Minnesota's Essential Skills Credential

Minnesota’s Essential Skills Credential program is for English Language Learning (ELL) students. If you complete the ELL program, you will earn an Essential Skills Credential from the state of Minnesota Department of Education.

Please read the entire article at: http://escurriculum.spps.org/Students.html

Watch the Essential Skills Credential video: http://escurriculum.spps.org/sites/0986df53-fb39-4fa2-816b-03b698926774/uploads/ESC_Promo.m4v

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Workforce Development

The Benefits: Build a workforce with the skills to succeed

Employers profit most when their workforce can apply basic and academic skills, critical thinking, and soft skills to job tasks and interaction with co-workers. We can help you determine the status of these skills among your workforce.

Use CASAS assessments to

Identify youth and adults in need of additional skills for workforce success
Place individuals into appropriate education and employment training programs
Monitor progress and certify attainment of employment-related competencies

With CASAS your business can...

Respond to Industry Needs

Build a program based on employment-related competencies identified by business leaders and Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs)
Integrate basic skills instruction, job knowledge, and skill development

Meet Department of Labor Requirements

Meets all Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requirements for youth and adult programs
Meets Department of Labor requirements for determining basic skills deficiency and measuring literacy and numeracy gains under Common Measures

Measure Program Effectiveness

Document learner progress and competency attainment in reading, math, and listening
Score tests, track results, and facilitate data collection for program accountability with TOPSpro software

See how other workforce development programs use CASAS to achieve success.