Designing With Equity in Mind: An Action Toolkit for Competency-Based Education
Higher education is meant to be an engine of economic opportunity and mobility. But for too long, institutions have struggled to offer equitable access and produce equitable outcomes for all learners. Individuals from a range…
How to Register an Apprenticeship Program
Complete your Standards of Apprenticeship—an essential part of registering an apprenticeship program—with this training course. Complete your Standards of Apprenticeship—an essential part of registering an apprenticeship program—with this training course. Trouble accessing? Learn how to…
5 Steps to Identifying Occupations for Apprenticeship
This self-paced, online training course walks you through how to identify occupations that are a good fit for youth apprenticeship based on a five-step occupational selection approach. This self-paced, online training course walks you through…
Establish Competency-Based and Hybrid Apprenticeship
This self-paced, online training course will help you plan, design, and implement a hybrid or competency-based Registered Apprenticeship. It will help get your program started and walk through considerations to keep it successful once launched.…
Choose Your Apprenticeship Approach
In this self-paced, online training course, you will decide whether to design your Registered Apprenticeship with an approach that advances apprentices based on their time learning, competencies learned, or a combination of the two. In…
Providing Support for Community Colleges Now, and a Lever for Transformative Change
With JFF’s support of implementations of the Google IT Support Professional Certificate program, participating community colleges demonstrated that a competency-based curriculum could successfully help low-credentialed adults advance in the IT sector. With JFF’s support of…
Nonprofits Offer a Road Map for Colleges Implementing the Google IT Certificate Program
This brief offers a look at actionable strategies developed by nonprofit organizations that community colleges can follow to increase learner retention, completion, and job placement rates through short-term and online workforce training models. This brief…
Redesigning Training Programs for the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Training and education will be key to helping displaced workers find stable jobs in the post-pandemic recovery, but programs need to be reimagined with equity at the forefront to ensure that they benefit everyone equally.…
IT Pre-Apprenticeship Framework Component 4: Development of Skills Through Hands-On Activities and Work-Based Learning
IT Pre-Apprenticeship Framework Component 4: Development of Skills Through Hands-On Activities and Work-Based Learning This is the fourth component of the Framework for a High-Quality IT Pre-Apprenticeship Program from JFF’s Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based…