CORRECTIONS EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 Contact Pat Seibert-Love Corrections Education Policy Associate 360-704-4358 [email protected] Page 2 Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges // Revised October 2020 Common Acronyms Acronym Description ABE Adult Basic Education AHCC Airway Heights Corrections Center CBCC Clallam Bay Corrections Center CCCC Cedar Creek Corrections Center CoP Community of Practice CRCC Coyote Ridge Corrections Center CTAP Construction Trades Pre-Apprenticeship Program DTA Direct Transfer Associate Degree ESL/ELA English As a Second Language/English Language Acquisition GED® Tests of General Education Development HSE High School Equivalency HS+ High School +/High School Competency I-BEST Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training LCC Larch Corrections Center L&I Labor and Industries MCC Monroe Correctional Complex MCCCW Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women OPE Open Prison Education OCC Olympic Corrections Center SCCC Stafford Creek Corrections Center TESC The Evergreen State College WCC Washington Corrections Center WCCW Washington Corrections Center for Women W SATC Washington State Apprenticeship Trades Council WSP Washington State Penitentiary Page 3 Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges // Revised October 2020 Table of Contents Contact ................................................................................................................................. 2 Common Acronyms................................................................................................................. 3 Table of Contents ................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction and Summary ...................................................................................................... 5 COVID-19 response ............................................................................................................. 5 Culturally responsive and anti-bias professional development ................................................. 5 Program reviews ................................................................................................................. 6 Expanded laptop program .................................................................................................... 6 Additional accomplishments................................................................................................. 6 Goals and Services ................................................................................................................. 8 Funding and Performance ..................................................................................................... 12 Funding............................................................................................................................ 12 Performance Measures and Accountability .......................................................................... 15 Outcomes for Basic Education for Adults: GED® Completions and Level Gains............................ 17 Outcomes for Workforce Education Programs ......................................................................... 19 Looking Forward................................................................................................................... 23 Appendix A: System Headcounts ............................................................................................ 25 Appendix B: FTES Detail ........................................................................................................ 30 Appendix C: Faculty Full Time Equivalents (FTEF) ..................................................................... 31 Appendix D: Workforce Education Program Descriptions .......................................................... 32 Specific Vocational Training Programs Offered in 2019-20 .................................................... 32 Page 4 Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges // Revised October 2020 Introduction and Summary Washington state is a national leader in delivering quality educational programming to a significant proportion of the Department of Corrections incarcerated population. Through a long and vibrant partnership between Washington Department of Corrections (DOC), the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC), Washington’s community and technical colleges, and The Evergreen State College (TESC), Washington has built an educational system that provides opportunities for justice involved individuals to complete high school, prepare for college, learn high-wage and high-demand workforce skills, and, in some cases, earn college degrees. This collaboration leads individuals upon their release to sustainable living-wage employment, decreasing recidivism, creating safer communities and healthier citizens, ultimately leading to decreased need for prisons. FY20 presented challenges and opportunities for corrections education, the effects of which we are still learning. The list below highlights some of the specific issues addressed this year. Additional detail about these issues is provided later in the report. This annual report provides a snapshot of enrollments, student achievements, staffing, and funding for community college corrections education programs. The primary source of information for this document is the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges’ (SBCTC) Data Warehouse, which is derived from the common management information systems used by all community and technical colleges in the state. COVID-19 response Instruction in FY20 was impacted by the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic, beginning with the March 2020 Gov. Inslee-issued Stay Home-Stay Safe proclamation. While Washington state was grappling with the shutdown of schools, work sites, spiritual institutions and government agencies, our correctional education system made amazing strides to successfully close out winter quarter and prepare for undefined expectations in spring quarter, while maintaining an expected high standard educational service. Additionally, DOC counselors and reentry staff, college education navigators together quickly responded to the governor’s COVID mitigation order for emergency computation and prison population reduction orders by assisting releasing justice-involved individuals to education and reentry resources. Navigators made contact with a significant number of reentry individuals within a few weeks. “Safe Start Washington” was in effect for spring quarter education. DOC continued to partner with our college employees as “essential employees” to their operation and mission. All employees followed entrance screening, physical distancing, mask requirements and environmental sanitation protocols. As COVID-19 continued to evolve, DOC implemented several safe practices to slow the spread of the virus. These efforts included reducing classroom density and population cross migration. These necessary measures reduced the number of students who could be served in the classroom. In response to these ever-changing dynamics, deans and directors implemented various delivery methods of educational material and student engagement. This included limiting the number of students able to participate in face-to-face education in the classroom and testing locations, a full utilization of laptops to aid in the hybrid method of in-class and in- cell instruction, and the traditional exchange of paper packet/textbook materials. Culturally responsive and anti-bias professional development SBCTC enhanced faculty and staff professional development to support culturally responsive educational and anti-bias teaching practices, as we move to providing educational experiences that are more inclusive Page 5 Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges // Revised October 2020 and culturally representative. Program reviews Peninsula College completed professional-technical reviews of the Horticulture and Computer Science Engineer programs at Clallam Bay Correctional Center. Peninsula College and Edmonds College also completed basic education skills technical assistance reviews at Clallam Bay Correctional Center and the Washington State Reformatory, respectively. Expanded laptop program Washington state corrections education increased laptop capacity by 39%, from 778 to 1,285. Corrections education laptops work in an offline internet environment, requiring full-time staff dedicated to developing offline functions to our Canvas Learning Management System. We continue to deposit development information in the Open Prison Education (OPE) repository to build capacity and cooperative learning communities, both nationally and internationally. Faculty were skilled up in offline Canvas functions and curriculum development. SBCTC staff assisted in creating a seamless ability for Canvas course to be converted from online curriculum to offline curriculum, while adhering to all security protocols and maintaining high educational standards. Additional accomplishments In 2019-20 Washington’s community colleges’ corrections education programs accomplished the following: • Washington State Corrections GED® pass rate is 67%. However, Washington State Corrections Education administered 29% fewer GED® tests during fiscal year 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. • Sixty-eight students earned their high school diploma through the High School+ (HS+) competency- based degree program. • Sixty-seven students earned associate