided Pathways Regional Coordinator - Central Valley llbrady@cccco.org Luis Chavez, Senior Director | lchavez@careerladdersproject.org Amal Amanda Issa, Senior Program Manager | aissa@careerladdersproject.org

Questions and Next Steps