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The 2011 ACTE Convention was held in St. Louis, November 17-19. Barbara presented on the "The Career Readiness Certificate in a Systematic Approach to Building Careers".

Barbara presented at the 2011 CAEL conference, Adult Learners in a Changing Landscape, in Chicago November 10. Her topic was using CRC as the basis for stackable employment credentials to build a career.

Barbara was a panelist at the Celebration of Teaching & Learning conference (sponsored by WNET-NY) in New York, March 19, 2011. The topic under discussion was Taking Back the American Dream: Education & the Global Economy

Making The Connections: New Approaches to Acquiring Skills and Building Careers in a 21st. Century Global Job Market is a white paper released in February 2011. Barbara was a co-author with Mitch Rosin, Editorial Director, McGraw-Hill School Education Group.

Barbara presented The Career Readiness Certificate: A Guarantee of Trainability at the 25th Annual Careers Conference (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) January 2011.

In November, Barbara presented The Power and Effectiveness of the Career Readiness Certificate with Mitch Rosin , Editorial Director, McGraw-Hill School Education Group.at the CAEL Conference "Create The Wave: Workforce, Education and Change" in San Diego, November 2010.

The Career Readiness Certificate: A Guarantee of Trainability was Barbara's presention at the Fall conference of the National Council for Workforce Education in Washington, DC, October 2010.

Click here to read and download Barbara's publication: The Role of Context and Transferability in Learning from Promising Practices. This report was produced by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact as part of the Midwestern Education to Workforce Policy Initiative and the MHEC Promising Practices Series. The Career Readiness Certificate Consortium (www.crcconsortium.org) is featured as a case study in the report. For the latest news, numbers of certificates issued, and developments within the CRC Consortium, click here and look under News from the States.

Click here to download The Career Readiness Certificate: An Implementation Handbook (Second Edition, 2008), authored by Barbara Bolin and donated to the National Organization for Career CredentialingSM (www.nationalocc.org).

The National Organization for Career CredentialingSM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to provide information to employers, corporations, governors, state agencies, training providers, career seekers, educators, and the public, on:

Research on career credentialing opportunities and projects
Evaluation (of skills training, curricula, marketing campaigns, etc)
Development (of new curricula and credentials), and
Dissemination of information (about best practices and results of career credentialing efforts)

You are invited to visit www.nationalOCC.org for details on the organization.

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