Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm EST
Location: Arlington, VA
Description: This workshop was designed to enhance REL staff's knowledge of and collaboration around measuring career readiness. Career readiness includes the knowledge, skills, and abilities to support students' transition to postsecondary education and training, and careers. The objectives of the workshop were to:
- Advance REL staff's knowledge of data, tools, and methods that are available for measuring career readiness for different purposes (for example, accountability, targeted student interventions, and research).
- Assist REL staff in understanding how to measure career readiness given their stakeholders' local context.
- Identify gaps in data, tools, and methods that are available for career readiness.
- Discuss how to move toward a comprehensible and comprehensive measure of career readiness.
- Determine the appropriate next steps to disseminate the information gained from the workshop to a broader audience.
- Identify opportunities for cross-REL collaboration on career readiness project activities in the future.
Audience: This workshop was designed to enhance REL staff's knowledge of and collaboration around measuring career readiness.
Speakers
Expert Panelists:
- David Conley, University of Oregon
- Matt Gaertner, WestEd
- Amy Loyd, Jobs for the Future
- Scott Solberg, Boston University
REL Presenters:
- Max Altman, REL Pacific
- Janice Anderson, REL Midatlantic
- Jenni Bradford, REL Northwest
- Amy Feygin, REL Midwest
- Julie Harris, REL Appalachia
- Steven Klein, REL Northwest
- Matt Rauner, REL West
- Thomas Torre Gibney, REL West
- Christina Tydeman, REL Pacific
- Miya Warner, REL Appalachia
