State Partnerships
WIN Learning offers e-learning solutions including career readiness courseware, assessments, and credentials as an important foundation for creating a more effective and efficient system to prepare young adults for career success. As states look to prepare learners for career and college readiness, providing all youth with multiple pathways to success; engaging employers in these pathways systems; and developing a “career readiness credential" with young people, WIN Learning equips them with the academic and essential soft skills credentials to prepare learners for postsecondary and beyond.
WIN Learning is leading the path in supporting statewide career readiness initiatives through its Career Readiness System and services to promote a unique and customized solution for each state.
South Carolina Career Readiness Assessments
In December 2017, an expert panel consisting of South Carolina employers, educators, and workforce and economic development professionals, selected WIN Learning as the state's new career readiness assessment provider. In April 2018, just four months following the contract award, WIN Learning successfully facilitated the first statewide administration of 208,000 paper-based and online assessments, spanning more than 80 school districts and 250 high schools statewide. South Carolina uses the WIN career readiness assessments to measure mastery of foundational workforce academic and soft skills. The assessments are administered each spring to approximately 52,000 students in their third year of high school.
The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce collaborated with WIN Learning to introduce the forward-thinking career readiness curriculum, assessment, and credentialing solution for the state workforce system and its partners, including the Technical College System, Department of Adult Education, Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, community-based organizations, and employers. Successful completion of the assessments results in the South Carolina Work Ready Credential and/or the South Carolina Soft Skills Credential. Both credentials are state-sponsored and recognized by employers statewide. WIN Learning also offers WIN Job Analysis services, linking the assessment standards and credentials to support employer hiring and training requirements.
Kentucky Essential Skills
Kentucky’s workforce, adult education, and community college system came together to bring a common language and common measure to the state using WIN Learning’s Soft Skills Courseware and Soft Skills Credential that KY has branded Kentucky Essential Skills Credential. The Governor at the start of the partnership, Matt Bevin, signed the credential so businesses in KY can quickly recognize the valid and reliable credential, and now it is signed by the Lieutenant Governor and Kentucky Chamber of Commerce President.
As reported in the Kentucky’s Chamber of Commerce publication, Kentucky’s Workforce Challenges: The Employer’s Perspective, one of the greatest challenges facing employers is “the need for improved employability skills, or soft skills, such as attendance, communication and teamwork, among job seekers.” The Kentucky Essential Skills Certificate (KESC) targets this challenge and seeks to further empower job seekers across the state. Kentucky statewide access to the customized Soft Skills Courseware, assessment, and credential is available to the 24,000 students enrolled in the Kentucky Adult Education program and more than 125,000 students and job seekers are served annually by the Kentucky Career Centers. Learn how Kentucky systems are creating a career ready community. Read More.
Tennessee Student Readiness
In partnership with the Tennessee Board of Regents, WIN Learning provides a student readiness solutions to the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology. The solution is a combination of WIN Learning’s Academic Skills Courseware and the Academic Skills Assessments that measures the foundational workplace academic skills of college applicants to determine their level of preparation for a specific program of study. The courseware and assessments contain three core subject areas, Work Ready Math, Work Ready Reading, and Work Ready Data. The assessments test students’ foundational academic skills and evaluate students’ ability to apply those skills to real life workplace scenarios. The achievement level skills correlate to the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET Content Model Framework, the nation’s leading source of non-bias occupational data.
Under the Tennessee Department of Educations (TDOE) High School Career Readiness Assessment initiative, Seniors have the opportunity to take WIN Learning's Academic Skills Assessments, Soft Skills Assessment, and Digital Skills Assessment to earn the respective National Work Readiness Credential before graduating at no cost to the districts.
- When students earn all three credentials listed below, they are considered Tier 1 - Industry Recognized on the TN Promoted Student Industry Credential list.
- When students pass the Academic Skills Assessments and earn the National Work Readiness Credential - Academic Skills at Achievement Level 3 or greater, it will be accepted and counted as credit towards the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology Tech Foundations course.
Schedule time to learn more about WIN Learning's credentials and how to setup your district/school to test under the Tennessee Career Readiness Assessment contract. View Availability
New York Alternative Pathway to Graduation
New York State Education Department approved the National Work Readiness Credential – Academic Skills and Soft Skills (NWRC-AS) as a Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential graduation pathway. A student seeking a diploma using the CDOS pathway option must complete the required 22 units of diploma credit, pass one Regents exam or NYSED-Approved Regents Examination Alternative in each discipline (English language arts, math, science, and social studies), and complete the requirements for earning the CDOS Commencement Credential. NYSED approved the National Work Readiness Credential to satisfy the requirements of CDOS Commencement Credential Requirement (Option 2) as listed at nysed.gov.
Texas Adult Education and Literacy
The Texas Adult Education and Literacy program is a state and federally funded program within the Texas Workforce Commission’s Workforce Development Division and serves approximately 90,000 participants across the state. The Texas AEL program works to support increased employment, secondary and postsecondary education, and skills training to build a more educated and skilled workforce. The AEL program achieves this goal by utilizing WIN’s Academic Skills Courseware and Assessments and the Soft Skills Courseware and Assessment. Academic Skills Courseware builds participants’ foundational math, reading, and data analysis skills, while the Soft Skills Courseware focuses on interpersonal and employability skills like communication, problem solving, and critical thinking. The proctored Academic Skills Assessments and Soft Skills Assessment validate mastery of the skills taught in the courseware. By providing participants with these resources, the Texas AEL program is strengthening their communities and the state’s workforce.
Florida Ready to Work
Florida Ready to Work is a state-funded career readiness program powered by WIN Learning. Florida Ready to Work provides foundational employability skills training in partnership with school districts, workforce systems, state colleges, technical centers, adult education, juvenile justice, corrections, employers, and other community-based partners statewide. Individuals who successfully complete the program can earn up to three stackable credentials—Academic Employability Skills, Soft Skills, and Digital Skills. The credentials are signed by Governor Ron DeSantis and are recognized as a common measure of foundational employability skill readiness for most jobs across industry sectors. To date, more than 300,000 job seekers across the state have completed Florida Ready to Work career readiness training.
Six Essential Strategies for Creating Effective State Career Pathway Systems
Download the white paper to learn about the current challenges and what states can do to enhance statewide career readiness systems. Download White Paper.
WIN Career Readiness System
WIN Learning's Career Readiness System is a digital teaching and learning solution designed to prepare learners for career and college success. The system consists of career readiness courseware and assessment components that yield a nationally-recognized credentials in Academic Skills, Soft Skills, and Digital Skills, all of which are accessible through a single sign-on portal. Request a Demo.
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