We are committed to providing tools so that the lessons and insights we have learned can be applied to other initiatives across the country. Below are resources that we hope you use as a roadmap for similar endeavors.
This case study details how the four communities of the Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership are working to systematically move the needle to ensure that all young people are prepared to not only meet the current and
emerging needs of the workplace, but to also find value and meaning in their working lives, and fully realize their best possible futures.
Over the course of the Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership (GLCCPP), Education Systems Center at Northern Illinois University (EdSystems) has worked in collaboration with both the Coordinating Team (ConnectEd, JFF, EdSystems) and the four communities to collect, analyze, and report on key shared metrics with several goals. These shared metrics help inform our understanding of each GLCCPP community, as well as broader realities across the partnership. Further, through the support of EdSystems and the Coordinating Team, GLCCPP communities engage with these data to inform their college and career pathways implementation.
To support this initiative, JFF created this policy brief offering policy recommendations to state policymakers that can help jumpstart college and career pathways.
To support this initiative, we developed a set of Quality Indicators to inform the evaluation and continuous improvement of the program’s design and implementation in each GLCCPP region. Informed by the work in the first phase of the grant (2015-2017), we revised and updated these Quality Indicators to reflect three priority areas:
Promising Credentials: Aligning Dual Enrollment with Health Care Labor Market Needs
This report provides new terminology and suggests approaches to better align dual enrollment courses with labor market needs. It explores health care in Columbus, Ohio.
Promising Credentials: Aligning Dual Enrollment with Health Care Labor Market Needs
This report provides new terminology and suggests approaches to better align dual enrollment courses with labor market needs. It explores health care in Rockford, Illinois.
In 2016, the GLCCPP has also determined that there is a need to strengthen leadership and governance systems across the great lakes region. Effective implementation necessitates strong leadership and governance systems; thus, communities need to develop coherent systems and structures for governance and leadership. Understanding that every community is unique, leadership and governance systems and structures may look and sound differently in each of the four GLCCPI communities. Based on best practice research informed by several organizations including Jobs for the Future, Connected California, and EdSystems Center, the GLCCPI developed the leadership and governance systems self-assessment rubric to support communities in continuous improvement.
October 17 and 18, 2019 in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois