A System

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A Systems Approach to Standards Implementation
Adult Education Content Standards Consortia
Meeting

• (Make standards the centerpiece.)
• Susan Pimentel
• July 21, 2005
• U.S. Department of Education, Division of Adult
  Education and Literacy
• American Institutes for Research

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Systems Approach
Collaboration and Communication
Assessment
Professional Development
Accountability
Reporting Requirements
STANDARDS
Instructional Delivery
Program Evaluation
Incentives
Budget
Resources
Instructor Qualifications
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Assessment?

• Wide assortment available? (informal/formal)
• Results useful and reliable?
• Alignment issues?
• Resistance from the field?

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Professional Development?

• State capacity?
• State role? (e.g., deliverer, coordinator,
  sponsor, funder)
• Content and delivery options?
• Professional certification hours?
• Partnerships with colleges?
• Secure additional funding?

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Accountability?

• For what is state holding programs accountable?
  Implementation of standards?
• Should state monitor implementation? How?
• Data collection methods in place to reflect the
  new priorities?

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Program Improvement/Evaluation?

• How are current programs evaluated?
• Need to adjust to new priorities?
• Methods to use evaluation data for continuous
  improvement?

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Finance/Budget?

• Fit new priorities?
• Ways to leverage resources to support
  implementation?
• Dollar flow to programs?

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Instructor Qualifications?

• Standards/hiring practices?
• Part-time/full-time staff?

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Facilities/Resources?

• Equipped to deliver the expectations outlined in
  the standards?
• Reflect new priorities?

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Recognition/Incentives?

• Characteristics of present recognition programs?
• Need for new recognition/incentive programs?

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Instructional Delivery?

• Are new delivery models needed?
• State role in promoting new models?
• Do programs need more flexibility/authority?

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Reporting Requirements?

• Whats required?
• Whats superfluous?

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Collaboration Communication

• Partnerships?
• Marketing focus?
• Does state even have a marketing arm?
• Who, how, and about what should state
  communicate?

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• Make your state plan synonymous with standards
  implementation!