PERALTA ECONOMIC &
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Update to the
District Education Committee
September 19, 2014
Dr. Karen Engel
Interim Director of Economic & Workforce Development
Career Pathways Trust
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Website: https://web.peralta.edu/ccpt/
Consortium Director on board: Rebecca Lacocque,
rlacocque@peralta.edu
Work Plan adopted by Consortium leadership
Campus “champions” identified by CTE Deans &
Presidents
CTE Deans on Consortium Working Group
Work begins October 2!
Strong Pathways:
College & Career Success
Health &
Biosciences
Assessment,
Placement &
Remediation
Engineering &
Advanced
Manufacturing
ICT &
Digital Media
Inter-segmental
Student Supports
Public Service &
Law
Dual & Concurrent
Enrollment practices
Industry Engagement Intermediary Platform
Data sharing platform: CalPass PLUS
Pathway Development
PATHWAY ACTION TEAMS:
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Align curriculum
Integrate inter-disciplinary career-themed course
Develop age-appropriate work-based learning (WBL)
sequences
Agree on capstone courses with WBL component
Identify dual & concurrent enrollment opportunities
Build on-going Professional Learning Communities for
pathway faculty & counselors (meet yearly)
Pathway Action Teams: 4 all-day sessions
October
2
December
4
2014-15
February
5
May
7
Successful Transitions: 3 Teams
Assessment, Placement
& Remediation
Inter-segmental
Student Supports
Dual & Concurrent
Enrollment practices
• Math & English
faculty work with
college counselors
• Evaluate &
coordinate
assessment tools
• Review & improve
placement practices
• Develop new
strategies for
remediation (eg,
contextualization,
acceleration,
summer bridge
• HS & college
counselors with
pathway faculty (&
CBOs)
• Early outreach and
exposure to college
program options
• Shared on-line ed.
Plans
• Shared student data
• Review use of 12th
grade and ensure
effective “hand off”
• Administrators and
faculty review
existing practices
• Work with Pathway
Action Teams to
improve practices
• Adopt CATEMA as a
shared on-line
system for
maintaining
articulation
agreements
• CCCLLI 2.0 as pilot
Career Connections
(Workforce Intermediary)
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Create “Career Centers” at the Colleges (Peralta)
Develop consistent definitions of work-based learning
with industry
Align industry advisory councils as possible
Coordinate “asks” of business partners via a highfunctioning intermediary platform
Involve Chambers, WIBs and other business groups to
assist in sub-regional relationship building
Align with Launchpath and build other necessary
infrastructure for scaling WBL and increasing job
placements and success
AB 86 Adult Education
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Faculty Co-Chairs leading the work with their K-12
counterparts
First report (of 3) – “Gap Analysis” - submitted and
accepted by CCCCO on July 31.
Next report – “Strategies to Address Gaps and
Deliver and Align Services” – due October 31.
September 18th meeting at Merritt College to
identify priorities and refine strategies
Members’ Cabinet (Chancellor, College Presidents,
and Superintendents meet October 9th.
Information at: www.nacrcae.com
Peralta AB 86 Co-Chairs
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Lisa Cook, Laney College, Co-Chair of the ESL
Program Area Group
Myron Franklin, Laney College, Co-Chair of the
CTE/Apprenticeship Program Area Group
Ron Nelson, Merritt College, Co-Chair of the
Services for Adults with Disabilities Program Area
Group
Cleavon Smith, Berkeley City College. Co-Chair,
Basic Skills Program Area Group
CTE Committee Top Priorities
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Rebuild our capacity to help CTE students get jobs.
Improve budget transparency and management.
See memo
 Proposal to organize trainings (with purchasing) as well as an
on-line “Handbook”
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Improve human resource processes for CTE.
Improve procurement/purchasing processes for CTE.
CTE Data.
Access to information. The Committee would like to
see greater access to information about grants,
grant deadlines, grant reporting requirements.