1. The Career Pathways Pipeline How we can serve the hardest to serve

2. Number In Need  12,600,000 adults have finished less than 9 grades of school  17,970,000 adults have finished at least 9 grades but no diploma (American Community Survey)  27,000,000 adults are below basic  57,000,000 adults are basic (National Assessment of Adult Literacy/2011 Census)

3. Are Career Pathways Inclusive? Creaming: Creaming is focusing only on the few at the top leaving the others with no services.

4. Pipeline for the Lower Tier Identify 5 or 6 high demand job sectors in your service area – Identify reading, math and English skills and the soft skills related to those specific jobs See DETR Statewide Occupational Employment & Projections 2008-2018

5. Pipeline for the Lower Tier – Integrate that contextualized content into the curriculum We are going to teach root words, prefixes and suffixes. By teaching reading skills as well as math and English skills in high demand job sector contexts, we provide on-ramps onto career pathways for lower level adults.

6. Pipeline for the Lower Tier – Integrate the soft skills into the curriculum We teach problem solving and critical analysis. By teach those and other soft skills in contexts of the high demand job sectors in the service area, we expand career pathway opportunities for lower level adults. See Michigan’s Preparing Workers Program: http://www.maepd.org/lib-preparingworkers.html http://www.maepd.org/lib-preparingworkers.html

7. We have many adults below the adult secondary level. We cannot wait to introduce job-specific skills until adults reach adult secondary. We cannot cream the upper level learners and turn away the lower level learners. We can and do provide career pathway support at all levels.