Learn how to build individual learning plans (ILPs) using the tools offered by Naviance. Hear how two districts went about the process of selecting requirements, writing a scope and sequence, and building requirements onto Naviance. Understand how to gain district and school buy-in, and show success through reporting.

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PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA

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Standardized Individual
Learning Plans
It’s Not an Oxymoron
Danielle Jastrow
AchieveMpls & Minneapolis
Public Schools
Bruce Armes
San Juan Unified School District
Sacramento, CA
July 2014

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Looking Back to Move Forward:
a quick history

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History: A long time coming…
• 1965: The Elementary & Secondary Education ACT
(ESEA)
• Established Title 1 funding
• Distribution of federal funding to address the “achievement gap”
• Initial method of school accountability and education equity
• 1973: Rehabilitation Act, Section 504
• No discrimination against persons with disabilities if org
receives fed funding
• Modified with Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act
of 2008
• Increases definition of disabilities

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History, cont’d
• 1975: Congress enacts Education for All
Handicapped Children Act (Public law 94-142)
• Recognizing and requiring for students with special
needs that the needs and rights of a free appropriate
education
• 1997: Public Law 94-142 amended; currently
enacted as Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA)
• 2001: ESEA reauthorized as No Child Left Behind
• Annual testing, academic progress, report cards,
teacher qualifications

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No Child Left Untested
• Recognition that educational success is beyond
hitting benchmarks
• Education reform
• College & career readiness skills
• Workforce demands
• Document success
• School choice
• Community reporting

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Defining Success
• Global workforce
• Beyond test score
• College & Career readiness skills
• Soft skills
• Self-awareness
• Persistence
• Contributing member of society
Standard
Individual
Learning
Plans

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Discussion…..Defining Readiness
• Is career readiness the same as college
readiness?
• What are the skills, practices, habits, etc.,
that a student should possess to be
“ready?”
• How do we know?
• What does “ready” look like?
• How do we measure?

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The Standard Individual Learning Plan

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Process: Start at the End
• Determine needs and desired outcomes
• Priorities of school/district
• Milestones vs. Best Practice
• Reports
• Aligning with ASCA
• Review current data
• Talk to stakeholders
• Assemble team
• Counselors
• Career/College Center staff
• Supportive teachers
• Administrators

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Things to Ponder…
• Grades involved
• Capacity
• Access to students
• Curriculum integration
• Budget
• Staff
• Reports
• Other school/district initiatives
• Student mobility
• Special populations
• Special Education
• English Language Learners

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Initial Matrix
• Establish tentative layout
• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Roll out
• Who?
• What?
• When?

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Discussion…..Making Decisions
• What factors must be included?
• How can these factors be delivered?
• Curriculum integration?
• Advisory?
• Who will evaluate? Must it be evaluated?
• Where to begin?
• Grade?
• Activity?

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ILP in Action

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Success Planner
• District
• Consistency & efficiency across schools
• Schools cannot modify district tasks
• Reporting and accountability
• Schools
• Not recreating the wheel, just assign district level
• Customization based on needs
• Assign on own schedule
• Add site-specific tasks
• Students
• Goals
• Plan/program established

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One size fits….most
• Pros
• Built-in tracking
• Flexibility
• Student & counselor monitoring
• Challenges
• Diverse counseling departments
• Need to make concessions
• Consensus takes time

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Success Planning Features
• Tasks: activities assigned to students
• Multiple completion options
• Survey
• Documents
• Inventories
• Programs: a collection of tasks
• Based on needs
• Grade
• Grad year
• Group

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How to…
Tasks
• Actions students are asked to take
• Created by school staff or built-in
• Assigned to one student or a group of students
Creating a task
• Planner  Tasks
• Add another task
• Follow the prompts to set up your task  save

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Programs
• Programs are groups of tasks to be assigned to
students
• Programs may be assigned to groups or individual
students
Creating a Program
• Planner  programs
• Add another program
• Follow prompts to add a program
• Add tasks to the program
• Save

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Assigning Programs
• Assigning to a group or individual
• For a group, Planner  assign and manage
• Select criteria and click continue
• For individual, from student profile select
success plan
• Choose task,
move and save

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Accountability….GASP!
Reports
• Customizable
• Schedulable
• Email-able
• Exportable

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Evaluation
• Revisit milestones
• Achieving goals?
• Manageable workload?
• Meaningful
• Student, staff surveys
• Adjust as necessary
• Patience
• Ride out the pendulum
• Rinse and repeat

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MPS: My Life Plan

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MPS: Our Take
• 2006-07: School board approved pilot program
for “My Life Plan” (MLP)
• Piloted 3 methods of delivery
• Naviance selected
• 2007-08: MLP approved as graduation
requirement
• 2009-10: MLP pulled down into grades 6-8
• 2010: First class graduates with MLP
• 2011: Incorporation of Naviance’s Success
Planner
• 2014: 3rd iteration on the horizon

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MPS Definition of CCR
Academic
Readiness
College
Knowledge
Career
Awareness
Personal &
Social
Readiness
Intercultural
Competence

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My Life Plan: An Example

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Questions?

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For more information…
Contact
Danielle Jastrow
School Counselor/Coordinator
AchieveMpls &
Minneapolis Public Schools
Email:
Danielle.Jastrow@mpls.k12.mn.us
Bruce Armes
Lead Counselor
San Juan Unified School District
Email:
barmes@sanjuan.edu