Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 11/08/2021:
Live Session: Project Based Learning: Skills that Matter through an Approach that Works!
Description: Project-based learning...isn’t that for kids? No! Adult educators can embrace this effective approach as well. Join us to learn from Dr. Patsy Egan how to ensure adults learn "skills that matter" in an academic, project-based setting.
Date/Time: Monday, November 8, 2021, 3:00 to 4:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Professional Development
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Project Based Learning: Skills that Matter through an Approach that Works!
Live Session: The Illinois Digital Learning Lab: Adult Education Digital Efficacy
Description: Looking for ideas for creating learning communities to help with the challenging task of integrating technology into adult education? Join Michael Matos with the Illinois Digital Learning Lab, Jennifer Maddrell, and David Rosen, to learn more about how to create collaborative environments and experiment and adjust to an always learning world.
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 2:00 to 3:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Integrating Technology
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for The Illinois Digital Learning Lab: Adult Education Digital Efficacy.
Live Session: Exploring the Teaching the Skills That Matter Workforce Preparation Resources
Description: Have you heard of Teaching the Skills That Matter (TSTM) in Adult Education but aren’t sure what it is? Are you concerned about how to meet your program’s workforce preparation goals? Join us to learn more about the workforce preparation resources available in TSTM -- bring your questions and learn from two instructors who use this innovative curriculum!
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 2:00 to 3:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Teaching and Learning
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Exploring the Teaching the Skills That Matter Workforce Preparation Resources.
Live Session: Translanguaging for Science Success
Description: English language learners in the science classroom often face a double challenge: Learning English while learning science. Join us to learn about translanguaging and easy and powerful ways to integrate it into existing classroom practices. Translanguaging can transform a student's first language from a liability into a resource!
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 3:30 to 4:30pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Science
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Translanguaging for Science Success.
Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the weeks of 11/15/2021:
Live Session: Integrated Education & Training In Corrections
Description: Integrated Education & Training (IET) programs provide tools that help learners contextualize the journey from the classroom to the workroom. Join us to explore the benefits and basics of launching an IET program in correctional and reentry settings.
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 1:00 to 2:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Correctional and Reentry Education
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Integrated Education & Training In Corrections.
Hosted Discussion: LGBTQ+ and Disability: Working with Persons with Intersecting Identities
Description: Join the Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes group for a conversation on unpacking LGBTQ+ concepts and identities to help increase educators' understanding and comfort in using appropriate language with learners with intersecting (LGBTQ+disability) identities.
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 16 - 17, 2021 (asynchronous discussion)
LINCS Community Group: Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes
A LINCS account is required to participate in the LINCS discussion, LGBTQ+ and Disability: Working with Persons with Intersecting Identities.
Hosted Discussion: Developing Strategies to Support Single Mothers
Description: How do we create an inclusive and equitable environment where single mothers can succeed in their college aspirations? Join Sandy Goodman, Director of the National College Transitions Network (NCTN) at World Education, to discover promising practices and early lessons from the NCTN‘s College Success for Single Mothers project.
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 (asynchronous discussion)
LINCS Community Group: Program Management
A LINCS account is required to participate in the LINCS discussion, Developing Strategies to Support Single Mothers.
Live Session: Technology Tools for History and/or Social Studies
Description: Do you struggle with integrating technology into your social studies and history lessons? Join us to learn from Susan Giuliano about how to use technology resources and tools to enhance and expand approaches to social studies and history instruction.
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 2:00 to 3:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Integrating Technology
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Technology Tools for History and/or Social Studies
Live Session: Coffee Break: Further Developing a Mathematical Identity
Description: Want to help further your students' development of their mathematical identity? Join the Math and Numeracy coffee break as we explore ways to promote diverse, equitable, and inclusive environments for our math learners to further develop their identity as math producers.
Date/Time: Thursday, November 18, 2021, 3:00 to 4:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Math and Numeracy
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Coffee Break: Further Developing a Mathematical Identity.
Please note: LINCS moderator-led events are not recorded, so we encourage you to participate in them as they happen.