Working Together Toward a Shared Goal: ABLE Administrators as Collaborators

Working Together Toward a Shared Goal: ABLE Administrators as Collaborators

ABLE Fall Administrators’ MeetingOctober 18 – 19, 2010

Purpose

o To discuss the Transitions Frameworko To discuss the University System of

Ohio Initiativeso To discuss your role as collaborator

Transitions Framework

o The Ohio ABLE Transitions Framework is organized by three primary categories: – Instructional– Support services– Collaborations (NEWLY ADDED)

oThe framework is constructed broadly to encompass requirements of both postsecondary and career/workplace transitions.

Components of Transitions Framework

Components of Transitions Framework

o For ABLE, transitions services are defined as those services that facilitate students successfully transitioning to postsecondary education, training, and/or employment as a result of receiving ABLE instructional services.

University System of OhioInitiatives

University System of Ohio

Adult WorkForce Centers

ABLE GrantsEL/Civics Grants

SL Grants

Four-Year Colleges/Universities

Community Colleges

Transitions

ABLE Stackable Certificates

Developmental EducationInitiative

Ohio Skills Bank

WIA ABLE Collaboratives

Innovation Grants

Shifting Gears

Shifting Gears

Shifting Gears• Jobs requiring some postsecondary

education are expected to grow faster than average between 2006 and 2016

• In 2006, the Joyce Foundation launched the Shifting Gears initiative in five Midwest states to address this need.

Illinois Indiana

Minnesota Ohio

Wisconsin

Shifting Gears

• Ohio has identified three main priority objectives for Shifting Gears including:– Broadening access to a greater number

and wider range of working adults– Shortening paths to marketable skills and

meaningful credentials– Speeding student progress with fewer

interruptions

Developmental Education Initiative

Developmental Education Initiative• The Gates and Lumina Foundations have partnered

to fund a three-year initiative to improve student success outcomes.

• The initiative builds states’ capacities to develop approaches for improving outcomes for students who place into developmental education and have high odds of not completing their programs (Ohio, Florida, Connecticut, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia)


• Currently, a pilot is being conducted in Ohio with partnerships between ABLE and community colleges:• To identify best practices for developing and

sustaining ABLE-community college agreements for serving students who are not college ready

• To make recommendations for a uniform statewide developmental education placement policy


• To determine instructional approaches and support services that are most successful in helping student transitions

Next week, October 29th, there will be a meeting of the ABLE programs and branch campuses to explore the potential of establishing similar partnerships.


• Time frame o 1st Incentive Grant (2008-2010)o 2nd Incentive Grant (2009-2011)

• Sixteen ABLE Transitions Collaboratives• Comprised of local ABLE programs and

some partners• Resource Centers were fiscal agents • Goal of building program capacity to

operationalize the Transitions Framework


Some of the activities of the collaboratives included:

•Conducting collaborative meetings and conference calls •Purchasing resources for local programs•Developing products•Participating in professional development/training


Goal To establish a system of pre-college and college “stackable certificates” that provide a pathway to postsecondary training and economic success.

This Initiative is part of the Ohio Skills Bank Initiative which had pilots in all 12 EDRs and included ABLE, AWE, colleges, One -Stops, and Others.


• ABLE created three new certificates to use with students to document their competencies in Math, Reading, Writing and Oral Communication.

• There are numerous other “stackable certificates” that exist through AWE and community colleges.

Sources OSU Report, OBR listings


The three ABLE certificates are: Basic Skills CertificateAdvanced Skills CertificateOral Communication Certificate

Innovation Grants

Innovation Grants

• Support the goals of the OBR Strategic Plan for Higher Education

• Incorporates elements of:

- Ohio’s Shifting Gears Initiative

- Ohio ABLE Transitions Framework

- National College Transitions Toolkit

Innovation Grants

Six programs• Warren County Career Center• Canton City Schools • Miami Valley Career and Technology Center • Middletown City Schools • Project Learn of Summit County • Upper Valley Career Center

Innovation Grants

Overall Goalto provide basic skill instruction that enhances

a student’s capacity for advancement in a career pathway within the USO and to establish collaborative partnerships with the adult career-technical programs and/or community colleges

Innovation Grants

o The basic services the grants have to address are at least one of the following goals:– Align the existing ABLE GED preparation

program with career pathways so that students who complete their GED are prepared to enter a technical program at an adult career center or college/postsecondary institution.

Innovation Grants

– Reduce the time and expense of additional ESOL/ESL coursework for ESOL students by focusing on language skills within the context of a career pathway.

– Provide contextualized learning that allows students with limited education to participate in postsecondary/technical education leading to high-growth employment sectors.

Collaboration

Definition of COLLABORATION

Collaboration is a …process where two

or more people or organizations work formally together in an intersection of common goals.

“I’d love to collaborate, as long as I can work

alone.”

Role of Collaborationo Frequently described advantages of

collaborating between partners:

• effective and efficient program delivery

• improved professional development

• improved communication

• increased use of program services

• consistency of information/processes

• increased access to shared resources

Role of Collaboration

o Some challenges of collaboration are:• Initial turf protection and mistrust must be

overcome• Consensus-building takes time• Limited resources may cause otherwise

valuable partners to decide not to collaborate, e.g. What’s in it for me?

Role of Collaboration

• Creating a shared policy position that is inconsistent with one or more of the partners may cause them to be uncooperative, ineffective, or to drop out

• Members in crisis may find it difficult to cooperate

Adapted for Iowa State University Extension by Jim

Meek, co-chair, abuse issue committee, from materials

developed by the Ohio State University.

Role of CollaborationRemember collaboration can help:o To combine the resources of two or more

agencies so they can deliver more effective services for less money through reduction of duplication and improved cost-benefit ratios.

o To have partners interact and be exposed to new methods and ideas and become aware of new resources.

o Improve services to our students!

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet,

Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

“Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great”

Contact information:Jeffrey GoveState ABLE [email protected]

Working Together Toward a Shared Goal: ABLE Administrators as Collaborators

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