Barbara Endel

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Introducing Career Pathways Key Components and
Regional Strategies Career Pathways

• Barbara Endel
• Consultant to KnowledgeWorks Foundation

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Four key principles

• Regional economic development model
• Central role for career-technical
  education/community colleges
• Data driven
• Assumes transformational change

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Career Pathways

• Intermediary organizes partners and resources
• Series of connected education and training
  opportunities and services for students and
  incumbent workers
• Primary partners
• postsecondary educational institutions
• workforce development entities
• economic development organizations
• employers

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Career pathways

• Why?
• Promotes systemic change utilizing existing
  resources
• Addresses
• Workforce trends
• Education attainment trends
• Economic development trends
• Conclusion regional partnerships uniting
  resources and responding to business will spur
  economic growth

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Career pathways

• Emerging national model AR, CA, KY, MA, OH, OR,
  and WA
• U.S. Department of Education, Office for
  Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) funded
  pilot study Career Connections
• U.S. Department of Labor, Strategic Partnerships
  for a Competitive Workforce institutes

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Career Pathways

• Cincinnati State/Great Oaks Inst. of Technology
  (health care)
• Lakeland Community College (healthcare)
• Pickaway-Ross Career Technology Center (health
  care)
• Rhodes State College (advanced manufacturing)
• Washington State Community College (health care)
• YSU/Metro campus (health care)

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• Roll out plan
• Knowledge acquisition
• Convening
• Organizing
• Data phase
• Build out partnerships
• Implementation
• Expansion into Phase II

Phase I
Phase II
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Career Pathways process
Intermediary
Workforce Strategy Center
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Gap Analysis

• Target industries and jobs that will support
  individual advancement, and regional growth

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Planning

• Form a partnership to develop a career pathways
  plan

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Implementation

• Coordinate the work of the partners

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Continuous improvement

• Evaluate and continuously improve career pathways
  programs and services
• Data and performance
• State OSB reporting
• Data for regional pathways (operational
  evaluation)
• Institutional data (how to integrate into a full
  set)
• Participant data (release and unit record data)

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Expansion

• Expand the pathway process to involve other
  partners, populations of participants and sectors

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Key career pathways components

• Modularized curriculum
• Credentials
• Roadmaps/programs of study
• Outcome based curriculum based on competencies
• Bridge programs
• Employer engagement which transcends typical
  advisory role

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Key career pathways components

• Internships, co-ops, apprenticeships, job
  shadowing
• Linked to employer/labor market needs
• Knowledgeable staff know which sets of courses
  lead to which jobs
• Alignment systems (K-12, WIA, etc.) and
  programmatic
• Wrap around services

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Regional charge

• Core regional team to develop career pathways
  healthcare
• Regional builders contribute to the expansion
  of three other sector strategies
• Mobilize partnerships and resources
• Convener of pathways partnerships and the
  integration of your regions educational assets
• Set and produce results