Common use of STATEMENT OF PERFORMANCE Clause in Contracts

STATEMENT OF PERFORMANCE. That the PARTIES shall work collectively to accomplish the goals of DBS and fully implement the strategic priorities and major activities outlined in the PRIME GRANT. The PARTIES understand that DBS is a capacity building and training initiative and agree to conduct program development, capacity building, and training activities including: 1) Development of new programs and alignment of existing programs using industry-driven curriculum and stackable certificate models aligned to employer identified credentials in advanced manufacturing, transportation/logistics, or engineering, 2) Agreement to use the following core framework and metrics to ensure the implementation of the core elements of the program design identified in the PRIME GRANT agreement statement of work: a. Integrated program design, b. Cohort enrollment into linked courses, c. block scheduling, dynamic scheduling, and compressed instructional formats, d. Contextualized Basic Skills including math, English, and digital literacy, e. Use of transformative technology and technology enabled learning strategies, f. Increased transparency, accountability, and labor market relevance, g. Innovative student support services and assessment including multiple assessment measures, student portfolios, expanded and contextualized counseling strategies, and embedded social and workforce services. 3) Participation in regional capacity building that supports articulation across the community colleges and aligns core competencies, credentialing, and curriculum by industry cluster and sector, 4) Planning and support for creation of a stronger East Bay workforce intermediary system in partnership with industry, our constituent workforce boards, and other stakeholders that improves integration of employer engagement, funding, service delivery, placement, and evaluation, 5) Participation in a third party evaluation that includes provision of student identifiers and other data required for the four year formative and summative evaluation of DBS and that includes commonly identified progress measures to improve retention, completion and reduce time to completion across the project