25ANNUAL TH - Southern Regional Education Board

TCTW Goals for Continuous Improvement• Increase the percentage of career/technical students who meet college- and career-readiness goals on the HSTWAssessment to 85 percent.• Increase the percentage of high school students who enter the technology center and graduate on time to 95 percent.• Increase the percentages of technology center graduates who: earn postsecondary credit while in high school. meet college-readiness standards to succeed in credit-bearing postsecondary courses without needingremediation. meet readiness standards to enter an advanced training program leading to a certificate, an employercertification or an apprenticeship program. acquire an industry certification through a state-approved certification examination in a high-skill, highdemandcareer field.• Work with middle grades schools to guide students in creating programs of study that will prepare students forsuccess in high school, the technology center, postsecondary studies and careers.• Advance state and local policies and leadership initiatives that sustain a continuous school improvement effort attechnology centers.TCTW Key Practices for Improving Student Achievement• High expectations — Motivate more students to meet highstandards by integrating high expectations into classroompractices and giving students frequent feedback.• Program of study — Require each student to complete aprogram of study that includes an approved sequence of at leastfour career/technical courses and an upgraded academic core.• Academic studies — Teach more students the essentialconcepts of the college-preparatory curriculum by encouragingthem to apply academic content and skills to real-worldproblems and projects within their career/technical studies.• Career/technical studies — Provide more students withaccess to intellectually challenging career/technical studiesin high-demand fields that emphasize higher-level literacy,mathematics, science and problem-solving skills needed in theworkplace and in further education.• Work-based learning — Enable students and their parents tochoose from programs that integrate challenging high schoolcareer/technical studies and work-based learning and areplanned by educators, employers and students.• Teachers working together — Provide cross-disciplinaryteams of teachers with time and support to work togetherto help students succeed in challenging career/technical andacademic studies. Integrate reading and writing strategiesfor learning into all parts of the curriculum and integratemathematics and science into career/technical classrooms.• Students actively engaged — Engage students in career/technical and academic classrooms in rigorous and challengingProficient-level assignments using research-based instructionalstrategies and technology.• Guidance — Involve students and their parents in a guidanceand advisement system that develops positive relationships andensures completion of a career/technical concentration with anapproved sequence of at least four courses and an acceleratedprogram of study. Provide each student with the same mentorthroughout high school to assist with setting goals, selectingcourses, reviewing the student’s progress and suggestingappropriate interventions as necessary.• Extra help — Provide a structured system of extra help toassist students in completing accelerated programs of studywith high-level academic and technical content.• Culture of continuous improvement — Use studentassessment, program evaluation data, technology centerperformance reports, program enrollment, retention andplacement reports, college remediation reports, student followupreports and advisory committee input to continuouslyimprove school culture, organization, management,curriculum and instruction to advance student learning.25th Annual Staff Development Conference 125