Accelerating Opportunity Arkansas

1. Accelerating Opportunity Arkansas Bidders Webinar March 7, 2013

2. Agenda • Welcome & Webinar Goals • Barbara Endel, JFF and Mike Leach, AATYC • Setting the Stage – Why Arkansas is Joining AO • Mike Leach, AATYC, Jim Smith, Arkansas Adult Education, and Karon Rosa, Arkansas Career Pathways • Overview of Accelerating Opportunity • Barbara Endel, JFF • Expectations of Selected Colleges • Barbara Endel, JFF and Mike Leach, AATYC • Timeline • Barbara Endel, JFF and Mike Leach, AATYC

3. Setting The Stage • Why Accelerating Opportunity? • To increase Arkansas’s economic prosperity by preparing more working-age adults to enter the labor market; • As a strategic way to support PACE and other reform goals; and • To increase the transition rate of adult education students into postsecondary programs.

4. About Accelerating Opportunity • Our Goals: • Fundamentally change the way Adult Education and Professional/Technical Education are structured and delivered • Promote state and institution policies to increase the number of individuals completing credentials with labor market value. • Help adults earn a GED at the same time as they are learning valuable technical skills. • Improve the college experience for low-skilled adult learners

5. National Movement WA ME MT ND MN VT OR NH ID WI NY MA SD RI WY MI CT PA IA NJ NE NV OH DE IN IL UT MD CO WV VA KS MO CA KY NC TN AZ OK AR SD NM GA AL MS TX LA FL AK HI

6. Improving Student Experiences and Outcomes Accelerating Opportunity Career Pathways Accelerating Opportunity Career Pathways Career Pathways

7. Washington’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) Model Basic Academic Skills At least 50% overlap Certified Vocational Skills Support Services

8. The Arkansas Accelerating Opportunity Model Adult Education At least 25% overlap ADHE-Approved Educational Pathway Career Pathways

9. Recruitment • Target Population: • Students with or without a High School diploma or GED • TANF-eligible students (in order to use Career Pathways resources); others can be enrolled as well if there are resources available • Target skill level: • High Intermediate Basic Education through Adult Secondary Education (NRS levels 4-6/grade level 6 and above) • High Intermediate ESL (NRS level 5 and above) • Students can be referred to the program through Adult Education, Career Pathways, college admissions, or community partners

10. Implementing the Model • To successfully implement this model, colleges must be willing and able to: • Enroll students without a High School diploma or GED in ADHE-approved educational pathways • Provide integrated instruction (team teaching) in courses that lead to a Certificate of Proficiency (or higher)

11. Integrated Instruction • Team-teaching: • Overlap in instructional time (can range from 25% to 100%) • Shared planning time • Joint learning outcomes • Instructors are equal – the Adult Education instructor is not just a classroom aide • Not the same as dual-enrollment – much more collaboration between the two instructors.

12. Integrated Instruction ADHE-Approved Educational Pathway Possible GED attainment Courses Leading To Certificate of Proficiency Additional Courses Leading to Technical Certificate Additional Courses Leading to AA/AAS All courses team-taught Some courses may be team-taught

13. Selected Colleges Must Commit To: • Demonstrating of support from college leadership as well as administrators of applicable CTE departments, ABE, academic affairs, and student services • Developing at least two career pathways that adhere to the non-negotiable elements listed above, including career pathways targeting high-wage high-demand sectors and are ADHE approved • Enrolling students in the target population (NRS levels 4-6, or testing at 6th grade level and above) in ADHE-approved educational pathways • Identifying co-instructors from basic skills and college-level professional-technical programs, with at least a 25 percent overlap of the instructional time to support both literacy and workforce skills gains. Instructors must be open and willing to engage in this innovative instructional model.

14. Selected Colleges Must Commit To: • Developing integrated learning outcomes with joint faculty review of student progress and collective evaluation of program effectiveness by all faculty and administrators involved. • Providing comprehensive support services, including using career pathways program infrastructure for eligible students. • Adopting or adapting college policies and financing models to ensure that effective Accelerating Opportunity programs are sustained and expanded to assist many more adult learners in obtaining postsecondary credentials. • Collecting data on participants, including employment outcomes • Producing 750 credentials from across the four colleges over a three-year time period.

15. Timeline • Application Deadline: March 22nd, 2013,5 p.m. CDT • Please email the completed proposal to Mike Leach (mleach@aatyc.org) • Grantees Announced: Successful applicants will be notified by Monday, April 1st, 2013 • National Conference on Integrated Basic Skills Pathways: April 30th-May 1st 2013 in Seattle, WA . • (Travel will be covered by AATYC.) • Team Teaching Institute: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Little Rock. (Location TBD)

16. Questions? • You can type questions into the chat box (please send to everyone) or raise your hand to be unmuted. • If you have questions after the webinar please contact Mike Leach (mleach@aatyc.org)