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Employer Engagement Toolkit: From Placement to Partners
Use the entire toolkit as a package or select individual exercises, checklists, planning guides, or resources that are most relevant to you. Includes an assessment of current employer relationships; provides strategies for new employer outreach; and provides tools that connect employers directly to your ACP program.
Employability Measures Chart
A useful one-page chart that assists a case manager or ABE staff person to assess a participant’s employability based on eleven factors – transportation, education, stability of housing, and more.
Career Pathways Toolkit: Element Two – Identify Industry Sectors and Engage Employers
Element Two of the Toolkit provides useful guidance and tools to identify industry sectors; conduct labor market analysis; clarify role of employers in program development and operations; and sustain and expand business partnerships.
Career Pathways Toolkit: Element Three – Design Education and Training Programs
Element Three of the Toolkit provides useful guidance and tools to identify target populations, choose recruitment strategies, provide flexible delivery models, and more.
Career Pathways Toolkit: Element Three – Design Education & Training Programs
Element Three of the Toolkit provides useful guidance and tools to ensure that career pathway courses promote the competencies required in the target career; utilize accelerated, contextualized learning strategies; provide flexible delivery methods; and integrate comprehensive support services.
Career Pathways Toolkit: Element One – Build Cross-Agency Partnerships and Clarify Roles
Element One of the Toolkit provides useful guidance and tools to engage cross-agency partners and employers; establish a shared vision, mission, goals and strategies; define the roles and responsibilities of all partners; and develop a work plan and/or memorandum or understanding for the partnership.
Career Pathways Toolkit: An Enhanced Guide and Workbook for System Development
Organized around six key elements of career pathways, each section includes resources and writable worksheets to help state and local ACP teams with implementation. (Downloadable PDF available online)
Building Strong Enrollments – Guidelines & Examples plus Worksheet
A 7-step process that guides ABE programs and their partners to go beyond existing student populations and generic program flyers to instead be focused and strategic in building enrollments for adult career pathway programs.
Adult Career Pathways Curriculum Review Rubric
The rubric can be used by an ABE program to review/evaluate its own adult career pathways (ACP) course curricula and/or to review ACP curricula from other sources for potential use. It also provides a useful guideline for best practices in ACP course curriculum design.
Adult Career Pathways Course Design Guidelines and Template
This document is intended to guide a systematic process of designing and documenting courses within an adult career pathway program (or for stand-alone courses related to preparation for a particular career).
Adult Career Pathway Project Flow Chart – Example
This model flow chart helps all partners in the adult career pathway project understand the steps from ABE and the partner community and technical college that are planning the integrated college course to successful participant completion.
New Resources
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Adult Foundational Education
This 2023 brief from the CREATE Adult Skills Network sheds light on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility conditions, opportunities, and challenges as they manifest in adult basic education across the country.
Community Interpreter Credential
Resources related to Community Interpreter have been collected by an ATLAS Credential Specialist experienced in this field. The PDF includes information on the credential including testing, ABE and non-ABE providers that offer training, curriculum links, potential participants, Minnesota wage and outlook information and additional certifications on this career pathway.
Certified Nursing Assistant Credential
Resources related to Certified Nursing Assistant have been collected by an ATLAS Credential Specialist experienced in this field. The PDF includes information on the credential including testing, ABE and non-ABE providers that offer training, curriculum links, potential participants, Minnesota wage and outlook information and additional certifications on this career pathway.
Presenter Information
Get information about stipends, reimbursements, and other instructions for presenters.
MN ABE YouTube Channel
The MN ABE YouTube Channel is a free online PD resource that you can use to explore teaching techniques and classroom ideas in action! Find out more in this MN ABE Connect newsletter article.
Upcoming ABE Events
May 6, 2024
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Comprehension Strategies for Intermediate-Level Readers
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Registration Deadline: MON. 5/6/24 Research shows that explicitly teaching a set of comprehension strategies is a great way to help intermediate-level readers maximize their understanding of texts. Come learn a handful of great comprehension tools that will help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension skills. Learn More
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May 7, 2024
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Burlington English Lunch and Learn: Best Practices in Core
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Registration Deadline: TUE. 5/7/24 In this session, we will explore ideas and strategies to enhance your instruction when teaching with In-Class Lessons. We will go over fresh ideas on how to engage your students when completing different activities! NOTE: Attendees must have current login credentials… Learn More
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May 8, 2024
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Volunteer Core Training Module 1: Overview of Minnesota Adult Education and Program Accountability
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Registration Deadline: WED. 5/8/24 Participants learn about Adult Basic Education programming in Minnesota, demographics of learners, instructional content standards as well as initial and on-going assessment. This session wraps up with learner motivations, barriers and persistence. Learn More
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