1. Collaborating, thinking, consulting, and implementation…adjustment
Conference Work!
Collaborating, thinking, consulting, and implementation…adjustment

2. Grappling with our situation

3. External Pressure Points
Accelerate student through education system
WIOA Outcomes: Post GED= employment or post secondary education in career pathway
College Enrollment: Being recognized as a student pipeline from ABS

5. Our Essential Questions..
How to increase student retention?
How to guide our Adult Basic Skills/Pre-College students to greater goals for themselves?
How to facilitate professional development for staff and faculty in order to embrace program changes, culture shift, student accountability?
How to carve out the resources investment of time, effort, and real costs?

6. Outcomes: The best comes FIRST!
# Students
# Credits completed
Average GPA
% GED completion of CE students vs. non CE students
College enrollment (1st -2nd term following GED completion by CE students vs. non CE students 54
170
3.38
54% CE
42 % CE students
10% non CE
11% non CE students

7. Approach Grounded in Research Guidance & Consultation
12:15 Refer to a one page resource of references

8. College and Career Pathways Institute
The College and Career Pathways Institute (CCPI) at LaGuardia Community College aims to share its evidence-based approach to contextualized instructional strategies with education leaders, faculty, advisors, student support and workforce professionals at universities, community based organizations and secondary education settings.
The Institute grew out of our desire to share the approaches and curriculum frameworks that have made the Bridge to College and Careers Program and the NY-BEST Integrated Training Programs such successful paths forward for our students here at LaGuardia’s Division of Adult and Continuing Education. 
Transformation not replication
Practitioner led consultation
Offer workshops, site-based training, online and hybrid TA, program redesign consultations, leadership, advisement and curriculum development workshops,

9. Interactive Leadership/Practitioner Cohort Consultation
Share strategies/implementation considerations:
Retention Strategies/Attendance
Embedded Advising
Integrated coursework
Culture Shift with Staff and Students

10. Culture Shift was essential for staff and faculty:
Contracted consultants
Program leadership consolidated ideas in to basic outline
Listened to the field: Sought feedback from all faculty and staff in Adult Basic Skills
Incorporated input - considered questions raised – and came up with more refined plan
Determined implementation timeline
Explored and provided professional development to ensure readiness
Institutional communication outside of ABS to make note of new directions and gain support

11. For students as well:

12. What we did: More structure support & accountability & Engagement
Program Changes/Culture Shift:
Attendance Policy - 75% minimum attendance enforced
Advising – Reach every student at least once a term  
Integrated Core Courses - Pilot at one campus of Language Arts/Social Studies and Math/Science
Content Area Team Meetings - Instructors meet once a week to collaborate and develop curriculum
Concurrent Enrollment – Eligible students take one or two free college classes while finishing their GED
Professional Development – Mockingbird techniques for faculty and classified staff to promote student engagement; offered at inservice and as instructor-led booster sessions

13. The rest is history… # Students # Credits completed Average GPA
% GED completion of CE students vs. non CE students
College enrollment (1st -2nd term following GED completion by CE students vs. non CE students 54
170
3.38
54% CE
42 % CE students
10% non CE
11% non CE students

14. Helpful Components

15. Connect with us!
#CCPILaGuardia
ccpi.laguardia

16. Questions and comments
Serena Ota St. Clair
Kiersta Fricke-Gostnell
Amy Dalsimer,
Julie Rossi