ab 86: adult education a report out from coabe webinar 5-1-15

AB 86: Adult Education

A Report Out from COABE

http://ab86.cccco.eduWebinar 5-1-15

Announcements

• Thank you for submitting your surveys!• Your region will be notified of the extension

approval as it is completed• Join us next week for another technical

assistance webinar, topic TBD

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Webinar Agenda

• A Report Out from the COABE Conference– John Werner, Vice Principal Visalia Adult

School, Sequoias Adult Ed Consortium– Emma Diaz, AB86 Project Coordinator, San

Bernardino Community College District Consortium

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SAEC Expedition Team: COABE 2015Denver, CO

Colorful Colorado

Porsche Johnson

Porsche.Johnson@1199Funds.org

• Union members pay 0.01% of salary to support training in field

• $ used to proved prep courses

• Used full wrap services

• Purchase their own space

"Beyond the ATM Model"

"Bridging the Gap: Community College and Foreign Educated Immigrants"

Paul Feltman

WES Global Talent Bridge

pfeltman@wes.org

• Audience: educated immigrants

• Assistance with job searches

• Resource referrals• Support with prof.

licensing

"Local Implementation of the WIOA"

Cheryl Keenan and Nicholas Lalpui

cheryl.keenan@ed.gov, 202-245-7721

• WIOA review• New and

improved, unifying provisions to state and local boards

• Comprehensive client support

"21st Century Demands on Adult Education: Gaining Perspective on the Role of Adult Educators"

Federico Salas-Isnardi and Valerie K Ambrose

Phone: 979-845-6615 FAX: 979-845-0952

Email: fsalas-isnardi@tamu.edu

• Panel discussion on the role of adult educators in social change

• Social Demands v. Market Demands

• Are we creating fully developed citizens

• Not about getting a job, its about getting a good job

“(Re)Writing History: Social Studies Extended Response - Teaching Critical Thinking for the GED Test”

Meagen Farrell

farrellink.com/blog - adultedresources.coabe.org

• Extended responses about great conversations and enduring social issues

• High scores=Focused on prompt, adequate length, use of evidence, development of ideas, clarity

Teaching Adults with Learning Disabilities - and Amazing Apps to Help!Patti White M.ED, Disabilities Project Mgr,prwhite@madisoncounty.netKlaus Neu, Dipl Paed, Media Coordinatorklaus@aalrc.org

http://aalrc.org/adminteachers/disabilities/docs/Variety of strategies and tech supplements

More tech

http://aalrc.org/adminteachers/disabilities/docs/Assistive%20Technology%20at%20AALRC%20updated%20August%202013.pdf

A resource full of resources…Check it out!

Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction Across the Content Areas: Critical Skills for Student Success in College and Career

Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D. - Director of Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL) for American Institute of Research (AIR)TEAL@air.org

• Reading and Writing similar processes

• 8 cognitive reading strategies

• Close reading• Skills need to

accelerate

One-size Doesn't Fit All: Strategies for Site-based Standards Alignment

Cherise Moore, PhD--Sr. Researcher for AIRcmoore@air.org

Marcela Movit, PhD.--Sr. Researcher for AIRmmovit@air.org

• Strategies for aligning to the CCRS, and CCTC standards

• Full module at State Center in Fresno in the Fall of 2015. Hosted by Central Section CCAE

“Implementing Career Pathways for smaller, rural programs and lower level students”

Jeff Fantine@jfantine

• Pathway v. ModelA model pulls in all services that will help a student engage a particular pathway.

• Build partnerships• Add career

context• What are you

already doing? And add __?

3 Models Fantine is seeing:

• IBEST: works well for higher level students in large programs. Highly coordinated team teaching. Cohorts.

• Integrated and Contextualized Classes: Basic skills in context.

• Separate Career Classes: Job training may be by a partner.

COABE CONFERENCE 2015COMMISSION ON ADULT

BASIC EDUCATION DENVER, CO

San Bernardino Community College

District Consortium

AB86 Project Coordinator:

Emma Diaz

COABE CONFERENCE 2015

BRIDGING STUDENTS TO SUCCESS IN COMMUNITY

COLLEGE

A COLLABORATIVE BETWEEN SAN BERNARDINO ADULT SCHOOL AND

SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY COLLEGE

Presenters Karen Bautista, Rosa Leon-Blanco & Emma Diaz

SAN BERNARDINO CONSORTIUM PRESENTATION

Presentation Agenda Introductions (presenters & participants) 42 total

Good mix of administrators & teachers / faculty Good mix of geographic locations

Table brainstorm of effective transition practices already being used.

Gave each tablea networking opportunity.

SAN BERNARDINO CONSORTIUM PRESENTATION (CONT.)

San Bernardino Transition to Success Program (Theory first) Organizational and Administrative Practices

Effective Strategies Program Components Staff Development Practices Instructional Practices

Seymour, Sharon. Promising Practices for Transitioning Students from Adult Education to Postsecondary Education, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Basic Skills Initiative (2009)

http://www.rpgroup.org/system/files/Adult%20Ed%20to%20Postsecondary%20Transition%20Lit%20review.pdf

SAN BERNARDINO CONSORTIUM PRESENTATION (CONT.)

Timeline (3 year grant)

OTAN Grant Opportunity Letter of support from the local Community

College Grant written by Adult School Agency Grant Awarded Relationships forged beginning with those

closest to students.

SAN BERNARDINO CONSORTIUM PRESENTATION (CONT.)

Transition to College Hybrid Course Pre-assessment workshop by

the college on the Adult School campus

Financial Aid Scholarships / EOPS / Waivers

SAN BERNARDINO CONSORTIUM PRESENTATION (CONT.)

Example of course curriculum

SAN BERNARDINO CONSORTIUM PRESENTATION (CONT.)

Success thus far: 24 students have successfully transitioned to the

community college. 50 enrolled this year as of January 2015.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Karen Bautista Karen.bautista@sbcusd.comRosa Leon Blanco rosa.leonblanco@sbcusd.com Emma Diaz ediaz@sbccd.edu

Next COABE Conference will beIn Texas. April 2016

SESSION I ATTENDED DURING THE CONFERENCE

“Moving Pathways Forward: Using Data to Manage Career

Pathways Services”

Presented by: Judith Alamprese Principal Scientist, Abt

Associates judy_alamprese@abtassoc.com

SESSION I ATTENDED DURING THE CONFERENCE

Examine the role of data in career pathways Learn about the types of data that can be

used to design, monitor implementation, and evaluate career pathways services

Practice identifying data to support a career pathways system

Hear about the Moving Pathways Forward Project

SESSION I ATTENDED DURING THE CONFERENCE

SESSION I ATTENDED DURING THE CONFERENCE

How are you using learner data from: Learner Intake Form? Attendance? Basic Skills Assessments? GED® Ready or other high school

equivalency readiness test? Class exercises? Discussions with students? Post-ABE participation?

Postsecondary enrollment Employment

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER WITH LEARNER DATA

What types of learners does the program serve?

Why do learners come to our program? What motivates learners to enroll?

How much do learners improve their skills?

To what extent do students think they are learning?

What do learners want to do after they complete the ABE program?

To what extent are learners ready to move to a next step?

Learner Intake Form Discussion with learner at

registration, intake, in class Analysis of difference

between pre- post test scores?

In-class discussions, course evaluation forms, learner interviews

Intake form with goals, College and Career Awareness Plan

Basic skills posttest score, college placement test

Question Source of Data

MOVING PATHWAYS FORWARD PROJECT Funder: U.S. Department of Education, Office of

Career, Technical and Adult Education (OCTAE) Purpose: Assist states and ABE programs in

advancing career pathways systems to enable learners to earn postsecondary credentials and obtain family-sustaining jobs

Process: Integrate adult basic education into broader career pathways systems at the state and local levels in context of WIOA

Project Team: Kratos Learning: Chrys Limardo, Project Director Abt Associates: Judith Alamprese, Director of Intensive

Technical Assistance and State Coaches CORD: Hope Cotner, Project Partner, CP Exchange &

General Technical Assistance

CONTACT INFORMATION

Judith Alamprese, Abt Associates judy_alamprese@abtassoc.com

I-Fang Cheng, Kratos Learning i-fang.cheng@kratoslearning.com

Project email: cpexchange@kratoslearning.com Project website: http://

lincs.ed.gov/programs/movingpathways Moving Pathways Forward: Supporting

Career Pathways Integration is funded by OCTAE under contract #ED-VAE-13-C-0060. The project is managed by Kratos Learning and its partners, Abt Associates and Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) Communications Inc.

CONCLUSION

Overall the event was great Many vendors were present giving

demonstrations of software, giving samples… etc.

Myriad of topics for break out sessions, some for rural areas.

http://adultedresource.coabe.org/ The organization will be posting to this website all the PowerPoints and resource materials from all the presentations soon.

http://www.coabe.org/html/pdf/COABE%20program%20FINALfor%20Website.pdf Link to the catalog of presentations for the 2015 conference.

Thank you!ab86@cccco.edu

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