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Upcoming Webinars

Join thought leaders from the field at our upcoming webinars.

Our free webinars offer you tips and actionable insight from experts to help you effectively support adult learners. 

Webinars are designed and hosted by educators, staff, and researchers in the adult literacy field who bring their expertise and experience to help you advance your work with students. Sign up for one of our upcoming webinars today! Find past webinar recordings on our Courses & Learning page.

October 17

Teacher Training Plus - Landing the Job: Preparing Learners for Applying and Interviewing

1:00 pm–2:00 pm ET

Discover effective strategies and resources to help learners navigate today’s job market. In this webinar, we’ll examine current methods for finding and interpreting job openings and discuss the essential skills learners need to successfully complete online job applications. We’ll focus on practical tools and activities you can use to guide your students through the job search process, including helping them consider their own skills and priorities. Finally, we’ll explore effective interview techniques and provide classroom teaching strategies to help students confidently present their skills and potential during the interview process. 

October 18

Urban Alliance Partner - An Actionable Strategy to Expand ESOL Services, a Presentation and Discussion of a Report

1:00 pm–2:00 pm ET

Researchers from MassINC and the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute will share their analysis of services for English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Their study found that state and federal funding has not kept pace with the growth of the Commonwealth’s limited English population over the past two decades. This has led to large gaps in access to high-quality ESOL services. The report draws on administrative data, publicly available secondary data, and interviews with key stakeholders to illustrate the growing need for services. The report has spurred news coverage and local action to increase resources for ESOL services in Massachusetts and may be a useful model for other states to pursue to better address their adult ESOL or ESL needs. Presented by: Benjamin Forman, research director at MassINC; and Dr. Kerry Spitzer, senior research manager at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute

October 24

Teacher Training Plus - Incorporating Phonics and Fluency into Any Instructional Material

1:00 pm–2:00 pm ET

Students often need more practice on a specific skill than the worksheets you have on hand. Join us to learn how to make your materials do double duty to practice phonics and fluency. This session is for those whose students are native English speakers. Following the webinar, Janet will be hosting three workshops to accompany this webinar topic. You may select one or more of the workshops to gain a deeper understanding of the topic, goal setting, and work on lesson planning around the topic. Registration for workshops will be available immediately following the webinar. Workshops will not be recorded.

October 31

Affordable Housing and Adult Literacy/Foundational Education Partnerships

1:00 pm–2:00 pm ET

This webinar shines the light on Adult Foundational/Literacy Education program models for residents in affordable or public housing based on exploratory research by the Affordable Housing Task Force of the Open Door Collective’s research group, E-BAES. The presenters will share examples of specific programs from around the country as well as notable themes they observed across the 11 programs they interviewed. They hope to inspire adult educators to consider public and affordable housing as a context through which to reach adult learners. Presenters: David J. Rosen, Silja Kallenbach, Christine Cordaro, Marc Goldberg, and Kathy Harris

Todd Evans

Our professional development resources help program managers, instructors, trainers, and others build the capacity and quality of adult education programs. Our tools can help your adult literacy programs strengthen skills and learn new strategies to improve student outcomes in reading, writing, and financial literacy.

Todd Evans, Senior Director of Programs

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