Regional Online Career Collaborative began as an ABE Regional Transitions project in the Fall of 2021.  Four ABE consortia in the NW Minnesota Transitions Region submitted a project to provide  career-oriented online  courses available to all students in the ten consortia throughout the region.  

Piloting ABE consortia included: 

Alexandria ABE

Lakes Area ABE (headquartered in Detroit Lakes)

Moorhead ABE

NW Service Cooperative ABE (headquartered in Thief River Falls)

In 2023-24, the project expanded to include the NE Minnesota Transitions Region. This includes Duluth Adult Education and the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency.

The demand for highly qualified paraprofessionals keeps increasing. To meet this need, Paraprofessional Training and Certification is a new course offered for the 24-25 school year. This course takes students through the first 13 lessons of ParaEducator Online Training. Students really enjoy being able to move through the material as a cohort with the support of a teacher. Certification testing is provided upon completion of the course. Of the 10 students who completed the first session, 9 successfully passed their certification test. 

Paraprofessional class was the most-attended class