As employers grapple with staffing shortages and skills gaps, now is the time to invest in building a future-ready workforce that connects all workers with pathways to skills, quality jobs, and opportunity. 

One in 10 working-age adults in the U.S. is an English learner. Yet the U.S. workforce system serves just 4% of these workers. 

EnGen is committed to equipping this talent pool with career-aligned English skills. Yet we know that much more needs to be done to build a workforce ecosystem that truly champions these workers. There is a role for all of us – employers, adult educators, workforce administrators, government officials, and more – in shaping the work ahead. 

The Powering Potential Network is a resource to all leaders who share our vision of building a future-ready workforce that fully includes adult English learners. Together we will build capacity in our field and mobilize talented, motivated leaders like you who can unlock opportunities for our workforce.

In Powering Potential Network you’ll find: 

• Thought Leadership: Join timely discussions on innovative ideas, emerging workforce trends, and fresh data that are shaping our field. 

• Professional Development: Hear from experts that offer promising practices and scalable success in workforce development and beyond.

• Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded colleagues via attendee-led presentations and solutions-oriented dialogue.

Program Models to Support IET & Credentials in Maine, Michigan and Massachusetts

A discussion about program models that support transitions to IET and credentials in Maine, Massachusetts and Michigan.

We talked about how to empower success by driving learner outcomes through IET program goals, identifying and onboarding learners, providing data-driven instruction, and measuring learner growth.

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Professional Development:

Blended Learning: Using EnGen in the Classroom

A three-part professional development series to prepare educators and administrators to deliver successful blended learning programs leveraging EnGen's content and platform.  Topics cover using EnGen with learners in traditional and non-traditional classroom settings, best practices for working with learners at mixed proficiency levels, and tips for fostering a dynamic learning environment that prepares learners' to achieve their own real-world goals.

Watch the recordings:

Introduction to Blended Learning: Using EnGen in both traditional and non-traditional settings

Teaching with Tasks: Best practices for working with learners at mixed proficiency levels and how to use tasks to structure learning activities

Learner Agency: Fostering a dynamic learning environment that prepares learners to achieve their own real-world goals

Professional Development:

Pathways to Short-Term Credentials: Leveraging EnGen to Deliver Outcomes

A four-part professional development series to prepare educators and administrators to deliver successful vocational transition programs.  These programs are designed to equip multilingual learners with the skills they need to rapidly transition into short-term credential programs at institutions across the country.

Building from real-world data and outcomes collected from dozens of community college, higher education, and employer partners over the past five years, preparing educators and administrators to create clear on-ramps to existing industry-recognized credential programs at their institutions.

Watch the recordings:

Introduction to Competency-Based Language Instruction and the Flipped Classroom Model

Choosing course structure and content

Implementation and Evaluation

Synthesize, Q&A and Wrap-up