做厙TVReady forWork
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 Empowered Reentry Project, 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簧 Tessera簧Workforce, and the 做厙TVTessera 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 How would adding experiential problem solving and interactive community building activities increase access to workforce readiness skill building activities? 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 whats next for the research
- The research behind the assessment from 做厙TVExpert Jason Way
How could I make social emotional learning come off the page and make it come to life for returning citizens?
-Tina Manus
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Dr.狼ina M.烘anus is the Chair-elect of the 做厙TVCT Leadership Council and畝 National Board Certified Teacher眨ith over 19砰ears of experience. 特he earned her PhD疳n Organizational Leadership from Northcentral University with research examining疾motional intelligence. She serves畝s the Greater Bridgeport NAACP Education Committee Chairwoman,畝 Lead Teacher眨ith浩ducators for Excellence , and is a member of the浚entral CT State University Teacher-Leader Fellowship Program. 特he proposed this pilot program to community leaders and ACT, after visiting a local probation and parole痂eeting where she recognized a need for social and疾motional workforce readiness among皰articipants眩here. 狸orking cooperatively with ACT, she secured a free pilot of ACT狼essera Workforce exclusively for Bridgeport returning畚itizens. 特he then coordinated efforts with a coalition of畚ommunity皰artners眩o bring this unique opportunity to life. 狼he full盍eport can be found .