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Do You Know If Your Students Are Career Ready

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Do You Know If Your Students Are Career Ready

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    1. Do You Know If Your Students Are Career Ready?

    2. Changes in Workforce Skills Needs Across 50 Years

    3. Many Middle-Skilled Jobs Pay as well as Jobs Requiring a Bachelor’s Degree

    4. Training for College or Workplace?

    5. How to Measure Readiness for a Skilled Workforce or College? We need: A common language – what are the skills required? “We need to ask employers what are the math skills required for the job.” Foundational skills – complement job-specific skills “69% of applicants are rejected at hire because they lack basic skills, 32% because they lack reading and math skills” Applied skills – apply the knowledge “Students exiting our educational system have knowledge. But their demonstrated inability to apply that knowledge implies that they don’t understand what they know.” Jo Kister, Ph.D. Workforce Development Consultant

    6. The National Career Readiness Certificate Addresses These Needs: Certifies the common workplace skills and trainability of students and job seekers Is a nationally-recognized, portable credential Is recognized by both education and business Provides a common measurement between individuals and specific jobs Has been adopted by over 20 states and growing http://www.act.org/certificate

    13. NCRC Provides Information on Skills

    15. Benefits of the NCRC? Portable credential for basic workplace skills Business: Easy way to measure skills Individuals: Easy way to demonstrate skills Economic Development: Document the quality of workforce Education, Workforce Development, Training Organizations, and Business: Speak a common language

    17. Frenship High School Implementation Visited with 284 CTE seniors about the NCRC 157 CTE seniors took all three tests 113 CTE seniors received the NCRC 18 Gold 64 Silver 31 Bronze These seniors received this certification at our Annual CTE Banquet

    20. Market Leaders for WorkKeys Curricula North Carolina – 41 of 52 Community Colleges Arkansas – State License – all Community Colleges & Workforce Indiana – State License (over 750 Sites) WIA, Colleges, Corrections Oklahoma – State License - CTE Centers and One Stops Ohio – State License Dept. of Admin Services, ABE recommendation Louisiana – 47 of 49 Technical and Community Colleges Virginia – 21 of 23 Community Colleges West Virginia – State License - Adult Education and One Stops Tennessee – State License - Technology Centers Illinois – Chicago Public Schools over 350 High Schools Kentucky – State License - KCTCS North Dakota – Statewide License - One Stops Georgia – Over 140 (1/3) High Schools, ˝ Colleges, ˝ WIA Oregon– State License - Teacher/ParaPro Hawaii – State License - Community Colleges New Mexico – Statewide License - Corrections Colorado – State License - One Stops, Statewide- Corrections Connecticut - State License – One Stops Mississippi – Statewide License – Community Colleges

    21. WorkKeys & KeyTrain Business Users

    22. KeyTrain Unique Features Instructional Design Natural Voice Sound Track Contextualized Feedback Staff Experience More than 120 years combined WorkKeys experience Previous ACT executives, some of the earliest pioneers Easy to use User friendly yet powerful management system Consistent , easy navigation: focus on learning, not software Results Their success = their clients’ success Features and processes that focus on learning Customer Service 24/7 for the last 11 years Our philosophy

    23. Resources: Presenter: Cindy Miller, Frenship ISD CTE Coordinator (cmiller@frenship.us) ACT WorkKeys Texas Representative: Day Smith (dsmith@act.org) National Career Readiness Certificate (www.act.org/certificate) WorkKeys Curricula—Career Ready 101 at www.keytrain.com.

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