LINCS Community Events for the Week of 1/10/2022 and 1/17/2022

Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 1/10/2022:

Hosted Discussion: Exploring the New LINCS Teaching Adults to Read Courses

Description: Wondering about best practice strategies for teaching adults to read? The recently updated LINCS Teaching Adults to Read courses explain reading strategy instruction for beginner, intermediate, and advanced adult readers. Throughout January, the Reading and Writing Group will conduct discussions highlighting both courses. Join the discussion at: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/group/25.

Date/Time: Throughout the month of January

LINCS Community Group: Reading and Writing

A LINCS account is required to participate in the LINCS discussion Exploring the New LINCS Teaching Adults to Read Courses.

 

Live Session:  What is a Refugee?: Dominant Discourses in Education and the Importance of Counter-Narratives

Description:  Join Suzanne McCurdy and Bayan Tawakalna to explore the role of counter-narratives as a pedagogical tool to enable refugee individuals to produce and negotiate their own identities and challenge widespread notions of what it means to be a refugee.

Date/Time: Monday, January 10, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: English Language Acquisition

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for What is a Refugee?: Dominant Discourses in Education and the Importance of Counter-Narratives.

 

Live Session:  Teaching Evidence Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) Online

Description:  Join EBRI expert Becki Lemke and the Reading and Writing group to learn best practices for teaching evidence-based reading instruction (EBRI) in online environments.

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: Reading and Writing

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Teaching Evidence Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) Online.

 

Live Session:  Building Digital Skills For An Equitable Pandemic Recovery

Description:  Digital literacy skills are an essential part of an equitable pandemic economic recovery. Join Amanda Berson-Shilcock and Caroline Treschitta of the National Skills Coalition to learn more about essential digital skills and how to integrate specific skills in career clusters.

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: Program Management

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Building Digital Skills For An Equitable Pandemic Recovery.

 

Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 1/17/2022:

Live Session:  A Correctional & Reentry Education Year in Review "2021"

Description: Join the Correctional & Reentry Education group as we reflect on 2021’s impact on the field of adult education in correctional and reentry settings. We will explore the successes and the challenges of 2021 and consider how we can continue to improve educational systems for justice-involved individuals in 2022.

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 12:00pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: Correctional and Reentry Education

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for A Correctional & Reentry Education Year in Review "2021".

 

Live Session:  Mentoring As a Tool for Change: The RAMP Project

Description: January is National Mentoring Month!  Join us in learning about The Right Turn Career-Focused Transition Initiative, a project working to provide career development and work-based learning experiences for young adults who have been justice system involved.  Our conversation will highlight the project's use of mentoring as a tool for working with learners to develop skills and relationships supporting their education and employment goals.

Date/Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022, 2:30pm ET (live session)

LINCS Community Group: Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes

Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Mentoring As a Tool for Change: The RAMP Project.

 

Please note: LINCS moderator-led events are not recorded, so we encourage you to participate in them as they happen.