Publications Designed to be Customized & Shared

The NCTN partners with adult education, workforce, and community organizations and college systems from across the country to incubate and pilot innovations in policy, and to provide technical assistance and professional development.

Advising Students with Foreign Degrees and Credentials

This guide helps instructors, advisors, and career coaches ask the right questions when working with students whose goals relate to employment, education or entering a licensed profession. Once the student’s goals are established, this guide will help determine what kind of degree or credential evaluation process is appropriate.

No Matter What Obstacle is Thrown My Way

This report from NCTN’s Single Mothers’ Career Readiness and Success Project documents program models and service strategies implemented specifically in community college settings to support single mothers and increase their rates of persistence and completion, leading to greater career and economic opportunities and success for themselves and their families.

ABE Clean Energy Ambassadors Curriculum Resource Guide

This guide provides lessons and teaching strategies that integrate clean energy information into science, math, and English language instruction for adult learners.

College and Career Navigator Trainer Manual

A customizable guide for trainers working to strengthen the skills of practitioners whose primary function includes providing direct students support and guidance, as well as coordinating campus and community support services. Developed for Accelerating Opportunity, a Jobs for the Future initiative.

Integrated Education and Training: Implementing Programs in Diverse Contexts

This guide emerged from in-depth conversations about how a wide array of adult education programs around the country have been successfully integrating IET. Its aim is to provide inspiration and models to adult educators as they plan or strengthen their own IET programs.

Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom: Curriculum Guide

A curriculum guide to help adult education teachers and counselors guide adult learners through a comprehensive career planning process that promotes a full range of life skills.

Program Administrator Trainer Manual: Building Integrated Pathways through Collaboration

A customizable guide for trainers working to help strengthen the skills of administrators responsible for the on-the-ground implementation and coordination of integrated career pathway programs. Developed for Accelerating Opportunity, a Jobs for the Future initiative.