Dev Ed/ABE Toolkit: Preface – continued
Who is this Toolkit For?
This toolkit has been developed specifically for practitioners within the Minnesota State system and Minnesota Adult Basic Education (ABE). However, the practices and information contained in this Toolkit should assist anyone regardless of their campus or Adult Education program location. Feel free to use the toolkit in whatever way works best for your environment.
Examples of roles for which this Toolkit would be especially useful include ABE Educators, Campus Faculty, College Deans and Administrators, ABE Program Leaders, Regional Directors, and anyone with Developmental Education reporting responsibility or who is charged with measuring outcomes.
What is in this Toolkit
The full Toolkit document (link provided on this web site) contains four chapters and a Glossary, as follows:
- Chapter 1: Context and Introduction to the Dev Ed/ABE Model
- Chapter 2: Creating a Dev Ed/ABE Partnership
- Chapter 3: Types of Partnership Models/Levels of Collaboration
- Chapter 4: Success Stories from the Field
- Glossary of Terms
The content found in these web pages contain an abbreviated version of each chapter, streamlining the content into digestible chunks, yet providing the opportunity to always view or download the full version.
Much of the content has been authored by subject matter experts (those already in partnerships throughout Minnesota) and will reflect the voice of both campus faculty and/or administrators, and ABE instructors and/or ABE program managers.
How to Use the Toolkit
If your campus dev ed program or ABE office is interested in forming a partnership, you will want to gather interested parties and have everyone work through the Toolkit together. You can choose to work through one chapter at a time or read it in its entirety. Either way, you can return at any time to your chapter of choice.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks are extended to the MDE-ABE’s Northwest and Northeast Transitions Regions who provided the funding for Toolkit development, the Minnesota State Dev Ed/ABE Affinity Group who provided guidance on the structure of and content to be included in this Toolkit, and to the many campus practitioners (faculty and administrators) and ABE instructors and administrators who contributed their expertise and partnership experience in the authoring of sections within this Toolkit.
Adult Education ISD 709 and Lake Superior College (LSC) Partnership:
- Jody Greniger – Adult Education ISD 709, ABE instructor
- Steve Dalager – Lake Superior College, English Faculty
- Keri Rakes – Adult Education ISD 709, English Instructor
- Hanna Erpestad – Lake Superior College, Dean
AEOA (Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency) Adult Basic Education and Hibbing Community College Partnership:
- Jill Carlson- AEOA, Adult Education Instructor
- Terri Ferris- AEOA, Adult Education Lead Instructor
- Donna Groettum- Hibbing Community College, Counselor, Advisor and Learning Community Faculty
- Jessalyn Sabin- Hibbing Community College, Interim Dean of Academics
- Tracy Chase- AEOA, Adult Education Manager
Brainerd Adult Basic Education and Central Lakes College Partnership:
- Erica Henke – Brainerd Adult Basic Education, ABE Instructor
- Deana Bobzien – Central Lakes College, ABE / Math Instructor
Metro North ABE and Anoka Ramsey Community College Partnership:
- Metro North ABE:
- Patrick Hobot, ABE coordinator/administrator
- Amber Delliger –ABE instructor
- Cindy Secord – ABE instructor
- Anoka Ramsey Community College:
- Bruce Bordwell, Math Instructor
- Jennifer Bluth, Math Instructor
- Nikki Jagodzinski, Counseling
Northwest Service Cooperative -NWSVC Adult Basic Education and Northland Community and Technical College (NCTC) Math Partnership:
- Ralph Cox – Northland Community and Technical College, Math Faculty
- Ann Dziengel – Adult Basic Education Instructor
- Lynn Bastian – Adult Basic Education Instructor
- Kirsten Fuglseth – NWSC Adult Education Coordinator
Additional thanks go to those who have supported this effort through guidance and/or in-kind resources:
Minnesota Department of Education:
- Julie Dincau, ABE Transitions Specialist
- Astrid Liden, ABE Professional Development Specialist
Literacy Action Network
Hamline University – ATLAS:
- Patsy Egan, ATLAS Director
- Marisa Squadrito Geisler, ATLAS Operations Manager
Minnesota State:
- Greg Rathert, Academic and Student Affairs, former System Director of P-20 and College Readiness
- Jessica Espinosa, Academic and Student Affairs, Director, College Transitions
Primary contacts
General Toolkit inquiries and/or feedback should be directed to:
- Russ Fraenkel, Consultant, dba Leading-Edge Collaborations, Inc., [email protected]
- Lesley Blicker, Consultant, dba DesignWorks, [email protected]
Dev Ed/ABE Partnerships in Minnesota as of Writing of this Toolkit (December 2021)
- Alexandria Technical College and Alexandria Area Adult Basic Education
- Anoka Ramsey Community College -Cambridge and Central MN ABE and/or Metro North ABE
- Central Lakes College, Brainerd, and Brainerd ABE
- Century College and Harmony and Mounds View ABE
- Inver Hills Community College and South Suburban ABE
- Lake Superior College and Adult Basic Education, Duluth
- Minneapolis College and Minneapolis ABE
- Minnesota State College Southeast and Red Wing Adult Basic Ed and with Winona Adult Literacy
- Minnesota State Community and Technical College, Fergus Falls and Fergus Falls ABE
- Normandale Community College and Metro South ABE
- North Hennepin Community College and Osseo ABE
- Northeast area of Minnesota State and AEOA ABE. (Hibbing Community College, Mesabi Range, Itasca Community College, Rainy River, Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College. Hibbing has been the most involved with multiple courses)
- Northland Community and Technical College, Thief River Falls and Northwest Service Cooperative ABE
- Pine Technical College and St. Croix River Education District (SCRED) ABE
- Ridgewater Community College and Glacial Lakes Consortium
- Riverland Community College and Southeastern ABE – Albert Lea
- South Central College and Mankato Area Adult Basic Education
- St. Cloud Community and Technical College and St Cloud Schools ISD 742 ABE
- St. Paul College and St. Paul ABE