Institutes & Clinics
CALPRO Institutes and Clinics provide specialized training designed to enhance knowledge, skills, and effectiveness for administrators, teachers, and other educators. These learning opportunities focus on practical skills, collaborative learning, and hands-on experiences, allowing participants to gain insights and tools relevant to their field. Whether delivered in-person or online, these offerings promote lifelong learning and positive impact within agency programs. See the descriptions below for more information.
Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ESL Classroom
How can you prepare your learners to succeed in the workforce? Find out what employers say are essential skills for today's workforce. This Community of Practice shows you how to connect transferable skills in the English as a Second Language classroom to the workplace. It also offers examples of contextualizing ESL instruction easily by using workplace activities and forms.
Integrated Education and Training (IET)
This training guides agency teams in creating an action plan for putting into place the necessary foundations for implementing an Integrated Education and Training (IET) model that aligns with the agency’s IET vision.
Supporting Student Transitions to Postsecondary Education & the Workforce
The goal of this CoP is to support adult learners’ postsecondary and workforce transitions by
- building consortia and adult education program staff’s capacity to implement evidence-based practices that facilitate transitions.
- identifying ways to enhance support services, program structures, and local partnerships.
- prioritizing improvement actions and identifying challenges and solutions for implementation.