Hello all,
The Mountain Plains Adult Education Association (MPAEA) and the New Mexico Adult Education Association (NMAEA) are hosting the 2014 MPAEA Conference this week in Santa Fe, NM. Over 340 adult educators are in attendance and featured keynote speakers include:
Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier – Federal Perspectives on Transforming Adult Education
Brad Deeds – The Positive Impact of MPAEA and State Associations
Art Ellison – A Call to Action
This year’s conference theme is “Transforming Education – Exceeding the Limits” and LINCS is one of 19 specialty tracks at the conference. The following LINCS sessions were offered as pre-conference sessions:
- Assisting Struggling Readers and Writers: Using Research-Based Resources to Support Adult Learners – Kathy St. John
- Components of Numeracy and Algebra: Tools for Engaging Learners in Meaningful Math – Sarah Fearnow
- Integrating Career Awareness to Enhance College and Career Pathways Programs - Priyanka Sharma
In addition, the following 12 LINCS sessions are offered as general session workshops:
- Adult College Completion Toolkit – Priyanka Sharma
- Using the Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles Website: Discover Valuable Resources for Yourself, Your Learners and Your Program – Kathy St. John
- Emerging Technologies in the Adult Education Classroom – Tim Ponder
- Evidence-Based Practice: A Workshop for Training Adult Basic Education Practitioners – Kaye Beall
- Finding Everyday Opportunities to Think Algebraically – Lynda Ginsburg
- Learning-to-Achieve: Content Learning – Beth Ponder
- Learning-to-Achieve: Workforce Readiness – Beth Ponder
- ELL-U: Learner-Centered Practice in Adult ESL – Kathy Harris
- Teaching Adult English Language Learners who are Emergent Readers – Kathy Harris and Paul Heavenridge
- Teaching Adults to Read: The Components of Reading – Dianna Baycich
- Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay: Using LINCS Resources to Help Students Become Mature Writers – Dianna Baycich
- Motivating Adult Learners: Self-Efficacy, Goal Setting, and the Learning Environment – Gail Cope
If you are attending the conference this week, I hope you will share the sessions you attend and let us know what you learn as well as insights and highlights from the sessions you participate in. Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you!
Gail Cope, SME, LINCS Program Management Group