Minutes

NAEPDC Small State Roundtable Conference Call.

4:00 pm EASTERN TIME ZONE

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Marcia Hess (WY) Facilitator

Agenda

  • Introductions and How We Are Organized
  • Name
  • Number of staff
  • Number and type of contractors
  • Home Agency: DOE, Community College, Labor or…..
  • Discussion: College and Career Readiness Standards
  • What are your plans for moving to CCR standards?
  • How far along are you?
  • What resources do you need?
  • What topics should we include in our next quarterly roundtable?

Minutes:

Welcome: Marcia Hess welcomed everyone and share thoughts on the need for small states with limited personnel and resources to meet via conference call quarterly to share ideas and strategies. State directors in small states must perform all of the functions as large states but with numerous constraints.

Introductions and Organization Structure: The first item of interest to understand how each state was organized, how many staff were in the state office and how many functions were contracted out. Also, how many students are served annually and in what state agency is the office housed.

Gail Senese: Maine has

  • Special projects staff person
  • Data staff person
  • 1 contract for pd, work ready and distance learning
  • 6600 students
  • 1500 college transition
  • DOE

Susan Fish: Kansas has

  • Assistant director for pd
  • Assistant director for Accountability
  • Operations Coordinator
  • 9000 Students
  • Regents (Community College)

Marcia Hess: Wyoming has

  • Me
  • Locals are the pd people
  • 2800
  • Community college commission

Doris Perez: Guam has

  • Staff of 1
  • 1600 students
  • Community college
  • Both lea and sea

Philip Less: Rhode Island has

  • 2 ed specialist
  • ½ admins assistant
  • 2 in hse
  • 6000
  • DOE

Deb Miyao: Hawaii has

  • Just her
  • 3 part-time: 17 hours (pd); data; and xxxxxx
  • DOE
  • 8,000 students

Margaret Bowles: Montana has

  • Herself
  • Admin assistant
  • Also HSE director
  • No contractors
  • DOE
  • 3,000

Art Ellison: New Hampshire has

4 staff (Art, a PD/HSE, 2 administrative assistances)

7,300 students

3x state as fed $

DOE

Frank Gerdeman: Vermont has

  • Frank who is the Assistant Director for secondary, cte and adult education (30%)
  • 1 full time
  • ½ assessment
  • ½ time pd coordinator
  • 1 full time data coordinator
  • DOE
  • 3300 (2100 make it on the NRS)

Vicki Bauer: Nebraska:

  • DOE
  • 4 staff
  • 1 consult
  • 1 staff assistant
  • 1 GED ® assistance
  • Vickie
  • 7200 students

Marty Kelly: Utah

–Marty Kelly (adult education, GED, Neglected and Delinquent, Youth in Care, Dropout prevention and now suicide prevention)

  • DOE
  • 3 staff including myself

(2education specialists)

  • 1 staff assist
  • 21,000 students (I still consider UT a small state )

2. The second discussion item involved states plan for and/or progress toward moving to the College and Career Readiness Standards

Vicki Bauer: Nebraska

  • Introduced career pathway
  • CTE web site with page for adults
  • Workforce development web site
  • Committee for CCR
  • Help in selling to local program
  • Identify training
  • Cheer leaders
  • Some instructors and some program directors

Philip Less: Rhode Island

  • State Board approved CCRS (two pager—see page 6)
  • Contractor—pd center
  • Very active in ccr

Doris Perez: Guam

  • 2011 start the career pathways for adult learners introducing CCR Choices Planner and WorkKeys
  • Moving from courses to competencies
  • (Doris: Talk with Jon Kerr in Washington State; he has instigated a competency based high school diploma program)

Marcia Hess: Wyoming

  • Variety approaches to move teachers
  • NCFL (Donna Elder) did “unpacking standards” workshop for two days
  • Sent 3 to the KY training sponsored by NAEPDC last May
  • Two of three are doing okay
  • One doing well
  • One part time teacher and will write lesson plans
  • Third piece meal
  • For OVAE training coming up
  • Will send three teams from local programs
  • Give them support to network
  • Team of people will work with Laura Weizel, Jeff Fantaine,and some of the KY staff
  • Board of Ed adopted CC but Supt would not implement it

Frank Gerdeman: Vermont

  • Adopted CC in adult ed two years ago and began integrating into EFF standards
  • When CCRS came out went to it quickly
  • Put it in grant and contract language and in policy language
  • Worked with New England Literacy Resource Council to work with other states
  • Role: smarter balance implementation

Gail Senese: Maine

  • Adult ed advising form****
  • Here is Gail’s webpage with the Career pathway advising form and other resources:
  • Adult ed subsidy
  • Advising
  • Learning plan
  • CCR Standards
  • Used Louisville and NTI to create a framework and develop our two year calendar and how to trickle it down to the field.

Margaret Bowles: Montana

  • PEP program (Personal Employment Plans)
  • 14 modules, self paced
  • Working with Dept of Labor
  • Developing a career plan
  • Go into state career website and build on portfolio.
  • CCRS
  • 2008 wrote anchor standards
  • High School
  • Employment
  • College
  • SIA process (Standards in Action)
  • Aligning resources
  • Sample activities
  • CCR Standards
  • Had a lot done
  • Completed cross walk this summer between 2008 standards and CCR Standards
  • Validating for us, what we have done and where we have been.
  • 3-4years doing pd to go along with standards
  • Susan Pimentel came in the fall

Marcia Hess: Wyoming

  • Navigators (counseling, case managers, etc.)
  • Some counseling at intake

Debbie Miyao: Hawaii

  • Common core state so we are pushing toward CCR
  • $2M trade adjustment act grant partnership with pos secondary and the WIB
  • Centers in adult school focusing on three career clusters:
  • Agriculture
  • Sustainable energy
  • Health care

Marty Kelly: Utah

  • Currently implementing Career Infused Classrooms as a pilot with 8 programs. We are starting from scratch with CCR. Three of us will be attending training in DC in June. I need a push.

3. Topics for future Roundtable discussions:

  • Teacher qualifications and requirements in every state:
  • How people interact with state policy makers?

Deborah A. Gist
Commissioner

TO: Members of the RI Board of Education

FROM: Deborah A. Gist, Commissioner

RE: Adult Education Program Standards – Request for Public Review and Comment

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) has focused on standards-based education for adult learners for over a decade. Standards based education results in clearer expectations for students; consistency in curriculum, instruction and assessment; and the creation of professional development to help instructors develop the expertise to implement the standards. For these reasons, many policy-makers in the adult education sector have selected the Common Core State Standards as the basis for its College and Career Readiness (CCR) standards. Integrating these standards into adult education programs will provide adult students with the essential knowledge and skills to meet the real-world demands of employment and the opportunity for readiness for post-secondary education without needing remediation.

Adopting these College and Career Readiness standards for adult education programs will benefit Rhode Island in a variety of ways, including the promotion of:

  • Student preparation for new assessment models using knowledge and skills identified by the CCSS required for the attainment of a high school diploma or its equivalent;
  • Consistent expectations between K-12 and adult education systems so all students – whatever their pathway to graduation – will have access to the preparation they need to enter credit-bearing freshman courses without a need for remediation;
  • Student preparation for the knowledge and skills employers actually demand of prospective employees; and
  • Partnerships between and among states and programs to combine financial resources and human capital to create common tools and materials to support implementation.

College and Career Readiness Standards timeline:

  • Fall, 2011 – Fall, 2012: MPR Associates, under contract with the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, convened panels of experts in English Language Arts and Mathematics to select which Common Core State Standards are the most relevant and essential for adults;
  • April 2013: “College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education” (Pimentel, 2013) was released to the public by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education;
  • Summer, 2013: Rhode Island Adult Education Professional Development Center began training instructors on the CCR standards and the shift required in adult education teaching methodology;
  • November 7, 2013: CCR Standards for Adult Education will be brought to the Board of Education for discussion;
  • November 13, 2013: Board of Education meeting to vote for a 30-day public comment period for the CCR Standards;
  • January 2014: Public comment period will be finished. Comments and responses will be brought before the Board of Education for discussion, followed by a vote for adoption of the CCR standards for adult education.

In the upcoming months, RIDE will continue to engage the adult education community of educators with training on the standards through the Adult Education Leadership Institutes and through the Adult Education Professional Development Center workshops.

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