 This video will share the guiding documents for basic education for adults here in Washington State. The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, or SBCTC, is responsible for administering the Adult Basic Education Components of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, Title II Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, or AEFLA. Our adult basic education programs are guided by BEDA's vision, mission, values, and goals, and leverage the essence of these documents in their collaboration with workforce and social service partners to ensure students have equitable access and support to gain skills and access resources to meet their educational and career goals. Services provided under Title II of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and WIOA, are integrated into BEDA's vision, mission, values, and goals to the greatest extent possible to tightly align training and support services to the realities of today's job market and the needs of our students, clients, and workforce. The actualization of these guiding documents is critical in meeting the educational and workforce challenges in Washington State. Primary among the challenges in Washington are the facts that in the next three to five years there will be over 740,000 job openings in our state, with the majority over 70%, requiring some post-secondary education. And we simply do not have the person power with the skills to fill those jobs. At the same time, we have over 685,000 adults in Washington State who lack the skills needed to meet identified workforce needs with over 545,000 individuals 18 years of age and older without even a high school credential. This does not include individuals in our state 16 to 18 years of age. And in 2019, we served only 44,371 of those 685,000 adults in basic education for adults programs. We are currently working with Washington's Adult Education Advisory Council on a marketing campaign to greatly increase the number of Washingtonians taking advantage of our basic education for adults pathways. These pathways are being implemented across the nation because of their evidence-based success. Our work in basic education for adults is also critical in meeting the Washington Student Achievement Council, Governor Inslee's, and our state's road map attainment goals. Those goals are that by 2023, all adults in Washington ages 25 to 44 will have a high school diploma or its equivalent, and that at least 70% of Washington adults ages 25 to 44 will have a post-secondary credential. This is our work in basic education for adults. Our work and guiding documents in BETA and across the system are guided by the SBCTC vision. The SBCTC vision is as follows. Leading with racial equity, our colleges maximize student potential and transform lives within a culture of belonging that advances racial, social, and economic justice in service to our diverse communities. We in the Basic Education for Adults Office are dedicated to develop all policies, procedures, trainings, and activities in support of racial equity and are fully committed to the SBCTC vision. In alignment with the SBCTC vision, the Education Division at SBCTC adopted the following mission statement. The Educational Division is committed to promoting the rights, welfare, and institutional needs of all students to access equitable educational opportunities. We strive to create inclusive learning environments by advocating for and supporting high-quality, evidence-based, rigorous education and career pathways to prepare a future workforce for a rapidly changing economy. The SBCTC vision and Education Division's mission are both in alignment and integral pieces to our development and implementation of guided pathways. Moreover, they support our Basic Education for Adults Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act state plan vision, mission, values, and goals. BEDA's vision is to advance racial and economic justice. Basic Education for Adults provides equitable programming for all Washingtonians to realize their potential as they launch on a supported college and career pathway to living wage employment and strengthen the vitality of their communities. Our mission, Basic Education for Adults works collaboratively to offer culturally responsive and equity-focused college and career pathways that address barriers and enable students to obtain meaningful employment, meet workforce needs, and reduce economic disparities. And our values are critical drivers in our work together. Basic Education for Adults Work is guided and informed by our commitment to students' cultural capital, voice, experience, perspective, diversity, equity, inclusion, racial, economic, and social justice, quality, collaborative, evidence-based, innovative pathways. Our success is measured by the success of our students. But BEDA's goals are where the rubber hits the road. Our goals are to intentionally review, develop, and implement culturally responsive policies and practices that promote racial and economic justice. Implement and scale equity-focused, comprehensive, and innovative college and career pathways to accelerate student completion and advance racial and economic justice. Provide students with the equity-focused navigational and support services needed to create and follow a college and career pathway plan that identifies the funding and resources needed to reach their goals. Create and strengthen inclusive instructional practices that honor and support the diverse needs of all students, while maintaining academic integrity that ensures college and career readiness. Guide and support culturally responsive and equity-focused instructional practices that accelerate student completion to certificates, one year of college plus a credential, degrees, and living wage employment. Develop and offer culturally responsive coursework that is contextualized to college and career pathways leading to high school completion, post-secondary education, and living wage employment. Create and maintain strategic partnerships and alliances to leverage local resources and support integrated service delivery. Create an environment that values and respects the diverse identities and strengths of students and empowers individuals to claim their personal agency. These collective goals and basic skills are all focused on moving each individual we serve towards success. And we're lucky that our work with the Lumina and Ford foundations has identified what that success looks like. The research identified the greatest increase in economic attainment as being one year of college level credits plus a credential. This became known as the tipping point for students needing to find family sustaining jobs. In 2005, over 15 years ago, English language learners reaching the tipping point had an annual earnings increase of $7,000 and adult education students had an increase of $8,500. Our goal in basic skills is to ensure that every student's pathway is designed to, at minimum, get each individual we serve to that tipping point. And we cannot do that without the expertise of all of you. Thank you for the work you do and will continue to do. Please explore the additional resources available in Canvas for more information on our vision, mission, values and goals. Of particular relevance to this video are the following documents and websites, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Washington State Roadmap Attainment Goals, SBCTC Vision Statement, BETA WIOA Title II State Plan, or 2020-2023 Adult Education Four Year Plan, Tipping Point Research.