Transcript Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)

Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Implementing the Requirements of
SB 1108, Section 7
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Objectives
• Review the law concerning PGPs
• Discuss options for implementation
– Instructional Issues
– Technical Issues
– Questions and considerations for local decision
makers
• Review the requirements of the High School
Success and Completion Grant
• Review related laws/programs/support systems
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
TEC §28.0212
Personal Graduation Plan.
(Senate Bill 1108, 78th Texas Legislature, 2003)
(a) A principal shall designate a guidance counselor,
teacher, or other appropriate individual to develop
and administer a personal graduation plan for each
student enrolled in a junior high, middle, or high
school who:
(1) does not perform satisfactorily on an assessment
instrument administered under Subchapter B, Chapter 39;
or
(2) is not likely to receive a high school diploma before
the fifth school year following the student's enrollment in
grade level nine, as determined by the district.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
TEC §28.0212, Cont.
• identify educational goals for the student;
• include diagnostic information, appropriate monitoring and
intervention, and other evaluation strategies;
• include an intensive instruction program described by Section
28.0213;
• address participation of the student's parent or guardian,
including consideration of the parent's or guardian's educational
expectations for the student; and
• provide innovative methods to promote the student's
advancement, including flexible scheduling, alternative learning
environments, on-line instruction, and other interventions that are
proven to accelerate the learning process and have been scientifically
validated to improve learning and cognitive ability.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
TEC §28.0212, Cont.
• Students served in special education…
– a student's individualized education program developed under
Section 29.005 may be used as the student's personal graduation
plan under this section.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
District/Campus Considerations
• Who is the designee?
– Counselor? Teacher? Team?
• Who is required to have a PGP?
– Middle school, junior high, and high school students
who did not meet the standard on any TAKS test in
the previous school year
• Grade 6 only if located on a middle school/junior high
campus
– Students who are not accruing credits on the
anticipated schedule
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
District/Campus Considerations
• How will the campus address each element
required by the PGP?
• How will parents be involved?
• When should the plan be completed?
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Components of the PGP
• Educational Goals
– Graduation
– Success on State Assessment
– Other…
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Components of the PGP
• Diagnostic Information
– TAAS/TAKS/SDAA/LDAA/RPTE
– Online Diagnostic (TRACK)
– Grades
– Formative Assessments
– Informal Data
– Attendance, discipline, ancillary data
– Other…
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Components of the PGP
• Intensive Program of Instruction (TEC)
– Enable the student to:
• to the extent practical, perform at the
student's grade level at the conclusion of
the next regular school term; or
• attain a standard of annual growth
specified by the school district and reported by
the district to the agency; and
– if applicable, carry out the purposes of Section
28.0211.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Components of the PGP
• Participation of parent or guardian
– Consideration of the parent's or guardian's
educational expectations for the student
– Forms of participation
• parent conference
• telephone conference
• planning input through personal
correspondence (in the parent or guardian’s
primary language when possible)
• other means of ensuring participation
– Documented
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Components of the PGP
• Innovative methods to promote the student's
advancement
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flexible scheduling
alternative learning environments
on-line instruction
other interventions that are proven to accelerate
the learning process and have been scientifically
validated to improve learning and cognitive ability
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
District/Campus Considerations
• Goals:
– School
– Parent or Guardian
– Student
• Intensive Instruction
– Current effective practices
– Direct and systematic
– Goal Oriented
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
District/Campus Considerations
• Monitoring
– Regular and Ongoing
– Formal and Informal
– Communicated
• Intensive Instruction
– Acceleration of more than one year’s learning – gap analysis
between chronological grade level and performance level
– Direct, systematic, flexible, and supplemental
– Varied and Goal Oriented
• Diagnostic Information
– Collection and Interpretation
– Focus
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District/Campus Considerations
• Innovative Instruction
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Review suggestions noted in the code
Current effective practices
Role of significant adults and mentors
Identification of personnel and targeted
approaches
Coordinated approaches for highest risk
Coordination of drop-out recovery methodologies
Placement in current classes/flexible groupings
Tutorial models and timing
Tiered interventions
Successful resources
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Other laws/programs
• Compensatory, Intensive, and Accelerated Instruction
§29.081
– Design and implement appropriate compensatory, intensive,
accelerated instruction to enable the students to perform at
grade level at the end of the next regular school term
– Provide accelerated instruction to students who did not pass the
exit-level assessment instrument or who is at risk of dropping
out of school (CONSIDER AYP)
– Evaluate and document the effectiveness of the accelerated
instruction, including the disparity between high school
completion rates as compared to other district students.
– “Student at-risk of dropping out of school” (SEE SCE
CRITERIA)
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Other laws/programs
• OEYP §29.082
– A school district may set aside an amount from the
district’s allotment for a period not to exceed 30
instructional days for:
– K-11th graders who are identified as likely not to be
promoted to the next grade level for the succeeding
school year; or
– 12th graders who are identified as likely not to graduate
from high school before the beginning of the succeeding
school year.
– Enrollment not to exceed 16 students in a class
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Other laws/programs
• OEYP §29.082
– Taught by a teacher who has completed successfully a
program that provides training to teach a class under this
section
– A student who attends at least 90% of the program days
under this program shall be promoted to the next grade
level at the beginning of the next school year, unless a
parent presents a written request that the student not be
promoted.
– District policy must be in place to address eliminating
student retention.
– Provide transportation to each student required to attend
and who is eligible for regular transportation services.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
High School Completion and Success
Grant Program
• Schools receiving funding under this grant must ensure
that ALL students have an Individualized Graduation Plan
(IGP).
• This IGP may serve as an extension of the PGP.
• Students must:
– receive services from highly qualified staff (as defined
by NCLB)
– have access to online diagnostic and assessment
instruments, and
– be provided accelerated instruction in areas of
academic weakness.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
PGP Template
• Local district determines format
• Sample format with required elements
• IGP compliant
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Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
PGP: Additional Considerations
• What happens to the completed
PGPs?
– Who needs copies?
• Confidentiality Issues
– Who is responsible for monitoring?
– Where do we keep the original, both short term
and long term?
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
FAQ (ESC Clarifications)
Q. Should there be a district policy to
support PGP?
A. Although a policy is not required by
law, the district should consider a
policy to address the PGP. This is a
local decision. What is important is
that the procedures be consistent
across the district.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
FAQ (ESC Clarifications)
Q. Is the PGP legally binding like an IEP?
A. No. A school district's determination
of the appropriateness of a program
for a student under this section is final
and does not create a cause of action.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
FAQ (ESC Clarifications)
Q. In our junior high, we serve 7th and
8th grade students. Do we wait until
spring 2004 for TAKS results to
identify who needs a PGP?
A. No. The school should use spring
2003 results to determine who is in
need of a PGP at this time.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Next Steps
• District decisions:
– Determine what policies and/or procedures need
to be in place to support campuses in meeting the
PGP requirements.
• Consider what is already in place.
• Allow flexibility and ensure consistency.
– Identify the campus points of contact.
– Schedule campus training/ information sharing
sessions on PGP implementation.
• Discuss existing and needed programs and services to
support PGP efforts.
• Determine monitoring schedule and process.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Next Steps
• Campus decisions:
– The principal needs to designate who is going to
be responsible for ensuring that PGPs are
developed for all eligible students.
– Determine how the campus is going to
implement PGPs for eligible students.
– The principal may designate a point of contact
to coordinate the effort.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
Next Steps
• Campus decisions
– Build on available resources. (for example, accelerated
instruction, curricular resources, flexible scheduling,
etc…)
– Identify additional resources, as appropriate.
– Determine monitoring schedule and process.
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
PGP Planner 2003
• Database management tool
– FileMaker Pro or runtime
– Allow for import from student
management programs
– Updated annually
– Supported by Region 14 ESC
– Preview
Personal Graduation Plans (PGP)
ESC Contact Information
Tony Huey - [email protected]
675-3620
Lucy Smith – [email protected]
675-3641
Rose Burks– [email protected]
675-8687