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March 30, 2014

Gordon Freedman President, National Laboratory for Education Transformation 225 Crossroads Blvd Carmel, CA 93923

Dear Mr. Freedman:

Cabrillo College has spent more than a decade focused on three workforce development strategies:

• Developing effective models for engaging workforce development stakeholders in regional partnerships that produce better outcomes for schools, employers and students.

• Use of employment outcomes data to motivate and inform CTE portfolio management and CTE program improvement.

• Innovation in curriculum and program design and partnerships with other workforce development stakeholders to improve CTE access, persistence, and success for under-‐prepared and economically disadvantaged students.

Our efforts in each of these areas have started locally and, as we have gained confidence that our approaches are effective, we have replicated what works in our region, throughout the state and in some cases nationally. We have had a particular interest in building capacity within the California Community College system to take better advantage of our scale by creating networks of colleges and programs that join together because they can be more successful at meeting local goals by regional and statewide collaboration than they can by working independently.

A few examples of our work in each of these areas:

• S4C – Santa Cruz County College Commitment is a three-‐year old partnership that includes every public education entity serving Santa Cruz County. The partnership seeks college and career success for every student. All the K-‐12 districts, the County Office of Education, UC Santa Cruz, and CSU Monterey Bay have committed to three strategies: every student has a plan for college and career success, align systems in support of those plans, and measure what we do so that we can get better at it. Currently the primary focus of effort is on building a number of career pathway programs at each of the high schools that link all the academic subjects to a career context.

• Our work in building industry-‐education partnerships in Santa Cruz County led us to an approach we call the marketplace model. In brief the idea is that where there

are obvious advantages to collaboration between institutions, productive partnerships can be catalyzed and facilitated by convening “marketplaces.” Our first marketplace convened all of the healthcare employers in the county with all of the healthcare workforce development providers. A facilitated process of sharing interests, assets and business models proved to be very effective at generating joint ventures that resulted in multiple benefits to all parties. That marketplace started over 10 years ago with funding from the Packard Foundation and continues to this day, funded by the revenue generated from contract education delivered to healthcare employers.

• Based on our local success with marketplaces, we began trying this approach in our role as the leaders of the 28-‐college Bay Area Community College Consortium. We now have active marketplaces in Industrial Maintenance, Water/Waste Water Utilities, Welding, Energy, Healthcare, and Information & Communication Technologies. All 28 colleges are involved in one or more of these marketplaces and well over 100 employers representing tens of thousands of employees are participating. The marketplaces have generated new programs, aligned curriculum of existing programs to better meet employer needs, spawned internship programs, and provided programs with industry-‐donated equipment and tools.

• For over a decade Cabrillo has been surveying students who have completed or left our CTE programs to determine whether they have found work in the field of study, what they are earning, and how that compares with what they were making prior to entering the program. We have found this to be of great value in managing our CTE portfolio. Believing it would be of value to other colleges as well, about four years ago we began to talk with other colleges throughout the state about its value. As colleges expressed interest we utilized our marketplace model to explore the potential of a collaborative effort to carry out the survey on a larger scale. Last year over 30 colleges participated in the survey and this year we have more than 40 signed up. Well over 100,000 students have been surveyed. That colleges fund the results useful is evidenced by the growing number of participants, all of whom are sharing the full cost of carrying out the survey.

• Cabrillo’s Academy for College Excellence (ACE) was developed with the intention of providing a bridge for at-‐risk, out-‐of-‐school youth into community colleges and into careers. The semester-‐long program integrates basic skills and non-‐cognitive skills such as self-‐efficacy, resilience, and teamwork. It was designed from the beginning to be replicated on a national scale. A variety of foundations have funded the development and replication of the program, including the Gates Foundation. ACE has been replicated in colleges in five other states.

I hope from the above that Cabrillo’s interest in improving community college’s workforce development capacity, our systems approach, and our ability to have an impact beyond our borders is evident. From our conversations and what I have read of the systems building work you are proposing to undertake, I think our interests are convergent. We would welcome an opportunity to explore how we might participate in this effort.

We are particularly interested because of the opportunity to engage with leaders from other states. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with some of your partners through my participation in the LMI Innovator’s Network convened by Jobs For the Future. There is much that California can learn from what other states are doing. I believe with our extensive networks we could help better connect California to this national effort.

Thank you for your interest in exploring how we might participate. We look forward to continuing the conversation.

Sincerely

Rock Pfotenhauer Dean, Career Education & Economic Development Chair, Bay Area Community College Consortium

Gordon Freedman President, NLET 2505 Augustine Drive # 190 Santa Clara, CA 95054 RE: Skills Market Network, Competency Management System, and Job Signals

Dear Gordon: Capella is pleased to participate in the “Skills Market Network” proposal prepared by the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) in response to a business planning award for Scaled Models of Certificate Delivery from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We are excited to assist in this effort to bring a level of standardization, automation and data management to the workforce development processes that we currently manage in person with our local employers, industry groups, workforce boards and regional economic development organizations. We understand that NLET and its development partners, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and the National Coalition for Certification Centers (NC3), are proposing to organize (1) a network of geographically diverse community colleges and several universities and their associated employers and regional workforce agencies and economic development organizations to define, develop and then use (2) a technology system designed to streamline the workflow for creating and managing competencies, certificates and credentials. We share a common vision to use such a system to better organize and deliver valued skills with transparent credentials explicitly mapped to employer competency demands. Our understanding of the responsibilities and benefits of the Skills Market Network participation include:

a) NLET and its development partners will develop, test, deploy and refine a cloud-based system to facilitate explicit employer demand signaling and rapid supply of specific standardized and valued competencies.

b) The program will provide Employers users with methods to supply regular, structured feedback on Community College operations and student hires, including competency demand data that may be anonymized, aggregated and shared.

c) Community College users will have access to feedback and structured demand data that they

can use to develop, modify and deliver credential programs that are linked to specific competencies valued by employers.

d) All members will be able to use competency data, demand data, supply data and other Skills Market data to modify and develop their programs.

e) All members will be able to buy, sell or share competency-based credential programs or individual competency certificates/certifications within the Network Marketplace.

f) Selected skills demand and supply data will be made available to students and potential students (as in conjunction with pathway management systems and course catalogues) and to workforce and regional economic development agencies.

Scope of Participation Capella agrees to participate as a University member and will participate in one or more of the system development activities in the Skills Market Network proposal. We understand the proposal has the following timeline:

1) Project Duration: 2 years (24 months) 2) Anticipated Start/End Date: Summer 2014/Summer 2016

Within this timeframe we understand that NLET and its partners will work through multiple stages of design, development and testing as currently summarized below and that Capella will be involved with multiple stages:

Stage 1: Automate and Augment Employer Advisory Boards

Stage 2: Develop Common Competencies Schemas

Stage 3: Develop Common Credentialing, Competency Mapping Workflows

Stage 4: Full Credentialing Workflows, with Learner & Workforce Outputs

Stage 5: Open Credential Provisioning & Bidding

Requirements of NLET & Capella University We ask that NLET organize its design and development activity (Skills Market System) in collaboration with Capella in order to streamline and automate Capella regional workforce activities in specific programs (see below). In turn, Capella will participate in the broader network (Skills Market Network) by offering select to be agreed upon programs to the greater Network. Capella agrees to test the sharing and scaling of certain of its certificates across the Network as well as importing certificates from other members.

Recommend Programs to be Shared or Co-Developed

Conversion of Courses into Competencies [Program)

Technology Integration – Linking Capella online systems with Skills Network systems

Specific Commitments If the proposal is funded, we agree to the specific commitments as outlined in the proposal and summarized below: Total $ 175,000

a. Personnel $ 175,000 • Project Director: FTE, $100,000 • IT Developer: FTE $ 75,000

We are excited about the initial participants and design of the Skills Market Network and look forward to contributing to its success. Sincerely,

Deborah Bushway, Ph.D.

Gordon Freedman National Laboratory for Education Transformation

March 31, 2014 Dear Gordon, This letter commits Eduworks Corporation (“Eduworks”) to participate as the lead developer for the Skills Market Network. We view it is essential to create a system that can pick up signals from employers and feed those back into the educational system and its credentialing processes at a highly granular level. The issue of aligning curricula, credentials, skill sets, and employer needs has come up again and again in our conversations with the Department of Defense in the US and its UK counterpart, with major recruiting and staffing companies, and with employers of all shapes and sizes. The technological affordances for building such a system are now available, and we could not be more thrilled than to work with the impressive team of education providers, policy setters, industry partners, and kindred technology companies that you have put together for this project.

Below is a rough budget for Eduworks portion this effort. All costs are fully loaded. The budget ranges from $1.8M to $3.1M. The basic release is fully functional and deployable (i.e. not just a prototype) but emphasizes usability and core workflow over advanced features and may require adjustment for unforeseen or unexpected requirements. The middle budget number is a full production system scalable beyond the existing network. It budgets for normal flexibility in requirements but not for major changes. The high budget number minimizes risk both due to requirements changes and program coordination.

Per your request, I have also attached some information about Eduworks and our capabilities.

Sincerely

Robby Robson CEO & Chief Scientist, Eduworks

Role FTE Cost Total FTE Cost Total FTE Cost Total FTE Cost Total FTE Cost Total FTE Cost Total

Software DevelopmentProject Manager 0.75 150 113 0.75 150 113 1 150 150 1 150 150 1 150 150 1 150 150Web / UI Developers 1 125 125 1 125 125 1.5 125 188 2 125 250 2 125 250 2 125 250Back-end Developers 2 200 400 2 200 400 2 200 400 2 200 400 2.5 200 500 2.5 200 500Quality Assurance Team 1 100 100 1.5 100 150 1 125 125 2 125 250 2 125 250 2.5 125 312

Leadership and CoordinationProgram Manager 0.25 250 63 0.25 250 63 0.25 250 63 0.5 250 125 0.5 250 125 0.75 250 188Solutions Architect 0.25 250 63 0 250 0 0.5 250 125 0.2 250 50 0.5 250 125 0.5 250 125

Infrastructure Units Units Units Units Units UnitsStaging and Development Servers 2 3.5 7 2 3.5 7 2 3.5 7 2 3.5 7 2 3.5 7 2 3.5 7Redundant Production Servers 1 7 7 2 7 14 1 7 7 4 7 28 1 7 7 4 7 28Licensed Software 1 10 10 1 10 10 1 20 20 1 20 20 1 20 30 1 20 40Travel and other 12 18 15 20 26 30

TOTAL 900 900 1100 1300 1470 1630

Full Feature (Minimized Risk)Year 1 Year 2

Approximately $1.8M Approximately $2.4M Approximately $3.1M

Year 1 Year 2Full FeatureBasic Release

Year 1 Year 2

Eduworks Corporation, 136 SW Washington Ave. STE 203, Corvallis OR 97333 www.eduworks.com

March 31, 2014

Gordon Freedman

President, NLET

2505 Augustine Drive # 190

Santa Clara, CA 95054

RE: Skills Market Network & Skills Market System Proposal

Dear Gordon:

Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) is pleased to participate in the “Skills Market

Network/System” proposal prepared by the National Laboratory for Education Transformation

(NLET) in response to a business planning award for Scaled Models of Certificate Delivery from the

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

We are excited to assist in this effort to bring a level of standardization, automation and data

management to the many workforce development processes that are currently managed as

separate, and many times fragmented, activities among community colleges, local employers,

industry groups, workforce boards and regional economic development organizations.

We understand that NLET and its development partners, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce

(CSW) and the National Coalition for Certification Centers (NC3), are proposing to organize a

network of geographically diverse community colleges and several universities and their

associated employers and regional workforce agencies and economic development organizations

to define, develop and then use a new technology system designed to streamline the workflow

for creating competencies, certificates and credentials. We share a common vision to use such a

system to better organize and deliver valued skills with transparent credentials explicitly mapped

to the specific competency demands of employers.

Our understanding of the responsibilities and benefits of the Skills Market Network participation

include:

a) NLET and its development partners will develop, test, deploy and refine cloud-based

systems to facilitate explicit employer demand signaling and rapid supply of specific

standardized and valued competencies.

b) The program will provide Employers users with methods to supply regular, structured

feedback on Community College operations and student hires, including competency

demand data that may be anonymized, aggregated and shared.

c) Community College users will have access to feedback and structured demand data that

they can use to develop, modify and deliver credential programs that are linked to

specific competencies valued by employers.

d) All members will be able to use competency data, demand data, supply data and other

Skills Market data to modify and develop their programs.

e) All members will be able to buy, sell or share competency-based credential programs or

individual competency certificates/certifications within the Network Marketplace.

f) Selected skills demand and supply data will be made available to students and potential

students (as in conjunction with pathway management systems and course catalogues)

and to workforce and regional economic development agencies.

Scope of Participation

GRCC agrees to participate as a Founding Community College member and will participate in

one or more of the system development activities in the Skills Market Network proposal. We

understand the proposal has the following timeline:

1) Project Duration: 2 years (24 months)

2) Anticipated Start/End Date: Summer 2014/Summer 2016

Within this timeframe we understand that NLET and its partners will work through multiple

stages of design, development and testing as currently summarized below and that GRCC will be

involved with multiple stages:






Requirements of NLET & GRCC

We ask that NLET organize its design and development activity to facilitate GRCC’s regional

workforce activities in specific programs with a focus on manufacturing and that NLET’s design

and development activity assist GRCC’s role in the TAACCCT M-CAM grant consortium and

by doing so offer the project’s services to the consortium.

Specific Commitments

Upon receipt of funding from NLET to GRCC, we agree to the specific commitments and these

positions and costs as outlined and funded in the proposal and summarized below:

a. Program Manager Funding: 0.5 FTE for 6 months (1-6) $ 21,612.50

b. Program Manager Funding: 1.0 FTE for 12 months (7-18) &

Technical Manager Funding: 0.5 FTE for 12 months (7-18) 128,700.00

c. Program Manager Funding: 0.5 FTE for 6 months (18-24) 21,612.50

d. Supplies and Travel and IT support 11,250.00

e. Indirect and Administrative Funding: (10%) for 24 Months (1-24) 18,317.50

Total $201,492.50

We are extremely excited about the initial participants and design of the Skills Market Network

project and look forward to contributing to its success.

Sincerely,

Steven Ender, Ed.D.

President

DeKolb, IL 60 11 5-2828

March 31, 2014

Gordon Freedman President, NLET 2505 Augustine Drive # 190 Santa Clara, CA 95054

RE: Skills Market Network, Competency lVlanagement System, and Job Signals

Dear Gordon:

The Office of Education System Innovation at Northern Illinois University is pleased to serve initially as advisor for "Skills Market Network" proposal prepared by the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) in response to a business planning award for Scaled Models of Certificate Delivery from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . As co-participants in the Scaled Models for Certificate Delivery program, we hope that as the process evolves that our office, as well as other NIU workforce projects and technology efforts, could become more deeply involved in the Skills Market Network and in the Competency & Assessment Management System (CAMS).

We are excited to explore how this effort could bring a level of standardization, automation and data management to the workforce development processes that NIU currently manages with local employers, industry groups, workforce boards and regional economic development organizations.

We understand that NLET and its development partners, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and the National Coalition for Certification Centers (NC3), are proposing to organize (1) a network of geographically diverse community colleges and several universities and their associated employers and regional workforce agencies and economic development organizations to define, develop and then use (2) a technology system designed to streamline the workflow for creating and managing competencies, certificates and credentials . We share a common understanding of the need to better organize and deliver valued skills with transparent credentials explicitly mapped to employer competency demands.

We are encouraged about the initial participants and design of the Skills Market Network and look forward to contributing to its success.

~~ l~athan Furr Director Northern Illinois University, Office of Education System Innovation

Norlhern Illinois University is on Equal O pportunity/Affirmative Act ion Institution.

Gordon Freedman President, NLET 2505 Augustine Drive # 190 Santa Clara, CA 95054 RE: Skills Market Network & Skills Market System Proposal

Dear Mr. Freedman: Pima County Community College District (Pima) is pleased to participate in the “Skills Market Network” proposal prepared by the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) in response to a business planning award for Scaled Models of Certificate Delivery from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We are excited to assist in this effort to bring a level of standardization, automation and data management to the workforce development processes that we currently manage in person with our local employers, industry groups, workforce boards and regional economic development organizations. We understand that NLET and its development partners, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and the National Coalition for Certification Centers (NC3), are proposing to organize (1) a network of geographically diverse community colleges and several universities and their associated employers and regional workforce agencies and economic development organizations to define, develop and then use (2) a technology system designed to streamline the workflow for creating and managing competencies, certificates and credentials. We share a common vision to use such a system to better organize and deliver valued skills with transparent credentials explicitly mapped to employer competency demands. Our understanding of the responsibilities and benefits of the Skills Market Network participation include:



c) Community College users will have access to feedback and structured demand data that they can

use to develop, modify and deliver credential programs that are linked to specific competencies valued by employers.




Office of the Chancellor

4905C East Broadway Boulevard

Tucson, Arizona 85709-1005

Telephone (520) 206-4747

Fax (520) 206-4990

www.pima.edu

PimaCountyCommunityCollegeDistrict

Scope of Participation

Pima County Community College District agrees to participate as a Founding Community College member and will participate in one or more of the system development activities in the Skills Market Network/System proposal. We understand the proposal has the following timeline:


Within this timeframe we understand that NLET and its partners will work through multiple stages of design, development and testing as currently summarized below and that Pima will be involved with multiple stages:






Requirements of NLET &Pima

We ask that NLET organize its design and development activity (Skills Market System) in collaboration with Pima in order to streamline and automate Pima’s regional workforce activities in specific programs (see below). In turn, Pima will participate in the broader network (Skills Market Network) by offering select to be agreed upon programs to the greater Network. Pima agrees to test both the sharing and scaling of certain of its certificates across the Network as well as importing certificates from other Network members.


Pima will concentrate on region-wide implementation of the Competency Management System

Specific Commitments If the proposal is funded, we agree to the specific commitments as outlined in the proposal and summarized below will cover a two year period the beginning and concluding six months will not requires as much time as the middle 12 months:

a. Personnel: $ 215,000 b. Indirect (30%): $ 64,500 Program Director: $125,000 Project Director: $37,500 Administrator: $40,000 Administrator: $12,000 IT Developer: $ 50,000 Developer: $15,000

Total: $ 279,500

We are extremely excited about the initial participants and design of the Skills Market Network/System project and look forward to contributing to its success. Sincerely,

Lee D. Lambert Chancellor

Office of the Provost

3501 University Boulevard East, Adelphi, MD 20783-8001 USA 301-985-7174 Fax 301-985-6432 www.umuc.edu

March 28, 2014 Gordon Freedman President, NLET 2505 Augustine Drive, #190 Santa Clara, CA 95054 RE: Skills Market Network & Skills Market System Proposal Dear Gordon: University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is pleased to participate in the “Skills Market Network/System” proposal prepared by the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) in response to a business planning award for Scaled Models of Certificate Delivery from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We are excited to assist in this effort to bring a level of standardization, automation and data management to the workforce development processes that we currently manage in person with our local employers, industry groups, workforce boards and regional economic development organizations. We understand that NLET and its development partners, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and the National Coalition for Certification Centers (NC3), are proposing to organize (1) a network of geographically diverse community colleges and several universities and their associated employers and regional workforce agencies and economic development organizations to define, develop and then use (2) a technology system designed to streamline the workflow for creating and managing competencies, certificates and credentials. We share a common vision to use such a system to better organize and deliver valued skills with transparent credentials explicitly mapped to employer competency demands. Our understanding of the responsibilities and benefits of the Skills Market Network participation include:



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c) Community College and University users will have access to feedback and structured demand data that they can use to develop, modify and deliver credential programs that are linked to specific competencies valued by employers.




Scope of Participation UMUC agrees to participate as a Founding member and will participate in one or more of the system development activities in the Skills Market Network/System proposal. We understand the proposal has the following timeline:


Within this timeframe we understand that NLET and its partners will work through multiple stages of design, development and testing as currently summarized below and that UMUC will be involved one or more of the following stages:

• Stage 1: Automate and Augment Employer Advisory Boards • Stage 2: Develop Common Competencies Schemas • Stage 3: Develop Common Credentialing, Competency Mapping Workflows • Stage 4: Full Credentialing Workflows, with Learner & Workforce Outputs • Stage 5: Open Credential Provisioning & Bidding

Requirements of NLET &UMUC We ask that NLET organize its design and development activity (Skills Market System) in collaboration with UMUC in order to streamline and automate UMUC workforce activities in specific programs (see below) and with certain industry verticals. In turn, UMUC will participate in the broader network (Skills Market Network) by offering agreed upon programs to the greater Network. UMUC agrees to test the sharing and scaling of certain of its certificates across the Network as well as importing certificates from other Network members.

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• Program strands UMUC suggests be part of a pilot • UMUC will assist the project advising on universal inter-operability standards compliant

with ADL-CoLab, IMS Global, IEEE, etc, and with integrations between systems commonly used by UMUC

Specific Commitments If the proposal is funded, we agree to the specific commitments as outlined in the proposal and summarized below:

• $ 125,000 for project management for 18 months • $ 75,000 for technology management for 18 months

We are extremely excited about the initial participants and design of the Skills Market Network/System project and look forward to contributing to its success. Sincerely,

Marie A. Cini, PhD Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

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