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Overall

  • Convene regional stakeholders to review the results of small team meetings and reach consensus on educational and training gaps. Faculty and Industry focus on gaps.
  • Meet with Sector Navigator to coordinate data collection efforts.
  • Collect and report data on all required common metrics and accountability measures.

Educational

  • Review the material gathered on immediate educational and training gaps in the incumbent workforce.
  • Convene small teams in the regional universities, colleges, high schools and labor organizations to review current curriculum and training programs.
  • Review the material gathered on regional universities, colleges, high schools and labor organizations current curriculum and training programs using the products of.
  • Convene team of Community College digital media experts for development of K-12 educational tools (documentaries, animation and computer games).
  • Assist Sector Navigator to facilitate professional development for faculty in community colleges identified as having “Tier 1” Energy Efficiency programs & HVAC.
  • Assist Sector Navigator with Regional Consortia in implementing strategic initiatives to advance industry-specific education and training at various colleges in Orange County.
  • Using the refined plan from 3.6, develop specific curriculum and training material for incumbent workforce.  Initial products will target classroom instruction, with on-line solutions to follow.
  • Using the refined plan from 3.6, develop specific curriculum and training material for university and college students.  Initial products will target classroom instruction, with on-line solutions for appropriate subjects to follow.

Industry

  • Assist Sector Navigator to facilitate industry commitment to statewide strategic initiative that align shared business and workforce objectives; provide technical assistance to the utilities to implement the statewide initiative in their individual service territories.
  • Convene small teams of regional utilities, utility suppliers and labor organizations to identify immediate educational and training gaps in the incumbent workforce, with special focus on grid automation.

Strawman Plan

  • Develop a strawman plan to (i.e. - curriculum & training) to address the identified gaps. (Develop faculty consortia with OC thru email, phone, or call confer).
  • Reconvene industry stakeholder teams to review the "strawman" plan, revise and refine.
  • Revise the "strawman" plan addressing the issues identified by industry partners.
  • Reconvene academic stakeholder teams to review the industry consensus "strawman" plan, revise and refine

K-12

  • Gather, document and categorize suggestions provided by all partners of "need to know things" about the electric utility system for K-12 students.
  • Re-convene experts on K-12 education to review the target subjects for building educational tools and solicit recommendations for age/grade level categorization of material.
  • Review and distill results from 3.9, convene digital media experts to develop a "go forward" plan to produce documentaries and computer learning games for K-12 students.
  • Initial development of documentaries and computer learning games for K-12 students by digital media experts.
  • Gather suggestions from industry & academic partners of "need to know things" about the electric utility system for K-12 students.