Alliance of Career Resource Professionals (ACRP) Webinar - June 16, 2015.  
"Career Development inside the Beltway: What Policy Makers Know, Don’t Know, and Need to Know". 
The webinar will examine workforce policies affecting career development and career resources.

Free Member Registration

Non-member Registration Form ($20)

   
Please visit the links below for full details of these grant opportunities.     

• U.S. Department of Education Announces $3 Million In Grants Available to Help Native Youth
  

 http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-announces-3-million-grants-available-help-native-youth

• Health Profession Opportunity Grants to Serve TANF Recipients and Other Low-Income Individuals
  

 http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2015-ACF-OFA-FX-0951

Application Due Date: April 29, 2015
Notification to Panelists: May 1, 2015
To Apply: http://bit.ly/AMP_StandardSetting


Dear Alaska Educator,

The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (EED) is recruiting educators from across the state to participate in Standards Setting to establish the achievement levels of the Alaska Measures of Progress (AMP) assessment in grades 3 - 10 for English language arts and mathematics. The Standards Setting sessions will be held in Anchorage on July 7-10, 2015. Panelists must participate in person. Panelists’ travel to and from Anchorage will be covered in addition to lodging, $60/day per diem, and, a stipend of $100 per day if the educator is not on contract during that time. Expenses, stipends, and per diem will be paid by the Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI).

In addition, EED will be selecting a portion of the Standard Setting group to participate in an additional Alignment activity tentatively scheduled for one day during the first week of June in Anchorage. If you are unable to attend this additional activity it will not affect your eligibility to participate in the Standard Setting group.

AMP are the new, computer-based assessments for grades 3-10 that align with the Alaska English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards. AMP is a custom, Alaska assessment developed by the Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) and administered to Alaska students in grades 3-10 for the first time in spring 2015.  The Standards Setting panels will make considered judgments about achievement levels based on assessment responses. To be effective as a Standards Setting panelist, educators must have the ability to work as part of a team and understand consensus development processes. Panelists must have 1) experience teaching in mathematics and/or English language arts at the specified grade levels, and 2) be knowledgeable in the Alaska Standards.

Standard setting panel diversity is essential and EED will select panelists, to the best extent possible, based on the tested student population of Alaska in terms of ethnicity, gender, and regional representation. All grade level panels will include educators with special education and/or LEP experience. Grade level 9 and 10 panels will include post-secondary educators.

Please select the following link and complete the online application: http://bit.ly/AMP_StandardSetting

Participants will be notified via email if they are selected in order to confirm their availability. Additionally, those not chosen for a panel will receive notification by May 1. Participants will further receive details upon their invitation to serve on a panel and will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement prior to participation. Panelists will receive further details about compensation via e-mail upon selection.

For more information about reviews, please email amp_info@ku.edu.

For more information on AMP and the Alaska Comprehensive System of Student Assessment, please visit http://www.education.alaska.gov/akassessments  or email Elizabeth Davis, EED’s Assessments Administrator, elizabeth.davis@alaska.gov, or by phone at (907) 465-8431.

Thank you,

Margaret MacKinnon
Director, Assessment and Accountability
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development Juneau AK 99811-0500
(907) 465-2970
margaret.mackinnon@alaska.gov

The Alaska Workforce Investment Board (AWIB) will meet May 6 and 7 at AVTEC in Seward.  

Agenda items include WIOA, priority occupations, Alaska’s maritime industry, and the Cross-Industry Workforce Development Plan Collaboration, as well as an industry panel and a tour of AVTEC.  

Public testimony is slated for 3:30 – 4:00 on May 6. The full agenda is posted here.

In a new report on Middle Skill jobs, Burning Glass Technologies talks about those jobs that are "digitally intensive" vs those that are not, concluding that

• Almost 80% of middle-skill jobs require digital skills. 
• Middle-skill occupations that require higher levels of digital skills are growing faster and pay more than other middle-skill jobs.

Read the summary and download the entire report here.

For a one-page PDF infographic, click here or on the thumbnail below.

To download the complete Request For Grant Applications (RGA), please visit 
https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=176230.

The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development (Department), Division of Business Partnerships (Division), is requesting grant applications for participant training projects. Under Title IB of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the state is authorized to retain 8.75 percent of the federal funds allocated to Alaska. This 8.75 percent may be used for training and employment projects. The goal is to build a trained and prepared workforce for employment in Alaska’s high wage, high growth industries and occupations.

The application is available in EGrAMS, the division’s grants management system. EGrAMS can be accessed through the web at: http://labor.alaska.gov/bp/egrams/. Please review the EGrAMS tutorial, also found on above link, which provides instructions for submitting a grant application.

The Division will host a pre-application teleconference on April 9, 2015 at 10:00 am to answer questions related to this RGA and the EGrAMS process. Participation in this teleconference is not a requirement for submitting an application.

• The teleconference number is 1-800-315-6338 Pass Code: 18820# 
  
• Date of Issue: April 1, 2015
  
• Project Timeline: May 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016
  
• Submission Deadline: 5 p.m. AST on April 17, 2015.
  

The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Business Partnerships is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aides and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. To make arrangements for auxiliary aides or services, please contact the Division of Business Partnerships at (907) 269-4651 no later than ten working days prior to the application deadline. The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development is an Equal Opportunity Employer /Program. All grant recipients or sub-contractors must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.