1. Tennessee Apprenticeship Summit 2018
WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE?
Tennessee Apprenticeship Summit 2018
Lewis Brown
CAEL
May 22, 2018

2. Who is CAEL? A national leader in Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)
Dedicated to removing barriers to adult learning
44 years of linking lifelong learning with credits and careers

3. Meaningful learning, credentials, and work for every adult.
Career Advising Resource Center
Membership for Institutions
Professional Development
CAEL Conference
Workforce and Economic Development
Research
Strada Affiliate
Career Exploration

4. Career Exploration Solutions

5. Why TN CCP?
Support regional alignment of higher education to labor market demands and reveal clear, current and accurate career information
Surface advising, education, support, and/or employment resources
Complement other advising resources within other foundation investments and leverage all of the great resources already supporting Tennesseans
Complement the functionality of IPASS to provide learners with relevant and up-to-date career exploration data and information, impacting degree completion

6. Career Exploration and Apprenticeships
Career exploration supports apprenticeships
Self efficacy, discovery and mapping
Apprenticeships aid in career exploration
Practice, opportunity and exposure
CAEL’s experience
Rooted in experiential learning
Steeped in the value of proven knowledge and ability
Deepens long term pipelines
Lessons from Career Action Platforms (CUNY)
Sector engagement strategy – career readiness, experiential learning, real connections

7. Where Will It Make Impact?

8. How Will It Function? In-demand industries Interactive maps
Featured employer, educators and CBO’s
State and local initiatives
Job matching
Career, workforce and education resources
Job descriptions
Popular pathways
Region-specific information

9. Where Do Apprenticeships Fit?
Industry education and training information
Region-based resources
Statewide resources

10. Where Else Do Apprenticeships Fit?
Occupation specific information
Future possibilities
Apprenticeship functionality
Day in the life of media
Career matching
Career pathways
*Launch: June 25, 2018

12. Activity Guidelines Discuss the following questions at tables
Exposure
Focus
Internships
Win
Open Doors
Activity Guidelines
Barriers, lots of things for you and me
Opportunities that will change Tennessee!
Discuss the following questions at tables
Take a few stickies of each color
Discuss the questions together
Write your answer on the stickies
Share with a neighbor
Leave your stickies behind

13. Barriers Opportunities
Partner
Brainstorm
Discuss
Write and Stick
What are the challenges you see to getting more people engaged in apprenticeship in your region?
What barriers exist?
What dis-incentivizes action?
10 minutes
Share
Opportunities
What solutions seem promising?
What barriers can we remove?
What will incentivize action?

14. Thank you
Questions?
Lewis Brown