STEP TWO- Rebranding and Outreach

Here are some essential questions to ask as you begin this assignment:

1. What does your community need to know about how your program will evolve under WIOA? Who needs to know?

2. How can we capitalize on these changes to create awareness campaigns for Adult Education as a whole?

3. How do collaborative partnerships impact marketing and outreach?

4. What is the new audience we are hoping to attract into our programs?

5. Is there a role for private funding/donor development under WIOA?

6. Who works on outreach, promotion, and donor development (if applicable) in your program? What role do students and teachers play in the rebranding campaign?

Assignment:

Read p. 11 In TECC MODEL Overview and review materials below. Based on your vision of how you will align your program to CP, create a promotional/info flyer that reflects the new "you". The target audience could be students, donors, or the general public. Get creative. You can also look at the attached flyers as examples, although these are specifically targeting IETs and/or donor development. Next, work with your classes to post one piece of student work that is reflective of Career Pathways. **Check out the blog: www.tecctaos.org. Finally, complete STEP TWO in the CP Gap Analysis.

STEP THREE - Extended Onboarding

The greatly expanded service delivery, the intricate collaborative partnerships and referral systems, the emphasis on teaching professionalism skills, all dictate the need for analysis and evaluation of our orientation practices. "Onboarding" signifies everything that orientation provides and then some.

Here are some essential questions to ask as you begin this assignment:

1.Why is an expanded on-boarding necessitated by the new WIOA legislation?

2.What new opportunities does expanding on-boarding provide for both students and staff?

3.How do supportive services, collaborative partnerships, and the WIOA barriers to employment play a role in on-

boarding?

4. What are the roles of professionalism skills development, values and personality exploration, and metacognitive skill building in on-boarding?

Assignment:

Read page 12 in TECC MODEL Overview and review materials below. Next, with your team, discuss orientation and on-boarding processes. Research and develop an action plan. Finally, design a new orientation activity to be launched at your next orientation.

LINK TO DRIVE FOLDER WITH ONBOARDING RESOURCES:

STEP FOUR - Intensive Advising

DISCLAIMER: These materials are intended to provide you with a big picture overview of coaching as it relates to adult education. This section is by no means intended to prepare a practitioner to actually become a coach. Rather, it is to increase our awareness of the essential role of coaching to student success, what coaching can and can not do, and the skills required for successful coaching. Becoming an actual coach requires training with practice and feedback.

Here are some essential questions to ask as you begin this assignment:

1. What kinds of expanded supports are students going to need in Career Pathways programs? Why?

2. But, I am not a counselor! What are the differences between advising, coaching, and counseling?

3. How will you provide opportunities for students to develop individualized Career Pathways plan and provide students' with regular feedback and reflection based on their plan?

4. Who will offer the primary student support in your program? What is the difference between teacher support and advisor support?

5. What can be done in groups and what needs the privacy of 1:1 advising? Example: How will you teach students about the new WIOA barriers descriptors- in a workshop or privately? both?

Assignment:

Read page 13 in the TECC MODEL Overview and then read materials below. Read the "Tips and Tricks "document. Meet with your staff to develop a PD plan specifically to address ways to bolster all of your staff’s advising capabilities (generally we all have room for growth). If you have a designated advisor, find specific trainings s/he can participate in if needed. Next, do your best to use coaching principles with one person you find yourself in conversation with - this could be a family member, a colleague, someone you meet, etc. Remember- the point is not to give advice but to brush up on our listening and question-asking skills. What did you notice? Finally, complete STEP FOUR in the Action Plan.