Career Readiness Indicator for Future Ready PA Index

Background

School Performance Profile (SPP) will be replaced with PA Future Ready Index starting in the 2018-19 school year.  As a result, the data collection for this new dashboard will occur during the 2017-18 school year and have an impact on planning, instruction, and data collection to name a few.

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Future Ready PA Index is:

  • A more holistic tool for communities to measure school success.
  • Less reliant on point-in-time standardized test scores.
  • Comprehensive measures that value a school’s efforts to help all students learn, grow, and succeed in the classroom and beyond.

As part of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), there are six (6) Federal Accountability Indicators:

  1. % Proficient / Advanced on PSSA/Keystone Exams
  2. Meeting Annual growth Expectations (PVAAS)
  3. English Language Proficiency
  4. Graduation Rate
  5. Career Standards / Readiness
  6. Chronic Absenteeism

Of the six indicators, four are mandated by the Federal Department of Education and two were selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Career Readiness Indicator 

  • Ensures that all students have access to career exploration and preparation activities that are standards-aligned and evidence-based.
  • Percent of students who demonstrate meaningful engagement in career exploration and preparation and implementation of individualized career plans through separate, specific measures based on grade-level benchmarks aligned to the Pennsylvania CEW Standards.
  • The percentage of students who, by the end of GRADE 5, demonstrate engagement in career exploration and preparation aligned to the CEW standards via PA Career Zone or a locally designed career exploration and preparation program/curriculum.
  • The percentage of students who, by the end of grade 8, create an individualized career plan and participate in career preparation activities aligned to the CEW Standards.
  • The percentage of students who, by the end of grade 11, implement their individualized career plan through the ongoing development of a career portfolio and participation in career preparation activities aligned to the CEW Standards.

 

Career Portfolios

By the end of grades 5, 8, and 11, students will have to produce a variety of items/evidence aligned to the 4 strands in the CEW Standards that demonstrate their awareness and understanding of the standards.  The monitoring of these portfolios will occur through the Department of Education.

Career Portfolio Evidence/Components

By end of Grade 5:By end of Grade 8:By end of Grade 11:
• 6 pieces of evidence
• 2 per year, per grade level
• At least 1 piece of evidence per CEW Strand.
• Student has a career portfolio containing the K-5 evidence.
• Additional 6 pieces of evidence.
• 2 per year, per grade level.
• At least 1 piece of evidence per CEW Strand.
• One of the pieces of evidence for the 6-8 band must be the student’s individualized career plan.
• Student has a career portfolio containing the K-5 and 6-8 grade band evidence.
• Additional 8 pieces of evidence collected in grades 9-11.
• 2 per year, per grade level
• At least 1 piece of evidence per CEW Strand
• At least two pieces of evidence for the 9-11 grade band must demonstrate implementation of the student’s individualized career plan.