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2 EDCAL January 28, 2019 CTE advocates make an overseas presentation The Metropolitan Education District, located in San Jose and offering more than 20 Career Technical Education courses, is extending its reach to Asia in a long-term collaborative to strengthen CTE program- ming in California and abroad. “The world is very large and there is good work being done in these industries in all corners of our industry,” said Alyssa Lynch, MetroEd superintendent. “It’s up to Alyssa Lynch, center of back row, superintendent of MetroEd, took part in a delegation that traveled to Taiwan to see how career technical education programs are being utilized in another country. MTSS Continued from page 1 Across all of our schools, there are five critical components to building MTSS at Val Verde: 1) Building a culture around being responsive to every child’s needs. 2) Looking at and responding to whole child data (behavior, academics, and SEL). 3) Embracing a continuous improve- ment mindset. 4) Protecting time to understand student progress using data and planning supports. 5) Structures, supports, and resources from district leadership to sites are in place. MTSS became a powerful way of help- ing to redefine what it truly meant to be member of the Val Verde community. The district decided to focus on ensuring clarity of objectives and availability of the tools and resources necessary to support the whole child. The sites felt it was important to have a collective responsibility for all their students rather than sites or teach- ers responsible solely for their assigned students. Sites were thereby able to build a culture that empowers all parents, students, staff, and community members to have the capacity to structure supports that meet all students’ needs. Val Verde created an MTSS vision that featured continuous improvement and sup- port to help each site develop their unique yet positive culture and climate. Tiered supports are layered and follow a cycle of studying the data, planning, and acting to ensure that the supports in place foster stu- dents’ success. Val Verde invested time and resources into making sure MTSS address- es the whole child, and that operational data—academic, discipline, SEL, etc. are collected systematically and made available to those who need it. MTSS success is not just defined by how students perform aca- demically but also by their attitude, behav- ior, self-confidence, and mental wellbeing. We prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist, and we need to work with stu- dents to improve executive function, so they can make better decisions and understand the consequences of those decisions. The starting point is to look at the data and educators to close the gaps and connect our students in ways that haven’t been previ- ously done.” Late last year, Lynch, board mem- ber Katherine Tseng, and instructor Jim Burnham of Silicon Valley CTE trav- eled to New Taipei City Department of Technological and Vocational Education in Taiwan to see how CTE programs are being utilized overseas. The trip included tours of seven schools to see Maker Spaces, which are classrooms that serve as labs for students to cre- ate and design products, including soft- ware programs to create video games and robots. In these environments, students use Programmable Logic Controllers and learn about industrial robotic theory and motors. Lynch served as keynote speaker at the at the New Taipei City Vocational Student Conference. This was the first time mem- bers from MetroEd have traveled to New Taipei City, however, a delegation of 10 New Taipei City Department of Technological and Vocational Education teachers toured all of the MetroEd CTE classes in 2016. Lynch says the biggest takeaway from the tour is the curriculum being taught to students. “The school focuses heavily on reading, career exploration in the middle grades, design thinking, innovation and creativ- ity and they partner with seven countries around the world,” she said. The trip to Asia is part of a long-term CTE collaboration. Later this month, two foreign school principals are scheduled to visit MetroEd/ Silicon Valley CTE center to intern and experience being a principal in the United States. In June, Burnham will travel to New Taipei City for a month-long professional development offering for several teachers in the engineering and programming field. “There are more opportunities for col- laboration and I think any time you can share information and practices, it only stands to benefit students,” Lynch said. FYI Visit www.acsa.org/advocacy for the latest news and calls for action on ACSA‘s legislative priorities. In addition, updates on current issues, links to contact for your legislative representatives and the Fatal School Violence Toolkit can be found there. create structures that support teachers and students. In order to sustain full system engage- ment, Val Verde has created intentional systems and structures to ensure support from district leadership, out to sites and into classrooms. Val Verde’s cabinet reserves time each week to meet with Education Services director and district TOSAs for PBIS and MTSS. The district uses their monthly principal meetings to have cluster teams analyze data and set goals. Each site has a Positive Behavior Intervention Supports coordinator, two Response to Intervention facilitators, and an instructional coach who leads structured released time for data talks. Also engaged in the process is the district- based learning team representing district leadership, site administrators, and both certificated and classified union represen- tatives. Teams focused on MTSS work together to shape, develop, and increase the collective capacity of schools. As Val Verde continues to build our infrastructure, we are also looking for the best ways to build a sustainable capacity so that we can continue to move forward no matter who leads and how plentiful the critical resources. Building a culture that is truly dedicated to “all students means all students” requires action using data, developing meaning- ful structures, protecting precious time to respond to the data, and a climate of moti- vating rather than mandating. Val Verde is taking measured, albeit aggressive, steps to ensure that all district, site, and community MTSS practitioners acquire the skills and tools to ensure all students graduate future ready. ERS tices look like, how to organize resources and where to get started. Continued from page 1 through Connected Professional Learning,” the study explores what these strategic prac- To learn more and to download the report, go to http://bit.ly/2Qpj8da. 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