- Transformative learning system
- Research-based
- Flexible
- Easy-to-Use
- Continually updated to incorporate new research and best-practices
- Developed specifically for organizations serving individuals who have struggled to learn, demonstrate academic success, or obtain and maintain employment
- Works with a variety of age groups with great accuracy and effectiveness
PowerPath to Education and Employment is an easy-to-use engagement, screening, and intervention system built on over 35 years of evidence-based research. Unlike other assessments that focus on what a person knows, the PowerPath System focuses on how a person learns.
The PowerPath system incorporates a five-step process from engagement to intervention, with steps that work together to build personal insight into the understanding and practice of overcoming personal challenges. The PowerPath Process establishes learning or working partnerships, leading to a sense of dignity and mutual respect.
PowerPath’s success is built on working with each person’s unique:
- Life experiences
- Brain processing
- Desire to be successful and in charge of their own life
With PowerPath’s process, individuals are empowered to choose their own pathway to open the door to success!
“I have come to a real sense of clarity... PowerPath is not just about screening. It is about building a sense of a learning community with the learners as the community! It is so incredible to watch the learners be on their own path of self- discovery. It makes a huge difference to get this information to someone who has been in the trenches!”
—Beth Gifford, Mid-Coast Adult Education, Rockland, ME
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The PowerPath System is translated into Spanish and offers a unique Culturally and Linguistically Different (CLD) Personal Profile that collects relevant historical information about learning experiences, identifies a standardized level of English language utilization and understanding. This interview determines if the individual should be screened with PowerPath’s Basic screenings in English or in Spanish.
The PowerPath System
PowerPath has demonstrated significant gains in persistence, post-testing, and successful transitions from basic education to post-secondary education or into the workplace.
PowerPath’s learning system has three components: Engagement, Screenings and Intervention.
These three components incorporate PowerPath’s Five Step Process to move from an initial personal interview to an intervention that builds the metacognitive skills needed to manage learning and workplace situations.
PowerPath is flexible. PowerPath’s three key components can be broadened or minimized, as needed. PowerPath Certified professionals are trained to understand and facilitate each aspect of the system.
The PowerPath System: Engagement
PowerPath’s Engagement process begins with a holistic interview that goes beyond basic demographics and into a conversation about several key life domains.
In the PowerPath System, engagement begins the intervention by immediately placing the participant in the powerful position of expert about themselves, helping to begin building the foundation for creating learning or working partnerships.
PowerPath facilitates the co-creation of learning experiences that lead to achieving both short-term and long-term goals. With the learner, client, or worker placed into the role of the ‘driver’ of their lives, PowerPath encourages the important role of the instructor, tutor or supervisor as the co-pilot, helping the individual to successfully move toward achieving educational or workplace goals.
The PowerPath System: Diagnostic Screenings
PowerPath’s 30 plus years of research has led to the identification of the neurological pathways essential for successful learning and employment. Integrating both current research on brain processing along with innovative holistic and multi-discipline research, PowerPath’s screenings cut to the bottom-line of what is critical to the processing of information, learning, and developing skills.
The core PowerPath Screenings:
- Can quickly identify areas of strengths and challenges.
- Can be customized as not all screenings are needed for all clients. Program priorities and/or triaging can be used to design the most appropriate set of screenings to meet program outcomes.
- Are correlated with the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-educational Battery and are weighted to predict a Woodcock-Johnson full-scale score.
- Do not diagnose learning disabilities, but screen for key learning barriers and challenges. PowerPath can identify individuals who may potentially be diagnosed as learning disabled.
The Power Behind the Process : Personalized Strategies Using the PowerPath Software
Our custom-designed software uses intake and screening results to produce personalized reports, both Individual and Administrative.
- Individual reports provide learners with a personalized set of specific accommodations and strategies for successful learning in both academic and workplace situations.
- Administrative Reports gather desired participant data for review and analysis, enhance accountability and facilitate program data management efforts
The PowerPath System: SMARTER Interventions
The SMARTER intervention process provides a structured way to put the participants in charge of their own learning and create the framework to maximize learning and employment outcomes.
PowerPath’s SMARTER Personal Learning Plan (or Employment Plan) is an intervention that builds successful learning pathways by cultivating the skills needed to:
- Learn necessary skills and information
- Plan and manage time effectively
- Establish and accomplish short-term goals
- Learn and work effectively by selecting and applying recommended accommodations, adaptations, and strategies to overcome identified challenges
- Transfer learning from one situation to another
PowerPath is widely recognized as a user-friendly process that models and implements adult learning principles and research-based best practices. PowerPath’s 5 Steps work together to move struggling learners and workers towards:
- Being the creator and manager of their own learning
- Building partnerships with service providers to co-create learning or employment plans
- Selecting and applying needed accommodations
- Building on current knowledge, including breaking down new skills into sequenced steps
- Practicing social situations and becoming a better team member
- Creating a learning environment that can maximize personal control and functioning as part of a recovery community
