Implementation stage & efforts to date

Early Implementation stage

• Early Childhood apprenticeship pathway efforts for learners
• Prior learning assessment developments
• Integration efforts between noncredit and credit units
• Participating in efforts to embed apprenticeship into traditional stackable certificate and degree programs (incremental credentialing).
• Policy-setting at the state and/or institutional level

Goals for participation

• Collaboratively work with Credential As You Go, and other members of the cohort, to collectively advance the efforts to transition from a degree-centric orientation toward an equitable and innovative approach to incremental credentialing.
• Further develop industry partnerships to develop relevant workforce related learning credentials and mentoring opportunities.
• Develop appropriate pathways for prior learning and competency-based credit transfer for early childhood education and potentially other career-technical education programs working with apprenticeships.