黑料福利网Ready for聽Work
Podcast Episode 7
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Guest Tina Manus took her experience as an educator and researcher to apply experiential problem-solving and interactive community building to build work readiness skills for individuals facing reentry from corrections.
The research, now referred to as the 鈥淓mpowered Reentry Project,鈥 was a 10-day program organized as a participatory action research project for nine returning citizens. The pilot program used essential skills assessment and its detailed score report, ACT庐 Tessera庐Workforce, and the 黑料福利网Tessera Workforce Playbook respectively, as a pre- and post-test to measure skills identified by employers as necessary work ready skills.
Tina was inspired to conduct the initiative because she felt there was a gap in the strategy for the skill-building process for individuals facing reentry. The research question Tina worked to answer is 鈥淗ow would adding experiential problem solving and interactive community building activities increase access to workforce readiness skill building activities?鈥 To ensure successful participation, Tina built credibility around the assessment, addressed academic barriers such as stamina and language, and leveraged existing relationships to motivate the individuals. ACT Tessera Workforce, a comprehensive and reliable essential skills assessment, turned out to be the missing link between social and emotional learning and workforce development for this population.
Listen to episode 7 to find out:
- What the participants learned about themselves
- How the assessment addressed essential skills, sometimes referred to as soft skills, objectively
- Implications for how to teach individuals to become better employees
- The outcomes and what鈥檚 next for the research
- The research behind the assessment from 黑料福利网Expert Jason Way
鈥淗ow could I make social emotional learning come off the page and make it come to life for returning citizens?鈥
-Tina Manus
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Dr.鈥疶ina M.鈥疢anus is the Chair-elect of the 黑料福利网CT Leadership Council and鈥痑 National Board Certified Teacher鈥痺ith over 19鈥痽ears of experience. 鈥疭he earned her PhD鈥痠n Organizational Leadership from Northcentral University with research examining鈥痚motional intelligence.鈥 She serves鈥痑s the Greater Bridgeport NAACP Education Committee Chairwoman,鈥痑 Lead Teacher鈥痺ith鈥疎ducators for Excellence , and is a member of the鈥疌entral CT State University Teacher-Leader Fellowship Program. 鈥疭he proposed this pilot program to community leaders and ACT, after visiting a local probation and parole鈥痬eeting where she recognized a need for social and鈥痚motional workforce readiness among鈥痯articipants鈥痶here. 鈥疻orking cooperatively with ACT, she secured a free pilot of ACT鈥疶essera Workforce exclusively for Bridgeport returning鈥痗itizens. 鈥疭he then coordinated efforts with a coalition of鈥痗ommunity鈥痯artners鈥痶o bring this unique opportunity to life. 鈥疶he full鈥痳eport can be found .