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Despite a legal mandate to prioritize serving English Learners (ELs) in adult workforce development programs, very few can currently access training services. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires programs to grant priority of service to individuals who are considered “basic skills deficient,” and WIOA’s nondiscrimination and equal protection provisions forbid discrimination against ELs. Despite these requirements, as well as years of best practice research on implementing similar priority of service guidelines, few states and local workforce boards have taken steps to open up training services to ELs and those without a high school diploma or equivalent who meet the priority of service. Join us for a discussion of the priority of service mandate and the steps that are needed to ensure fair access to workforce training services for ELs and other target populations.
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Achieving successful long-term civic, economic, and linguistic integration is critically important to ensure the well-being and economic mobility of immigrant and refugee families, as well as the strength of communities where they settle. Leeway within the system to support successful integration has steadily narrowed in recent years; this trend accelerated in 2014 with passage of WIOA. While federal adult education provisions formerly allowed a more balanced approach to teaching English and meeting learners’ needs in their roles as parents, workers, and citizens, WIOA instituted mandatory performance measures that focus mainly on employment outcomes and the attainment of postsecondary credentials, placing no value on other essential integration skills or topics. This session will explore the potential for new approaches at the intersection of the adult education and immigrant integration fields that a wide range of stakeholders can champion to better support immigrants’ and refugees’ integration success.
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Reasoning through Language Arts
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Ashland University offers the longest continuously operating post-secondary correctional education program in the United States. Established in 1964 at the Ohio State Reformatory, the AU offerings now serve over 1,000 incarcerated students annually with college curriculum. The programs are offered to both male and female adult offenders in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC), and male and female juvenile offenders in the Ohio Department of Youth Services (ODYS). A recent emphasis has been placed on the development and delivery of “online” courses for the correctional programs which do not require live internet access – something prohibited in the correctional environment.
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I-DEA (Integrated Digital English Acceleration), funded initially by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is in its sixth year of implementation in Washington State. The I-DEA curriculum includes thirty-one, openly licensed, one-week flipped instructional modules geared towards lower-level English language learners. Participants will learn about the openly licensed I-DEA curriculum, eLearning tools, and instructional design, as well as view the curriculum from the student and instructor perspectives.
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I-DEA is a flipped/hybrid integrated skills curriculum for lower-level adult English language learners (ELLs). Participants will work in the Canvas learning management system to learn about the design of this free, openly licensed curriculum. In addition to locating the curricular modules and importing these OER materials, participants will interact with both student and instructional materials in order to see how the curriculum can best be implemented and integrated into their own unique instructional settings and courses
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The Iowa Department of Education presented at the 2019 COABE Conference on their collaboration with Iowa’s 15 community colleges to build, connect, and empower employer-led, community-based sector partnerships to combat a shortage of skilled labor through a wide variety of talent attraction, retention, and development initiatives. The discussion centered on newly developed statewide materials, strategies, and initiatives which continue to support the development and growth of collaborative sector partnerships in Iowa, including a series of educational toolkits, community of practice initiatives, and statewide career pathway development strategies for critical industries like health science, advanced manufacturing, IT, and energy. Many of these resources, strategies, and general ideas can be easily and quickly replicated in other communities across the US. Visit SectorPartnerships.EducateIowa.gov to learn more and download many of the highlighted materials and additional resouces!