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Unpacking the Regulations: Adult Education and Literacy Activities

This resource provides an overview and discussion of the regulations for adult education and literacy programs, including workforce preparation activities and integrated education and training. It also includes resources for employability skills, coordination with employers, digital literacy skills, and more.

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Unpacking the Regulations: Adult Education and Literacy Activities

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  1. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Unpacking the Regulations: Adult Education and Literacy Activities September 14th UnpackingtheRegulations: AdultEducationandLiteracy Activities–SessionII Heidi Silver-Pacuilla ChrisCoro

  2. Part463SubpartD– Contains9Rules • Adulteducationandliteracyprograms,activities,and services(463.30) • Englishlanguageacquisition(ELA) program(463.31) • Meeting the requirementthat the ELAprogramlead to attainmentof a secondaryschool diplomaor its recognizedequivalentandtransitionto postsecondary educationandtrainingor leadstoemployment(463.32) • IntegratedEnglishliteracyandcivicseducationservices (463.33) Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  3. Contains9Rules(Cont.) • Workforcepreparationactivities(463.34) • Integratededucationandtraining(IET)(463.35) • Requiredcomponentsofanintegratededucationand trainingprogramfundedundertitleII(463.36) • Meetingtherequirementthattherequiredcomponents ofanIETundertitleIIbe“integrated”(463.37) • MeetingtherequirementthatanIETundertitleIIbe “forthepurposeofeducationalandcareer advancement”(463.38) Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  4. Section463.34 Whatareworkforcepreparation activities? Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  5. WorkforcePreparationActivitiesInclude: • Activities, programs, or services designedtohelpanindividualacquire acombinationofbasicacademicskills,criticalthinkingskills,digital literacyskills,andself-managementskills,includingcompetenciesin: • Utilizingresources; • Usinginformation; • Workingwithothers; • Understandingsystems; • Skillsnecessary for successful transition into andcompletionof postsecondary educationor training, or employment; and • Otheremployabilityskillsthatincreaseanindividual’spreparation fortheworkforce. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  6. Referto463.3– DefinitionsApplicable toAEFLAPrograms Digitalliteracymeanstheskillsassociated withusingtechnologytoenableusersto find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicateinformation. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  7. OverviewDiscussion “WithintheNRSforadulteducation, educationalfunctioningleveldescriptors wererecentlyrevisedtoalignwithrigorous collegeandcareerreadinessstandards, whichincludemuchoftheknowledgeand skillslistedunderworkforcepreparation activities.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  8. OverviewDiscussion • “Wemaintain,therefore,thatworkforce preparationactivitiesareassessedbroadly throughthe assessment of educational functioninglevels.” • “We also remind States that Part 462, subpartDdoesnotprecludeStatesfrom includingadditionalassessmentsnot to be reported throughthe NRS as part ofa State assessmentpolicy.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  9. OverviewDiscussion • Coordinationwith Employers • “…new adult educationand literacyactivitiessuchas workforcepreparation activitiesandintegrated education and training offer adult educators new opportunities to enhance and expand engagementefforts withemployerssothatadult education servicesmeet the needs of job seekers and employers.” • EmployabilitySkills • “…it is important to provide learnersatalllevelswith opportunities to master employabilityskillsand encourageeligibleproviders to incorporateworkforce preparationactivitiesinto all adult education and literacy activities,as appropriate.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  10. TableTop Discussion Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  11. Technical AssistanceResources Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  12. Resources EmployabilitySkills CoordinationwithEmployers http://cte.ed.gov/employabilityskills/ https://lincs.ed.gov/employers/ Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  13. Resources DigitalLiteracySkills http://lincs.ed.gov/programs/digital‐literacy Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  14. Resources CareerAwareness CollegeTransition http://www.collegetransition.org/publications.icacurriculum.html https://community.lincs.ed.gov(Groups)https://lincs.ed.gov(Resources) Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  15. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ” --Allan Toffler, futurist Section463.35 WhatisIntegratedEducationand Training? Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  16. IntegratedEducationandTraining(IET) Aserviceapproachthatprovidesadulteducation andliteracyactivitiesconcurrentlyandcontextually with workforce preparationactivitiesand workforce training for a specific occupation or occupational cluster for the purpose of educational and career advancement. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  17. OverviewDiscussion InthePreamble,wenoted:“...proposed§463.35 merelyrestatedAEFLA’s definitionofintegrated education and training, which does not require all eligible providers to provide integrated education and training. Section 203(2) of theActlists the programs,activities,andservicesthatare allowable adult education and literacy activities. Integrated education and training isonly one activityofseveral listed.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  18. OverviewDiscussion “... we do not anticipate that all eligible individualsservedby aneligibleprovider will immediatelybe readyfor or need integrated educationandtraining.Someeligible individuals--dependingupon local economic conditionsor individualcharacteristics--maybe best served first through other adult education andliteracyactivitiespriorto,andin preparationfor,subsequentenrollmentinan integratededucationandtrainingprogram.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  19. Section463.36 Whataretherequiredcomponents ofanintegratededucationand trainingprogramfundedunder titleII? Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  20. ThreeRequiredComponents Adulteducationandliteracyactivitiesas described in 463.30. Workforcepreparationactivitiesasdescribed in 463.34. Workforcetrainingforaspecificoccupationor occupational cluster which can be any one of the trainingservicesdefinedinsection134(c)(3)(D) oftheAct. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  21. OverviewDiscussion “WeacknowledgethatreservingtitleIIfunds fortheprovisionofadulteducationand literacyactivities,includingworkforce preparationactivities,andutilizingother sourcesof funding, asappropriate, to providetheworkforcetrainingcomponent canextendtheavailabilityof much-needed adulteducationandliteracyservices.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  22. Section463.37 Howdoesaprogramproviding integratededucationandtraining undertitleIImeettherequirement thatthethreerequiredcomponents be“integrated?” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  23. MeetingtheRequirement forthe3ComponentstobeIntegrated • Servicesmust beprovided concurrentlyand contextuallysuchthat— • Withintheoverallscopeofaparticularintegrated education and training program,theadulteducationandliteracyactivities, workforce preparation activities,andworkforce training: • Areeachofsufficientintensityandquality, and based on the most rigorousresearch available,particularlywithrespectto improvingreading,writing,mathematics,andEnglish proficiencyof eligible individuals; • Occur simultaneously;and • Useoccupationallyrelevantinstructionalmaterials. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  24. MeetingtheRequirement forthe3ComponentstobeIntegrated(Cont.) (b)The integrated education andtraining program hasa single set of learningobjectivesthatidentifiesspecific adult education content, workforce preparation activities,andworkforcetrainingcompetencies,and the program activities are organized to function cooperatively. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  25. OverviewDiscussion “InproposingSec.463.37(a)(1),itwasour intentiontoensurethateachof therequired componentsof anintegratededucationand trainingprogrambeofsufficientqualityandintensity.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  26. OverviewDiscussion “We agree with thecommenter who notedthat integratededucationandtrainingis partofa careerpathwaysstrategythat supports accelerationinaccordance withthedefinition of careerpathwaysinsection3(7)(E)of theAct and,accordingly,thattheadulteducationand literacyactivities,workforcepreparation activities,andoccupationaltrainingshould occursimultaneouslyandnotsequentially.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  27. OverviewDiscussion • “For those eligible individuals who need, and are ready for, integrated education and training services, we believe it necessary to use occupationally relevant instructional materials, as appropriate, across the three required components of the integrated education and training program.” • “We do not believe that substituting general employability instructional materials for occupationally relevant instructional materials would be consistent with the statutory requirement.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  28. Section463.38 Howdoesaprogramproviding integratededucationandtraining undertitleIImeettherequirement thattheintegratededucationand trainingprogrambe“forthepurpose ofeducationalandcareer advancement?” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  29. Meetingtherequirement that theIET programbeforthepurposeof “educationalandcareeradvancement” Theadulteducationcomponentofthe programisalignedwiththeState’scontent standardsfor adulteducationasdescribed intheState’sUnifiedor CombinedState Plan;and Theintegratededucationandtraining program is part of a career pathway. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  30. OverviewDiscussion “Inlargepart,ourintentinestablishingthe requirementthattheadulteducation component of theprogrambealignedwith theState’scontent standardsforadult educationistosupporttheinclusionof transferrableskillsandknowledgeinthe designof integratededucationandtraining programs.” Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  31. Technical AssistanceResources Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  32. Resources MovingPathwaysForward WorkforceGPSCareerPathways http://lincs.ed.gov/programs/movingpathways https://careerpathways.workforcegps.org/ Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

  33. KeyConcepts • Itisimportanttointegrateworkforcepreparationactivities intoalladulteducationservices. • IETprogramshavethreerequiredcomponents. • Each componentmust be of sufficient quality and intensity anduse occupationallycontextualizedmaterials. • Each componentmust be providedthroughoutthe overall scope of the program. • An IETprogrammust be designedfor both educational andcareeradvancement. • NotallstudentsarerequiredtobeenrolledinIET programs. Innovation and Opportunity: FromPlantoReality

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