Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 09/12/2022:
Live Session: Project-Based Learning in ABE and ESL Classes
Description: Join Kristi Reyes of MiraCosta College to learn about projects that integrate technology as a powerful way to give ABE and English learners real-world work preparation. Students can build their knowledge in many topics while developing oral and written communication skills, and carefully planned projects can address standards, support the development of critical soft skills, and give learners a sense of empowerment, not to mention tech skills! Attendees will learn about projects they can use right away in their classes.
Presenter: Kristi Reyes, MiraCosta College
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 3:30pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: English Language Acquisition; Science; Reading and Writing; Teaching and Learning
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Project-Based Learning in ABE and ESL Classes.
Live Session: Motivational Interviewing (MI) through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Using MI to Support Adult Learner Resilience
Description: How do you plan to support learner engagement and retention at the start of the school year? These can be especially big challenges for learners with histories of trauma. Join us to discover how Motivational Interviewing (MI) can help you 'lift the burden' with these learners and support them in clarifying their academic and career goals.
Presenters: Kathy Tracey, LINCS Program Management Community Group Moderator and Mike Cruse, LINCS Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes Community Group Moderator
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 4:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes; Program Management
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Motivational Interviewing (MI) through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Using MI to Support Adult Learners' Resilience.
Live Session: USA Learns’ New Integration ESL Course
Description: Join Andrea Willis of USA Learns and ESL Teacher Jenni Santamaria to learn about a new and innovative web-based instructional resource that provides interactive language learning opportunities to immigrant and refugee English learners. We’ll consider how to tailor and use this FREE resource to support learner language learning and integration goals.
Presenter: Andrea Willis, USA Learns and Jenni Santamaria, Sacramento County Office of Education
Date/Time: Thursday, September 15, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Integrating Technology
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for USA Learns' New Integration ESL Course "Access America".
Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 09/19/2022:
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Welcome to the National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2022! The LINCS Community has an exciting slate of events to celebrate this week! The National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week raises public awareness about the need for and value of adult education and family literacy. Its goal is to increase financial and societal support for access to basic education programs for U.S. adults with low literacy, numeracy, and digital skills. Advocates across the country use this opportunity to elevate adult education and family literacy nationwide with policymakers, the media, and the community.
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Live Session: Meet the LINCS Moderators Speed Networking Event
Description: Celebrate National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2022 with the LINCS Community Moderators! Get a chance to speed network with the LINCS Moderators during this fun, virtual event. We’re hiring two new moderators -- this is a great opportunity to learn more about the LINCS team!
Presenter: Chrissie Klinger, LINCS Career Pathways Community Group Moderator
Date/Time: Monday, September 19, 2022, 12:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Career Pathways
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Meet the LINCS Moderators Speed Networking Event.
Live Session: Introducing the New LINCS Online Course - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): From Awareness to Action
Description: In honor of National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, Sudie Whalen of the American Institutes for Research will share details of the new LINCS online course on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): From Awareness to Action.
Presenter: Sudie Whalen, American Institutes for Research; Mike Cruse, LINCS Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes Community Group Moderator; Grace Solares, Acting Director, Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education; and Cherise Moore, LINCS Project Director
Date/Time: Monday, September 19, 2022, 3:30pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Disabilities and Equitable Outcomes
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Introducing the New LINCS Online Course - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): From Awareness to Action.
Live Session: Identifying High Growth and High Demand Sectors
Description: Join us to explore the Department of Labor's Career Trajectories and Occupational Transitions Dashboard and discover LINCS resources for building Integrated Education and Training (IET) programs that help students enter sustainable employment.
Presenter: Kathy Tracey, LINCS Program Management Community Group Moderator
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 12:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Program Management
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Identifying High Growth and High Demand Sectors.
Live Session: Adult Education & Family Literacy Week: The State of Adult Education Behind and Beyond our Prison Walls and What We Can do to Make it Better
Description: Join Danielle Cox and the Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE) Literacy Behind & Beyond the Walls Committee to explore the state of adult education in the correctional setting and the importance of adult literacy for the 2.1 million men and women behind the walls of our prisons/jails and their families. This event will be broadcast live from the COABE’s celebration of AEFL Week in Washington D.C.
Presenter: Danielle Cox, Director of Adult Education for the State of Maryland
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 2:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Correctional and Reentry Education
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Adult Education & Family Literacy Week: The State of Adult Education Behind and Beyond our Prison Walls and What We Can do to Make it Better.
Live Session: Helping Adult Learners Transition to Postsecondary Education and Training
Description: Join Meghan McBride, Vice President for Adult Education at Georgia Piedmont Technical College, to learn about her amazing personal story of determination and persistence in the adult education space, with helpful tips on helping adult learners transition to postsecondary education and training.
Presenter: Meghan McBride Ed.D., Georgia Piedmont Technical College
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 12:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Career Pathways
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Helping Adult Learners Transition to Postsecondary Education and Training.
Live Session: Coffee Talk: Equity Action Planning in Adult Basic Education
Description: In honor of National Adult Education and Family Literacy week, join us to learn from Maribel Ojeda, who will share her work around equity action planning in Pennsylvania. Please bring your efforts in this space to this open conversation on how adult basic education programs can identify and address gaps in adult learner services and increase the diversity of workers that enter career pathway pipelines.
Presenter: Maribel Ojeda, Professional Learning Opportunities Project, Pennsylvania Department of Education
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 2:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Career Pathways
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Coffee Talk: Equity Action Planning in Adult Basic Education.
Live Session: Linking Digital Literacy and EdTech: A COABE 2022 Follow-Up Discussion
Description: Summer is over and the traditional "school year" is ramping back up. Join Rachel Riggs of Word Education and Nell Eckersley of NYC Support and Technical Assistance to revisit the topics and questions that were swirling in the Linking EdTech + Digital Literacy Coffee Break back in May. Let's learn from one another during National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week as we share new ideas for integrating technology and building digital skills in adult education.
Presenter: Rachel Riggs, EdTech Center at World Education and Nell Eckersley, NYC Support and Technical Assistance Center
Date/Time: Thursday, September 22, 2022, 3:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Integrating Technology
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Linking Digital Literacy and EdTech: A COABE 2022 Follow-Up Discussion.
Live Session: Coffee Break: Need is Not Demand - How Do We Create Demand?
Description: Join the LINCS Professional Development group during National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week to consider why need is not demand in adult education. We’ll discuss the following questions: Where are prospective students who need our services? How do we reach them and create demand for our services? What do marketing principles stress? What are the features and benefits of our services that will attract adult learners?
Presenter: Jacqueline Korengel, LINCS Professional Development Community Group Moderator
Date/Time: Friday, September 23, 2022, 12:00pm ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Professional Development
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Coffee Break: Need is Not Demand - How Do We Create Demand?
*Please note: LINCS moderator-led events are not recorded, so we encourage you to participate in them as they happen. Certificates are not provided for attending LINCS events.