WEBVTT 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.000 Hello, everyone. Welcome, welcome. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.000 Come on in 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:35.000 We're going to get started in just a few minutes. So come on in if you can't hear us for whatever reason, reach out in the chat 00:00:35.000 --> 00:01:05.000 We'll get started shortly. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:35.000 Just going to give it another minute or two here before we get started. If you have any tech issues, please reach out and let us know. But welcome. Thank you for joining us. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:07.000 All right, well, without further ado, we're going to go ahead and get this webinar started. I know there are people who are still trickling in, so we'll let them come in as we do our little intro here. But thank you all for joining us today for our 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:24.000 Latest edition of our NROC webinar series Beyond the Blueprint, Cultivating New Pathways for Tomorrow's Workforce We're joined today by Simone Smith, who's Director of Ready for Industry, and Dr. Angie Smostrila, who is our Enterprise Account Specialist at 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:39.000 The NROC project slash EdReady. We're going to have a pretty wide-ranging conversation today about, you know, developments that are going on in workforce readiness, how to chart new pathways, find new areas for innovation 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:55.000 We have some really exciting stuff coming up, and we're really building off of the webinar that we did just this past month, focusing in on our Tennessee sales initiative with the Tennessee Board of Regents. They also work with RFI on 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.000 MRDM coursework. We'll dive into a little bit more of that, but 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:17.000 Just to get started, we're going to touch on some housekeeping issues. If you have any questions, please feel free to pop those either in the chat or in the Q&A box. We'll get to those as they sort of come up, but we'll also have about 15 minutes at the end to go through the questions, to have a deeper discussion 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:45.000 We should have plenty of time to get to everything, so definitely don't worry about it. Also, if you pre-submitted questions with your registration, we will also get to those. This webinar is being recorded. It, along with the slides and a transcript, will be available via our website archive. You all will receive an email follow-up with a link to that. And lastly, if you have any questions or need any help 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:52.000 Please don't hesitate to reach out to community at nroc.org. We can hopefully help you figure out issues with Zoom, et cetera, et cetera. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:04:10.000 So first and foremost, to get started, we want to do a little welcome poll in the chat. Please just FYI, make sure you change your chat from hosts and panelists to everyone with the little blue box. That way everybody can see where you're coming in from 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:26.000 Just please pop your name, your institution, maybe what your current role is, what you're interested in this webinar for, and that way we can get to know who's joining us today. That being said, I'm going to do just a quick little intro here and turn it over to my colleague, Angie 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:41.000 About the NROC project, we were originally founded all the way back in 2003 with the birth of the Open Education Resource Movement. We were founded with funding from the Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Hewlett Foundation. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:57.000 That led to us sort of bridging over into developing lots of open education resources in the sort of first wave of putting information out there on this crazy wacky thing called the internet. As we developed from that, we realized that we needed a more robust 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:16.000 tool to bring those open education resources to students in a structured format that birthed our adaptive learning platform at Ready, which premiered in 2014. Since then, we've only seen it grown and sort of spread across the United States 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:32.000 through a wide variety of different use cases, including through the use case that we'll talk about today, which is our Tennessee sales initiative with their MRDM course. So please, with that, I'm actually going to 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:41.000 push it over to my colleague, Angie. She's going to get started and tell us a little bit more about EdReady, how it integrates into Workforce, and we'll go from there. Angie. 00:05:41.000 --> 00:06:00.000 Yeah, thanks, Will, and thank you all for joining us today live. And for those of you that will listen to us later on the recording, we sure appreciate you all. And as Will mentioned, we came out with EdReady in 2014. It was quite exciting. And EdReady is an adaptive, personalized platform 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:15.000 That's been adopted by districts, by community colleges, systems, etc. Nationwide to really solve the readiness gap. And so the math 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:30.000 Math Pathways in Ed Ready, they target the skill building from foundational arithmetic to calculus, and then the English helps strengthen students and their comprehension and their writing. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:49.000 And on the free site of EdReady, you know, we have the basic college readiness, algebra readiness, GED, TABE, SAT, ACT that people can log on and use for free since as Will mentioned, we started in the open educational resource space. So that 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:52.000 Something that you could use starting today. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:56.000 Go ahead. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:13.000 And so these are some of the OER collections. When we started in the OER space, we started with hippocampus.org. And so that is something that can still be accessed at hippocampus.org. And it has all those collections 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:31.000 And then those collections are also to help students in the Ed Ready platform for our partner institutions, they are able to use the math pathways that when Will clicks, you'll see the math pathways, and then Jill is going to put 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:50.000 The full flyer in the chat, so you can see all 152 math pathways. We worked with our partners across the nation to build these and did like a national survey of career and certificate programs. Also worked with ipads data to really build all these. So you can see 00:07:50.000 --> 00:08:02.000 They go from agriculture to health professions, construction, a lot of the workforce and CTE programs that we're talking about today. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.000 Go ahead. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:29.000 And so, yes, as we're seeing with the Department of Ed and Labor and just everything kind of the priority shifting to workforce readiness, we're seeing just a real change in the entire education ecosystem. And then also too with just some of the lack of confidence in higher ed and the cost of higher ed that's really changing a lot of 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:50.000 students' perceptions, people perceptions, the cost, and then you add AI to the mix, and you get all that really crazy highway over there. But we have so many great educators and administrators, etc. that are on the line that are really helping with all of this because it's really taking 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:57.000 everyone's work from high school all the way into post-secondary to really help with all of these 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:05.000 pathways. So we're talking a lot today about the CTE, the career and technical education. So that can be one 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:12.000 ramp to get students towards the workforce. Of course, the community college bridge 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:27.000 Universities, of course, play a critical part in this also. We also know that just life gets in the way sometimes of education, and so it's just really important as we build these different on and on 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:49.000 On and off ramps to really have this to where it's clear as starting points. And I'm really starting to hear, as I'm sure you all as well, of the learn to earn and earn to learn ecosystems. Because with the cost of education, a lot of people need to be earning while they're 00:09:49.000 --> 00:10:01.000 in college or universities. And so that has really created the need for that work-based learning apprenticeships, etc, that will kind of help students in that process. 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:18.000 And then what we're seeing too now with Workforce Pell coming next month is this move that anything that's non-credit has to then go into credit. So I think that's kind of changing things and changing some of the silos as well. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.000 Go ahead. 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:32.000 And the other shift that we're really seeing because of all of this is kind of this shift to credentials. So from the traditional academic model 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:49.000 With seat time, two-year, four-year degrees, you know, your traditional transcript that then goes into your traditional resume. It's really being replaced by more proficiency, credentials, stackable credentials, and that kind of transcript 00:10:49.000 --> 00:11:05.000 This statistic below on the strategic mandate, it comes from the ETS 2026 human progress report, and that is a really interesting report because it analyzes global trends and workforce adaptability 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:24.000 AI workforce skills, future trends, trends in education in general. So we're going to put that in the link if you wanted to read that. But you can see that really workers are wanting universities to pair the traditional academic transcripts 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:32.000 With those skill credential transcripts to kind of make things more relevant. So that's where those particular numbers come from. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.000 Go ahead 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:53.000 And as we're building these on and off ramps and all of these different changes with career and technical education, focus on workforce, funding is always an issue, as we know, and of course, with that Perkins funding, you can see that kind of what we're talking about today 00:11:53.000 --> 00:12:08.000 Could be supported by the Perkins funding. So we were just going to mention that as if you're wanting to kind of incorporate some of the tools like EdReady and ready for industry that we're talking about today. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:26.000 So as Will mentioned earlier, the Tennessee sales group put together this mathematical reasoning and decision-making course, which since I get to work nationwide, it's always fun to see what different programs put together and what they put together is something that 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:45.000 You know, I've heard others asking for for a long time, so it was just exciting to see how the Tennessee Board of Regents and the sales, if you're wondering what sales stands for, because, you know, we can't do anything in education without an acronym. So that stands for Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support 00:12:45.000 --> 00:13:05.000 And so we worked with the director, Juliette Bionde, and Laura Mason, the curriculum director. And then, really, their secret sauce for just scaling this across the state of Tennessee is also their field coordinators. They have about 23 of those across the state, and that really helps 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:24.000 As they've scaled this work and helped with students and training and everything that goes along with the program of this magnitude. So you can see the first module It's kind of interesting, too. Another partner in this that is Alliance for Decision Making 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:32.000 And so there's some of that content in here. In fact, they get to utilize that in that first module 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:49.000 or they kind of see their decision making style. So I thought that was really kind of neat that they've done that. And then, of course, I've always heard, oh, we really want to incorporate personal finance, and I think we all agree that that's important, and we know, too, that a lot of States are mandating that 00:13:49.000 --> 00:14:04.000 So they have that personal finance component. And as you can see, they use EdReady in there to get students the math skills that they need for that. And then Ed Ready is also incorporated in Module 3 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:26.000 4 and 5, and what's interesting about 5 as well that people have told me that they want to see more incorporation of is entrepreneurship. And so they've incorporated some of that into this course as well, and some students have even done food trucks. So it's really kind of a course that students are really 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:41.000 Liking and thriving in, and then, of course, with Module 6, they get to really dig into ready for industry, and they've been so excited by that, that they've asked for access earlier. So they've given that access 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:52.000 to RFI even earlier in the process so that they can work on that more, which we're going to talk about more with Simone. Go ahead. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:15:09.000 And what's really cool about what they've developed, too, is if those students go through all the modules and they pass each of the six proctor's exams at 70% or higher, they get a waiver to go into the TCATS 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:26.000 Which are those are across the whole state of Tennessee. And those are their College of Applied Technologies. And so it's really great because then they get that waiver. So they don't have to take that foundational course there at the TCAP so they can kind 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:33.000 onto their career and into the workforce faster. So that's been very exciting as well. 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:57.000 And with all this, on the next slide, we're just going to see all the different things that have happened and all the successful usage that has taken place. You can see all the active school districts, all the certificates awarded, active students, lessons, as you can see, has just been very successful across the state of Tennessee. So we've been really excited 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:13.000 about the work that they've done with us and with Ready for Industry. And then for the 26-27 school year, on this next slide, you're going to see how they can also receive a NOCDI credential 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:32.000 And NOCDI stands for the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute. And so it's one of the leading providers of industry credentials and resources for CTE. So the students have been really excited about that, because as we talked earlier 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:50.000 you know the importance of credentials so they can go ahead and put this on their resumes, or even Linkedin, you know that they have this credential that they've been quite excited about. And so at this point I am going to turn it over to Simone 00:16:50.000 --> 00:17:08.000 Well, thank you, Angie, and I appreciate you telling us all about how Ed Ready ties into Ready for Industry. And those students get the opportunity in the TCAT colleges all over Tennessee to get those have the opportunity to get those credentials 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:23.000 So hello again, everyone. My name is Simone Smith. I'm the director of Ready for Industry. In the chat I did put in Andrew talked about those tier one credentials. I put in the article. We did have a press release all about earning those tier one credentials 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:31.000 In Tennessee, so hopefully you're able to take a look at that. You can move ahead. 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:46.000 So, Andy did bring up our MDRM program, and we did want to talk about at Ready for Industry, we had our Tennessee Educator of the Year, and so that's Lisa Harrison. She's a math teacher 00:17:46.000 --> 00:18:02.000 You know, talking about that mathematical reasoning, so she utilized ready for industry within her students, and she just talked about how one big thing that her students learned was that industry terminology where they can tie and apply 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:07.000 Those terms to the industry and be better prepared 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:19.000 better well prepared and have that knowledge base when going into the industry. So we wanted to celebrate Lisa Harrison as well. You can go ahead 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:30.000 So just to dive into, because you're probably like, well, what is Ready for Industry? So this is where your students get that exploration of learning opportunity. 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:47.000 So we bridge two gaps, like what industry pathway do I want to pursue? Not all learners know what they want to do. And we don't want our students going into a field that they're not prepared for or they know nothing about and wasting their time on 00:18:47.000 --> 00:19:02.000 Different types of learning that they aren't really engaged in. We want them to feel successful and confident. And we also offer that basic information to our learners that they're going to see what are the employer needs around these different fields 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:19.000 In these industries. So in Redford Industry, we offer 5 different courses, and these are high demand industry. There are about 15 to 20 h in healthcare, manufacturing, informational technology, construction, and logistics 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:28.000 So what a great opportunity for your learners to be able to engage in these high demand industry. So you can go on the next slide 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:45.000 So also what readyfor industry does is provides essential general industry knowledge. So we talked about creating that bridge, making sure students understand that and have that knowledge to be successful in the industry 00:19:45.000 --> 00:20:02.000 And also, you know, providing the training that they need and workplace competencies. I love that word and make sure you know they're well versed with the current issues and workplace expectations. Thank you. I was just going to tell you to go there 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:18.000 So one of our highly used courses and popular courses, I mean, all of them are popular, they're high demand careers, but one of our most used courses is our healthcare course. So in our healthcare course, in all of our courses, we 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:34.000 you know, 6 different sections that your students navigate through. They get an introduction, you know, to the healthcare course working in the healthcare industry where they're learning the language of medicine. We always talk about how important that is being able to speak to the career 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:51.000 They're learning communication strategies, safety. They're also introduced to different career pathways. And different, yes, different career pathways. We talked about those current issues and trends. Finding a job in healthcare 00:20:51.000 --> 00:21:06.000 And also, workplace expectation, working as a team, self and time management and resume writing and also learning how to interview for a job. I was recently speaking with one of our instructors, and she said that one of 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:23.000 Learners like the key for them to getting the job that they're in right now is just knowing that industry terminology during the interview, being able to speak to that career. So like I said, we want to make sure our learners are successful and they have that opportunity 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.000 through our course. So you may go ahead 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:42.000 And just to look at different course outlines, like same with constructions, they get that introduction introduced to different career pathways, finding a job, interviewing skills in those workplace expectations as well. And what the employees 00:21:42.000 --> 00:22:00.000 Employers are seeking within their contenders. So yes, you can go ahead. And these are all of our different course lines, informational technology looking at those different career pathways working in it, finding a job and informational technology 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:07.000 And knowing those employer expectations as well. And then going ahead to 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:24.000 Our next slide is where logistics, very high demand career here where our learners are also learning about not a lot of people think about careers in like logistics and manufacturing. And when they do, they're so surprised by all of the different pathways 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:39.000 So we are thrilled to be able to give them that knowledge base. You know, even thinking about transit drivers and shipping and inventory, logistics, cargo and freight agents 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:57.000 Those are just careers that our learners are sometimes not introduced to. So we want to make sure they have that opportunity. And key logistic terms because some people might be like, well, what am I doing in this career? What is the knowledge that I need to understand? How can I develop my knowledge base around these different careers? 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:15.000 Well, that's what Ready for Industry does. So and our last but not least course, we have manufacturing. So you can go to the next slide. And our manufacturing course, we have that same kind of outline where your students are going through those six different sections where they're learning about all different careers 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:30.000 and manufacturing, and one of the careers that always stands out, and we have a lot of our learners talking about now, is welding. They're all interested in going to those welding programs and they want to learn more because these are, like we said, they're high demand careers 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:43.000 They're getting that higher salary coming out of their programs, whether they're doing a four year college or a technical college training programs ready for the industry is able to introduce them to that career field. 00:23:43.000 --> 00:24:02.000 So, those are our five different courses that we offer, and like I said, again, there are about 15 to 20 hours. We, during our… in our courses, we have, like, text-to-speech features great for auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, we have 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:18.000 And also, I kind of lost my mind frame of our visual learners as well. Lots of graphics for them and guided notes within our course for our learners to utilize. So you may go to the next slide 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:35.000 And what's so important, we're talking about credentialing earlier. Your learners have the opportunity to earn credentials, stackable credentials while they're utilizing ready for industry. So nocti, everyone always asks, what does NOCTI stand for 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:50.000 So as you can see here, it's the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute. So your learner can earn a stackable credential in each of our different courses. So that's healthcare again, manufacturing, construction, logistics, and information 00:24:50.000 --> 00:25:07.000 technology. They're able to are like your college or schools, wherever your learners are, they can become a noxie testing site, or it can be administered at a NOCD 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:22.000 testing center. So there's various ways that your learners are able to get that credential and earn that credential and have that in their career portfolio to bring back to those employers 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:30.000 So we are very excited that they have that opportunity as well. And you can go on to the next slide. 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:45.000 So I just want to just tell you a story behind what we are doing is at Ready for Industry, we have so much great work that we do in Tennessee, but we also, you know, work all like all over utilizing our different programs 00:25:45.000 --> 00:26:01.000 So one of our success stories here is also in Louisiana. We work with our learners at different correctional facilities. As you can see here on the screen. And I had the opportunity even last week to visit some of these facilities 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:17.000 And at the women's facilities, they have a unique program in healthcare. Only the only facility in Louisiana that has a healthcare pathway for their learners for reentry. And they are going to have their learners start with the Ready for Industry course 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:33.000 and healthcare, and that way they get that introduction, and they're more prepared to continue on and complete that course. And in Louisiana, they are able to get for each course that they take 20 days off of their sentence 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:50.000 And those correctional facilities. And they do not know about that until they complete those courses. So we want to make sure that they, you know, go in and they're willing and ready to learn. And we've had many of our learners in those facilities 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:58.000 complete the Noxi credential, not even just get a certificate, but get that Nocti credential as well. 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:15.000 So you can move on to the next slide, and I think we're… Yeah, so we have everybody for industry, we have many endorsements and programs and companies that we work with. At C4 Rood Ministries there, we just support learners 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:29.000 Who, are, you know, are just getting started and starting over, and we just had 4 learners there complete their different courses. So they're going to be sitting for the NATI at Goodwill 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:47.000 supporting their learners, they use our healthcare program for their pharmacy technicians. So just so many stories around all of our different organizations and schools. It's great for, you know, I think we mentioned earlier, high schools, post-secondary learners 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:58.000 You know, high school to grade really have this opportunity to utilize learning blade, especially as a second chance ready for industry as a second chance opportunity. 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:07.000 And you can go to the next slide. So we are at questions. 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:08.000 You're welcome. 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:20.000 Thank you so much for that, Simone. Thank you for that, Angie. That was a great overview. I think really the amazing thing about this, you know, the program and the work that you all are doing at Ready for Industry and what we're seeing with Tennessee sales is that 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:43.000 This is a really rapidly developing, you know, area of education. There's a lot of buzz around it, and there's a lot of sort of, you know, what could happen? What's up in the air? You know, there's a lot of changes going on. So, I think right now is the perfect opportunity for us to have sort of a wide-ranging conversation about what those developments are 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:49.000 What success we're seeing, what, you know, what areas for improvement we might still be seeing 00:28:49.000 --> 00:29:06.000 I do want to get over to some of the pre-submitted questions that we had, but I do see that we have a question here in the in the chat about how adults can access this curriculum in Alabama. Simone, I know RFI is already working in Alabama. If you want to speak a little bit about what 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.000 Yes. 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:10.000 what you all are doing over there, that'd be great 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:26.000 Yes, I appreciate your questions. Thank you, keep them coming. We have, we are fully funded in the state of Alabama, and I did put our resources in the chat. Our course outline, and then readyforindustry.com 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:44.000 So if you navigate to there, you would see that we, yes, we are fully funded in the state of Alabama. So you already have access to those resources. And yes, so you can utilize, look up that course outline, go to our website and sign up for your account today. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:58.000 I'll actually type that in the chat for the person who asked that question so they can just go straight to the website and get signed up. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:59.000 Exactly. 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:10.000 That is great. Love to make a seamless process like that happen, right? We have another question in the Q&A function, actually, from our illustrious president at NROC, and he's wondering, Simone, if you could talk a little bit more about 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:27.000 the developments that you've seen with Workforce Pell, if there's any, you know, area of alignment that you see there. I know it's really a developing area. Angie, I know you've been doing some research and some… having some conversations about workforce Pell. I know that that's an area that 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:44.000 You know, especially in these times of tight funding and people having to sort of figure out where they're going to get funding for programs from, if either of you could talk a little bit more about what you're seeing with Workforce Pal, where you may see alignment, etc, that'd be great 00:30:44.000 --> 00:31:02.000 Yeah, for sure. I'll start to address that. We are currently working with different states and organizations when it comes to those different funding types. What I can say is we're working on with like different states to make sure we like 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:16.000 All of our educators or organizations have those different types of opportunities, and Will, you did point out that Angie has been doing some research, so if you want to touch more on that, Angie, on what developments that you are seeing as well 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:25.000 Yeah, sure. So it's been real exciting that that is coming out so that these short-term programs and programs that 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:39.000 really help families and individuals earn a living wage that those will be funding funded. It's just that there's a lot of different restrictions around all of that. And one of that is that 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:42.000 Yeah. 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:58.000 You know students really have to complete at a 70% rate in these programs. And so that's where we're really thinking that Ed Ready, and we've heard some folks have that have already mentioned that they too believe Ed Ready will help that, because we all know 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:15.000 Sometimes math and English is the stumbling block to students getting started and completed, etc. So we're really feeling like that we can help with that. We have been incorporated in various workforce programs 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:38.000 One specifically, I'm going to give a shout out to my friend Didi Griffith of Temple College, who's the vice president of workforce development. They work closely with dual enrollment, which is so key in this as well, since more are incorporating those CTE and dual enrollment. So that's been really exciting to see. And so she works with 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:57.000 The dual enrollment and those students and really trying to help those students get kind of this college going mindset. So one of the first courses that they've incorporated in like a workforce type space is a safety course that they've had, that they've put Ed ready in 00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:14.000 And she believes that that is what has helped a lot of students get started thinking that they can do that material now, and they continue moving up after the safety course into the other programs that they've built that as a part of. And so it's just exciting to see what's already happening 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:24.000 But what will happen again starting next month, but there is a lot of moving parts, as we know, with Workforce Pell. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:39.000 Yeah, we have another question in here that I'll just tack on really quickly about if you know anything about what the qualifications for an individual for Workforce Pell are, if you could speak a little bit more about any of that. I know, again, Angie, we're only sort of just starting to understand this space 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:47.000 Lots of people are looking to understand what those qualifications are, but do you have an understanding of what it is for an individual 00:33:47.000 --> 00:34:07.000 Yeah, so for an individual, what's exciting as well, say, for example, even if you have a bachelor's degree and maybe you just haven't been able to apply the bachelor's as you would have liked, you can still apply for Workforce Pell. So that's been exciting to hear 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:23.000 Because as everything is changing now with AI, you know, a lot of people's jobs are being affected. And so if they need to get into something more specific around workforce 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:36.000 high wage and high in demand jobs, then they can take advantage of the workforce Pell for a short-term program and be able to do that as well. So 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:37.000 That's great. 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:53.000 That is an interesting requirement. Yeah. 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:54.000 Exactly. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:55.000 Yeah, hopefully that will open up, you know, again, new pathways for people to explore. I know that retraining and workforce development are going to be, you know, potentially major issues with the development of AI. I think we've all been hearing about that practically ad nauseum at this point 00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:12.000 But lots of exciting developments going on there. Just shifting gear a little bit, I know that we had a question in here about becoming an instructor for EdReady. We'll have a book a demo link here at the end. We can also reach out to you about getting EdReady set up at your school 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:41.000 We're flexible about what form that takes and let's start the conversation. We can figure out how Ed Ready will work best for your institution. I see we also have another question in here about facilitating an accelerator. This is from Latasha for small businesses, nonprofits and startups who are training in these priority skills area looks like they're asking about offering a presentation opportunity for those initiatives. 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:53.000 Simone, I'm sure, you know, if you want to connect, you'll have an opportunity to facilitate that conversation, likewise with EdReady, you know, if there's a space for us as well. 00:35:53.000 --> 00:36:11.000 Yes, Latasha, thank you for your question. We are happy to provide a presentation, and I see that you are located in Birmingham, Alabama. So we'll make sure to connect with you so that we can use that time to build that partnership 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:19.000 and support you with your nonprofits and businesses that are in that area. So yes, happy to connect. 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:49.000 Yep, I see a question here about working in Kansas and Missouri at the college and university level, or at correctional facilities. I know we have an individual partner or two in Missouri. I don't know about in Kansas currently. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:51.000 Yes. 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:52.000 Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think RFI is currently working in Kansas and Missouri, but again, let's start the conversation. If you want, we can certainly all jump together and find an alignment there. So thank you for that question, Michael. Simone, I don't know if you have any other 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:56.000 Anything else with Kansas or Missouri you want to talk about really quickly? 00:36:56.000 --> 00:37:14.000 Yes, for, like, Kansas, I know for Missouri, we do offer our learning blade program. I can just say that another career readiness program. But we can have that conversation around just your organization's initiatives 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:24.000 Like Will said, like, let's talk, to see, you know how we can support you all as well in those different areas. So yeah, let's talk. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:31.000 That's great. 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:32.000 Yep. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:41.000 Yeah, and we could also pop in the chat our partner list in Rock's partner list across the country. We could put that in there as well so you can see if your institution or your state, because we do have statewide adoptions. We actually have here in Texas 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:59.000 A Texas college bridge program that is really helping students be able to matriculate to community colleges and universities and get a waiver. Kind of we were talking about that TCAT waiver. So Texas College Bridge is essentially a waiver that allows them 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:12.000 to go from their high school and into the community colleges and universities that have signed the MOU and not have to take those developmental courses that a lot of times, as we know. 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:24.000 causes them to drop out. So that's one thing that we're doing here in Texas. We're also across the State of Indiana with the Ivy Tech system 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:29.000 Our first state that we scaled across was Montana 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:56.000 And then we've also worked with the great 58 and with a lot of the high schools when CCRG was a thing in the state, we worked across the state. So we still work really closely in North Carolina. And then as you see, this is our latest that we've talked about today is the scaling across the state of Tennessee, which has been quite exciting also 00:38:56.000 --> 00:39:07.000 Yeah, exactly. And I also put in the chat just ready for industry. So you can some look for your state as well and get even more information. 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:23.000 That's great. Thanks very much. We also have another question from Rashin here talking about stackable credentials. Can you explain more about what that actually means for students? How do we avoid a situation where people are simply acquiring lots of different micro-credentials that 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:42.000 may not add up to sort of a comprehensive vision. Maybe talking a little bit there also about, like, what the industry trend is around micro-credentialing. Like, we've seen that word come up a lot recently about how people are integrating workforce development and workforce readiness 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:59.000 Into this whole idea of a credentialing system, sort of as opposed to more traditional degrees or whatnot. I don't know, Simone, if you want to talk a little bit about micro-credentialing, maybe how it works in with NOCD, and then maybe also if you've seen anything sort of industry-wide 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:16.000 Yeah, for sure. So the great thing about utilizing Ready for Industry and our stackable credentials, is that your learners or your students do have… they go through our course. So, you know those 15 to 20 hour courses of information. There's knowledge checks within our program 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:36.000 And they do have to pass our final assessment with an 80% or higher. So they have that opportunity to really engage in those knowledge-based practices before they sit to go take that NOCTI exam to earn that credential. So there are steps that our learners have to take, so they're just not stacking on 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:47.000 And going into all of these different like all of our different courses, they do have to pass certain exams before they sit for that test. So 00:40:47.000 --> 00:41:03.000 that they really can engage in knowing and understanding what that industry, the expectations are, and that industry feel the employer expectations and what they'll need to learn to go into that industry. So we do give them 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.000 that introduction 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:27.000 That's great. Angie, if you want to talk any about, you know what you've seen with credentialing, maybe any conversations that we've had with our partners, or you've had, you know, Angie travels a lot out on the road and meets with people at different conferences and events, so she's a real expert in all these developing areas. Anything that you've heard about the credentialing system 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:35.000 maybe how the philosophy of that is being crafted, like, how people are figuring out what they want these credentials to actually mean, and 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:53.000 If you hear anything about student outcomes that come with that, right, like what's the incentive for a student to actually get one of these credentials, right? What's the thought process process behind it? What leads them to think that, hey, this is worth my time, this is actually going to help me get a job, help me get in front of an employer, and 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.000 you know, lead to me being successful outside of the education process. 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:16.000 Yeah, because with the micro credentials, it does take a lot of effort and thank you, Jill, for posting our roster in there. And so a couple of partners that I'm going to give a shout out to because we do work closely with the state of Arizona with the Maricopa Community College District 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:36.000 And also with the Pima College District. And with Pima, they have really worked closely with education design lab to really look at these questions that Will was mentioning, you know, what is a good credential? What is really going to be stackable? What's going to mean something 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:49.000 out in the workforce. And so education design lab is a great organization that's been helping that with that. Also, education strategy group has done that 00:42:49.000 --> 00:43:05.000 Lately, in my reading about Florida, it's interesting that they've been looking at a lot of those credentials since 2007 even, and they even have for the state of Florida, there's a whole master credential list. So they've really looked at 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:25.000 What are the credentials that actually mean something out in the workforce? And who is the leader in those areas? Like for construction, it's NCCER is one of the leaders. So that's really important too, so that when a student does put that credential 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:42.000 you know, in their resume, or in what's now being called, like, a digital wallet, that it really does mean something, and that it does lead to something else. So if they get a credential in maybe phlebotomy, that then that would 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:57.000 stack to other healthcare fields like potentially going from phlebotomy to a CNA and then on into nursing. So really, that's what the stackable means is what really kind of leads 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:21.000 to a career. And again, like we were talking about those on-ramps and off-ramps. So if I get start out and get this credential, then I work for a while, and maybe, oh, I now want to move up, and so I'm able to then stack that and move up and go on in my career. So it's been really exciting, but it is a lot to to work out. So I think these other groups 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:22.000 that have helped with that has been really important, because it's a lot of research 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.000 Yeah, there's 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:26.000 Yeah, and I just want to add to that 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.000 Sorry, go ahead. 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.000 Go ahead, Will. 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:30.000 Go ahead. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:44.000 Oh yeah, and I just wanted to add to that, when you were talking about the different employers and, you know, sacking on that knowledge and moving up in a field, with our Goodwill team, they actually partner with CVS. So their learners get our healthcare credential 00:44:44.000 --> 00:45:00.000 Use that in their career portfolio to get those jobs, and then they also have that additional training once they are hired as a pharmacy tech. So, and then, you know, and so on to become even a pharmacist, you know, to move on. But they start 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:09.000 It gives them that great starting point to become those pharmacy techs. So it's just a great example there. 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:10.000 Exactly. 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:23.000 Yeah, it's kind of that what we talked about kind of that learn to earn and earn to learn. And I like some of the work-based models now. So say I'm a student and I'm working, I think Tyson Foods is one that does this. They start a student at a certain hourly wage, and so they work 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:39.000 with the company a couple of days a week, and then I say on, you know, work with the community college, and then as they get farther along in the program, then their hourly wage increases. So it's really interesting 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:40.000 Exactly. 00:45:40.000 --> 00:46:03.000 you know how some of these employers, because what's so key to all of this with CTE and with Workforce Pell, it is those industry partners, and it's really everyone working to collaborate together. Everybody 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:04.000 Internships. All different kinds of 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:16.000 chambers to workforce boards to the CTE dual enrollment community college. It just takes everyone exactly all the work-based learning. It just takes all of that to really make this successful. 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:17.000 Yeah, for sure. 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:28.000 Lots of stakeholders for success, that's for sure, and we're both very proud organizations to be COGS in that machine, right? So please, if you have any other questions, feel free to pop them in the Q&A box, pop them in the chat 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:49.000 We'll get to those as they come in, but we did have some pre-submitted questions that I really wanted to get to. One question that came up that I think had a couple different components to it is about how to integrate, you know, career programming, you know, workforce development and preparedness for specific population groups that maybe have 00:46:49.000 --> 00:47:03.000 different needs associated with each of them, right? So, you know, talking about formerly incarcerated or currently incarcerated learners, I know we had a question about refugee students, adult learners 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:26.000 We also had questions about helping women enter the workforce in new areas, along with rural learners, so people that maybe don't have immediate access. And I know this is a very wide, you know, open-ended sort of area here, talking about these different groups and how they can interact with these sorts of programs. But I'd love to hear about how maybe, you 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:43.000 The intersection that we have here of technology, you know, we're utilizing the internet, we're utilizing new networks of institutions, how that's maybe bringing in more non-traditional learners or learners who are coming back to education, adult learners, etc. 00:47:43.000 --> 00:48:04.000 How you think that maybe these workforce development changes are opening up new pathways for those sort of students? And also, maybe if there's other, like, work that still needs to be done, right? Where's an area that, like, we still need to make improvements, right, to help open up more access? If either of you, you know, want to speak a little bit on that 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:21.000 Yeah, I'll start. I can give an example. Like I stated earlier, one of our partner organizations is C4 Ministry that speak to that broad kind of spectrum of the question there. We support learners of all, you know, different ages 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:40.000 like high school degree, like I said, I stated earlier, people that are just getting started are, you know, changing up their career fields are, you know, need a second chance opportunity. C4 Ministry does that for the learners. They just had a recent cohort of fathers 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:58.000 that our refugee fathers who have, you know, need that opportunity to learn about different career fields, career pathways, basically finding their pathway to purpose, as people would state. And those learners were able to. They focused on 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:15.000 Manufacturing, they were a manufacturing cohort, so that cohort, oh, they completed our manufacturing course, and I spoke like we did have learners that were able to get their certificate and are going to stick for that credential. Also, an upcoming cohort 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:30.000 that Seaport Ministries is having is with youth development. And that's going to focus around our healthcare course. So different organizations that have focused cohorts of learners 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:41.000 that are of a broad, you know, spectrum, that have these different opportunities to engage in industry preparedness in those second chance opportunities. So 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:46.000 Yeah, that's just an example of how we're working with different organizations. 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:47.000 Yeah 00:49:47.000 --> 00:50:05.000 That's great. Angie, if you want to talk a little bit maybe about how EdReady is sort of primed to help students like that, right? I mean, we've seen some great success with rural students, you know, with adult learners, stuff like that. You know, those student groups are certainly a focus for us and for our mission, so if you want to talk a little bit about that. 00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:26.000 Yeah, sure. So as you'll see on our roster, we also work with a lot of adult basic ed programs with various ones even statewide. Because as we were talking about, a lot of times as those students come back in to education, those math and English skills are lacking. And so Ed Ready can really help 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:41.000 Then fill those gaps. And so that has been really important in adult ed, and then also with hippocampus, even Kentucky built a lot of the links to our hippocampus 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:57.000 materials as well, because those are at some of the lower levels, because in adult basic ed, sometimes they start at like a third grade level. So in hippocampus.org, we have some of those lower level English skills in there, and other things that 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:15.000 Has been really helpful for students. But again, Ed Ready, you know, since they can go to edready.org, they can get help with GED, TABE, you know, all of that for free. One of the things that we just added that I've been really excited about is ASFAB 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:42.000 For those potential military students that want to go into the military, that we can ed ready can help them get those math and English skills up to really what the career that they want to go into. My favorite story was how somebody had taken the ASFAB, they had wanted to be a microbiologist 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:43.000 Yeah. 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:54.000 But they test it in, and they could be a plumber, not quite the microbiology that they were really wanting, but that's what we're really hoping, you know, now we're that ready as we have that up there, too. And I do attend a lot of rural conferences because I do have a really a heart for rural students, and I liked how 00:51:54.000 --> 00:52:10.000 Tennessee sales incorporated that entrepreneurship component, because a lot of times people in the rural communities to be able, they may not have those industries and different things. And so to be able to stay in their rural communities 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:25.000 They need to start businesses, especially, you know, the question about women to be able to have some of those entrepreneurial skills, to be able to start a business, you know, a woman owned business is so important 00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:32.000 To help just with their families, obviously. And so 00:52:32.000 --> 00:53:00.000 It can help them really get those skills to do that as well. 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:01.000 Yeah. 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:02.000 One thing I think we always like to emphasize here, and also with RFI, is about our platforms and our programs are confidence building, right? About, you know, empowering students to feel confident taking the next step. I know that a lot of these bigger programs, you know, it feels like a one and done. Oh, I'm either good enough or I'm not good enough. I scored high enough or I didn't score high enough, right? 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:19.000 Right? And so, I think having that empowering aspect, it allows for students to really feel as though they can, you know, conquer the next step, that they're encouraged to do so, and that our programs are not meant to, you know, exclude them. They're meant to include them 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:20.000 Exactly. 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:33.000 Along that line, if you could talk anything about accessibility, students, maybe who are coming from special education programs, what sort of options we have for a really diverse learner pool 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:44.000 I don't know if RFI, you know, has any initiatives or programs that are centered around that, and Angie, maybe we can talk a little bit about accessibility for EdReady too. 00:53:44.000 --> 00:54:01.000 Yeah, I'll go ahead and get started. Within our program, which what is great, if we, you know, especially for our high school learners, like with their instructors that we have that like progress monitoring piece where they can pull reports, look at data, see how your learners are doing 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:19.000 We have, like I stated earlier, those visuals, those graphics, text and speech, especially for students who are, you know, struggling readers there, that guided notes. I like to take everything and kind of write it down and be able to refer back to my notes. So we do 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:32.000 guidance notes and worksheets for our learners who use as well. So we do keep in mind all a diverse group that will be utilizing our program to make sure that they're able to 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:47.000 have those opportunities to learn those soft skills and those common practices when looking, you know for their next career path. So we do offer those different accommodations and functionalities within our course. 00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:48.000 courses 00:54:48.000 --> 00:55:04.000 Great, Simone. Yes, and as I mentioned earlier, because we have some of these large statewide adoptions that has required us to have some of the highest accessibility and security to do that. And so that's helped 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:20.000 With just overall across the country, so we do have all of those. We actually have an accessibility committee, and of course we've been working on all the latest thing that's coming down, all those latest requirements. We've been working on all of that. So that is a high priority 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:40.000 of ours from both an accessibility and from that security, especially with the data security and everything, because that's so important. And I like just some of the features that we've built in. One of my favorite ones to show when EdReady is just even for colorblind students to be able to click and go from colors to shapes, you know. So 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:54.000 They've really thought a lot in the development of EdReady to make those things for 00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:55.000 Exactly. 00:55:55.000 --> 00:56:02.000 As a colorblind person, I can say I am greatly appreciative of any colorblind features, and I can say I've looked at the EdReady ones, and they work very well. So, you're hearing it from me first. That's great. I know that, you know. 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:14.000 Providing that accessibility, that's in alignment with our mission, right? To meet every student where they are, help them succeed. If there's any last questions, please feel free, pop them in the Q&A box, pop them in 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:31.000 In the chat box, but I will round out with sort of one final question for you both is maybe where do you see sort of the future of these workforce programs going? Where do you see the development going? Where are new areas that you think that they could grow into 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:44.000 Especially because we… it feels like we're really on the cusp of some exciting developments here. I'd love to know, like, what's the utopian vision, if… if we can, and maybe what do we need to do to start 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:49.000 walking down that path today. So, Simone, if you want to go first 00:56:49.000 --> 00:57:06.000 Yeah, I kind of want to backtrack and just talk about, like, the history of Ready for Industry, and how we are a… we are a Pearson career ready in a product line of eDynamic Learning. So we've been in career technical education for over 20 years now 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:21.000 supporting learners and making sure that learning is geared towards those educator and learner needs. So we're always excited for growth and expansion and making sure like our even our program 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:33.000 Is up to, you know, the latest tech technological advancements there. So we're just in the works on just working like with through our programming 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:50.000 to provide, you know, more features in the future to where we are supporting even more a diverse group of learning. So just working on like our program in a whole and you know the industry always changes. So 00:57:50.000 --> 00:58:05.000 With that comes making those adjustments and adaptations to make sure that our learners are getting that 21st century and like those high demand industries and really getting the opportunity to engage with those different 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:13.000 career fields and career pathways. So there's always more to come. 00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:15.000 Expansion 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:24.000 Yeah. 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:25.000 Yeah. 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:27.000 Yeah, lots to come. Even as soon as next month with Workforce Pell, it's going to be really interesting to see how that all plays out because I really do think that that is affecting the future of education as a whole. And so it's really exciting 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:33.000 that that's coming out, it'll be interesting to see how that 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:34.000 Plays the part 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:41.000 Laser roll? 00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:42.000 Yeah. 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:50.000 Exactly, exactly, because I think… I think that's going to be a huge role. And then, of course, AI, you know, we've really got to look at how that's going to change, you know, it's already changing the future, and again, pointing to that kind of ETS report 00:58:50.000 --> 00:59:13.000 That we put a link to since that's 2026 data. It's also international data on some of the AI stuff that's going on and kind of talks about the future like we're talking about now as well. So that's something to to look at since it's international, and it was like 32,000 respondents in that. So it's a great study 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:14.000 Wow. 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:18.000 Because I always like to look at studies like that to really look at future trends, like what we're talking about today. 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:19.000 Exactly. 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:22.000 The future is in the data, one could say. 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.000 It definitely is 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:25.000 It drives change 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:26.000 That it does. 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:27.000 It does. It does. 00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:50.000 Well, thank you both so much for your insights here. This has been a great conversation. I think we've really honed in on some of the areas that there's exciting developments. I'm really, really proud of the work that we all are doing. If you'd like to connect with us, feel free, book a demo with our EdReady team or with RFI via the QR codes here 00:59:50.000 --> 01:00:06.000 You can also reach out to Angie or Simone via email and get the conversation started. We're, of course, always looking to grow, always looking to collaborate, always looking to further, you know our collective missions to help students. So 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:31.000 Thank you all again for joining me and our team. If you have any other further questions, if we didn't get to your question, we can reach out to you, and we will certainly hope to be in touch. We will be taking a summer break from our webinar series, but please join us back in the fall when we kick off our next slate of webinars. So thank you all again. Thank you, Simone. Thank you, Angie 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:32.000 Appreciate it, and 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:33.000 Thank you. 01:00:33.000 --> 01:00:34.000 Yeah, thank you all. 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:37.000 Looking forward to collaborating further in the future. 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:42.000 Definitely. 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:44.000 Hope everyone has a great afternoon. 01:00:44.000 --> 01:01:14.000 Yes, have a great day.