Webinar
In CALPRO Webinars, a subject expert delivers a presentation and engages the audience in a question-and-answer period afterward. Typically, 60 to 90 minutes in length, the webinars are tailored for specific audiences and provide access to professional development on a wide range of current and emerging priority topics.
To register for upcoming webinars and obtain additional details, visit the CALPRO Event Calendar.
What You Need to Know
Administrators Forum
The Administrators Forum provides adult school administrators with just-in-time professional development on a variety of subjects. Subject experts have addressed topics such as Managing Relationships with Your District and Community, Strategic Planning for a Sustainable Adult Education Program, and Cultivating a Thriving Adult Learning Environment.
Past Webinars are archived in the Video Library. To register for upcoming Webinars, visit the CALPRO Event Calendar.
Research Forum Webinar Series
CALPRO’s Research Forum Webinars bring together subject matter experts who will share evidence-based practices that are in high demand in adult education. From effective instructional strategies to innovative program design, we explore practical insights and relevant approaches.
Past Webinars are archived in the Video Library. To register for upcoming Webinars, visit the CALPRO Event Calendar.
Motivation and Persistence for Adult Learners
Increasing reading, writing, and oral communication skills enough to succeed in job training, job promotions, and postsecondary education requires persistence. Research reveals numerous strategies that can make a difference. This training examines nine of these strategies and offers adult educators the opportunity to practice and internalize them.
Using Questioning Strategies to Improve Instruction
This training supports teachers to develop questioning strategies that foster higher-level thinking skills in their students.
College and Career Readiness Standards: English Language Arts (ELA) Implementation and Application
This training provides an in-depth exploration of the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and how to align what occurs in the classroom with these standards. to support teachers, administrators, and programs as they work to implement and align with the CCRS.
Evidence-Based Writing Instruction in the ABE Classroom
This COP is focused on writing instruction for intermediate and advanced level adult basic education (ABE) students. The information provided in this training is intended to guide teachers of these adult learning communities to prepare and deliver instruction, including appropriate instructional supports that promote student achievement.
Evidence-Based Writing Instruction in the ESL Classroom
This COP is focused on writing instruction for intermediate and advanced-level English as a second language (ESL) students. The information provided in this training is intended to guide teachers of these adult learning communities to prepare and deliver instruction, including appropriate instructional supports that promote student achievement.
Managing the ESL Multilevel Class
It can be challenging for instructors to provide level-appropriate, engaging instruction for all students in an ESL Multilevel class. At the completion of this Community of Practice, participants will embrace the ESL Multilevel class and facilitate level-appropriate, engaging instruction for all students.
Mastering the English Language Proficiency Standards
ESL instructors can benefit from familiarity with and reliance on the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards for Adult Education (AE) to guide instruction toward the increased rigor and skills necessary for successful transition to work or to postsecondary training or further education and for participation in communities that adult learners need.
Optimizing ESL Instructional Planning: Management, Monitoring, and Reflection
This training presents an optimal process for instructional planning, through management, monitoring, and reflection. The CoP supports participants in integrating the research-based strategies and activities into their instructional practices and offers further suggestions for using this process in the ESL classroom.
Accelerated Learning to Facilitate Career Pathways
This training is framed in the context of developing and sustaining career pathways and focuses on strategies that programs may use to make the rapid attainment of short-term and long-term career goals for students on a particular career path as efficient and effective as possible.
Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ABE/ASE Classroom
This training provides background to educators for teaching skills transferable from the classroom to the workplace and explicitly teaching how to articulate those skills. The training offers ideas for hands-on application of transferable skills in adult basic education (ABE) and adult secondary education (ASE) classrooms.