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Working Together Toward a Shared Goal: ABLE Administrators as Collaborators

Working Together Toward a Shared Goal: ABLE Administrators as Collaborators. ABLE Fall Administrators’ Meeting October 18 – 19, 2010. Purpose. To discuss the Transitions Framework To discuss the University System of Ohio Initiatives To discuss your role as collaborator.

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Working Together Toward a Shared Goal: ABLE Administrators as Collaborators

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  1. Working Together Toward a Shared Goal: ABLE Administrators as Collaborators ABLE Fall Administrators’ Meeting October 18 – 19, 2010

  2. Purpose • To discuss the Transitions Framework • To discuss the University System of Ohio Initiatives • To discuss your role as collaborator

  3. Transitions Framework

  4. Components of Transitions Framework • The Ohio ABLE Transitions Framework is organized by three primary categories: • Instructional • Support services • Collaborations (NEWLY ADDED) • The framework is constructed broadly to encompass requirements of both postsecondary and career/workplace transitions.

  5. Components of Transitions Framework • For ABLE, transitions services are defined as those services that facilitate students successfully transitioning to postsecondary education, training, and/or employment as a result of receiving ABLE instructional services.

  6. University System of Ohio Initiatives

  7. University System of Ohio Innovation Grants Four-Year Colleges/ Universities WIA ABLE Collaboratives ABLE Stackable Certificates ABLE Grants EL/Civics Grants SL Grants Adult Education Transitions Developmental Education Initiative Ohio Skills Bank Community Colleges Shifting Gears Adult WorkForce Centers

  8. Shifting Gears

  9. Shifting Gears • Jobs requiring some postsecondary education are expected to grow faster than average between 2006 and 2016 • In 2006, the Joyce Foundation launched the Shifting Gears initiative in five Midwest states to address this need. Illinois Indiana Minnesota Ohio Wisconsin

  10. Shifting Gears • Ohio has identified three main priority objectives for Shifting Gears including: • Broadening access to a greater number and wider range of working adults • Shortening paths to marketable skills and meaningful credentials • Speeding student progress with fewer interruptions

  11. Developmental Education Initiative

  12. Developmental Education Initiative • The Gates and Lumina Foundations have partnered to fund a three-year initiative to improve student success outcomes. • The initiative builds states’ capacities to develop approaches for improving outcomes for students who place into developmental education and have high odds of not completing their programs (Ohio, Florida, Connecticut, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia)

  13. Developmental Education Initiative • Currently, a pilot is being conducted in Ohio with partnerships between ABLE and community colleges: • To identify best practices for developing and sustaining ABLE-community college agreements for serving students who are not college ready • To make recommendations for a uniform statewide developmental education placement policy 

  14. Developmental Education Initiative • To determine instructional approaches and support services that are most successful in helping student transitions Next week, October 29th, there will be a meeting of the ABLE programs and branch campuses to explore the potential of establishing similar partnerships.

  15. WIA ABLE Collaboratives

  16. WIA ABLE Collaboratives • Time frame • 1st Incentive Grant (2008-2010) • 2nd Incentive Grant (2009-2011) • Sixteen ABLE Transitions Collaboratives • Comprised of local ABLE programs and some partners • Resource Centers were fiscal agents • Goal of building program capacity to operationalize the Transitions Framework

  17. WIA ABLE Collaboratives • Some of the activities of the collaboratives included: • Conducting collaborative meetings and conference calls • Purchasing resources for local programs • Developing products • Participating in professional development/training

  18. ABLE Stackable Certificates

  19. ABLE Stackable Certificates Goal To establish a system of pre-college and college “stackable certificates” that provide a pathway to postsecondary training and economic success. This Initiative is part of the Ohio Skills Bank Initiative which had pilots in all 12 EDRs and included ABLE, AWE, colleges, One -Stops, and Others.

  20. ABLE Stackable Certificates • ABLE created three new certificates to use with students to document their competencies in Math, Reading, Writing and Oral Communication. • There are numerous other “stackable certificates” that exist through AWE and community colleges. Sources OSU Report, OBR listings

  21. ABLE Stackable Certificates The three ABLE certificates are: • Basic Skills Certificate • Advanced Skills Certificate • Oral Communication Certificate

  22. Innovation Grants

  23. Innovation Grants • Support the goals of the OBR Strategic Plan for Higher Education • Incorporates elements of: - Ohio’s Shifting Gears Initiative - Ohio ABLE Transitions Framework - National College Transitions Toolkit

  24. Innovation Grants Six programs • Warren County Career Center • Canton City Schools • Miami Valley Career and Technology Center • Middletown City Schools • Project Learn of Summit County • Upper Valley Career Center

  25. Innovation Grants Overall Goal to provide basic skill instruction that enhances a student’s capacity for advancement in a career pathway within the USO and to establish collaborative partnerships with the adult career-technical programs and/or community colleges

  26. Innovation Grants • The basic services the grants have to address are at least one of the following goals: • Align the existing ABLE GED preparation program with career pathways so that students who complete their GED are prepared to enter a technical program at an adult career center or college/postsecondary institution.

  27. Innovation Grants • Reduce the time and expense of additional ESOL/ESL coursework for ESOL students by focusing on language skills within the context of a career pathway. • Provide contextualized learning that allows students with limited education to participate in postsecondary/technical education leading to high-growth employment sectors.

  28. Collaboration

  29. Definition of COLLABORATION “I’d love to collaborate, as long as I can work alone.” Collaboration is a … process where two or more people or organizations work formally together in an intersection of common goals.

  30. Role of Collaboration • Frequently described advantages of collaborating between partners: • effective and efficient program delivery • improved professional development • improved communication • increased use of program services • consistency of information/processes • increased access to shared resources

  31. Role of Collaboration • Some challenges of collaboration are: • Initial turf protection and mistrust must be overcome • Consensus-building takes time • Limited resources may cause otherwise valuable partners to decide not to collaborate, e.g. What’s in it for me?

  32. Role of Collaboration • Creating a shared policy position that is inconsistent with one or more of the partners may cause them to be uncooperative, ineffective, or to drop out • Members in crisis may find it difficult to cooperate Adapted for Iowa State University Extension by Jim Meek, co-chair, abuse issue committee, from materials developed by the Ohio State University.

  33. Role of Collaboration Remember collaboration can help: • To combine the resources of two or more agencies so they can deliver more effective services for less money through reduction of duplication and improved cost-benefit ratios. • To have partners interact and be exposed to new methods and ideas and become aware of new resources. • Improve services to our students!

  34. Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882) “Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great”

  35. Contact information: Jeffrey Gove State ABLE Director 614-466-5015 jgove@regents.state.oh.us

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