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Assessing Shortages of Teachers in New Jersey

heldrich_robb — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:35:26 +0000

Assessing Shortages of Teachers in New Jersey

Topic

Teacher Workforce Research and Analysis

heldrich_robb Sat, 06/08/2024 - 14:35

Published Date

June 14, 2024

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In accordance with P.L. 2021, Chapter 394, which establishes annual data collections and reports on the teacher workforce within New Jersey, the New Jersey Department of Education is working in partnership with the Heldrich Center and the New Jersey Statewide Data System to identify the specific data elements needed to comply with the research and reporting requirements outlined in the legislation. In February 2024, the Heldrich Center produced the first report in this series.

New Jersey’s Teacher Workforce Landscape: 2024 Annual Report

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Project examining the shortage of teachers in New Jersey.

Strategically Virtual

heldrich_robb — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:51:19 +0000

Strategically Virtual

Topic

Virtual Workforce Services

heldrich_robb Fri, 07/23/2021 - 16:51

Published Date

July 26, 2021

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The Strategically Virtual series builds off the lessons learned from the Suddenly Virtual series to explore how to provide guidance to the public workforce system on being more strategically virtual, particularly how that could be operationalized at the state and local levels. The Strategically Virtual series envisions how the public workforce system could engage community resources and partners to holistically address job seeker needs, addressing physical and psychological safety in addition to more traditional job search supports and skill development. Strategically Virtual has developed a framework for job seeker services and produces issue briefs, Medium blog posts, practical guides, and more.

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Issue Briefs

A Review of New Jersey Public Libraries’ Virtual Services

Effective Job Search Support in the Time of COVID

Implementing Job Search Services in a Virtual Environment

Voices from the Field: Workforce Responses to COVID-19

Lessons Learned from the New Jersey Career Network Job Seeker Community

Long-term Unemployed Older Workers Persist in a Boom Economy

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Digital Equity During COVID-19: How New Jersey Public Libraries are Expanding Broadband and Device Access

Strategically Virtual: Offering Wellness Activities in a Virtual Environment

Strategically Virtual: A Review of New Jersey Public Libraries’ Virtual Services

Strategically Virtual: Effective Job Search Support in the Time of COVID

Five Reasons the Public Workforce System Should be Doubling Down on Virtual Services

Strategically Virtual: The Rise of Behavioral Assessments in Hiring

Strategically Virtual: The Shift Toward Virtual Interviewing and what it Means for the Public Workforce System

Strategically Virtual: The Value of Chunking Information for Job Seekers

Strategically Virtual: Job Search Burnout and Strategies for Prioritizing Well-Being

Incorporating Wellness Programming into Job Search

Mobile Engagement: How the Public Workforce System Can Stay Connected with Customers

Strategically Virtual - Voices from the Field: Workforce Responses to COVID-19

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Outlines how the public workforce system can use technology and community partnerships to expand services, address job seeker mental and emotional well-being, and ensure that a broader range of the public is able to access supports.

Suddenly Virtual

heldrich_robb — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:00:32 +0000

Suddenly Virtual

Topic

Virtual Workforce Services

heldrich_robb Thu, 07/22/2021 - 18:00

Published Date

July 23, 2021

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Liana Lin

Heather Allen

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The Suddenly Virtual series began in March 2020 at the start of the global pandemic when public workforce staff were suddenly forced into virtual operations. Suddenly Virtual explores how the public workforce system responded to COVID-19 and the need to offer virtual services through remote teams. The series offers technological tools, tips, and strategies that could be employed by the public workforce system to reach virtual customers more efficiently and effectively. Through multi-state surveys, roundtable discussions, and other direct contact with the field, researchers wrote and published issue briefs, blog posts, and toolkits to quickly share what is happening in the field and identify challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for immediate action.

Suddenly Virtual is a series of 4 issue briefs, 3 toolkits, and 11 Medium blog posts, supported by an online Community of Practice, which aims to provide additional online professional development opportunities for public workforce system staff.

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Issue Briefs

Delivering Workforce Services in the COVID-19 Environment

A Practical Guide for Frontline Service Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Workforce Services, Eight Weeks Later

Suddenly Virtual: A Review of Workforce Area Websites in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

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Frontline Workforce Staff and Job Seekers Need Essential Technology Tools Now More than Ever

Suddenly Virtual: Delivering Workforce Services in the COVID-19 Environment

Suddenly Virtual: A Practical Guide for Frontline Service Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Suddenly Virtual: Introducing the Virtual Services Toolkit: The Basics

Suddenly Virtual: How Texting Can Enhance Public Workforce Service Delivery

Suddenly Virtual: The Importance of Making Virtual Tools Accessible for People with Disabilities

Suddenly Virtual: Workforce Services, Eight Weeks Later

Suddenly Virtual: A Review of Workforce Area Websites in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

Suddenly Virtual: Using Text-based Courses to Provide Remote Workforce Services

Microlearning Strategies: Another Approach to Virtual Workshop Delivery

Suddenly Virtual: Using Online Scheduling Services to Make Customer Appointments

Practical Toolkits

Virtual Services Toolkit: The Basics

Suddenly Virtual: Accessibility in a Virtual Environment

Suddenly Virtual: Using Text-Based Courses to Provide Remote Workforce Services

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Suddenly Virtual is a series of products highlighting the challenges facing the public workforce system during the COVID-19 pandemic and how frontline staff are stepping up to solve those challenges.

Data for the American Dream

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:17:09 +0000

Data for the American Dream

Topic

Career and Education Awareness

admin Mon, 10/26/2020 - 23:17

Published Date

October 3, 2019

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Current

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Data for the American Dream initiative, supported by a consortium of funders, incl. Schmidt Futures, Lumina Foundation, the Walmart Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation; supported by its implementation partner, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.

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Projects

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In September 2019, New Jersey became an inaugural grantee of Data for the American Dream (D4AD), an initiative to “support innovative projects aimed at expanding access to education and career information to help students and job seekers — especially low-income, lower-skilled, underemployed, and unemployed Americans — make better career decisions in a challenging economy.” The Heldrich Center is partnering with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, other state agencies, and organizations from the nonprofit sector, private sector, and academia over an 18-month period to build an interactive website containing smart disclosure tools designed to help job seekers make informed decisions about training. This website will target customers of the state’s human services programs and other disadvantaged populations. The newly available data will assist job seekers in obtaining information about their desired employment and earnings outcomes, and help employers find better-qualified employees.

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Development of an interactive website containing smart disclosure tools designed to help job seekers make informed decisions about training.

Evaluation of the National Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN)

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:17:09 +0000

Evaluation of the National Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN)

Topic

Disability Employment

Program Evaluation

admin Mon, 10/26/2020 - 23:17

Published Date

October 3, 2019

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Current

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U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy through the Cornell Yang-Tan Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations

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In 2019, the U.S. Office of Disability Employment Policy awarded Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ Yang-Tan Institute a four-year agreement to operate an employer-focused disability and employment research, policy development, and technical assistance center. The Heldrich Center is one of several partners in the Cornell consortium. The Heldrich Center serves as the independent evaluator for the major activities in the EARN project over the course of four consecutive years. The primary purpose of the evaluation activities under the EARN consortium is to develop data-driven feedback loops so improvements can be continuously made to improve outcomes, and ultimately the overall goal of the project: to increase the capacity of employers to recruit, hire, retain, and advance people with disabilities

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The Heldrich Center serves as the independent evaluator for the major activities in the EARN project over the course of four consecutive years.

Research on Implications of Displacement for Older Workers

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:17:09 +0000

Research on Implications of Displacement for Older Workers

Topic

Unemployment and Reemployment

Older Workers

admin Mon, 10/26/2020 - 23:17

Published Date

October 3, 2019

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Current

Funded By

AARP Public Policy Institute

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Projects

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The Heldrich Center is conducting research on the implications of displacement for older workers, whether caused by shifts in technology, automation, offshoring, climate change, less stable work arrangements, wage stagnation, income inequality, or other catalysts. The research looks to review the current — and inadequate — landscape for worker adjustment transition assistance in the United States. It also seeks to explore what the United States can learn from other countries, as well as from promising state, local, nonprofit, or private-sector initiatives. Based on the research findings, the Heldrich Center will offer a set of policy recommendations that may relate to education and training, unemployment insurance and income support, portable benefits, early intervention, and layoff aversion to help older American workers cope with and prepare for future dislocations.

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Research on the implications of displacement for older workers.

Evaluation of Kessler Foundation Signature Employment Grant Grantees

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:17:04 +0000

Evaluation of Kessler Foundation Signature Employment Grant Grantees

Topic

Program Evaluation

Disability Employment

admin Mon, 10/26/2020 - 23:17

Published Date

January 1, 2010

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Current

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Kessler Foundation

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Projects

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Laurie Harrington

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Since 2010, the Heldrich Center has served as the primary evaluator for the Kessler Foundation, performing regular evaluations of the foundation’s Signature Employment Grant Program grantees located across the United States. The center is using tested evaluation approaches to provide feedback to the Kessler Foundation on the effectiveness of the grant programs in meeting their stated goals and to provide feedback to grantees about the best ways to establish and manage their programs in order to maximize the probability that people with disabilities will be employed upon program completion. The Heldrich Center has completed program evaluations of 31 grantees since 2010 and is currently evaluating 8 grantees.

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Evaluations of disability employment programs funded by the Kessler Foundation.

New Jersey Consumer Report Card

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:16:55 +0000

New Jersey Consumer Report Card

Topic

K-12 Education and Training

Postsecondary Education and Training

admin Mon, 10/26/2020 - 23:16

Published Date

May 17, 2000

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Current

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New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development and New Jersey Department of Education

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Since 2000, the Heldrich Center has been working with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJLWD) and the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to provide performance information about publicly funded education and training provided by public and private education and training providers located in New Jersey. The Heldrich Center performs a calculation and analysis of training provider performance data in order to assess and prepare this information for display on the online New Jersey Consumer Report Card System (www.njtrainingsystems.org). The Heldrich Center uses state administrative data from NJLWD and NJDOE on program completers/exiters and matches them against New Jersey Unemployment Insurance wage information and Wage Record Interchange System information to calculate performance levels at three levels: the provider level, the cluster level, and the CIP code level. These performance measures include employment outcomes for all individuals with valid social security numbers received by the Heldrich Center from state data files, including exiters from county vocational schools and county colleges.

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Calculation of performance information about publicly funded education and training provided by education and training providers in New Jersey.

Management of the New Jersey Statewide Data System (2015 to present)

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:16:53 +0000

Management of the New Jersey Statewide Data System (2015 to present)

Topic

Quantitative Data Analysis

Workforce Policy and Programs

labor market analysis

admin Mon, 10/26/2020 - 23:16

Published Date

December 15, 2015

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Current

Funded By

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, New Jersey Department of Education, and New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority

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Projects

(OLD) Related Experts

William Mab

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In 2015, the State of New Jersey engaged the Heldrich Center to provide data consultation and project management assistance in managing the grant responsibilities and activities of New Jersey’s federally funded P-20W State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) project. In 2012, the State of New Jersey was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen its collaborative efforts by linking various education and workforce data to form a more seamless view of the state’s P-20W landscape. Federal resources were used to establish an advisory council, expand the existing New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Workforce Longitudinal Data System (WLDS) into a P-20W State Longitudinal Data System (now known as the New Jersey Statewide Data System, or NJSDS) to house new workforce and post-secondary data administrative data as well as K-12 data, create policies to govern a shared data resource for the benefit of state government, link the various state administrative datasets using data from the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, conduct public events on the data system, develop a public-facing NJSDS website, and begin the process of conducting research using the data in the new data system. In 2017, Rutgers University/Heldrich Center signed a five- to eight-year data sharing agreement with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education, New Jersey Department of Education, and New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.

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Management of New Jersey's centralized longitudinal data system for education and workforce data.

Training and Technical Assistance for New Jersey Career Assistance Navigator

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:16:47 +0000

Training and Technical Assistance for New Jersey Career Assistance Navigator

Topic

Career and Technical Education

admin Mon, 10/26/2020 - 23:16

Published Date

September 5, 2014

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Laurie Harrington

Joanne Hamza

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Current

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New Jersey Department of Education

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Projects

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Laurie Harrington

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In partnership with the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), the Heldrich Center is providing training and technical assistance to teachers, school counselors, and administrators on the New Jersey Career Assistance Navigator (NJ CAN) website. NJ CAN is a comprehensive college and career readiness web-based resource that allows students to take personal assessments and career and interest inventories to better understand themselves and navigate their educational experiences in middle school, high school, and postsecondary education. Students can research colleges and postsecondary training and education and compare them based on their personal preferences in order to make informed decisions about their future. They can also research careers based on a vast library of occupational profiles that are updated annually. Teachers can use the index of lesson plans and activities to implement the New Jersey Common Core State Standards for career and technical education. Together with NJDOE, the Heldrich Center collects user feedback to make New Jersey-specific enhancements and improvements to the website each year. Specifically, New Jersey students can research state and local financial aid opportunities that are available to New Jersey students only. Over the course of the next two years, the Heldrich Center will continue to work with NJDOE and schools to improve the site, help counselors and teachers implement NJ CAN more integrally into their day-to-day activities to ease administrative tasks, and to help personalize students' educational planning and decision-making. All access to NJ CAN for New Jersey schools is free and provided by NJDOE. In addition, training and technical assistance is free to users and can be provided in person or via webinar or teleconference at no expense to the school. For more information, please visit www.njcan.org or contact njcantraining@gmail.com.

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Provide training and technical assistance on a college and career readiness tool.