Designing for Racial Equity: Pathways to College & Careers for Washington’s Emerging Workforce

1. Designing for Racial Equity:Pathways to College & Careersfor Washington’s Emerging Workforce AEAC fall 2019-WIOA Guiding Documents Jon Kerr, Director Basic Education for Adults

2. SBCTC Vision Leading with racial equity, our colleges maximize student potential and transform lives within a culture of belonging that advances racial, social and economic justice in service to our diverse communities.

3. SBCTC Education DivisionMission The Education Division is committed to promoting the rights, welfare, and institutional needs of all students to access equitable educational opportunities. We strive to create inclusive learning environments by advocating for and supporting high-quality, evidence-based, rigorous education and career pathways to prepare a future workforce for a rapidly changing economy.

4. Revisioning Title IIBasic Education for Adults • Review the BEdA Vision Statement • Read the statement out loud • Take 3-5 minutes to discuss what it could, should, or must include to support our designing for equity focus • Write suggested edits, ideas, words to be included, changes, new statements, etc. on a sticky and place on the flipchart paper (5 minutes) • Repeat the process with mission, values, and goals

5. BEDa Vision All adult Washingtonians will have access to innovative, high quality education programs that provide the knowledge, skills and credentials necessary for securing family sustaining employment that strengthens the state and local economies. • Vision describes what the organization will become in the future. It is a broad and inspirational statement intended to engender support from stake holders. Vision statements should be clear and concise, usually not longer than a short paragraph. • Disney: To make people happy • IKEA: To create a better everyday life for the many people • British Broadcasting Company (BBC): To be the most creative organization in the world • Avon: To be the company that best understands and satisfies the product, service and self-fulfillment needs of women—globally • Sony Corporation: To be a company that inspires and fulfills your curiosity

6. BEdA Mission The adult education system will provide research-proven instruction and college and career readiness pathways that allow adults to master academic and technical skills to attain their career and educational goals and successfully navigate education and employment opportunities. • Mission describes what the organization needs to do now to achieve the vision. The mission statement is more specific. It defines how the organization will be different from other organizations in its industry. • Amazon: We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company for four primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, enterprises, and content creators. • Google: To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful • Jet Blue Airways: To provide superior service in every aspect of our customer’s air travel experience • The New York Times: To enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information

7. BEDA Values We believe the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion strengthen the Basic Education for Adults (BEdA) community and are critical to providing opportunities that support the success of underrepresented and low-income students in attaining a quality education that leads to self-sustaining employment. • It provides a moral direction for the organization that guides decision making and establishes a standard for assessing actions. It also provides a standard for employees to judge violations.

8. Values Examples • Gates Foundation: At the Gates Foundation, we are guided by four core values: Optimism - We are impatient optimists by nature: we see the glass as half full and are motivated to confront problems that others consider impossible to solve. Collaboration - We recognize that our resources and abilities are only a small part of what is needed to achieve our goals and that our impact is greater when we work with others. Rigor - We pursue our mission with focus, discipline, and rigor to maximize our impact. Innovation - We believe that many of the most intractable problems can be solved only through creative and innovative solutions. • Our work will be guided and informed by our beliefs and commitments to:Inclusiveness - we respect people, value diversity and are committed to equality.Participation - we value and recognize the contribution of volunteers within organizations and communities.Quality - we strive for excellence through continuous improvement.Openness - we are committed to a culture of teamwork and collaboration. • Hotjar: Hotjar’s culture is driven by respect, transparency, collaboration and direct feedback. We have no room on our team for disrespect, office politics or discrimination of any kind. We’re obsessed with communicating with our users as well as with the team. We hate bureaucracy and slow-moving organizations—but we’re suckers for well-defined processes. We love, lean, iterative improvements, and success is measured by the value we create for our users.

9. BEdA - Goal 1 Implement and scale comprehensive, innovative college and career pathways to accelerate student completion and foster economic growth. • Goals guide action and provide direction for planning, for evaluating plans and for guiding projects and actions. A "good" goal statement is SMART: • Specific: The goal statement should indicate what should be accomplished. It should be phrased using action words (like "design," "sell," "build," "implement,"). • Measurable: The goal statement should clearly state what will be achieved and when it will be achieved? If you can measure the goal, you can determine if you have accomplished it. If the goal is accomplished, the project is a success. • Acceptable: Does everyone in the organization agree that the goal is necessary and desirable? Is the objective acceptable to managers and KEY stakeholders? • Realistic: This means the goal can be accomplished, but it is probably challenging. Is the goal/objective achievable? • Time bound: A goal should specify a deadline and time horizon.

10. Beda - goal 2 Guide and support transformational instructional practices that accelerate student completion to certificates, the Tipping Point, and AA/BA degrees leading to family sustaining employment.

11. Beda – Goal 3 Contextualize adult education courses to support transition to high school completion & equivalency certification, postsecondary education, and employment.

12. Beda – Goal 4 Strengthen and maintain a culture of rigorous instruction and evidence of increased performance.

13. Beda – Goal 5 Created and maintain strategic alliances to leverage local resources and increase navigational support to students.

14. Beda – Goal 6 Foster student self-efficacy.

15. BEDa – Goal 7 Guide the field in full implementation of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Washington Talent and Prosperity for All Plan (TAP).

16. Beda – Goal 8 Examine pathway programming to ensure equitable and inclusive representation to better support underrepresented and low-income students achieve transition and completion.

17. Next Steps • Collect input from CBS • Draft statements (volunteers welcome) • Input on draft statements from CBS, AEAC, & Students • Refine drafts • Public Comment • Publish in WIOA Title II 2020 Plan

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19. Contacts "Better Jobs.  Better Futures.  A Stronger Washington." Jon M. Kerr, Director Basic Education for Adults V (360) 704-4326 E jkerr@sbctc.edu Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges 1300 Quince St SE | PO Box 42495 | Olympia, Washington 98504 ____________________