Career Pathways

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Workplace Literacy
Internationally Trained Professionals
Re-entry/Corrections

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)

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
• Professional Licensing Guides
• 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)

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 1

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
• Re-entry Education Framework
• Post-Secondary Correctional Education Programs in Texas