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CCfT Work Plan and Timeline

The development cycle and work plan involves curriculum and student activity development, writing and pilot testing in year I; expert review and field testing in year II; and revision, publication, and dissemination in year III as shown below:

Year I - April 2006 to March 2007
April to June 2006	July to September 2006	October to December 2006	January to March 2007
Management team meeting Spring planning meeting to develop course framework Grant Wiggins at Hofstra to refine assessment evidence, enduring understandings, and essential questions KSB development 2-day meeting on informed design Develop overviews of CCfT courses	National advisory board meeting Project design challenges, student support material CC and HS experts and industrial consultants complete courses at CCs Career development at Hofstra Late August: course draft refinement meeting, Grant Wiggins review	First industry review Periodic revisions throughout fall Content and pedagogy review Developers work with several students to test out course elements through microtesting	Revised courses from team 2-day training of HS master teachers to prepare for whole-class pilot testing Co-PIs provide ongoing support for teachers who are pilot-testing material on Saturdays at CCs

Year I I- April 2007 to March 2008
April to June 2007	July to September 2007	October to December 2007	January to March 2008
ITEA and state dissemination May meeting at CCs using data from pilots for revision Career pathway development	National advisory board meeting Grant Wiggins reviews courses Develop additional student/teacher support materials August: field-test protocol meeting for all field-test teachers Field-test training at CCs	Conduct field test Management team members visit field-test sites Evaluators make site visits Evaluation data collected	Field-test protocol analysis Work with publisher to refine commercial design and marketing strategies

Year III- April 2008 to March 2009
April to June 2008	July to September 2008	October to December 2008	January to March 2009
Analysis of field-test results Revise/refine support material for teachers and students Professional development guide written National and state dissemination meetings National advisory board meeting	Complete rewriting of materials at CC to reflect field-test data Career pathway materials revised Coordination of all materials to ready them for review Conference presentations Articles written for professional journals	Grant Wiggins reviews materials Validation by industrial experts Validation by ATE centers Ready materials for publication Conference presentations Articles written for professional journals	Thomson Delmar Learning prints and markets materials Conference presentations Articles written for professional journals