1. Easing the Transitions:
Elementary to Middle to High
and Beyond
Judy Hingle and Lynnette Harris
Fairfax County Public Schools
Student Learning Plan
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

2. Rolling Out the Program
Vision
Collaboration
Planning

3. Who’s in the Room?

4. Who’s in the Room?

5. Easing the Transitions:
Elementary to Middle to High and Beyond
Plus Minus Interesting
Vision
Collaboration
Planning

6. Student Voice

7. Vision
To create a comprehensive
Student Learning Plan that
captures the whole child –
social, emotional,
intellectual, and physical.

8. Vision
The Student Learning Plan is a
dynamic process which allows
students to identify their
interests, incorporate their
strengths, set academic,
career, and personal goals,
reflect on their learning, and
develop a plan for their future.

9. Defining
College and Career Readiness
• Analyses of college courses
reveal that the learning skills
and foundational knowledge
associated with college success
overlap considerably those
necessary for success in training
programs that lead to careers.
• All students aspire to enter the
workforce, and, to do so, all will
need a comparable set of
foundational skills and learning
abilities if they are to succeed.
Life and Career
Skills

10. Defining
College and Career Readiness
• A student’s interests influence
the precise knowledge and skill
profile necessary to be ready for
postsecondary studies in their
field of interest.
Dr. David Conley A Complete Definition of College
and Career Readiness epiconline.org

11. “When you got a career,
there ain’t enough time in
the day…
When you got a job, there’s
too much time”.
A job is a means to an end,
while a career is a
meaningful use of your life.
(Chris Rock, 2010)

12. Four Keys of College and Career
Readiness

13. Student Learning Plan

14. Life and Career Skills
Student Achievement Goal 2
Develop Essential Life Skills
Working in partnership with school and family, students will:
• 2.1. Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, and leadership.
• 2.2. Courageously identify and pursue their personal goals.
• 2.3. Develop the resilience and self-confidence required to deal effectively
with life’s challenges.
• 2.4. Possess the skills to manage and resolve conflict.
• 2.5. Work effectively within a group dynamic.
• 2.6. Demonstrate respect for cross-cultural differences and perspectives.
• 2.7. Develop practical life skills including but not limited to:
o 2.7.1. Time management.
o 2.7.2. Work habits.
o 2.7.3. Problem solving/critical thinking.
o 2.7.4. Financial competency.
o 2.7.5. Self-sufficiency.
• 2.8. Effectively use technology to access, communicate, and apply
knowledge, and foster creativity.
• 2.9. Make healthy and safe life choices.
• 2.10. Be inspired to learn throughout life.

15. Student Learning Plan

16. Core Academic Skills
Virginia Department of Education
Academic and Career Plan
Required components of the Academic and Career Plan shall
include, but not be limited to:
• The student's program of study for high school graduation that is
aligned with a postsecondary career pathway and/or college
entrance;
• A postsecondary career pathway based on the student's academic
and career interests and goals;
• Developed at 7th grade, completed by fall of 8th grade and updated
before the student enters the 9th and 11th grades.
• A signature from the student, student's parent or guardian, and
school official(s) designated by the principal.
• Students who transfer from outside the district will develop a plan
as soon as practicable following enrollment.

17. It is today we must create
the world of the future.
Eleanor Roosevelt

18. The Student Learning
Plan helps me know
where I want to go, who I
want to be, and how to
choose my path.
An FCPS pilot school student

19. Anchor Your Thinking
Turn and talk to your
shoulder partner about the
importance of vision in
implementing a student
learning plan.

20. Student Voice

21. Collaboration
Instructional Services Department
PreK-12 Curriculum and Instruction
• Language arts, mathematics,
science, social studies
• School counseling services
• Early childhood
• Advanced academics programs
• Special education instruction
• Online campus
Language Acquisition and Title I
• PreK-12 ESOL
• Adult ESOL
• World languages
• Title I
Professional and Life Skills
• Business and information technology
• Career and technical education
• Fine arts
• Family and consumer sciences
• Health and medical sciences
• Health and physical education
• Instructional technology integration
• Library information services
• Marketing
• SBTS management
• Technology and engineering
education
• Trade and industrial education

22. Collaboration
Additional Central Office Departments
Department of Special Services
• Special education instruction
• School counseling services
• Intervention and prevention services
• Special education procedural support
Technology
• Information technology support services
• Enterprise information services and
assessment
Department of Communication and Community
Outreach
• Business and community partnerships
• Family and school partnerships
• Parent resource center
• Strategic communications

23. Collaboration
Leadership
School Board
Superintendent
Deputy Superintendent
Functional Assistant Superintendents
Cluster Assistant Superintendents
Cluster Directors
Principals
Assistant Principals
Directors of Student Services

24. Collaboration
Community
Parents
• Focus groups
• PTA
Business Partnerships
Chambers of Commerce
Volunteer Fairfax

25. Anchor Your Thinking
Stand up and find
someone at another
table and share:
What does this
mean to me in my
role in my school?

26. Planning
• Working from the middle then expanding
both up into high school and down into
elementary school.
• Early elementary foundation of
vocabulary and concepts
• Strengthen 6th grade transition
• Build onto 9th grade transition program
• Defining expectations of tasks
• Division mission and goals
• Developmentally appropriate
• Reflect instructional practice
• Simply defined
• Reflects the individual student

27. • Providing a continuous feedback
loop with leadership and schools
• Identifying and developing
resources
• Lessons for teachers and
counselors
• Goal setting resources
• Electronic tool
• Resources for students and
parents
• Expanding staff access – building
capacity for student support
• Defining measures of success

28. Individually make
yourself some
notes about the
essential elements
of your system’s
education process
that would affect
your planning.

29. Teacher Voice

30. Questions?

31. Contact Information
Judy Hingle
Career Connections Specialist
571-423-4430
jkhingle@fcps.edu
Lynnette Harris
Project Manager, Student Learning Plan
571-423-4639
clharris@fcps.edu