CTERemedial Bridge Programs Transitions into Postsecondary Education For Adults

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CTE/Remedial Bridge ProgramsTransitions into
Postsecondary Education For Adults

• Forum for Excellence Pre-session
• Hilton Hotel / Springfield, Illinois
• September 28, 2009

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What is a Bridge Program?

• Bridge Definition
• Adult Education Bridge
• CTE / Remedial Bridge
• Todays concern CTE/Remedial Bridge
• For information on the Adult Education Bridge
  contact Jennifer Foster, Senior Director for
  Adult Education
• _at_ 217-785-0171.

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Why are Bridges Important?

• Educational Reform Agenda
• Public Agenda for College and Career Success
• Common High School and College Readiness
  Standards
• College and Career Readiness Act
• P-20 Data System
• Vision for Adult Education
• Shifting Gears
• All reforms at easing the transition of high
  school students or adults to postsecondary
  education and/or careers

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Why Are Bridges Important?
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Why Are Bridges Important?
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Context What Is a CTE/Remedial Bridge Why is
it Important?

• Transitions Students into CTE
• Combines Remedial Academics with Career
  Technical Education
• Contextualized instruction
• Exposure to Career Cluster Programs of Study
• Prepares for Workforce Entry
• Exposure to Workplace Skills
• Preparation for entry-level credentialing
• Provides Appropriate Supportive Services
• Flexible Course Formats
• Individualized Student Supports for Adults

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Context What Is a CTE/Remedial Bridge Why is
it Important?

• Integrated Remediation will lead to
• Reduced dependency on traditional remediation
  coursework (to bring students up to speed
  academically)
• Improved Course Retention
• Increased Transitions
• Increased CTE Program Completion
• Increased Job Placement

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Context What Is a CTE/Remedial Bridge Why is
it Important?

• Bridging Across CC Divisions
• CTE Division
• Remedial Ed Division
• Continuing Ed Division
• Adult Education
• Student Support Case Management

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Bridge Instruction The Shifting Gears Initiative

• Vision State Local policy development supports
  low-skilled adults access to success in
  training education that leads to jobs
  improved state economies.
• Target Sectors Health, TDL, Manufacturing
• Goal Increase adult transitions from
  Developmental Ed and/or Adult Ed to Postsecondary
  Credit programs
• How? Bridge instruction

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Bridge Instruction The Shifting Gears Initiative

• Shifting Gears 1.0
• Defining Bridges in Illinois
• Policy Recommendations (7)
• Pilot Sites
• Shifting Gears 2.0
• Webpage
• Communications Plan
• Transition data
• Embed polices into Bridge

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Bridge Instruction The Shifting Gears Initiative

• Policy Recommendations
• Bridge Definition
• Contextualization
• Course classification
• Policy Clarification
• Data
• WIA Training
• Student Support

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What Is a Bridge Program?

• Core Elements of a Bridge
• Contextualized Instruction Blends workplace
  competencies, career exploration, and basic
  literacy and math skills in an occupational
  context
• Career Development Incorporates career
  exploration, planning preparation through
  exposure to understanding of the world of work
• Transition Services Provides individualized
  supportive services for students moving from
  adult ed and/or remedial ed into CTE

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CTE/Remedial Bridge

• Eligibility Target Population
• High school credential holders
• Reading and/or Math levels at or above the 6th
  grade pre-college level
• Low-skilled, low-income adults unprepared to
  enter postsecondary CTE programs

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CTE/Remedial Bridge

• Education Training Providers
• Community Colleges
• Community Colleges Other Partners (i.e. Adult
  Ed WIA Title I providers)

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CTE/Remedial Bridge

• Program Design Options Single course or Series
  of courses that
• Prepares for a higher level Bridge, or
• Moves students directly into a Postsecondary
  credit-bearing course/program, or
• Prepares for Entry-level employment

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CTE/Remedial Bridge

• Bridge Instruction may
• Provide opportunities for students to earn
  partial or full credit
• Offer dual enrollment in non-credit credit
  instructional offerings
• Introduce students to knowledge skills at the
  Cluster, Pathway or Program of Study level
• Based on one of Illinois Career Clusters

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CTE/Remedial Bridge ICCB Approval

• Development in Health, TDL, or Manufacturing
• Course Addition Request (Form 11)
• PCS 1.6 (Vocational Skills)
• Generic Course Codes (defined by ICCB)
• Addendum Information (as outlined in Bridge
  Definition)
• ICCB Staff Review/Approval

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CTE/Remedial Bridge Pilots Lessons Learned

• Bridge Instruction Area Goal(s)
• Oakton CC CNA to LPN Bridge
• DuPage Manufacturing Bridge to industry
  certification
• Lake County CNC Bridge
• Biggest Challenges
• Successes
• Coordination across Partners

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CTE/Remedial Bridge Pilots Lessons Learned

• Evaluation was conducted by
• Office of Community College Research Leadership
• and
• Workforce Enterprise Services

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What We Learned from the 3 Dev Ed Pilot Sites

• Demographics (n- 43)
• 48.8 female,
• 54 minority
• 43 with p.s. credits
• 89 with income over 21,000
• 9 with limited English skills
• Outcomes
• 72 completion rate (42 Ad Ed pilot rate)
• 30.2 entered credit instruction (14.3)
• 23.1 entered further remedial instruction
• 9.3 entered employment

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What we Learned, cont.

• 100 had access to college orientation and
  advising
• 58 had career orientation
• 69.8 received academic supports
• 81.4 were involved in a learning community
• 88.4 received financial aid and admissions
  assistance
• 27.9 received for exam fees
• 9 received transportation assistance

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Recommendations

• Coordinated transition services should be
  available to students lack of college knowledge
• Add performance measures that track student
  milestones and tipping point markers
• Include contextualized bridge instruction in dev
  ed courses
• Integrate instruction (reading, math, workplace
  skills, career exploration)
• Accelerate instruction (intensity x duration)
• Assure student services are available at times
  Dev Ed students are on campus
• Partner with employers

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Contacts

• Brian Durham
• Telephone [phone]
• Brian.Durham_at_illinois.gov
• Lavon Nelson
• Telephone [phone]
• Lavon.Nelson_at_Illinois.gov
• Tricia Broughton
• Telephone [phone]
• Tricia.Broughton_at_illinois.gov