overcoming barriers to college & career success: actionable data & collaboration

Overcoming Barriers to College & Career Success:

Actionable Data & Collaboration

Discussion Participants

• Kristen Barnes, Paramount Academy Consortium Lead

• Mina Dadgar, Career Ladders Project

• Salomón Dávila, LA HI-TEC Consortium

• Janet Fulks, Bakersfield College

• Renah Wolzinger, LaunchBoard

• Adam Alvidrez, Chevron

Agenda

• Framing the Big Ideas

• Why is Data Important?

• Mapping Pathways

• Next Steps

Who we are…

Alignment Across the Education to Workforce Pipeline

•College and workforce readiness begins in early childhood education and continues along the education-to-workforce pipeline.

•Alignment and sharing what works across segments increases the success of student transitions through education and into the workforce.

How do we better align education programs

to the labor market?

CCPT & Cal-PASS Plus have similar goals

• Promote living-wage jobs and labor market alignment

• Increase rigor in career pathways

• Improve post-secondary success

• Strengthen key transition points along the pipeline

• Promote student success through actionable data and collaboration

Why Data?

• Measuring Program Success Beyond Our Borders

• Dispel myths and focus on bright spots for what works

• Coherence

• Responding to Demand

‹#›California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students

CTE LaunchBoard

Mapping Pathways

What do grantees need in order to track students through pathways for various initiatives?

Data Currently Tracked through Cal-PASS Plus/LaunchBoard

These data elements will appear automatically on the dashboard:

• Metric 1: Program participants• Metric 2: K-12 grades• Metric 4: K-12 graduates• Metric 7: College participation (1 course, 2 courses,

program completion)• Metric 9: Transfer• Metric 10: Associate degree• HALF of Metric 11: Job placement

Additional Metrics

How would you, at your institution, capture these metrics?

• Metric 3: K-12 work-based learning• Metrics 5: K-12 certificates• Metric 6: Dual enrollment/credit by exam (CATEMA

option)• Metric 8: College work-based learning• Half of Metric 11: Training• Metric 12: Certifications

In closing…

• Ensure your partners are members of Cal-PASS Plus

• Map your pathways

• Define your data elements

• Establish your data collection plan

• Assess your existing data

o Ensure your partners have submitted the most updated data

• info@calpass.org