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Program Description

1. strengthen regional capacity for identifying and meeting adult educators' professional development needs in each of Florida's five regions;
2. engage business and community stakeholders in the process;
3. and to identify and cultivate training resources within the region itself as well as those available via inter-regional exchange.

Regional Professional Development Advisory Councils (RPDACs) will be created in each Department of Education region of the state to direct the project activities and assure that the complementary points of view of adult education professionals, business representatives, community leaders, and students themselves are taken into account.

The project offers a more systemic and proactive approach to reforming and upgrading professional development capacity for Florida adult education than has been available to date. Innovative educational technologies will also play a role in the professional development model implemented by ADE 21. The workplan calls both for providing critical training to persons engaged in adult education and for strengthening the professional development system at a regional level in a manner that will "involve the use of innovative methods", "promote more effective programming" and further "a comprehensive or coordinated approach to problems of adults with educational deficiencies". Overall, ADE 21 constitutes a critical component in current efforts of the DOE's Division of Workforce Development to help each state's region to take the lead in developing its own training infrastructure.