Immigrant-Origin Adult Learners' Educational Journeys: Dismantling Barriers and Leveraging Strengths
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.
Supporting Immigrant Integration through Civics Education (Online)
Course Description:Adult education plays a significant role in the lives 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 to reach their life goals. As described in the white paper by ALLIES on the Immigrant Integration Framework: “Immigrant integration is... a two-way process involving learning and adaptation by both immigrant communities and receiving communities. Broadening an understanding of diverse perspectives and cultural resources ultimately strengthens both the immigrant and receiving communities, and increases the entire community’s capacity to adapt and respond to a changing global environment." This facilitated online course will help educators support immigrants through civics education as understood within the lens of the California Immigrant Integration Initiative and aligned to approved EL Civics metrics.Goals:Participants will be able to locate and adapt Teaching Skills that Matter lesson materials on Civics Education topics in order to support immigrant students at all levels of ESL to become successful members of their communities.Registration Information:There is no registration fee to participate; CALPRO professional development opportunities are available to all California Adult Education Program (CAEP) agencies and employees.Contact Information:Please contact calpro@air.org with any questions.
Research Forum: Universal Design for Learning in Action: Applying UDL in Adult Education Classrooms
Description:
This webinar focuses on turning UDL concepts into everyday teaching routines to improve engagement, accessibility, and learner persistence, with examples tailored to adult‑education contexts. Let's explore concrete instructional strategies, lesson design choices, and learner support.
Presenter: Marie Doerner
Social Emotional Learning in Adult Education Webinar Series, Webinar 1: Connecting Evidence, Research, and Practice
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
Student Leadership: A win-win solution for your learners, your school, and beyond (Virtual Panel Discussion)
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.
Lesson Study: Truly Inspired Professional Learning Webinar Series, Webinar 1: They Why, The What
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
Motivation and Persistence for Adult Learners at a Distance
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.
Coaching Conversations: What’s it all about?
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.
It’s a Wrap! Breaking Down Barriers with Wrap Around Services
Facilitators:Steve Curiel, Principal, Huntington Beach Adult SchoolCourtney Winford, Assistant Principal, Huntington Beach Adult SchoolAshley Nguyen, Counselor, Huntington Beach Adult SchoolValerie Beachley, College & Career Specialist, Huntington Beach Adult SchoolArlene Flores, Job Developer, Huntington Beach Adult SchoolPlease join the Huntington Beach Adult School Student Support Services Team as they walk you through breaking down the barriers of two student personas and showcase how they collaborate with community agencies to provide support and wellness to the whole student. The team will describe their service approach during COVID and their plans moving forward.
Health Literacy in Adult Education
Facilitators:Katie Neginskiy, Technical Assistance Consultant, American Institutes for ResearchHealth literacy is always an important component of education but has become even more crucial. Research shows that students with limited education have more health problems, greater difficulty understanding health information, and higher rates of hospitalization. Embedding health literacy into adult education classrooms can provide students with the skills they need to navigate health systems. Join this professional development opportunity to examine tools and techniques for practitioners hoping to incorporate health literacy into their instruction.