Episode #25: "We need to link how we track education and training in the classroom with what is occurring at work." SPR Senior Strategist Vinz Koller on opportunities in apprenticeship.

It's Apprenticeship Week! #NAW2021 In honor of the occasion we're speaking with Vinz Koller about apprenticeship, data, equity and a vision for the future. Vinz leads the organization’s apprenticeship portfolio.

Resources cited:

• Leveraging Workforce Data Systems to Improve Programs: The Case of Apprenticeship (A WDQI Resource Brief, 2021): https://wdqi.workforcegps.org/resources/2021/08/24/17/45/Leveraging-Workforce-Data-Systems-to-Improve-Programs-The-Case-of-Apprenticeship
• How Apprenticeships for Opportunity Youth Stay Resilient (SPR & JFF): https://www.jff.org/resources/how-apprenticeship-programs-opportunity-youth-stay-resilient-through-covid-19-recession/
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• JFF’s Center for Apprenticeship & Work-based Learning: https://www.jff.org/what-we-do/impact-stories/center-for-apprenticeship-and-work-based-learning/
• New America’s Center on Education & Labor: https://www.newamerica.org/center-education-labor/
• Vinz! https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinz-koller-b83a885/

For more information:

• Sign up for the #MakingBetterWork Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/903537e424bb/mbwnews
• Community of Practice/WorkforceGPS:
  https://wdqi.youth.workforcegps.org/
• Email Kristin: Kristin_Wolff@spra.com
• @kristinwolff
  
  

Credits:

The project was produced with the help of (the fantastic) Doug Foresta and has been funded, either wholly or in part, with Federal funds from the Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration under Task Order Number l630DC-18-F-00008 the contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement of same by the U.S. Government.