I liked how they start this section with the value of professional networking and intra-community networking to identify the stakeholders and champions for the WBL program at your district/school, and doing WWW research. For research, they also provided the website (I opened it in new tab) for the Perkins Collaborative Resource Network (currently FY2020-23 state plans and individual state profiles available from online data explorers). [Re: US DoEd Perkins V comprehensive local needs assessment required.]
I appreciate the link to the documents from Massachusetts, especially the Employability Skills Rubric. Rubrics are so hard to create from scratch, but it's much easier to respond to and develop your own from a solid example.
I appreciate seeing a difference between an advisory committee for my department and knowing that an advisory council can be formed for several programs at my school. Should we join the local Chamber of Commerce and begin building those relationships now as part of the community building process?
The suggestions on who to include on the advisory committee and where to find the needs of area employers were great ideas! I plan to contact our school board, city council, and county supervisors to see if I can talk about the work-based learning program we will be starting. In addition, I plan to develop my elevator pitch for our work-based learning program.
I like understanding of the stakeholders and there importance to workbased learning program. I believe recognizing how they will benefit a program will help a new program get started.
