AEAC’s Vision and Mission activity from 10/11/16 meeting (didn’t get to the Goals today)

Group 1 –Vision Statement

List the roles, duties, and responsibilities of AEAC

  • Advocacy
  • Policy setting
  • Vetting ideas
  • Collaborative Solution Finding
  • Identifying Problems & Barriers
  • Using Data
  • Continuous Quality Improvement
  • ID what’s working & scaling up what works
  • Set examples for agencies – model collaborative behaviors
  • Champion the Governor’s priorities
  • Listening
  • Taking back – to our agencies “communication channels for feedback”
  • Champion of the adult learner
  • Building strong & resilient communities connecting to the business community “defining the pipeline”

What are the elements of AEAC’s vision that will effect change?

Advocacy:

  • Engage EDCs
  • Blow up barriers (immovable systems)
  • Modeling what we champion
  • A shared understanding of who we are & why we are here
  • Stabilize funding to promote professionalism
  • Remove social & financial barriers
  • Model collaboration collective solution finding
  • Linking programs and services to avoid duplication
  • Advocacy keeps public investment adequate & reliable
  • Recognize students enter & exit as economic & family demands warrant
  • Fill in the gaps
  • Voice of students
  • Student success stories

Student Centered:

  • Prepare adults for the new economy
  • 100% participation in college bound scholarships
  • Create hope & possibilities
  • Offer hope
  • Seamless pathways & supports
  • Engage learners where they are
  • Basic education & computers & language are no longer barriers to employment success
  • Voice of students
  • Collaboration
  • Whole person care
  • Multiple entry points
  • Accelerate success for students & employers
  • Start early – grade school setting vision for postsecondary
  • Student success stories – that model the way
  • Career ladders
  • Spans life-long learning
  • Citizens
  • Strengthen outreach to the most vulnerable
  • Further education
  • Non-judgmental inclusive
  • Living wage
  • Families matter

Process “Make it Happen”:

  • Identifying promising practices
  • Apples to apples data collection
  • Serve both urban and rural
  • Identify good ideas, foster innovation
  • Focus on clear, meaningful outcomes. Include economic self-sufficiency
  • Sharing/braiding resources toward better student outcomes
  • Evaluate the system as well as the individual programs
  • Consistent data collection
  • Connecting the dots
  • Accelerate success for students and employers
  • Explore technological solutions
  • Creative funding strategies
  • Multiple entry points
  • Openness & willingness to explore new untested practices
  • Vibrant sustained economy

Vision:

Education is student centered. It supports a vibrant and sustainable economy by engaging advocacy and collaboration that promotes equity and unlocks Washington’s potential for ALL!

Group 2 – Vision Statement

List the roles, duties, and responsibilities of AEAC

  • Advocate
  • Collaborate
  • Educate
  • Think strategically
  • Publicize
  • Legislative / Congressional work
  • Bet practice & sharing
  • Liaison – connect & publicize adults with employers
  • Message benefit of education to students & employers
  • Translators
  • Plan & implement

What are the elements of AEAC’s vision that will effect change?

Meaningful Certificate:

  • Secondary credential
  • Certifications
  • Get all adults HSC
  • Get all adults postsecondary group
  • HSD or equivalent

Pathways:

  • Pathways
  • Get students to a career rather than a job

Meaningful Workforce Skills:

  • Work rooms as classrooms
  • Work integrated learning
  • Basic skill training in work place
  • Infuse work experience
  • Make employers partners

Navigation:

  • Guide individual
  • Expand navigation
  • Support navigation
  • Apply data / information to decision
  • Coordination with family supports
  • Critical thinking
  • Phase plan to expand education
  • Manage barriers
  • Whole family strategies
  • Middle class standard of living
  • Remove barriers
  • Family supporting opportunities

Quality Instruction:

  • Quality education
  • Ongoing learning
  • Expand access to eLearning
  • Tablets for all
  • PLA is just a start – make this bigger
  • Innovation

Funding:

  • Fund 6 credits for private community
  • Provide funds to move forward
  • Enough resources to reach/teach more people

Living-wage Employability Skills:

  • Poster in workplace to let people know what’s available
  • More employer partners
  • Competent workforce
  • Preparation for future workforce
  • Living wage employment
  • Employer champions
  • Good skills for good jobs
  • Real skills that employers need
  • Meet state workforce need
  • Skills employers want

Partnership:

  • Partner
  • Join forces with other agencies
  • Opportunities

Outreach/Marketing/Inspiring:

  • Translate what we do so that employers get it
  • Create a voice of the group to educate the public
  • These people are not broken
  • Tie into local HR groups or associations
  • Let people know what is available
  • Educate the right media
  • Video all graduate stories
  • Educate student on possibilities
  • Educate on options or/and opportunities

Vision:

Ensure all Washingtonians have the skills; employers need to support themselves and their families

Group3 – Vision Statement

List the roles, duties, and responsibilities of AEAC

  • Inform
  • Advocate
  • Visioning
  • Collaboration/cooperation
  • Promoting
  • Collecting data
  • Interpreting, disseminating data
  • Pull perspectives from across communities
  • Global thinking
  • Advise
  • Fostering innovation
  • Problem attacking/solving
  • Overcoming systematic barriers
  • Advocacy for funds
  • Creativity
  • Empower

Information & Dissemination:

  • Listen, digest, comment
  • Information moving up and down
  • Achieving opportunities unimagined
  • Use data to show improvement
  • New ideas
  • Energetic optimism
  • Communicates to many groups & legislature
  • Inform & advocate

Outcomes:

  • Trickle down effects families – multi-generational
  • Stronger families
  • Educational opportunities for non-traditional students
  • Stronger local economies
  • Jobs for all
  • Better jobs, better salaries
  • Stronger communities

Partnerships:

  • Expand participation to new stakeholders
  • Interagency cooperation
  • Action
  • Working together across communities
  • Partnerships
  • Empowering each other
  • Engage with college programs & faculty

Decision Making:

  • Diverse experiences informing decision & directions
  • Disruption
  • Fearless examination of process & outcomes
  • By fostering innovation
  • Better critical thinking & decision making
  • Barrier mitigation for students
  • Identify & problem solve barriers
  • Engaging the IDK

Vision:

To end poverty through data-driven decision-making and innovation based on information gathered through strong, collaborative partnerships.

Group 1 & 2 combined for this part – Mission Statement

List the customers AEAC supports and advocates for through their work.

  • All adults 16 and older, educationally under prepared or needing to learn English
  • Employers
  • Council advisees: WDC, DSHS, CBS, SBCTC, DOC, LLC, WEC, IC, CBOs, etc.
  • Governor
  • Tax payers
  • Employers
  • Students & their families
  • Faculty
  • Law-makers
  • Under-served adults
  • Citizenship
  • People with barriers to education
  • Navigators
  • Community based organizations
  • State agencies, city, county
  • Incarcerated

Evidence-based Practices:

  • Identify best practices & innovative instruction
  • Inform the work of practitioners
  • Support development of clear pathways for students & employers
  • Advocate for increased wrap-around services to students
  • Support practitioners
  • Expand evidence based initiatives
  • Train navigators to remove barriers

Policy:

  • Demonstrate return on investment to tax payer
  • Influence legislation
  • Identify system goals
  • Bring stake holders together to advocate & increase funding of basic skills
  • Contribute to statewide policy making
  • Identify financial resources
  • Advocate for increased funding for BEdA
  • Support legislation that builds & expands innovation
  • Advocacy

Stakeholders:

  • Engage stakeholders
  • Collect information from stakeholders
  • Advocate
  • Bring together entities trying to solve similar problems to find solutions
  • Work with employers
  • Bring together & give voice to knowledgeable partners
  • Bridge communication & relationships among stakeholders
  • Employers understand their role in the process
  • Workforce has the skilled employees they need
  • Expand partnerships

Student Outcomes:

  • All adults have HSD or equivalent
  • Improve quality of life for students, families and communities
  • To increase low skilled workers ability to learn the skills employers want and earn a middle class standard of living
  • The mission of the AEAC is to improve adult education to increase workers ability to prosper
  • Provide opportunities to develop skills that are viable in the workplace

Mission:

Engage stakeholders to develop policy & pathways that inform evidence-based practices to meet student outcomes, strengthen state & local economies, and secure living-wage jobs for all.

Group 3 – Mission Statement

List the customers AEAC supports and advocates for through their work.

  • Students – under represented adult learners and their families
  • Employers, Business
  • Vibrant communities
  • Vulnerable populations
  • The State / The Nation – serving individuals with a vision for a better future
  • People ready, willing and able to embrace change
  • Partners / other agencies
  • Federal government
  • Tax payers

Impacts who:

  • Support the needs of adult learners who are also parents
  • Provide adults who are prepared for the new economy
  • Engage community & business partners
  • Adults who envision a future
  • Understand and meet the need of employers and Washington industries
  • Engage relevant partners
  • Veteran pathways to the work force
  • Impacts the students who benefit
  • The businesses/employers
  • To create a vibrant economy

What happens:

  • Personal growth
  • Ensure opportunities for career ladders/ongoing education (stackable certificate)
  • Create room for more learners
  • Educate our local, state and federal partners of the value of adult education workforce benefits
  • Wrap around services
  • Provide learning opportunities to the most vulnerable
  • Re-entry pathways to reduce recidivism
  • Create navigable pathways for barrier populations to achieve self-sufficiency
  • Reduce poverty
  • Create an adult learning system that embraces innovation
  • Advocate and support a system of adult education that promotes equity
  • Eliminate fear
  • Citizenship
  • Individually defined student success
  • Our mission is to be bold and encourage our clients to strive for more

How it happens:

  • Develop interpersonal skills
  • Engaged relevant partners
  • Educated workforce
  • Identify resources for our clients
  • Understand & meet needs of Washington employers and industries
  • Promote equity in adult education
  • Facilitate rapid transitions
  • Balance a checkbook
  • Community & business partners
  • Encourage innovation
  • Our mission is to listen and try new things, even if they are hard

Vision:

Education is student centered & supports a vibrant & sustainable economy by engaging advocacy and collaboration that promotes equity and unlocks Washington’s potential for all.

Mission:

AEAC works collaboratively to bridge systems that will meet the needs of Washington business/employers by providing career pathway opportunities to all adults. To positively impact Washington’s vital economy.

AEAC’s Vision, Mission & Goals Activity from Fall 2016 Meeting1