DOE Updates

High School 2025

• Labor Workforce 2025 – Grow Dakota: Prepare students for tomorrows workforce

• Relevance: Advance career goals

• Relationships: connect students, teachers, parents, schools, & communities

• Rigor: prepare for postsecondary education and career goals

• Results: evaluate student progress & improve educational outcomes

HS 2025

• Personal Learning Plans– Exploratory Curriculum – MS, 9th & 10th grade– Rigorous courses

• Career Cluster Programs of Study • Career Guidance

– SDMyLife.com– Course Registration = Career Clusters– Transition programs

• Parental Engagement

Proposed Graduation Requirements

• Senate Bill 185 passed during the 2009 legislative session

• One recommended set of graduation requirements

• Freshmen class of 2010-11

• Workgroup of teachers, administrators, counselors, state Board of Education members, and DOE staff to make recommendations

Rationale

• http://doe.sd.gov/oatq/gradrequirements/

• Create the opportunity to develop a Personal Learning Plan

• Create more flexibility

• Reduce the inherent labeling

• Maintain the rigor of core content courses and increase the rigor

Summary of Changes• Reduce the number of required credits for graduation

from 17 to 15.5

• Math: Three units or more, including Algebra I, Geometry and a math elective

• Lab Science: Three units or more, including biology, physical science and a science elective

• Move non-core subjects outlined in the current graduation requirements into one category.

• Option of allowing extracurricular activities to serve as partial credit for Physical Education and Fine Arts

Time Line

• Sept. 29, 2009 State Board of Education meeting: First reading of proposed rules

• September to November 2009 Public Comment Period

• November 2009 Board of Education meeting: Public hearing of proposed rule changes

SDMyLife.com

• SD Cap– 8th Grade Interest Survey– 10th Grade Career Aptitude

Professional Development

• SDMyLife.com– Basic & Advanced training– Parent Portal

• Career Cluster Exploration

• Course Registration & more

Career Guidance Grant

• Career Guidance Framework

• Parental Engagement Framework

• Career Guidance Core Standards & Sample Syllabi,

• Career Cluster Resources  

• Career Cluster Posters

South Dakota Virtual School

• A clearinghouse of distance courses offered by providers that have been approved by the South Dakota Department of Education

• Courses available for any MS or HS South Dakota Student (Public, Private, Home School etc)

• Registration for courses by school district personnel only.

SDVS Can Provide Solutions for:

• Students with scheduling conflicts• Schools not able to find qualified staff to teach a

particular course• Students who want to take courses not offered in

their resident district • Students looking for advanced (AP) coursework• Students needing credit recovery due to failure

or illness• Home school other non-traditional students i.e.

colony

Effective July, 2009 all distance courses must be provided electronically via South Dakota Virtual School

http://legis.state.sd.us/rules/DisplayRule.aspx?Rule=24:43:01:09 http://legis.state.sd.us/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=13-33-29

Current Course Offerings:

• Complete High School Graduation Requirement Course Offering (Exception .5 Speech Unit)

• Over 200 Semester Course Offerings in : CTE, Fine Arts, Mathematics, Health Education,

Science, Language Arts, Political Science, Technology, World Language,

• Other offerings: Advance Placement and Credit Recovery

Graduation Calculations

• 2009-2010 School Year

• 4 years + summer

• Calculations are programmed into system

Upcoming Conference

• Parent Conference – Sept 25 & 26– Registration information: www.doe.sd.gov or

www.sdpirc.org

• Indian Education and Dropout Prevention Summit – Oct 10– Registration information: www.doe.sd.gov

• Systems Change Conference – Nov. 4-6– Registration information: http://tie.net/

DOE Contact List

• SDMyLife.com – Steven Rounds

• Graduation Requirements – Becky Nelson

• Virtual School – Sarah Carter

• Assessment – Gay Pickner