Career Pathways models

Integrated Education and Training

• Policy and Guidance 
• Integrated Education and Training Models
• Guides and Toolkits, Curricula, and Resources 
• Technical Assistance - Resources 
• 2022 IET Design Kit Resource Tool
  

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization [S(5] advancing policy solutions for people with low incomes. Low-skilled workers need adult education, postsecondary education, and job training to develop skills and secure good jobs.

 

Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit and Train-the-Trainer Resources

The Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit [S(6] guides users through a team-based approach to develop customized IET solutions that address the needs of adult learners and local businesses through four iterative phases: Research and Assess, Design and Plan, Develop and Implement, and Evaluate and Improve. Train-the-Trainer materials are also available to support the IET Design process.

 

Integrated EL Civics

• Policy and Guidance
• Integrated EL CIVICS Program Models
• Guides and Toolkits, Curricula, and Resources
• Technical Assistance - Resources
  

Enhancing Access for Refugees and New Americans

The Enhancing Access for Refugees and New Americans project provides resources and technical assistance to adult education state agency staff, local programs, and instructors who serve or are aiming to serve English learners in Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) programming and are interested in using an immigrant integration approach. Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) requirements offer IELCE programs an opportunity to support learners’ linguistic, economic, and civic integration needs.

 

Intensive Services

 

Internationally Trained Professionals

• Policy and Guidance

  • AEL Letter 06-15ch1: Expansion of Eligible Population To Be Served from Institutions of Higher Education—Update

  • AEL Letter 04-16ch1: Implementing Integrated Education and Training English Literacy and Civics Education—Update

  • AEL Letter: 02-17: Assessing English Language Learners in the Adult Education and Literacy Program

  • AEL Letter 01-17: Implementing Programs, Activities, and Services for English Language Learners

• Models and Webinars

  • TRAIN PD Manager Mondays Webinars (Access through the PD Portal for PD credit)

  • Manager Monday:  Brain Waste to Brain Gain, Part I - December 9, 2019 TRAIN PD Webinar (See PD Portal) - presented by Anson Green, TX AEL State Director; Kelli Rhodes, Executive Director of Restore Education; and Claudette Session, Career Navigator from Region 5    

  • Manager Monday:  Brain Waste to Brain Gain, Part II - January 13, 2020 TRAIN PD Webinar (See PD Portal) - presented by Denise Orand, San Jacinto Community College Director, and Angela Johnson, Harris County Department of Education Program Manager

  • Manager Monday: ESL for Professionals - December 10, 2018 TRAIN PD Webinar (See PD Portal) - presented by Christina Mason, Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County Board

  • Serving Internationally Trained Professionals - September, 16, 2019 TRAIN PD Webinar (See PD Portal) - presented by Kathy Dowdy, Austin Community College Division of AE Executive Director, and Mechelle Marler, Austin Community College Division of AE Career Pathways Supervisor

  • Create a PD Portal Account

• Guides, Toolkits and Research

  • Fact Sheet of Foreign Born Workforce

  • Migration Policy Institute

  • National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) DIRECTORY

  • Professional Development Strategies: A Guide to Achieving Career Success in North America (link coming soon)

  • Professional Licensing Guides - Upwardly Global

  • Upwardly Global: Support for immigrants and refugees who want to contribute their vital skills to the professional U.S. workforce

  • World Education Services: Professional Degree Equivalency Tool

• Technical Assistance (Coming soon)
  

 

Toolkit for ESL Practitioners: Supporting Skilled Immigrants

The toolkit addresses the challenge of properly serving the skilled immigrant population and introduces solutions to some of the most pressing problems this group experiences; it introduces best practices from the field and a directory of successful programs dedicated to serving the needs of skilled immigrants.

 

Workplace Literacy

• Policy and Guidance (Coming soon)
• Models and Webinars (Coming soon)
• Guides and Toolkits
  • Anson’s COABE Article
  • Tools for Building Employer-Educator Partnerships
  • Foundational Skills in the Service Sector - by Amanda Bergson-Shilcock
  • A Resource Guide for Engaging Employers
  • Upskilling the Immigrant Workforce to Meet Employer Demand for Skilled Workers
  • Models of Success (An archive of case studies on employer-based partnerships with education, businesses, and workers)
• Technical Assistance (Coming soon)
  

 

Jobs for the Future

Jobs for the Future (JFF) is a national nonprofit that drives transformation of the U.S. education and workforce systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all.

 

Business-Adult Education Partnerships Toolkit

This toolkit was created for local business leaders and adult educators who want a thriving local economy that employs adults in family-wage jobs and has a workforce with the right skills to support long-term business growth.

 

Tools for Building Employer-Educator Partnerships

This website introduces employers and educators to the value of partnering, presents best practices and success stories, and provides links to evidence-based tools for building and sustaining partnerships and creating career pathways.

 

Reentry/Corrections

• Policy and Guidance

  • US Department of Education: Correctional Education

  • WIOA Title II Sections 225

  • Texas AEL Guide-Corrections and Re-entry Education, pages 47-48/Definitions, page 86

  • AEL Letter 01-20 change 1tdjc

• Models and Webinars

  • US Department of Education (2012). A Reentry Education Model Supporting Education and Career Advancement for Low-Skill Individuals in Corrections

  • Serving Corrections and Justice Involved Under WIOA Part 1 (Webinar/PowerPoint with TCALL- Workforce Wednesday June 17, 2020) Presenter Veronica Moore

  • Serving Corrections and Justice Involved Getting Started Part 2 (Webinar/PowerPoint with TCALL- Workforce Wednesday July 22, 2020) Presenter Veronica Moore (coming soon)

  • Exclusionary Reason Webinar: See Exclusionary Reasons for Corrections, Presenter Mahalia Baldini - Webinar | YouTube Video

  • TALAE 2020 Career Navigator Session - Navigating Systems and Making Connections in Reentry (Recording/PowerPoints) Presenters Brandon Warren-Lee College, Tiffany Johnson-Victoria College, Veronica Moore-TWC AEL

  • Past TALAE and Summer Institute Sessions on Corrections

  • 2018 AEL Summer Institute: Reentry Corrections - Meeting the Needs of Those Justice Involved

  • 2018 TALAE - Partnering to Serving Justice Involved Individuals: What Are Their Needs?

• Guides and Toolkits

  • Reentry Education Tool Kit
    

  • US Department of Education-Take Charge of Your Future

  • RAND Correctional Education Project

  • Bureau of Justice Statistics

  • CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy)

  • Vera Institute of Justice College in Prison Project

  • Highlights from the U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults: Their Skills, Work, Experience, Education, and Training (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 2016)

  • Community-based Correctional Education. Washington, DC U.S. Department of Education, 2011

  • Work First Baltimore Ex-Offender Reentry Program

• Correctional Resources

  • Federal Interagency Reentry Council

  • US Department of Justice

  • Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)

  • Windham School District

  • Texas Department of Juvenile Justice (TJJD)

  • Texas Department of Criminal Justice Website for Work

  • Post-Secondary Correctional Education Programs in Texas (TDCJ)

  • Correctional Education Association

  • LINCS, the Literacy Information and Communication System

  • OCTAE Guide for Justice-Involved Individuals Take Charge of Your Future

  • Texas Criminal Justice Coalition

  • Tarrant County Reentry Coalition

  • Texas Reentry Programs (link coming soon)

  • Re-entry Education Framework

  • Post-Secondary Correctional Education Programs in Texas

    
    

Integrated Education and Training (IET) in Corrections: A Companion Guide to the IET Design Toolkit

This guide summarizes considerations, tools, and examples that can be used by state and facility administrators and instructors as they develop and implement IET programs in jails and prisons.

 

Take Charge of Your Future

This guide is for people who are incarcerated, on probation, parole, or who were previously involved with the justice system. Chapters 1–3 are meant for all readers and cover the steps for setting goals, gathering the documents needed, and getting organized to pursue education. Chapters 4–6 describe specific steps for starting and finishing different education levels, from earning a high school credential to enrolling in a college program.

 

Windham School District

Windham School District provides resources, guidance, services, and opportunities for those seeking to reduce recidivism; reduce the cost of confinement or imprisonment; increase the success of former inmates in obtaining and maintaining employment; provide an incentive to inmates to behave in positive ways during confinement or imprisonment.