EdTech Center News: Strategies for Building Program Capacity and Learner Skills
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Readability for All:
Fostering Adult Literacy Through Personalization |
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Moving Forward:
Strategies for Building Program Capacity
and Learner Skills |
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Join us today at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the next installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions. This session will focus on what shifts programs have made in the last year and what is sticking as programs develop reopening strategies. Karen Rivas and colleagues from the Carlos Rosario Adult Public Charter School will share resources and experiences with a human-centered approach that will be key to reopening for the 2021-22 school year. Focusing on meeting the needs of the moment and blending adult-ed student needs, Carlos Rosario is exploring offering flexible learning spaces based on what they learned during the pandemic while adjusting to changing local health guidelines and DC School parameters.
Next, we’ll hear how the Ronald M Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning/St. Paul Adult Basic Education (MN) embraced a new approach to make technology-rich instruction more equitable. In the fall of 2020, they started implementing "push-in" digital literacy instruction. Adam Kieffer describes his visits to remote ELL class sessions in which he offers highly relevant, digital skills instruction.
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Funding Opportunity with
Facebook Groups Community Accelerator |
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The 2021 Community Accelerator Program is designed to help leaders harness the power of their community to turn ideas into action. Those selected for the program will participate in eight months of training, as well as receive mentorship and funding to invest in a community development project that extends its positive impact. Each community will receive up to $50K to support its goals, and an additional $1 million will be made available to eligible communities. |
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Advancing Racial Equity in Adult Education |
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World Educations' April webinar series addresses how bias and racial inequity show up in adult education both on individual and institutional levels and also works to offer solutions. Implicit Bias and Racial Equity, presented by
The Change Agent editor Cynthia Peters, proposes three dimensions for addressing it: 1) raising our own awareness, 2) slowing down our practice and putting up “guard rails” against acting on bias, and 3) gradually changing the “water we swim in” by making our programs and the field more focused on equity.
If you're interested in bringing professional development on these and other equity-related topics to your literacy programs, contact Cynthia_Peters@worlded.org to discuss options.
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