This document outlines a regional skills articulation framework to better align education and industry in the Greater Brownwood region. It proposes using common language metrics to define career requirements and design readiness courses to build regional talent capacity. The key activities include industry employers identifying skills needs, education reviewing career and technical education programs, and crosswalking to ensure alignment. The overall challenge is to get educators and employers to team up and offer learning that is relevant to both academic and workplace skills development.

1. Regional
Skills Articulation
Framework:
Education & Industry
Alignment Initiative
Greater Brownwood Region
Chamber Meeting
November 19, 2010
Michael Brown, SkillsNET
Michael.brown@skillsnet.com

3. Basic Solution:
Industry Requirements must have some association and impact to
education and labor market (Talent Pipeline).
Basic Formula:
Use common language metrics to define the career, design
readiness courses / programs to build regional capacity.
Basic Approach:
Align education programs and employer expectations
Basic Problem:
People, Politics, Parochialism, and Performance!
Making it more simple:

5. The Education Workforce
committee
Industry Employers Identifying
Skills
Education CTE Programs
Crosswalk Review
Brownwood area leaders understand the challenge.
Key activities to address the challenge…..

6. Greater Brownwood Education and Workforce Alignment Challenge
Michael Bettersworth. TSTC. November 2010

7. Barr Fabrication
In Process Pending
Market-Driven Participation

8. Skills Articulation Framework:
Building Industry Capacity
CTE
TEKS Learning
Objectives
Post-Secondary
Competencies &
Skill Certificates
Industry
Certification
Work-based
Certification
TEKS Manufacturing Cluster
Foundational Developmental Employability Interoperability
Education & Training Value Feedback / Best Practices

12. Educators and Employers MUST Team to Offer Learning That is Relevant

14. The greater the challenge, the more
important that we all work together

15. Thank You!