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Regional Skills Articulation

Framework:Education & Industry Alignment Initiative

Greater Brownwood RegionChamber Meeting

November 19, 2010

Michael Brown, SkillsNETMichael.brown@skillsnet.com

Basic Solution: Industry Requirements must have some association and impact to education and labor market (Talent Pipeline).

Basic Formula: Use common language metrics to define the career, design readiness courses / programs to build regional capacity.

Basic Approach:Align education programs and employer expectations

Basic Problem:People, Politics, Parochialism, and Performance!

Making it more simple:

The Education Workforce committee

Industry Employers Identifying Skills

Education CTE Programs Crosswalk Review

Brownwood area leaders understand the challenge.

Key activities to address the challenge…..

Greater Brownwood Education and Workforce Alignment Challenge

Michael Bettersworth. TSTC. November 2010

Barr Fabrication

In Process Pending

Market-Driven Participation

Skills Articulation Framework:Building Industry Capacity

CTETEKS Learning

Objectives

Post-SecondaryCompetencies &Skill Certificates

IndustryCertification

Work-basedCertification

TEKS Manufacturing Cluster

Foundational Developmental Employability Interoperability

Education & Training Value Feedback / Best Practices

Educators and Employers MUST Team to Offer Learning That is Relevant

The greater the challenge, the more important that we all work together

Thank You!