Regional Professional Development

Regional Professional Development

Communities of Practice
To provide opportunities for California adult educators to interact regularly and to engage in extended collective learning, CALPRO is offering regionally based professional learning opportunities using a Community of Practice (CoP) model across subject matter and topics essential to meeting the goals of the California adult basic education system. In the blended-learning CoPs, participants meet for two face-to-face (or synchronous online) sessions. As part of the CoP activities, participants access online resources via Moodle before, between, and after their face-to-face/synchronous training sessions to participate in activities designed to extend their learning and support their implementation of new practices with their students. Fully virtual or HyFlex CoPs may be offered on selected topics.

Tailored Regional Communities of Practice
Tailored Regional CoPs support the unique needs of educational agencies, districts, or consortia and offer a responsive, flexible, and engaging approach to professional development. The available topics are highly relevant to California adult education agencies, from instructional strategies, and career pathway development to equity-focused practices. When tailored to the specific needs of an educational agency, school district, or regional adult education consortium, these CoPs offer targeted support that aligns directly with organizational objectives and encourages meaningful change and growth. Tailoring can be done by adjusting the overall training length, modality (e.g., in-person, online, or HyFlex), focus areas depending on the target audience, or by integrating multiple topics to address intersecting priorities. This tailored approach allows CALPRO to help educational agencies balance professional development with operational needs, ensuring minimal disruption while maintaining the quality of learning.

Regional Training
CALPRO also offers 1–2-day, 3+ hour on-site workshops on an available topics below.

If your consortium or agency would like to host a regional professional development event, please contact calpro@air.org.

What You Need to Know

Host a CALPRO Training

For more than a decade, CALPRO has trained California adult educators to deliver professional development on various topics. 

CALPRO will: 

  • Identify and pay for the workshop facilitator’s travel and honorarium when your agency hosts a regional community of practice. 
  • List the workshop on the CALPRO Event Calendar. 
  • Advertise the workshop.
  • Manage registration.
  • Provide copies of the participant handout packet for the number of registered participants.
  • Provide blank sign-in sheets and evaluation forms for facilitators to distribute and collect.

What are the responsibilities of the hosting agency/site?

  • E-mail certificates of attendance to participants.
  • Open registration to teachers and administrators from other eligible agencies. 
  • Register at a minimum 8 participants from your agency and/or other eligible agencies in your region prior to the start of the training.

Which training topics are available?

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  • We the People: Developing Adult Learners' Critical Democratic Literacy
  • Supporting Student Transitions to Postsecondary Education and the Workforce 
Equity
  • Success for All Learners Through Equity General Instructional Strategies
General Instructional Strategies
  • Collaborative Curriculum Alignment 
  • Effective Teaching for Adult Educators 
  • Motivation and Persistence for Adult Learners
Adult Basic Education/Adult Secondary Education
  • Using Questioning Strategies to Improve Instruction Adult Basic Education/Adult Secondary Education
  • College and Career Readiness Standards: English Language Arts (ELA) Implementation and Application
English as a Second Language
  • Evidence-Based Writing Instruction in the ABE Classroom English as a Second Language  Evidence-Based Writing Instruction in the ESL Classroom
  • Managing the ESL Multilevel Class 
  • Mastering the English Language Proficiency Standards 
  • Optimizing ESL Instructional Planning: Management, Monitoring, and Reflection Workforce Skills and Career Pathways 
  • Supporting Immigrant Integration through Civics Education
Workforce Skills and Career Pathways
  • Accelerated Learning to Facilitate Career Pathways 
  • Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ABE/ASE Classroom 
  • Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ESL Classroom
  • Integrated Education and Training (IET)

Community of Practice

Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly (Wenger-Trayner, 2015).

Blended Instruction

In regional CoPs, participants meet for two face-to-face (or synchronous online) sessions. Before, between, and after their face-to-face/synchronous training sessions, CoP members access additional online resources via Moodle and participate in activities designed to extend their learning and support their implementation of new practices with their learners. Fully virtual or HyFlex CoPs may be offered on selected topics. 

Time Commitment

CALPRO’s CoPs require an average total of 16-20 hours of professional learning.

Shift in Culture

Communities of Practice place a strong emphasis on supporting educators in implementing new skills. This greater emphasis on implementation may involve one or more shifts in culture.

Benefits of Participating in a CALPRO Regional CoP
  • Opportunity to interact with other teachers or administrators and trainers online and in-person to share classroom experiences and problem solve
  • Support and help to implement training in the classroom
  • Ability to identify and serve the needs of students
  • Ways to help students improve their skills and meet their personal goals
  • Increase of professional knowledge in targeted topic
  • Access to additional resources that extend the learning beyond the CoP
  • Working together as a school team to make changes, identify challenges and solve problems

On-Site Regional Training

CALPRO also offers 1–2-day, 3+ hour workshops on an available topic below. CALPRO will send a trained facilitator to your agency/consortium site. 

ABE/ASE
  • College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS)
  • CCRS 2: ELA Implementation and Application
  • Evidence-Based Writing Instruction for ABE/ASE
  • Evidence-Based Adult Reading Instruction
  • Math Instructional Strategies
ESL
  • Mastering the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards
  • Optimizing ESL Instructional Planning: Management, Monitoring, and Reflection
  • Managing the ESL Multilevel Class
Instructional Strategies
  • Motivation and Persistence for Adult Learners
  • Effective Teaching for Adult Educators
  • Using Questioning Strategies to Improve Instruction
Leadership
  • Success for All Learners Through Equity
Transitions
  • Supporting Student Transitions to Postsecondary Education and the Workforce
Workforce
  • Accelerated Learning to Facilitate Career Pathways
  • Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ABE/ASE Classroom
  • Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ESL Classroom
  • Integrated Education and Training (IET)

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Supporting Student Transitions to Postsecondary Education & the Workforce

Hosted by the Ventura County Adult Education Consortium 

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.

Location: Oxnard Adult School at 1800 Solar Drive, Oxnard

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Registration Information:
This tailored regional CoP is designed for the members of the Ventura County Adult Education Consortium. 

There is no registration fee to participate; CALPRO professional development opportunities are available to all California Adult Education Program (CAEP) agencies and employees. 

January 17, 2025

Civic Engagement through Democratic Literacy: Face to Face Session 2

Hosted by College of Marin

Civic Education and Democratic Literacy play a pivotal role in empowering students to become engaged and informed citizens. Individuals equipped with this knowledge understand political and civic systems, allowing them to navigate these systems effectively and contribute meaningfully to the improvement of their communities.  

The goal of this CoP is to enhance the capacity of adult educators and programs to provide instruction that amplifies student perspective and voice, builds civic engagement, and dives deep into participatory approaches to democratic processes for adults including those who are developing literacy and language skills.

Session 2 of the CoP

Date: 3/28/2025

Time: 11:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.

Location: College of Marin

Room: TBD

Registration Information:
This tailored regional CoP is hosted by College of Marin. Participants from neighboring districts or regions may be admitted on a space-available basis. 
There is no registration fee to participate; CALPRO professional development opportunities are available to all California Adult Education Program (CAEP) agencies and employees. 

January 17, 2025

Civic Engagement through Democratic Literacy

Hosted by Los Angeles City College

Civic Education and Democratic Literacy play a pivotal role in empowering students to become engaged and informed citizens. Individuals equipped with this knowledge understand political and civic systems, allowing them to navigate these systems effectively and contribute meaningfully to the improvement of their communities.  

The goal of this CoP is to enhance the capacity of adult educators and programs to provide instruction that amplifies student perspective and voice, builds civic engagement, and dives deep into participatory approaches to democratic processes for adults including those who are developing literacy and language skills.

Date: 3/07/2025

Time: 9 a.m.- 12 p.m.

Location: LACC 

Room: TBD

Registration Information:
This tailored regional CoP is hosted by Los Angeles City College. Participants from neighboring districts or regions may be admitted on a space-available basis. 
There is no registration fee to participate; CALPRO professional development opportunities are available to all California Adult Education Program (CAEP) agencies and employees. 

January 17, 2025

Civic Engagement through Democratic Literacy: Face to Face Session 1

Hosted by College of Marin

Civic Education and Democratic Literacy play a pivotal role in empowering students to become engaged and informed citizens. Individuals equipped with this knowledge understand political and civic systems, allowing them to navigate these systems effectively and contribute meaningfully to the improvement of their communities.  

The goal of this CoP is to enhance the capacity of adult educators and programs to provide instruction that amplifies student perspective and voice, builds civic engagement, and dives deep into participatory approaches to democratic processes for adults including those who are developing literacy and language skills.

Blended Model (Face to Face Session 1 of 2)

Date: 1/31/2025

Time: 11:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.

Location: College of Marin

Room: TBD

Registration Information:
This tailored regional CoP is hosted by College of Marin. Participants from neighboring districts or regions may be admitted on a space-available basis. 
There is no registration fee to participate; CALPRO professional development opportunities are available to all California Adult Education Program (CAEP) agencies and employees. 

January 17, 2025

Evidence-Based Writing Instruction

This community of practice helps participants improve their writing instruction for their adult students by applying research-based instructional techniques. This hands-on workshop is intended to guide teachers to prepare and deliver instruction, including appropriate instructional supports that promote student achievement.

Registration Information:
This tailored regional CoP is hosted by the San Joaquin Adult Education Consortium. Participants from neighboring districts or regions may be admitted on a space-available basis. 


There is no registration fee to participate; CALPRO professional development opportunities are available to all California Adult Education Program (CAEP) agencies and employees. 

January 17, 2025

Success for All Learners through Equity

The goal of this training is to support adult education staff at every level to achieve personal cultural competence and to create a culturally competent and equitable environment within each adult education agency.

January 17, 2025

Effective Teaching for Adult Educators

To enhance student learning gains and to help adult learners meet their goals as productive workers, family and community members, and lifelong learners, and to foster continuous program improvement, this training will provide a framework for teachers to reflect on their own teaching and to identify areas on which they would like to focus and where they would like to improve their practice.

January 17, 2025

Civic Engagement through Democratic Literacy

Civic Education and Democratic Literacy play a pivotal role in empowering students to become engaged and informed citizens. Individuals equipped with this knowledge understand political and civic systems, allowing them to navigate these systems effectively and contribute meaningfully to the improvement of their communities.  

The goal of this CoP is to enhance the capacity of adult educators and programs to provide instruction that amplifies student perspective and voice, builds civic engagement, and dives deep into participatory approaches to democratic processes for adults including those who are developing literacy and language skills. 

January 17, 2025

Supporting Immigrant Integration through Civics Education

California is a state of immigrants, and benefits from the cultural, social, and economic contributions they confer to systems, communities, and our state as a whole. Adult education plays a significant role in the lives of immigrants. This CoP/Training will support educators in best serving immigrants through civics instruction understood within the lens of the California Immigrant Integration Initiative and aligned to approved English language learner (ELL) Civics metrics.

January 17, 2025

Collaborative Curriculum Alignment

This training outlines the process of curriculum alignment to help adult learners successfully transition within adult education programs and from adult education to post-secondary environments.

January 17, 2025
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