Happy Holidays! CAEP TAP will be closed Thursday, December 24th-Friday, January 1st in observance of the winter holidays. CAEP TAP will respond to all requests on Monday, January 4th.

The CAEP Quarter 1 Member Expense (Fiscal) Report was due on December 1st. The report is to be certified by the consortium by December 31st. If you experience any difficulty completing this deliverable, contact CAEP TAP at tap@caladulted.org or (888) 827-2324 before we close for the holiday. We are available to assist! 

There is still time to respond to this proposal! The Employment Development Department, in coordination with the California Workforce Development Board and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, announces the availability of up to $1.6 million of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Governor’s Discretionary funds in an English Language Learner (ELL) Solicitation for Proposals (SFP).

The goal of this pilot initiative is to promote the use of integrated education and training (IET) programs and regional industry-sector strategies as the framework to help unemployed and underemployed ELLs with significant barriers to employment enter high quality jobs. These funds will support projects that increase access for target populations, incorporate IET programs, leverage other program funding, and provide supportive services for California’s ELL population.

Proposals are due January 20, 2021.

As part of their ongoing work on poverty and inequality, PPIC released a new blog post exploring how the effects of the current recession are concentrated among low-income workers, African Americans, Latinos, and women. Their prospects for economic recovery are made all the more challenging by long-term trends of high income inequality and low economic mobility. In a new report released earlier this week, PPIC identify job training and child care as two policy levers that could expand economic opportunity in both the short and long run. Explore the blog post and report to learn more.  

Data compiled through the California Postsecondary to Prosperity Dashboard show how San Joaquin Valley residents access institutions of higher education—and how systemic barriers keep certain populations from reaching their future potential. Highlights from the Dashboard include the following:

Have some free time to devote to learning from CAEP practitioners? The CAEP Summit 2020 session recordings and materials can help fill your free time. All recordings are still available! Log on today to access all of the amazing content presented at the CAEP Summit 2020. Even if you did not originally register to attend the Summit, you still have access to all of the amazing sessions (recordings and materials). Register on the CAEP Summit 2020 landing page and access now!

Using your login for vFAIRS, you can access all recordings and materials until the end of January 2021! Through the ‘Auditorium’, access the agenda, then all sessions by program strand. Materials are available in the 'Resources' section and available to add to your 'Swag Bag' and email for future reference.

On November 12th and December 4th, CAEP TAP hosted the first two parts of the three-part Advancing Equity Professional Learning, Implicit Bias and Strategies for Talking About Race in the Classroom, in collaboration with Cynthia Peters, World Education and Riva Pearson, Jewish Vocational Service. Attendees enjoyed the session, found the presenters to be very knowledgeable, open and focused, and appreciated hearing other practitioners experience identifying bias within themselves and at their school site and practices that could be easily implemented. The recordings and materials are available on the CAEP website. 

Today is part three, Action Steps for Teachers and Programs Addressing Racial Equity! Don't miss out - join us for today's interactive session where you will work in community with other practitioners in the design of action steps!