Washington State Council for Basic Skills – draft Work Plan for 2015-16
CBS has established the following goals for our committees and standing Task force work: Transitions, Retention and Completion, Innovations, and HS 21+ Task
Force .
The CBS committee structure reflects the following list of priorities. Each committee integrates advocacy, retention and completion, evidence of success,
professional development, and equity between colleges and community-based programs into their work.
Goal 1: Implement and scale comprehensive innovative college and career pathways to accelerate student completion and foster economic growth.
Objective
Strategy
Increase participation and success of
underrepresented populations by
strengthening the connection
between adult education,
postsecondary education, and the
workforce.
1. Set annual benchmarks for
implementing changes that align
with the state plan.
2. Identify best practices taken
from Transitions plans (2015-16)
CBS, CBS Executive Committee,
SBCTC
Begin system-wide discussions about
overlap/alignment with
developmental education and basic
skills transitions to strengthen
pathways to college and careers.
1. Educate all councils on new WIOA
requirements related to college
readiness
2. Develop and host system-wide
convening with a focus on
precollege instructional alignment
1. Support broad understanding of
Student Achievement Initiative
and use data to develop a
culture of evidence to use data
and implement best practices for
student achievement
2. Establish increased navigational
All councils
Develop strong pathways to college
and careers to increase transition to
first 15 credits and other SAI
milestones.
Group(s) Involved
CBS, IC, SBCTC
Expected Outputs or Outcomes for
2015-16
Identify processes and strategies for
measuring percentage of participants
who obtain a recognized
postsecondary credential or a
secondary school diploma or its
equivalent during participation or
within 1 year after exit; have
obtained or retained employment;
OR are in an education or training
program leading to a recognized
postsecondary credential within 1
year after exit
Identify key stake holders
Identify opportunities, challenges and
promising practices related to
administrative structures, curriculum,
and instruction.
1. System direction alignment
between CBS and IC
2. Increased access and support to
students
support to BEdA students.
3. Work with WSSSC to strengthen
wraparound services to BEdA
students.
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 and foster student self-efficacy.
Objective
Attract and retain innovative and
highly qualified faculty members
Support and improve high quality
instruction in IDEA, HS 21+ and
contextualized pathway courses.
Strategy
Group(s) Involved
Expected Outputs or Outcomes for
2015.16
1. Identify faculty qualifications
(?)
Innovations Committee
Recommended faculty qualifications
/ sample job descriptions
2. Increase the number of
fulltime BEdA faculty across
the system
CBS, IC
Increased # of full time faculty - BEdA
Innovations Committee
CBS Executive Council
Disseminate full menu of sample
online resources/curriculum for
HS21+ - OER
1. Develop “Coaching Model” for
classroom observations
2. Develop and disseminate Canvas
/online resources for HS21+
Curriculum
Goal 3: Maintain, catalyze, and develop innovative practices in contextualize adult education to support transition to high school completion & equivalency
certification, postsecondary education and employment
Objective
Support development and expansion
of adult high school diploma
credential (HS21+)
Strategy
1. Continue HS21+ Taskforce as
part of CBS committee
structure for 2014-15
2. Make recommendations to
CBS- How can Bridges
Programming being done
Group(s) Involved
HS21+ Task Force
ATC
Expected Outputs or Outcomes for
2015.16
Alignment with K-12
Implementation of CCR Standards
Professional Development and
training for implementation and
sustaining HS21+
with the K-12 system work
for ABE?
3. Proposed design for Bridges
to College.
Increased number of programs
implementing HS21+ option
Increased national awareness of
HS21+
4. Increase HS21+ enrollments
and completions
5. Explore and share open
educational resources for ABE,
ESL, HS21+
6. Collaborate with system
partners to explore expansion
of HS21+ for CBO’s, Corrections,
and/or other partners
Support expansion of contextualized
instruction model in basic skills
1. Reinstate regional meetings
(could be virtual meetings using
collaborate)
Increased HS21+ partnerships
between colleges and CBO’s
CBS Innovations Committee
HS 21+ Task Force
CBS Executive Committee
2. Identify presenters to share
information and give mini
trainings at CBS meetings
3. Work with professional technical
and academic transfer to
establish articulation
agreements for students
transitioning from basic skills
into college programming
Professional development
opportunities for all Basic Skills,
program administrators and staff to
innovation and implementation
WIOA.
Meet State Targets
CBS, IC, ATC, WEC
Transfer agreements exist between
all stakeholders
Goal 4: Strengthen and maintain a culture of rigorous instruction and evidence of increased performance
Objective
Strategy
1. Conduct a national scan to
Group(s) Involved
Retention and Completion
Expected Outputs or Outcomes for
2015.16
Recommendation for Assessment
Meet federal performance targets
explore correlations between
the tests states use and
achievement of federal level
targets
Committee
Policy revisions by June 2016
Recommendation for state-wide
assessment tool
2. Conduct a comprehensive
evaluation of the basic skills
assessment policy to determine
if current policy supports
attainment of new measures
under WIOA.
Support and improve opportunities
for collaboration between programs,
faculty, and staff to strengthen and
maintain a culture of rigorous
instruction
Work with SBCTC to Compile
qualitative and quantitative data
from 2013-14
Executive Committee
Transitions Committee
Increased collaboration between
programs and Increased
opportunities for professional
development
scaling of new innovations practices
related to rigor, transition, and
completion (elearning, on-line and
hybrid, and enhanced courses)
Goal 5: Create and maintain strategic alliances to leverage local resources and increase navigation support to students.
Objective
Engage local workforce development
partners to explore opportunities
that support adult learners in
accessing employment and training
support
Evaluate and develop the appropriate
Strategy
Collaborate with WEC and ATC to
plan joint meeting or professional
development opportunity (already
identified possibilities of
competency-based credentials,
transitions, and culture of evidence)
1. Utilize CBO’s collaborative
Group(s) Involved
Expected Outputs or Outcomes for
2015.16
CBS Executive
WEC Executive Committee
ATC Executive Committee
WSSSC Executive Committee
AEAC
Increased professional development
around career pathways and
WEC/CBS/ATC/WSSC shared interests
CBO Committee
On-going reports from CBO at CBS
role for CBOs in relation to
College & Career Pathways
HS 21
I-Best
Ensure a comprehensive
commitment to seamless and
accelerated access among
relevant workforce services
Align core programming to meet
federal WIOA performance measures
relations in communities to
enhance strategic alliances
for entire CBS system.
2. Investigate and make
recommendations regarding
tracking system and SAI point
structure so that work that
CBOs do in moving students
forward is appropriately
credited.
3. Explore ways to better utilize
complementary strengths of
CBOs and Colleges.
1. Engage internal and external
stakeholders in developing local
WIOA implementation plan and
MOU’s.
2. Establish clear roles for partners
and all core programs
3. Identify and leverage key
resources and attributes for all
core programs in an effort to
achieve common performance
measures across the system.
1. Participate in local WDC
activates and meetings to
create awareness of basic
skills programming across the
system
2. Identify contributions of core
programs and ways in which
core programs can
collaborate to support
attainment of state targets
CBS
meeting.
College partners work together with
CBOs to serve the needs of Basic
Skills Students.
CBS, SBCTC, Local WDC, WEC, IC
1. Clear roles for all core
programs / partners
2. Established MOU’s between
local WDC’s and BEdA
providers
Basic skills representation on
all local Workforce Boards