Workforce Partnerships:
Resources for Workforce Collaboration and Best Practices
Pathways to Partnership with Business meeting will be hosted in Houston on May 29, 2008 by Dollar General Literacy Foundation and convened by the National Coalition for Literacy in partnership with Texas Adult Education. Low literacy has a tremendous impact on the workforce competitiveness of Texas and the problem is growing. Join business representatives, adult education professionals and policy makers for presentations and dialogue about sharing strategies and best practices for working together to address this issue. Event is free and lunch is provided. To attend, RSVP by May 20 to TCALL (email tcall@tamu.edu or call 800-441-READ). For more information, see the TCALL Calendar.
 Adult Education Responds to Workforce
Needs - Chronological summary describes activities in response to Rider
82’s mandate that the Texas Education Agency / Texas LEARNS develop
demand-driven workplace literacy and basic skills curricula for adult learners.
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WorkforceLitTex
Listserv - This TEA/Texas
LEARNS and TCALL-sponsored
discussion list was developed in collaboration with Texas Workforce Commission
and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The purposes of this list
are:
* To facilitate local collaborative planning and partnerships between ABE directors
and the workforce development community
* To exchange best practices and to foster and encourage collaborative
efforts within the Tri-Agency Partnership
Target audience of this email discussion list include interested parties
in the adult education, workforce development, and higher education communities.
To request a subscription, email your request to Lea Ann Schroeder.
SHOP TALKS -
This series of informative releases from Texas LEARNS has two purposes:
to address issues, concerns, and questions raised by adult educators, employers,
and local workforce development personnel; and to build awareness and expertise
in meeting the educational needs of Texas’ emerging, incumbent, and
displaced workers.
Charting
A Course: Responding to the Industry-Related Instructional Needs of the
Limited English Proficient (Barbara Tondre-El Zorkani, 2006)
Charting
a Course: Responding to the Industry-related Adult Basic Education Needs
of the Texas Workforce; Handbook One: Planning and Implementation Tips for
Program Planners and Administrators (Barbara Tondre-El Zorkani, July
2007)
Charting
a Course: Responding to the Industry-related Adult Basic Education Needs
of the Texas Workforce; Handbook Two: Workplace Savy for Workforce-related
Instruction Modules #5 & 6 (Barbara Tondre-El Zorkani, July 2007)
ESP
Interest Section: Implementing Best Practices in Teaching English in Occupational
Settings (Barbara Tondre-El Zorkani, February 2007) [PDF - Download Adobe® Acrobat® Reader]
{Text Version}
 Rider 82 Curriculum
2007 Pilot Report Findings [PDF - 2272KB Adobe® Acrobat® Reader]
Rider 82 Curriculum 2007 Pilot Report Executive Summary
TCALL Resources
 Acronyms
Literacy
Links Articles and Issues on Workforce Topics
Big Ideas
Entrepreneurial Projects (Williams & Petter, 1999)
GED
Economic Impact
Planning
Literacy and Language Services for Texas' Limited English Proficient Workers:
The Devil is in the Details (Barbara Tondre-El Zorkani, 2000)
Texas
Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks Resources
Texas
Standardized Curriculum Framework (TSCF)
Resources
NOTE: These resources are not related to the Texas Adult
Education Content Standards adopted in 2007. They are based on an earlier
set of curriculum frameworks widely used in Texas in the early 2000s, which
were in turn adopted from a framework developed by the Florida Department
of Education, Division of Workforce Development.
Workforce
- Classroom Resources (On TCALL Library Search page use Broad Search Categories
box to find library resources in this subject area, equivalent to the hard-copy
bibliography.)
Workforce
- Employer-Sponsored Education (On TCALL Library Search page use Broad
Search Categories box to find library resources in this subject area, equivalent
to the hard-copy bibliography.)
Workforce
- Program & Staff Development (On TCALL Library Search page use
Broad Search Categories box to find library resources in this subject area,
equivalent to the hard-copy bibliography.)
Workforce
and Workplace Literacy: Same or Different?
National Institute for Literacy's LINCS Resources
 National
Work Readiness Credential - The Credential is a standards-based and research-based
approach to defining, measuring, and certifying entry-level work readiness,
developed from NIFL's Equipped for the Future initiative. The Credential is
now being administered by the National Work Readiness Council, an organization
formed by the states and organizations that originally invested in the Credential's
creation and development.
"Workforce
Education Special Collection"
Web-based resources reviewed and compiled by National LINCS
Workplace
Literacy National Email Discussion Group (facilitated by Institute for
Study of Adult Literacy)
For
more information from a searchable nationwide adult education
& literacy database, go to LINCSearch
Other Web Sites of Interest
PDF documents -
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 America’s
Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing our Nation’s Future 2007 report
from the Educational Testing Service Policy Evaluation and Research Center
looks at the convergence of three powerful socioeconomic forces that are
changing our nation's future: substantial disparities in skill levels (reading
and math); seismic economic changes (widening wage gaps); and sweeping demographic
shifts (less education, lower skills). [Download Adobe® Acrobat® Reader]
CareerOneStop is
a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources
and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce
professionals to foster talent development in a global economy. One feature
of the site is a collection of one-minute video clips showing the types of
work people do in nearly 550 careers and videos for the 16 clusters recognized
by the Department of Education. Over 300 of the videos are also available in
Spanish, and the English language videos also have subtitles. You can find
them by doing a Site Search for videos.
Education
Transitions to College Level Technical Programs -
El Centro College (ECC),
in partnership with the Houston Community College System (HCCS),
developed this website to provide an online resource manual to assist other
colleges and GED sites
in replicating a project that would successfully transition GED students
to college level courses. The project uses a "learning community" or
paired course approach, where students were enrolled in a GED course
as well as an introductory college level technical course. The information
and documents contained in this website are what the project used to develop
and implement the project in Dallas and Houston.
Directory
of Texas Workforce Centers and Offices - This page allows users to search
by zip code Texas Workforce Commission's continually updated database of
Workforce Centers all over the state. Each center provides either referral
or direct services for job seekers with literacy education needs.
Equipped
for the Future Work Readiness Credential - National and state leaders
in business, government, and labor have come together to build a new tool
for assuring that jobseekers have the knowledge, skills, and abilities they
need to succeed in the 21st Century Workplace.
Learning for Life - Workforce
Adult Literacy Program at Texas Workforce Commission.
LEP Guide
for Workforce Professionals - Guide was created to assist Local Workforce
Development Boards and staff, Texas Workforce Center staff, and education
and training professionals plan, develop, and implement strategies to effectively
deliver workforce solutions for the growing limited English proficiency (LEP)
workforce in Texas. The LEP Guide comprises four unique modules that present
a user-friendly blueprint for enhancing services to LEP customers. [Download Adobe® Acrobat® Reader ]
Literacy
Toolkit - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Workforce Preparation,
in collaboration with the National Institute for Literacy and Verizon SuperPages.com,
developed a toolkit for distribution to local chambers of commerce that describes
the nature of the literacy problem in America, how it impacts local businesses
and industries, and what communities can do to increase local efforts aimed
at improving the literacy skills of adults.
ScorecardforSkills.com This
Web site and tool was developed by The Conference Board with funding from OVAE (U.S.
Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education). This site
can help adult education programs and their employer partners measure - and
demonstrate - the relationship between workplace education investments and
measures of organizational performance. ScorecardforSkills.com includes analytical
tools that provide action-oriented information to owners and employers about
workplace education programs. Included are information and advice to: Improve
workplace education evaluation; Understand the Balanced Scorecard; and Create
their own Balanced Scorecard.
What
Jobs Require: Literacy, Education, and Training, 1940-2006 (Barton, 2000)
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What
Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for America 2000- In the early 1990s,
the U.S. Department of Labor asked The Secretary's Commission on Achieving
Necessary Skills (SCANS)
to examine the demands of the workplace and whether today's young people
are capable of meeting those demands. This report builds on the work of six
special panels established by the Commission to examine all manner of jobs
from manufacturing to government employment.
Workforce3
One - Collaborative effort represents the merging of national, state,
and local leadership into one system committed to embracing and installing
a demand-driven culture in the publicly funded workforce system. Workforce3
One Integrated Webspace offers the public workforce system, employers, economic
development professionals, and education professionals an innovative knowledge
network designed to create and support a demand-driven community, one that
responds directly to business needs and prepares workers for good jobs in
the fastest growing careers.
Workforce
Development page on website of CPAL (Community
Partnerships for Adult Learning) - Site includes How-To's, Research, and
Website links pertaining to workforce development programs. Information and
practical tools focus on preparing adults for the contemporary workplace.
WorkforceUSA
Website Funding Section - Grant announcements, fundraising resources
and articles are continually updated on this site
Workplace Basic Skills (Developed
by the Conference Board with funding from the US Department of Education)
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