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Youth Experiential Learning Policy Committee
November 27, 20139:00-11:00
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9:00 Welcome and Introductions 9:10 Reviewing Recommendations and Survey Feedback 9:40 Review Recommendations from other GWDC Policy Committees 10:00 Improving our Draft Recommendations: Discussion and Decisions 10:50 Next steps 11:00 Adjourn
Meeting Objectives: •Understand and incorporate feedback we’ve received via survey from the committee and GWDC•Using feedback and discussion, improve our draft recommendations
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Draft Recommendations
Work-Based Learning LicenseIncentives for SchoolsIncentives for Business
Transportation
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Feedback: General Themes• Need to be inclusive of all types of EL, not just
internships• Scope and Focus– Types of opportunities– Types of participants
• Carrots vs. Sticks• Funding?• Community and Employer role
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Work-Based Learning License
Required to oversee credit-bearing experiential learning programs
•“Open up” the license:– Allow teachers to earn license through continuing education
(ongoing training req’d of all teachers, usually offered at little or no cost)
– Make the license available to non-teachers
•In the future, make training on EL a mandatory part of the basic teacher license
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Work-Based Learning License
Ideas and Concerns•Proper balance of quality and access•Requirement:– Limit to certain areas of instruction?– Use incentives instead?
•Other ways to connect teachers to the workplace?
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Incentives for Schools
• Mandate an EL credit for graduation– Integrated with now-mandatory college & career plans
– Ensure multiple avenues for students to participate in EL (broadly defined)
• Grants to schools to expand EL – Similar to 2007 grants to expand access to AP and IB courses
– Money for teacher training, support, materials needed to launch a high-quality EL program
• Recognize schools that reach key milestones (% of students graduating with an EL credit) – financial rewards and recognition
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Incentives for Schools
Ideas and Concerns•Students have limited electives (but could EL be built into core courses?)
•Increased use-of-funds flexibility as an incentive
•Mandate would require considerable oversight to make it high-quality
•Mandate too broad? Would all students benefit?
•How funded?
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Incentives for Business
Specifically, how to engage small- and medium-sized businesses?
•Create an award for businesses that provide EL experiences•Grants (or tax relief) to small/medium-sized businesses in high-growth or strategic industries
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Incentives for BusinessIdeas and Concerns•Do such awards and incentives already exist? Are they effective?
•Businesses respond better to financial incentives than to awards
•MN Chamber Business Barometer: businesses want better help navigating, finding, connecting to existing opportunities. Prefer better tax climate overall to new tax incentives.
– Use existing community-based channels/connections
– Create an internship “tool kit” for employers
•How to pick “high-growth” or “strategic” industries? Industry vs. occupation?
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Transportation
• Establish a volunteer corps of Minnesotans to provide transportation and mentorship around internships.
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Transportation
Ideas and Concerns•Liability / safety issues•Pay schools (or other organizations) directly and have them make arrangements?•Pay for subscriptions to car sharing services (Car2Go, HourCar)?•Use other, existing infrastructure?
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Adult Committee Recommendations
• Minnesota Internship Exchange & Fund– Online internship exchange– Grants for teacher training– Wage Reimbursements– Preparatory and reflective seminars– Data driven– Two goals: closing skills gaps and eliminating
regional disparities
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Adult Committee Recommendations
• GWDC committee to:– Identify/select metrics to measure effectiveness– Create common vision of an effective EL
experience– Facilitate continuous improvement
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Adult Committee Recommendations
• Encouraging EL in higher education:– Grant funding from Minnesota Internship Fund for
training to professors on EL– Recommend that HE institutions change policies
and programs to encourage EL opportunities, broadly defined.
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Adult Committee Recommendations
• Apprenticeships– Still looking for good ideas. How to increase
access and offerings?– Work Experience Coordinators / “broker” role• More outreach to small- and medium-sized employers
– Training fund for mentors to take on apprentices– Additional quality assurances/requirements of
apprenticeships• Require employers / large jobs to have apprenticeships• Equal Opportunity• Credential requirement
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Discussion and Questions