CBS Fall Meeting Minutes - DRAFT
Skagit Valley College
Mt. Vernon, WA
October 9-10, 2014
MEMBERS PRESENT: Troy Goracke, Kathy Kuba, Kip Zwolenski, Tyler Wallace, Kathy Biagi, Brigitte Kidd, Deena
Godwin, Kathi Medcalf, Daphne Larios, Lynn Christofersen, Raju Hegde, Katie Jensen, Erin Dilley-Linton, Catherine
Cantrell, Steve Washburn, Kelli Graham, Ann Rudnicki, Mihaela Cosma, Lynn Livesley, Theresa Stalick, Curtis
Bonney, Brian Walsh, Lori Griffin, Jodi Novotny, Nancy Olsten, Clyde Brown, Laura DiZazzo, Reza Khastou, Kathie
Hunt, Joan Youngquist, Shannon Klasell, Kathy Hoover, John Bowers, Kim Ward, Amy Diehr, Darlene Snider,
Aaron Parrott, Carla Gelwicks, and Bryce Humpherys
GUESTS PRESENT: Matt Bryant, BTC – Lyn Eisenhour, Cascadia – Nina Beegle and Brian Dudak, Community
Colleges of Spokane – David Cordell, Julie Palomino and Barb Whalen, EDCC – Nina Benedetti and Omar Mustafa,
EVCC – Judy Faast, Hopelink – Doug Emory, LWIT – Kathie Foley, RTC – Ben Munsey, SVC and Courtney Kress Van
Slyke, WWCC
ABE STAFF PRESENT: Cindy Wilson, Kathy Cooper, Jacquie Armstrong, Beth Wheeler, Lou Sager, Susan Kidd,
Christy Lowder and Lindsay Lanham
CALL TO ORDER:
Darlene Snider, CBS Chair, called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m.
WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS:
Darlene Snider introduced Kenny Lawson, VP of Instruction, who welcomed CBS to their campus.
Review of agenda changes and informed of vote to be called on Friday.
INTRODUCTION OF CBS MEMBERS
CBS members introduced themselves.
CBS TREASURERS REPORT:
Darlene Snider reported that the current treasury balance is $9,782.23.
MINUTES:
The Summer meeting minutes were approved as submitted.
STUDENT SUCCESS HIGHLIGHT – the Innovations Committee will be coordinating with the host college to
highlight a student at each meeting.
SBCTC UPDATE:
 WIOA Update – Kathy Cooper
Kathy shared both the WIOA one-pager
and the WIOA WTECB highlighted
summary.
The new law describes an expanded purpose for Basic Education for Adults – to promote transition to
postsecondary education and training and ensure that adult learners are well prepared to take their place
in our state’s skilled workforce. It defines critical changes in basic education that are integral to
implementation of our state plan Pathways to College and Careers for Washington’s Emerging Workforce
and necessary to the future of our state and economy.
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“This is about hitting the reset button and probably the last opportunity to go beyond silos and
programmatic barriers to do what is best for the clients, local regions and the state.”
Scott Cheney, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee chaired by Senator Patty Murray
WorkFirst PPT
- presented by Lindsay Lanham
Take 5 – Building Support – Kathy Cooper and Susan Kidd
The purpose of Take 5 is to engage influencers who will be critical to broadening support for the Basic
Education system. The infographic provided is to help build support with your community leaders –
important people in your community: employers; union; mayor; city council, etc. – Kathy will follow-up
with a survey to ask who you contacted and how they responded. This information will be used to help
support our funding model ask with the legislature.
If you need more infographics, please contact Kathy Cooper at 360-704-4322.
IC LIAISON REPORT – Carli Schiffner and Darlene Snider
Darlene and Carli shared the CBS Draft Work Plan for 2014-15 and the IC’s work plan CBS Direction 201415
– they want to have the committees work to crosswalk between the CBS and IC work plans and be
sure that we’re in alignment to meet the goals asked of CBS. Carli would also like to increase the intentional
communication between the two councils – is there something we want the IC to know?
Carli’s notes to take to next IC meeting on CBS’s behalf CBS topics to take to IC developed at meeting - Carli
Schiffner
Report out from small groups:
Objective 1) Contextualized and Integrated Models
 3 areas: Instruction / Student Support Services / ___________________?
The program & data being collected to know if positive or negative
 Student advising around pathways (navigators)
o YVCC – 1 day/quarter attend series of workshops to explain pathways and review transcripts
(making use of advising day)
o GRCC – Transitions Conference Center –work with students and CBO partner; helps build IBEST pathways. By connecting requests to the college mission, she’s had success in leveraging
funding.
 How are we wrapping student services into this conversation?
Objective 2) Increase student access and success
 WWCC has contextualized all ABE courses, so no longer level 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
 SPSCC has grown HS 21+ by leaps and bounds – administrative constraints (not enough
administrators) are making it challenging to meet the student need.
 TCC – HS 21+ is extremely labor intensive, but has excellent results! IC needs to be aware of the labor
involved in this high quality, rigorous program.
Objective 3) Competency based education – prior learning
 LCC – under staffed and struggling to meet the needs of evaluating transcripts. No way to assign prior
learning hours in WABERS+ (work does not = hours in WABERS+) – there are already ways to code
prior learning and work for students.
 Don’t want us to get caught up in the accelerated time and lose the lower levels – learning takes time
and how are we honoring that?
Objective 4) Increase Transitions
 CCRS and keep IC informed on real-time
 Call out Assessment Policy and if it doesn’t work for us – CHANGE IT!
 HS 21+
 SAI
Objective 5) Improve evidence to drive decision making
 Cultures of evidence
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CCRS AND WALS DISCUSSION: Washington State Learning Standards; College Career Readiness Standards
As follow-up to the Summer meeting, Darlene asked what the temperature of the system is around the adoption
of the CCRS or rewriting the WALS to align with the Common Core Standards set forth in WIOA’s legislation.
The providers placed dots under each category, which best described how their campuses felt about this topic –
the early evidence showed that adopting the CCRS was in the lead.
Discussion:
 ABE to college level, fundamental issue – problems with developmental education, by making this edict, it
eliminates dev. ed. No problem with adopting CCRS, but potentially eliminating dev. ed. is problematic.
 Why would we rewrite standards & exert that energy when we could adopt?
 CCRS are relevant – can we add on some of our WALS to fill in the gaps? Yes
 Fill at campus level, concerns over lower level ESL
 Why was low level ESL left off of the standards? Concern over what that portrays.
 The WALS were easier to read than the CCRS – the CCRS layouts were very difficult to read
 Concern over training – how will this be done & so quickly
 Reading foundation standards
 WIOA has already decided that basic education WILL teach to college level – no mention of what happens
to developmental education?
 Bellevue’s been using some of the CCRS – does NOT want to adopt CCRS – have just invested a lot of time
/ money / energy in forms and processes
 How are we assessing up to college level? It’s work in process
 Long time to develop materials to train volunteers to teach at CBO’s – WALS are easy to use
 Should another council be involved in this conversation? ATC / IC, request them to be involved
 Limited decision making process – we need to figure out how we are going to implement federal policy –
it’s a mandate
Standard implementation timeline:
 FY15 (July 2014-June 2015) Planning Year: programs are accountable to WALS with the introduction to
CCRS and preliminary implementation encouraged
 FY16 (June 2015 to July 2016) Transition Year: programs transition/implement CCRS
 FY17 (June 2016 to July 2017) Full Implementation Year: CCRS are required to be implemented in
accordance with WIOA
Cindy also shared that we have an opportunity from OCTAE to apply to be 1 of 12 states selected to receive
intensive, advanced level CCR implementation support. As part of our application, we are seeking dynamic faculty
members from the field to be a part of Washington’s team. OCTAE application is due 11/3/14. Cindy will send out
additional information next week on how to nominate your staff to participate - we are looking for a team of 5.
COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION (CBE) – Connie Broughton
Connie presented what the competency based education model looks like – let’s not use time put in, but
knowledge/mastery of a subject.
 Must demonstrate mastery of explicit competencies to receive credit
 Constant level of support – providing immediate feedback, continuous access to materials, keeps the
student engaged
 Learning – not time determined – the instruction will be set and not be able to be altered…if it’s
something you know, show us. It doesn’t matter where the instruction came from, it proving mastery of
subject
The pilot will be in 2015 at Columbia Basin College, a Business Transfer Degree that will be completely online and
utilize open resources. Connie will share her PPT and blog with CBS later this month when it’s complete.
Friday, October 10, 2014
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HS 21+ ACTIVITY – Barb Whalen and Susan Kidd
Barb shared these documents:
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HS 21+ Quick Pitch
HS 21+ Tough Questions
HS 21+ Bridging
HS 21+ one-pager
Discussion:
 GED® is a simple series of tests – the HS 21+ is a pathway that provides a mastery of skills
 HS 21+ is another option and for some students, it’s a better pathway
 Faculty “why are you making us change, you don’t respect what we do”…if a GED® isn’t the best option
for a student, this is another option...and teaching to the GED® 2014 has also changed the way the
courses are being taught
COMMITTEE REPORT OUTS:
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High School 21+ Task Force
o They did the morning activity
Innovations Committee – Katie Jensen and Carla Gelwicks
o Discussion of Competency Based Training presentation during afternoon CBS session.
The competency based Business Degree is a large project across multiple colleges with a lot of
system support. What ideas/concepts/practices can basic skills borrow from this project and apply
to competency based training for basic skills (HS 21+)?
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Format of competency and course layout
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Defined competencies for ENGL&101 and College level math as targets
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Collaborative courses with other colleges
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Could this DTA be an IBEST program? Maybe add a supportive face-to-face dimension for IBEST
students?
It appears that at least for this project the terms competency and outcome have the same meaning.
Action: The committee will check back with Connie to see how the first 6 month session of the project
went and see if they are any more lessons we can take from this competency based program.
Rendezvous materials from Innovation Committee sponsored session on hiring, training, and
retention of quality instructors. The group decided to publish the materials that were used during
this session on the SBCTC website.
Action: Darlene will forward her file of materials to Beth to post
Continue to bring Innovation Speakers to CBS meetings.
Action: Katie Jensen will contact Green River CC about a student speaker or show case program for
the winter meeting.
Review of committee related items on the CBS work plan and discussion on which item(s) to tackle
next. The committee decided that based on feedback at Rendezvous from faculty to pursue a
professional development strategy to deliver information to basic skills faculty (especially adjuncts)
about current initiatives, program structure, and system changes. The committee decided to explore
building a CANVAS based course that would include competency based modules on multiple topics
such as (career pathways, history of I-BEST, relationship and structure of system: OCTAE, WABERS,
WIOA, new learning standards). The course would be competency based so that instructors would be
able to focus on just the topics that they needed.
Action: Committee members will poll faculty and brainstorm topics to include in the course. Beth will
explore resources and support options at SBCTC.
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Transitions – Daphne Larios
o The committee discussed the use of advisor versus navigation specialist and what the proper title in
this case would be, since many of the colleges are starting to staff their colleges with a position that
helps with navigation/transition/advising/barrier removal etc.
Action: The committee members were tasked to return and contact colleges in their regions and ask
what their current practices were for hiring a position to help with transition and advising. What are
the job title’s and job descriptions, as the committee will be looking at best practices throughout the
college system.
o Crosswalk for the CCRC and WASLS for faculty and staff to understand how they relate. The biggest
concern was how lower level ESL students were going to be addressed as we move forward.
Action: Action on this item has been postponed until further information has been released about
WIOA.
Retention – Kim Ward & Jodi Novotny
o The committee spent most of the meeting discussing the work plan and Goal number 4. We decided
to focus our efforts this year primarily on researching high performing states, looking at federal
reports, outcomes, and assessment plans. We also discussed revising goals on the work plan.
Action: Kim will follow up with Lou to gather data and send out a spreadsheet to committee
members. Each member will review data from one state and come prepared to discuss findings at our
next meeting. It is possible that we will schedule a conference call prior to the next CBS meeting.
o The group discussed changes related to WIOA and the need for one group to pay particular attention
information as it is released and particularly focusing on key issues impacting our work.
Action: The group will take the lead in identifying key issues and topics that the membership needs to
be aware of, implications, and actions associated.
CCRS AND WALS – VOTE –Darlene Snider
Darlene asked if there was any follow-up discussion needed from the day before with regards to adopting the
CCRS and adding low-level ESL OR rewriting the WALS to bring them up to meet Common Core Standards.
Motion made and seconded to adopt the CCRS and add low-level ESL – the chair will ask for yah or nay or abstain
votes from the providers eligible to vote. Yah = 31; Nay = 4 and Abstain = 3 – the motion passed.
We have a lot of work to do adopting the standards and having our system ready for implementation by July 1,
2016. This is the date set forth in the new WIOA law.
HS 21+, I-DEA, I-BEST AND GED® 2014 – Darlene Snider
Break into four groups to brainstorm what the problem is with HS 21+, I-DEA, I-BEST and GED® 2014….and then
answer how you solved the problem.
 GED® 2014 – The perceived gap between GED® and HS 21+
P) GED® ready = $$/subject
A) Program bought vouchers
P) Drop in enrollment
A) ID quarter-only students, intervention, contact dropouts to track reasons & re-engage
P) Practice tests no longer useable as teaching tools
A) ¼ length test at GEDtestingserivce.com
P) Instructional shift leaves faculty in the lurch
A) crosswalk – HS 21+ also works (R/W for Sci/Soc. Studies)
P) How to screen for passing likelihood (CASAS?)
A) Combination of GED® ready 256 on CASAS math. Fast-track class for advanced students, ABE 5-6
subject by subject in 1 quarter
P) Strategies??
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A) Home in on key enabling concepts
P) What curriculum? Gaps in content
A) Use CC materials – statewide collaboration
 State support / coordination to address GED® 2014 and educate / facilitate faculty
 Resource repository – develop and share curriculum for all providers
I-DEA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------P) Course building contracts (credits)
A) SBCTC will issue an answer in writing (per Kip)
P) Tech coach use
A) Multiple models: by end of pilot will have proved model
P) Identifying which age group is best fit
A) Provide navigation system/support
P) Is a transformational effort
A) to value/honor students abilities
P) To allow for self-selection or not
A) On-going discussion
P) Not enough writing & reading
A) Revisions are underway
P) Inconsistent delivery
A) Thoughtful delivery
P) Data perception
P) Software incompatibility
A) ASIS transformer T-100 (<$300) – (4G LTE – Kip)
P) Long-term internet access
A) working with Senator Maria Cantwell
HS 21+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------P) LEAN mapping of paperwork from credential evaluation to diploma (stretched staff
A) Build capacity for credential evaluators: start with part-time positions; leverage offices already
doing the work (HSC; Int’l)
P) Students bring transcripts to Education Int’l
A) Have Education Int’l facilitators/instructors do credit evaluation and then also teach HS 21+
portfolio class
 Course rubrics developed to aid in grading (Bryce will present at Winter CBS meeting)
 Load HS 21+ documents on Googlesite / CANVAS
 Use PLA pay model for teachers to do portfolio / competency assessment for small number of
students
I-BEST -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------P) Recruitment of students, testing who?
A) Make the existing class I-BEST – everyone gets support and those who qualify on CASAS are given
the I-BEST item number
P) Needed to provide professional development to large group of I-BEST faculty and we don’t have team
teaching cadre members at our college
A) Work with the BEdA office to bring a regional training to our campus – contact Will Durden OR
Cindy Wilson
Call for Winter meeting topics – Darlene Snider
1. Bryce to share YVCC’s rubrics for HS 21+
2. Revisit how to move forward with GED® 2014 (affected by Common Core too)
3. Around CCRS more form around our teaching, how do we support faculty through this transition
4. Relationship between BEdA and Workforce and Developmental Education – WIOA is going to tie these
departments together even more than I-BEST
5. CBO partnership meeting report out
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SYNTHESIS OF KEY POINTS: Kim Ward summarized the key action items.
Take 5
 Get brochures to your PIO or person in your agency responsible for public relations
 Identify 5 influential individuals in your community – not legislators
WIOA
 Start becoming familiar with local WDC structure.
 Think about ways to be more involved and make sure you are at the table for WIOA implementation
conversations.
 Remember that you are the CORE program.
 Any questions about who to contact in your local area or questions about what this means, contact
Kathy
 Who on your campus or in your agency do you need to start talking to about NRS levels moving to
college ready?
Standards:
 BEdA is looking for nominations for cadre team members to participate in state application for
College and Career Readiness Standards in Action
 Application due Nov. 3rd to please submit names ASAP
 Background, involvement and understanding of learning standards implementation
 Look for application information from Cindy
 Encourage faculty to start becoming familiar with CCRS
Upcoming Training:
October:
 New Teaching Orientation Oct. 8 through Nov. 15th
 CASAS Cadre Trainings
November:
 Numeracy Trainings – still space, better to send a team
 NRS refresher for Directors
 WABERS+ refresher
December
 I-DEA
 Leadership meeting at December 5th at SU – look for email
 Reading apprenticeship registration deadline – request for proposals
Winter Meeting: January 15-16th at Green River Kent Station Campus
Please make sure to do your evaluations of the meeting, it helps us in planning to make sure future meetings
continue to meet needs of our system.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting was adjourned at noon
Meeting schedule for 2014-15
 Winter meeting – January 15-16, 2015 at Green River – Kent Station campus
 Spring meeting – April 16-17, 2015 at Clark College
 Summer meeting – July 15, 2015 at Cascadia Community College
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