Registered Apprenticeship Program

Rolling out statewide.

Through the collaboration of experts from the fields of child development, medicine, psychology, neuroscience and education, the Children’s Learning Institute is working to ensure every child and educator are equipped to learn and able to excel. The Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP), will be able to drastically impact the early education workforce here in Houston and across the state. The RAP helps teachers earn a certificate, which allows them to improve instruction, make a livable wage, and be better equipped to lead children in the classroom.

Goals

Our immediate goal is to create a model, based on the Texas School Ready program, that can be used to create three RAPs in Amarillo, Houston, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley. These local RAPs will leverage the TSR coaching model to provide training and individualized support for apprentices as they complete on-the-job learning requirements and attainment of specific apprenticeship competencies. This will result in, at minimum, a Child Development Associate® (CDA) for those who participate in the entire process.

Results & Resources

At the end of the grant planning period, CLI will release the Texas School Ready Registered Apprenticeship Toolkit. The toolkit will include Curriculum and Program Guidelines, a Recruitment and Retention Plan, a Supervision and Fidelity Monitoring Plan, and a Five-Year Funding Strategy. While we will be using some structural knowledge from the Texas School Ready program, these activities will be separate from the implementation of Texas School Ready, which currently does not implement activities specifically to registered apprenticeships.

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We look forward to working with these diverse communities and implementing the Texas School Ready Registered Apprenticeship Model across our state.