Workforce

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• Workforce Training
• Workforce Investment Act
• Adult Learning Services
• Continuing Education

Connecting Education
With Workforce
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When Turf Doesnt Matter Breaking Down the Silos

• James Williams
• Julia Houston

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Who are you?

• Adult Education?
• Other?
• Transition?
• Program Administration?
• Securement of funds?
• Forward/progressive thinker?

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About Us

• Adult Education/Express DVD
• Progressive Movement/Program Evolution ABE
  curriculum movement toward Common Core State
  Standards, while assimilating workforce
  contextual learning applications.

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Mission

• To provide adult learners with the basic
  educational opportunities in fundamental
  mathematics, communication, and interpersonal and
  reasoning skills which are necessary for
  employment and self-sufficiency.
• To assist adult learners with a native language
  other than English in the mastery of the English
  language or citizenship preparation.

• To provide adult learners who are parents with
  the basic educational skills which allow them to
  become full partners in the educational
  development of their children.
• To assist adult learners in the completion of a
  GED credential.

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Market Characteristics of Service Area

• Social Environment
• Statistics from CREATEs 2012 Northeast
  Mississippi Regional Profile indicate the
  following socioeconomic barriers
• Per capita income - 29,736
• Percentage of households with income equal or
  less than 24,999 38.4
• Average TANF and Food Stamp Payment per Household
  - 280.84
• Number of Births to Single Teens 777

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Market Characteristics of Service Area

• Educational Environment

Percentage of Adults 25 Years of Age or Older By
County with Less Than A High School Diploma
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Programmatic Transitions (70/30)

• Stringent Literacy Component Which Meets Common
  Core State Standards
• Workplace Contextual Learning
• 21st Workplace Skills of critical thinking,
  problem-solving, creativity, collaboration,
  communication, and self-direction.

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Programmatic Transition (70/30)

• Tuition Guarantee and First College Class Free
• Academic Arrow Terms
• Earning Student Test Fee Waiver
• Transition Specialist

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Current Service Delivery Model

• Tier I
• Literacy Classes
• Adult Basic Intermediate (Pre-GED)
• English as a Second Language

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Current Service Delivery Model

• Tier 2
• Adult Secondary Education (GED Express)
• Fast-Track (test-ready individuals)
• GED Online Course
• GED Testing Service (paper-based/CBT)

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Current Service Delivery Model

• Tier 3
• ACT WorkKeys Testing/Career Readiness
• Credential
• ACT WorkKeys Preparation/Remediation
• 21st Century Skills SmartLab
• McGraw-Hill Workforce Connects Technology

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21st Century Workplace Skills

• Jobs 4 U
• SmartLab

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21st Century Skills

• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Application of Technology to Workflow
• Connections to Core Subject Knowledge
• Project Management
• Collaboration and Teamwork
• Communication Skills
• Creativity and Innovation
• Adaptability
• Information and Media Literacy

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• What Does Workforce Connects do?
• Coordinates job/career exploration with the
  resources and steps necessary to gain the skills
  and training job seekers need for specific jobs.
  It uses contextual learning for subjects such as
  math and English to make those subject areas
  meaningful to the learners job choice.
• http//www.mcgraw-hill.com/user-media/New-approach
  es-to-building-careers-white-paper.pdf

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Workplace Contextual Learning

• Contemporarys Workforce Connects
• Assessment
• Instruction
• Remediate
• Resources

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Partnership Strategy Roles/Delivery of Services

• C2C/Jobs 4 U Counseling to Career
• OJT On the Job Training
• Workforce Basic Skills Manufacturing
  Certification
• CRC Career Readiness Credential

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Partnerships

• Department of Human Services Lee, Itawamba,
  Pontotoc, Chickasaw, and Monroe
• Lee County Head Start
• Lee County Juvenile Detention Center
• Lee County Correction
• LIFT, Inc.
• Good Samaritan Health Services
• E.T.I.
• S. A. F. E., Inc.
• Harbor House
• Lee County Health Department
• Mississippi Kidney Foundation
• McDonalds Corporation

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• How does our ABE program plan to remain valuable
  to both our institution and the community we
  serve?

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How We Did Last Year

• Number Served 1,587 (2)
• Number of GED Completions 475 (-20)
• Number Entering Post-Secondary Education 196
  (6)

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ABE SWOT Analysis

• Strengths
• Teachers/Scorecard System of Accountability
• Trainer/System of train-the-trainer
• Dropout Recovery/Transition Specialist
• Partnerships with WIA to serve C2C eligible
• Partnerships with WIA to serve non-eligible
• Consortium partners EMCC, NEMCC, NWMCC
• Number of GED graduates produced

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• Weaknesses
• Student economic/other barriers
• Teachers/Staff dedicated but lacking
  understanding of where ABE fits/role
• Trainer/other demands
• Location of centers
• Lack of local program visibility/branding

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• Opportunities
• New marketing strategy
• GED Awareness Campaign
• Development of new community partners
• Moving from paper/pencil GED testing to CBT
• Aligning ABE instruction with Common Core

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• Threats
• Decreased funding streams
• GED 2014 test fee increase
• Moving from paper/pencil GED to CBT
• Aligning ABE instruction with Common Core

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• What weve learned thus far Many of our
  strengths, opportunities, and threats were
  actually one in the same. Thus, they all can be
  utilized as opportunities if we view them as such.

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• http//play.simpletruths.com/movie/change-is-good/

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If you want to walk on wateryou have got to get
out of the boat.
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Corner Stones

• Partnership
• Innovation
• Team Work
• Leadership

• Integration
• Communication
• Accountability
• Nationally Competitive

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No Single Entity Can Supply All the Needs on Its
Own

• Each partner must bring its best resources to the
  project
• Time
• Talent
• Connections
• Influence
• Ingenuity (think outside the box)
• Persistence
• Management

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Educational AttainmentPartnerships
Public Private Local Regional

• Tuition Assistance
• GED
• Drop Out Recovery
• Career Readiness Certificate
• Marketing Campaign
• Career Ladders

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LEADERSHIP
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FEAR