General Educational Development

She's going to tell us what's trending.

I'm going to have a little note from the GED session.

It's the D.L. Hewlett Show.

Jasmine, tell us what's trending.

Do not worry about trying to take our history.

We'll just make more.

That's a little note from the GED section.

It's the D.L. Hughley Show.

And that can be anywhere from the curriculum that you're using in a classroom to how you stay in compliance for federal grants.

So sometimes we're teaching executive directors compliance rulings, or at other times we're teaching the teachers the best practice or the quickest way to get somebody a GED.

So what I'm hearing is that you're supporting these other regional or county literacy organizations around here.

And maybe what you're doing is doing some of the research so they don't have to and then sharing this research so then they know how to build their curriculum and their programming.

because they might have a unique way of doing something and another organization in the state is struggling with that same issue and they can learn from one another and learn about, okay, that is the way that Fox Valley Literacy is doing it.

Maybe that approach would work for us.

Many of the organizations, like I said, focus on English language learning and others have higher population of individuals who are seeking to get their GED or HSED.

And for those who may not know, GED is the general equivalency diploma and a high school education diploma, HSED.

Fast forward 20 minutes, we start using the tool and she realized a few things.

One, she could go back and get her GED.

She didn't even know where to begin or ask GED.

Wow.

So what we ended up doing fast forward, you know, is to be honest, probably about 45 minutes later, you know, and she we did some research and she pretty much talked into chat GPT and was like, you know, I'm a woman of a certain age.

Here's what I'm trying to achieve.

I want to get a job in which I have more control over my hours, eight to five.

And ChatGPT gave her options, one of which was go back and get your GED.

Nah, Dan, she's dealing with the wrong man.

Because I clearly say there's zero difference between women who have their PhDs and women with their GEDs.

Yeah.

It's a big

I can go.

The list is long.

The list is 100% long where old niggas and old niggas who are educated and old niggas who have GEDs be at.

No.

I made some kind of like honor list for the PSAT.

And I was like, just let me take the GED.

I'll go to community college.

I'll get a few extra credits and then I'll go, I'll go off to university and I'll be fine.

This has never been done before.

This is like not normal.

People with good grades, they don't take GEDs.

And I was like, why? I can take these community college credits.

We do utility assistance where people who are struggling to make the gas bill or struggling to pay for propane for their house or their heating, their cooling, what have you, we assist with that for people who qualify.

And then, as I said, we have an entire slate of workforce and education programs that include youth programs where we are assisting youth who are going to be eventually entering the workforce on what does that even look like to move into the workforce? And what does it look like clocking in and working for a boss and that kind of stuff? And a number of those youth were also assisting with getting their GED so that they can transition into a better space and be positioned in a better space as they're looking for jobs.

But we also have adult education, too, where we have people who maybe have been in a career and that career, they've been displaced from that career for a variety of reasons.

And they're looking to learn new skills.