CAYAC the California Response to the PAYA Challenge

1. CAYACthe California Response to the PAYA Challenge

2. Youth Apprenticeship in California Here is what we know • Businesses are desperate for talent • Apprenticeship is still a ’best kept secret.’ • Youth Apprenticeship is rare • Current strategies of preparing students for careers are fallingshort • We need to make access easy • ROI does follow Insert “Closing the Gap” Photo Here

3. Roles

4. Who is CAYAC?

5. California State University Chancellor’s Office • Boots Road • Bay Area Apprenticeship Coalition Community College • CSU Fresno • CSU San Bernardino • California Foundation for Commerce and Education • The Unity Council • The Wonderful Company • CA Labor & Workforce Development Agency: Apprenticeship & Workforce Training • Division of Apprenticeship Standards • Center for the Economics and Management of Education and Training Systems ETH Zurich Additional Partners:

6. Lead Partner Roles

7. What Students and Educators might see.

8. What Students and Educators might see. • APPRENTICES SPLIT TIME BETWEEN SCHOOL, TRAINING CENTERS, AND WORK ON A SCHEDULE THAT WORKS FOR STUDENTS AND BUSINESSES

9. What Employers might see

10. CAYAC Process | How Do You Build A Plane While Flying it? State Level Regional/ Local Level • Determine Governance Structure • Determine Policy Alignment • Develop Educational Alignment • Build the Infrastructure • Provide outreach collateral • Track outcomes and progress • Recruit hosting companies • Recruit education providers • Recruit hosting companies • Recruit education providers • Develop dual credit models • Recruit apprentices • Develop curricula – offer training

11. Key Quality Principles of the Collaborative Our System Development Approach is : • Human-Centered • Agile • Mission-Minded The Resulting Systems and Programs are: • Highest-Quality • Student-Centered • Employer-Driven • Community-Minded

12. Planning Grant Phase (May 2019 – Dec 2020) • Priority Actions to achieve our goals and/or outcomes, key project milestones and an estimated timeline Fall 2019 / Aligned Vision • Coordinate aligned vision, including: understanding local parameters, recruitment of additional partners, inform statewide framework formulation, and implementation plan roll out. • Milestone:Seven regional convenings  addressing these items. Winter 2019-2020 / Process Framework • Milestone: Develop a process framework based on feedback loop from the field, stakeholders and CAYAC partners. Spring 2020 / Communications Plan • Craft a communications and equity focused marketing strategy designed to promote the model, recruit students, employers, districts and community organizations. • Milestone: Develop a marketing and communications toolkit housed on a CAYAC website Spring 2020 / Policy Framework • Milestone: Identify and support state and local policy that promotes the apprenticeship process. Recruit legislative champions to support policy objectives.

13. Planning Grant Phase (May 2019 – Dec 2020) • Priority Actions to achieve our goals and/or outcomes, key project milestones and an estimated timeline Summer 2020 / Higher Education Engagement • Define higher education admission policy opportunities to achieving post-secondary partner goals. • Milestone:a four-year post-secondary institution involved in each local partnership Summer 2020 / Equity Trainings • Ensure partners work toward equity as they seek to understand and empathize with students and parents, and their needs. • Milestone:Deploy an equity and human-centered design approach that includes presentations and direct instruction to all regional partners as part of participation qualifications: Fall 2020 / Technical Assistance Tools • Support partners by developing and launching a process rubric and online technical assistance resources for onboarding of new apprentices - schools, colleges, employers. • Milestone:Have a suite of step-by-step online tools for all stakeholders and every role involved in the implementation of a Youth Apprenticeship Initiative - housed on a CAYAC website. Winter 2020 / Data Alignment Plan • Collect data on an on-going basis with a focus on program improvement. • Milestone:Develop a comprehensive data collection plan utilizing a streamlined integration of multiple data systems. 

14. CAYAC| How Can You Participate? • Help Develop Policy • Create Educational Alignment • Help Build the Infrastructure E. g. Create guidelines for a streamlined online registration system and a shareable repository of curricula for all occupations. • Become an Industry Lead (or recruit one) • Become a hosting company (and recruit others • Develop curricula – offer training • Conduct research • Provide outreach/ support marketing

15. CAYAC| Sign up “Closing the Gap” Future of Apprenticeship in CA Paper https://center4apprenticeship.jff.org/resources/closing-gap-future-apprenticeship-california/ Join the California Youth Apprenticeship Consortium - CAYAC goo.gl/uKyEbw

16. Where Linked Learning is Happening Linked Learning is a proven approach that is turning public high school education into a personally relevant, engaging experience for students, exposing them to previously unimagined career and college opportunities and preparing them to succeed in today’s global economy. Linked Learning continues to gain momentum in California and across the country as recognition of its effectiveness grows. As a flexible, adaptable approach to high school reform, Linked Learning can be tailored to the unique needs of most districts, schools, and communities. Originally, Linked Learning began in nine California school districts, known as the District Initiative. With investments from the California Career Trust Pathways (CCPT) and Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program (CTEIG), Linked Learning is available in more than 100 districts in California. Today, Linked Learning is expanding outside of California to include school districts in Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and Canada. It is delivered through a variety of models including California Partnership Academies, career academies, NAF  academies, charter schools, and small-themed schools.

17. The Foundation currently supports dozens of intermediaries in multiple states to scale their work-based learning initiatives • As CAYAC develops the Foundation will provide initial or ongoing support to reduce the friction that arises from connecting young people to work: • educator and employer readiness (technical assistance) • Logistics of matching students to learning opportunities (LaunchPath) • Hiring, payroll and workers’ compensation (Career Catalyst)

18. SPR is a research and capacity building partner to CAYAC. • We connect CAYAC to our global partner (CEMETS) at the ETH in Zurich. • We will also support CAYAC through • technical assistance to the state and regional partners • fostering of a learning community • facilitating partnership building at all levels

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