When AI Helps You Write: Smarter Goals, Better Plans
Description: Generative AI is changing how educators plan, write, and communicate—and it can make your work easier and more effective. Whether you’re drafting SMART goals for your Continuous Improvement Plan or developing a strategic plan for your program, AI can provide powerful support when used thoughtfully.In this practical, demonstration-based webinar, you’ll learn:• How to create prompts that generate clear, relevant, and useful results• What to do when AI output doesn’t meet your needs—and how to refine it• How to assess AI-generated text for accuracy, appropriateness, and tone• Why human expertise and context remain essential in every AI-assisted taskYou’ll also hear from fellow adult education professionals who are already using AI to lighten their writing workload—discover what’s working for them, what to avoid, and how AI can free up more time for what matters most: supporting learners.Walk away with ready-to-use strategies and examples you can apply right away to make your planning, reporting, and writing tasks more efficient and impactful.Presenter: Steven Casperite, Principal, Placer School for AdultsTo register for this webinar: https://caadultedtraining.org/OTAN/383?Type=10
Admin Forum: Resilience in the Face of Destabilizing Change
Admin Forum: Resilience in the Face of Destabilizing Change
Webinar date: March 24, 2026
Presenter: Brigitte Marshall
When AI Helps You Write: Smarter Goals, Better Plans
Description: Generative AI is changing how educators plan, write, and communicate—and it can make your work easier and more effective. Whether you’re drafting SMART goals for your Continuous Improvement Plan or developing a strategic plan for your program, AI can provide powerful support when used thoughtfully.In this practical, demonstration-based webinar, you’ll learn:• How to create prompts that generate clear, relevant, and useful results• What to do when AI output doesn’t meet your needs—and how to refine it• How to assess AI-generated text for accuracy, appropriateness, and tone• Why human expertise and context remain essential in every AI-assisted taskYou’ll also hear from fellow adult education professionals who are already using AI to lighten their writing workload—discover what’s working for them, what to avoid, and how AI can free up more time for what matters most: supporting learners.Walk away with ready-to-use strategies and examples you can apply right away to make your planning, reporting, and writing tasks more efficient and impactful.Presenter: Steven Casperite, Principal, Placer School for AdultsDate: March 27, 2026
Admin Forum: Forecast: Unknown. Strategy: Strong. Budget Planning When Answers Are TBD
Description: This practical webinar to explore strategies for budgeting when the path ahead is anything but certain. We’ll talk through real‑world decision‑making approaches, ways to stay flexible without losing your footing, and how to plan with confidence even when the numbers are still in flux. If you want tools that help you stay calm, strategic, and maybe even a little inspired during budget season—this session is for you.Presenter: Steve Curiel
Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit
The Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit guides users through a team-based approach to develop customized IET solutions that address the needs of adult learners and local businesses through four iterative phases: Research and Assess, Design and Plan, Develop and Implement, and Evaluate and Improve. Train-the-Trainer materials are also available to support the IET Design process. See the abstract for links.
Apprenticeship/Pre-apprenticeship and CTE Pathways Webinar Series: How to Construct Pre-apprenticeship Pathways
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!
Retraining Unemployed and Low-skilled Adults
Facilitators:KayLynn Hamilton, Workforce Development Specialist at The Pennsylvania State UniversityFrom career awareness to digital literacy, adult education programs are increasing their efforts to provide opportunities for adults to gain necessary skills for facing an uncertain job market. Join this professional development opportunity to examine tools and techniques for practitioners to include in their practice to support their students, especially when working with adults who may need re-tooling after job displacement or adults entering the job market for the first time. Topics will include career awareness, career goal setting, workforce preparation, and sector focused and integrated instruction.
Middle Skills Job Preparation: The Role of Employability Skills in the Adult Education Setting
How can adult educators integrate employability skills into instruction to support workforce preparation for middle skills jobs? Employability skills—also referred to as 21st century workplace skills, soft-skills, or non-cognitive skills—are needed by our adult education students for readiness and success regardless of the industry or job position. This webinar provides a brief overview of the middle skills jobs landscape, both nationally and in California, and an employability skills framework. The presenter highlights strategies and hands-on resources to connect the needed employability skills for these jobs within adult education settings.
Adult Education Providers and Career Pathways: Insights from Three Cities
Facilitator: Esther Prins and Carol Clymer - Institute for the Study of Adult LiteracyCareer pathways (CP) has become a popular buzzword, but we know little about how adult education providers are integrating CP into their services, how programs are designed, who they serve, what kinds of outcomes they are achieving, and how these are measured. This webinar will present findings from a researcher-practitioner partnership project that mapped the landscape of adult education career pathways in Chicago, Houston, and Miami. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the project included the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy at Penn State, Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition, Houston Center for Literacy, and Miami-Dade County Public Schools.