Transforming Michigan

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Transforming Michigans Adult Learning
Infrastructure
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Transitions
Now Family-sustaining career with
post-secondary education
Then Family-sustaining career with high school
diploma
Success in post-secondary education requires
adults have basic skills
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1,690,870 Michigan Working-Age Adults (18-64)
Need Improved Basic Skills, 2006
Percent of the total working-age adults
(5,041,710) 34 Source U.S. Census Bureau, 2006
American Community Survey (Public Use Microdata
Samples)
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Startling scale of need

• High rates of low literacy, even many with
  credentials
• Low basic skills equate to low wages
• 60 who want to attend a community college need
  basic remediation first

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Goal

• Cut in half the number of Michigan workers
  lacking the basic skills and/or credentials
  needed to attain a family-sustaining job and
  contribute to the states economy.

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Guiding Principles

• Collaboration
• Accountability
• Responsiveness
• Agility
• Contextualization
• Entrepreneurism
• Alignment

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Collaboration

• Michigans policies and programs must
• Unite various core competencies and capacities to
  achieve a common vision
• No one agency can meet this need alone requires
  partnerships to succeed

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Accountability

• Michigans policies and programs must
• Promote shared responsibility for common outcomes
• Invest in the strategies necessary to collect
  data on program performance
• Use data to inform decisions about future
  policies and programs

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Responsiveness

• Michigans policies and programs must
• Promote post-secondary education as the new
  standard for adult learners
• Eagerly welcome learners at all levels with open
  doors and clear learning pathways
• Integrate program pathways and assist with
  navigation to move learners toward their goals
• Meet the needs of adult learners with
  non-traditional approaches
• Engage employers as partners
• Ensure adult learners have access to opportunities

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Agility

• Michigans policies and programs must
• Rapidly respond to the needs of learners,
  employers, and communities
• Proactively identify new opportunities to meet
  diverse needs
• Creatively design and deliver innovative programs
  that equip Michigan to be successful in emerging
  markets

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Contextualization

• Michigans policies and programs must
• Develop learners basic skills in the context of
  practical applications in the real world
• Develop basic skills in the context of
  occupational skills necessary for success at work

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Entrepreneurism

• Michigans policies and programs must
• Employ innovative thinking and approaches in
  program delivery
• Leverage various assets
• Foster entrepreneurial thinking and process

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Alignment

• Michigans policies and programs must
• Intentionally develop articulation agreements and
  standardized pathways among various institutions
• Strategically align funding across multiple
  sources to support the shared goal of improving
  basic skills and transitions to post-secondary
  education

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Recommendations

• Create a unified strategic approach
• Engage a range of partners in service delivery
• Build clear connections between learning and the
  promise of good jobs
• Use accelerated and connected pathways
• Increase access to adult learning
• Make basic skills development a priority across
  funding
• Hold regional partnerships accountable for
  success.
• Engage a broad coalition in communicating urgent
  need.

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Transform Michigans adult learning
infrastructure to create a unified strategic
approach to increasing basic skills and
post-secondary credential attainment.
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Engage a range of partners in service delivery
tomeet the diverse needs of adult learners.
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learning and the promise of good jobs.
Build clear connections between
                                                                                                                   
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Use accelerated and connected pathways to help
adult learners reach their goals.
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Increase access to adult learning
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Make basic skills development a priority within
every funding source that can legally support it.
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Hold regional partnerships accountable for
success and measure outcomes at the partnership
level.
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• Engage a broad coalition in communicating the
  urgent need
• to improve basic skills.

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Service Delivery Principles

• Collaborative service delivery
• Flexible and convenient scheduling and locations
• Clear pathways and articulation among partners
• Accelerated coursework
• Contextualization and relevance
• Clear connections to employers

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How is this different?

• This model hinges on true partnerships
• This model is about transitions.
• This model is about blending resources.

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The impact of transformation

• Higher personal incomes
• Increase cumulative lifetime earnings by 1.76
  trillion
• Higher rates of citizenship and civic engagement
• Increase voting rates

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The impact of transformation

• Higher levels of educational achievement for
  future generations
• More students enter college after high school
• Higher levels of fiscal contribution
• Increase annual fiscal contributions by as much
  as 8.1 billion
• Higher levels of readiness for careers in the new
  economy
• We can expect job creation and economic growth

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Next Steps

• Time for change is now
• Transformation being implemented
• No Worker Left Behind demonstration grants
• Capacity building
• Policy change
• Communications
• Shifting Gears

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Break
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Funding Distribution

• Changes to Section 107
• Changes to WIA Title II

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WIA Title II Changes

• Competitive funding
• A stronger focus on partnerships among providers
• An expectation of innovative program design that
  helps to meet the objectives of the states new
  adult learning strategy
• Changing how the act of learning is defined.
• Making it more clear and efficient for adults to
  move toward their long-term goals.
• Making learning more accessible.
• Making learning relevant.
• Making learning attractive.

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WIA Title II Changes

• Funding formula changes
• Assessment policy

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WIA Title II Applications

• Guidance on website this week
• All applicants must submit LOI by April 6
• All applicants must attend mandatory bidders
  meetings on April 29 and 30 at the Michigan Adult
  Education and Training Conference in Ypsilanti
• Application available on website after April 20
• Applications due June 1
• All information at www.michigan.gov/adulteducation

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Other Updates

• No Worker Left Behind Update
• Adult Learning Work Group
• Revamping Task Forces

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Questions/Discussion
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Questions? Please contactErica Nakfoor,
DELEG(517) 335-0634NakfoorE_at_michigan.gov