Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 01/22/2024:
Live Session: LINCS 101: Inside the Correctional and Reentry Education Community
Description: It’s time that you learned about the incredible resources and tools available to those working in the correctional and reentry education filed. Join us for LINCS 101! This event will bring to light all the amazing tools and resources available through the LINCS system. We will explore the LINCS Resource Collection, State Resources, Courses, and the incredible events that are available to the correctional and reentry education community. Bring a colleague, a friend, or someone in your professional network to join our Correctional & Reentry Education Community of Practice. This will be an event of you will not soon forget.
Presenter: Jeffrey Abramowitz, LINCS Correctional and Reentry Education Group Moderator
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 12:00 PM ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Correctional and Reentry Education
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for LINCS 101: Inside the Correctional and Reentry Education Community.
Live Session: Virtual Reality for Career Exploration
Description: Looking for a new way to help adult learners explore careers? Join us for this live event that will highlight how virtual reality (VR) can help adult learners explore careers. Virtual reality can be used in small community classrooms and in correctional facilities. Michael Rohrback of the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (LLIU13) will share how multiple partners braided funding to increase access to career exploration through virtual reality for different populations of learners.
Presenter: Michael Rohrback, Lancaster Lebanon LLIU13
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 12:00 PM ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Career Pathways and Postsecondary Transitions
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Virtual Reality for Career Exploration.
Live Session: Coffee Break: Learner Goal Setting
Description: Take a coffee break to join the LINCS Professional Development and English Language Acquisition moderators for a conversation about learner goal setting. Did you know research indicates that writing down goals increases the likelihood of achieving them? During this discussion, we will explore frequently asked questions of adult educators, such as: Do adult learners struggle with goal setting and how can we facilitate goal setting? Come to listen, share your experiences and strategies, and learn more about LINCS resources on goal setting.
Presenter: Jacki Korengel, LINCS Professional Development Group Moderator
Susan Finn Miller, LINCS English Language Acquisition Group Moderator
Date/Time: Friday, January 26, 2024, 12:00 PM ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Professional Development, Reading and Writing
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Coffee Break: Learner Goal Setting.
Please see below for the LINCS Community events for the week of 01/29/2024:
Live Session: The Legacies of Systemic Inequities
Description: Many stereotypical narratives exist for why adult literacy learners are unsuccessful in earning a high school diploma. Those narratives seldom include the systemic roots that lead to generational poverty and generational illiteracy. Join our presenter, Greg Deegan of Teaching Cleveland, as he highlights the origins of stereotypical narratives. Mr. Deegan with provide practitioners with useful strategies to adjust their personal dispositions/biases toward adult literacy learners, and ways to support adult learners with stakeholders who misunderstand them.
Presenter: Greg Deegan, Executive Director, Teaching Cleveland
Date/Time: Monday, January 29, 2024, 3:00 PM ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for The Legacies of Systemic Inequities.
Live Session: Better Serving Deaf Learners in Adult Basic Education and English Language Acquisition Programs
Description: Join our guest speakers from Gallaudet University's English Language Institute and English Department in a conversation about best practices for serving Deaf learners with varying levels of literacy participating in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English Language Acquisition (ELA) programs. This impactful discussion will include ASL interpretation. Please bring your questions and experiences.
Presenter: Gemma Gabor, Professor, Gallaudet University and Tonya Stremlau, Professor, Gallaudet University
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 30, 2024, 3:45 PM ET (live session)
LINCS Community Group: Learners with Disabilities, English Language Acquisition
Online registration is required to participate in the LINCS Event for Better Serving Deaf Learners in ABE and ELA Programs.
*Please note: LINCS moderator-led events are not recorded, so we encourage you to participate in them as they happen. Certificates are provided for attending live LINCS events.