California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project

Facilitators:
Alex Jaco (Inland Adult Education Consortium)
Carmen Becerra (Sequoias Adult Education Consortium)
Peter Tinkelenberg (South Bay Consortium for Adult Education)

Career navigators and transition specialists can play a critical role in helping adult learners persist in education programs and improve their career prospects. In this webinar, we will discuss the impact of career navigation support and best practices with three career navigators/transition specialists from different regions of California. We will share student stories and further delve into what skills are needed to be an effective navigator/specialist, and how evolving technology has affected the world of job search and career counseling.

Facilitators:
Sachiko O. Oates, EdD Technical Assistance Consultant, American Institutes for Research, Regional Training Coordinator, CALPRO

Educational opportunities can change the life trajectories of immigrant-origin adult learners and their families. In addition, immigrant-origin learners are a key constituency in adult and higher education as institutions recover from the recent enrollment decline. Join this webinar to discover insights from a critical participatory action research study that explored students’ journeys and counterstories. Implications of this study include shifts in instructional practices, support program policies, and staff and faculty training approaches. Let’s start a conversation about how your program can help dismantle barriers and leverage immigrant-origin adult learners’ strengths.

Webinar 1: How to Construct Pre-apprenticeship Pathways

Facilitator:
Adele McClain, Administrator for Apple Valley Adult Education School

Come and learn how Apple Valley Adult Education School and its partner community college leveraged each other's strengths to support adult learners' goal achievements through High School Diploma/Career Technical Education articulated courses as well as industry certificates and union-endorsed pre-apprenticeships. When the two agencies put students' needs first, they found increased revenues even in the pandemic. The practices set up during the pandemic helped them to create expanded partnerships in 2021 and beyond. Join us to explore options for your agency!

Facilitators:
Steven Casperite, Placer School for Adults
Johanna Hart, Los Angeles Unified School District

This two-part series on social-emotional learning (SEL) addresses the overwhelming need for instructors, administrators, and the staff of adult schools to be better informed to meet the social-emotional needs of their students. This two-part series will look at the history of social-emotional learning in the classroom. In addition, the training will look at current work in the field of Affective Neuroscience and how it applies in the classroom setting. Teachers, administrators, and staff will also be given tools and information to create supportive SEL classrooms to meet learner needs.

Social Emotional Learning in Adult Education, Webinar 1: Connecting Evidence, Research, and Practice 

The first session of the series looks at the history of social-emotional learning in the classroom, current work in the field of Affective Neuroscience, and how it applies in the classroom setting.

Social Emotional Learning in Adult Education Webinar Series, Webinar 2: Best Practices

Facilitators:
Marina Kravtsova, English Learner Specialist & Student Ambassador Coordinator, San Mateo Adult and Career Education
Tatiana Roganova, Director, Sequoia Adult School
Sachiko Oates, Technical Assistance Consultant, American Institutes for Research

Do you want to empower your students and foster their sense of belonging to the school and the community? Do you want them to persist in your program and gain relevant skills for employment, democratic participation, and even community transformation? Consider providing student leadership opportunities by establishing a student advisory group or ambassador program. Listening to students' voices is a powerful tool for school improvement. Join us for the panel discussion on student leadership and explore ways to include your students in the school’s decision-making process and how to enlist them to support the school community. We share both formal and informal examples of student leadership opportunities.

Facilitators: 

Jacques LaCour, with Sue Pon

Imagine professional learning in your Adult Education program with immediate teacher buy-in and with tangible student learning. Find out about Lesson Study: what it is and why it’s effective, from research and from Adult Education teacher voices.

This is a three-part series on Lesson Study.

Lesson Study: Truly Inspired Professional Learning Webinar 1: They Why, The What 

Lesson Study: Truly Inspired Professional Learning Webinar Series, Webinar 2: The How

Lesson Study: Truly Inspired Professional Learning Webinar Series, Webinar 3: Office Hour

Facilitators:
Marcela Movit, Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research
Hanna Schlosser, TA Consultant, American Institutes for Research

California is a state of immigrants. Often adult education is the first door through which a new immigrant encounters the world of services and supports available to them as they seek to increase their skills in order to reach their life goals. The new CALPRO Community of Practice will support educators in better serving immigrants through civics instruction understood within the lens of the California Immigrant Integration Initiative and aligned to approved EL Civics metrics.

Facilitators:
Kristi Reyes, Noncredit ESL Instructor, MiraCosta College Continuing Education

It takes persistence for individuals with low basic skills to increase their skill levels significantly, and there are a lot of challenges that can get in the way. However, to increase reading, writing, and oral communication skills enough to succeed in job training, job promotions, and postsecondary education—all of which can lead to middle-skill jobs and family-sustaining wages—requires persistence. How can adult education instructors support learners to persist? Research reveals a number of strategies that can make a difference. This module examines nine of these strategies and offers adult educators the opportunity to practice and internalize them.

Facilitators:
Jacques LaCour and Sue Pon

Coaching is a link connecting theory and practice, connecting learning, and doing. Join us in a conversation about the power of coaching and what coaching looks like in Adult Education. In recent years, coaching has increasingly become an integral part of professional learning in California Adult Education. If you are coaching or considering adding coaching to your program, school, or system, be prepared to do it in the most effective way by learning evidence-based foundations of excellent coaching practices.

Facilitators:
Jill Ibbotson, Kristi Reyes, Jodie Williams

Civics education equips adult learners to deal with issues of critical importance in their lives and communities, with advocacy and agency as central tenets. Agency refers to a learner’s ability to take control of their learning in pursuit of their personal aspirations and goals. This webinar will prepare instructors to embed Civics education into adult high school equivalency completion, adult basic education programs, English literacy, and civics education. Topics will include best practices, lesson plan ideas, and resources for Civics instruction.