World Education has been awarded a Workforce Capacity Building and Youth Pathways Training Grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center through the National College Transition Network
project to design and lead the ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors project.
World Education is providing matching support for the project.
ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors
The goal of the ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors project is to develop and pilot a systematic and replicable model for capacity building and training of the adult basic education (ABE) workforce on clean energy concepts and related career pathways.
To date, the adult basic education system has had very limited exposure to clean energy concepts and career pathways. Yet, adult education is a crucial component of the workforce development pipeline with largely untapped potential to motivate and prepare low-skilled, low-income adults to pursue training for clean energy-related jobs, while also building clean energy awareness in adults who, as consumers, tend to be outside such education efforts.
The ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors project invests in strengthening the on-ramp to clean energy occupations for Massachusetts’ adult learners. Increasing the expertise of ABE teachers and counselors who work with ABE learners so that clean energy industries can be presented and investigated in the context of ABE instruction and counseling gives learners essential information on job prospects and requirements, training, and career pathways. The value of this on-ramp can’t be underestimated: the shift that clean energy will create in our economy will require all citizens to know and understand these changes.
The ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors project will:
1. Implement a clean energy professional development model for ABE teachers and counselors that integrates three face-to-face training institutes, four webinars, coaching, and a virtual community of practice (VCoP).
2. Compile a Clean Energy Curriculum Guide that includes lessons and teaching strategies that integrate clean energy information into science, math, and English language instruction for adult learners.
3. Provide models and techniques specific to the clean energy industry and training in developing articulation agreements and partnerships.
4. Disseminate information on clean energy occupations and needed training and credentialing to ABE staff and learners.
ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors
The goal of the ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors project is to develop and pilot a systematic and replicable model for capacity building and training of the adult basic education (ABE) workforce on clean energy concepts and related career pathways.
To date, the adult basic education system has had very limited exposure to clean energy concepts and career pathways. Yet, adult education is a crucial component of the workforce development pipeline with largely untapped potential to motivate and prepare low-skilled, low-income adults to pursue training for clean energy-related jobs, while also building clean energy awareness in adults who, as consumers, tend to be outside such education efforts.
The ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors project invests in strengthening the on-ramp to clean energy occupations for Massachusetts’ adult learners. Increasing the expertise of ABE teachers and counselors who work with ABE learners so that clean energy industries can be presented and investigated in the context of ABE instruction and counseling gives learners essential information on job prospects and requirements, training, and career pathways. The value of this on-ramp can’t be underestimated: the shift that clean energy will create in our economy will require all citizens to know and understand these changes.
The ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors project will:
1. Implement a clean energy professional development model for ABE teachers and counselors that integrates three face-to-face training institutes, four webinars, coaching, and a virtual community of practice (VCoP).
2. Compile a Clean Energy Curriculum Guide that includes lessons and teaching strategies that integrate clean energy information into science, math, and English language instruction for adult learners.
3. Provide models and techniques specific to the clean energy industry and training in developing articulation agreements and partnerships.
4. Disseminate information on clean energy occupations and needed training and credentialing to ABE staff and learners.
