Basic Skills 2'0

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Washington State Rocks!
Possibilities. Realized.

• Basic Skills 2.0
• The Next Frontier
• Trustees Association of Community and Technical
  Colleges
• Jon Kerr, District Chair Transitional Education
  Pierce College
• May 16, 2008

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Who are the students sitting in our classrooms?
Basic Skills 2.0
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DR. William Dagget, Founder and CEO International
Leadership in Education
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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders
  will be
• those who empower others.

• We always overestimate the change that will
  occur in the
• next two years and underestimate the change
  that will occur
• in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled
  into inaction.

• If you think your teacher is tough, wait until
  you get a
• boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Bill Gates
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic
way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there
is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates
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The I-BEST Revolution
Pierce College Integrated Basic Education and
Skills Training

• From where you are to where you want to be

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The Pierce IBEST Revolution!
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Students Served

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  Pre-college/ABE
• GED
• ESL

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Pierces I-BEST at a Glance

• Pierces I-BEST programs pair a basic skills
  instructor with professional-technical
  instructors in all content classes with 100
  overlap instruction.
• All I-BEST programs have been extended for
  additional contact hours in order to allow
  additional time for integration.
• This added class time is team-taught by the Basic
  Skills and Professional-Technical instructors
  with a 50 overlap.

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• I-BEST instructional teams share continual
  feedback on student progress and adjust lessons
  to optimize student learning and success.
• On-going team-teaching professional development
  is provided for all teams
• All I-BEST students are required to take an
  Educational Interview class.

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• All I-BEST programs focus on experiential
  learning which employs a variety of skill
  training techniques that include simulations,
  learning laboratories, and skill demonstrations
  on both soft and technical skills.
• Most importantly, basic skills, workforce skills,
  and course content are taught concurrently by
  instructional teams.

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Basic Skills Curriculum in Context

• An Example from the Corrections Protection
  Officers Program
• Speaking is focused on the skills needed to do
  things such as communicate clearly and
  effectively with correctional officers, inmates
  and/or juvenile offenders and to promote
  correctional facility safety.
• Listening is focused on the skills needed to do
  things such as understand directions, offenders
  requests and explanations, and follow safety
  warnings.
• Writing is focused on the skills needed to do
  things such as write observation, infraction, and
  incident reports entries into daily logbooks
  memos resumes and security management plans.
• Reading is focused on the skills needed to do
  things such as comprehend the correction specific
  text books, policies and procedures, and
  technical reports.
• Math is focused on the skills needed to do
  things such as read graphs and charts and perform
  basic math operations to include percentages and
  fractions used on the job in Corrections.

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Pierce College Career Pathways 2008

• Early Childhood Education Pathway
• I-BEST ECE Certificate 3 quarters, 27 credits
• Corrections Protection Officer/Criminal Justice
  Pathway
• I-BEST Corrections/Protection Certificate 14
  weeks, 20 credits
• Allied Health CNA/Nursing Pathway
• I-BEST Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate 2
  quarters, 8 credits
• Business Technology and Medical Billing Pathway
• I-BEST Integrated Business Technology
  Certificate 4 quarters, 34 credits
• Language Interpreter Pathway
• I-BEST DSHS Social Service Level I Certificate 2
  quarters, 26 credits
• I-BEST DSHS Medical Interpreter Certificate 3
  quarters, 34 credits
• I-BEST Language Interpreter Certificate 4
  quarters, 44 credits

We've only just begun!
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Retention of Students

• Contextualized, integrated basic skills team
  teaching mode
• Educational Interview classes provide learner
  retention and persistence through research-proven
  strategies
• Experiential learning and student cohorts
• In-depth intake and appraisal and advisory
  support
• Opportunity Grant Case Managers
• Director of Integrated Basic Skills
• I-BEST Program Assistant
• Allied Health Pathways Coordinator
• Educational Interview Instructors

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Financial Aid to StudentsThe Biggest Challenge!

• TIP (Tuition Payment plan)
• Opportunity Grant Scholarships
• WorkFirst Funds
• Worker Retraining Funds
• VA Benefits
• Traditional Financial Aid

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ResultsWinter 2006-Fall 2007
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IBEST has a proven track record in innovative
education resulting in student success by design
as well as generation of new FTE tuition
dollars. It is time to recognize the value that
our Basic Skills students bring to our workforce
and community!
Taking students from where they are to where
they want to be!
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I-BEST
Moving Students Further Faster ITS OUR
TOMORROW!
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Nathan Condors I-BEST Corrections/Protection
Officer Pierce College Fort Steilacoom
Marina Anton Outstanding I-BEST Student Pierce
College Puyallup
I-BEST Success
Angela Bunting I-BEST Early Childhood Education
Pierce College Puyallup
Debbie Ramirez I-BEST Academic Support
Instructor Pierce College District
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