COVID-19 Exposes the Need for
Family Literacy Programming

This blog outlines how COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of family literacy programs for our most vulnerable families. It also indicates how some programs have adapted to remote instruction.

Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions

Join the EdTech Center today, July 24th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 14th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions.

This webinar features two lightning talks. First, Ashley Winkle and Claire Gilliam will share how team teaching helped the staff at Literacy Council of Tyler to transition from a face-to-face to remote learning environments by creating opportunities for teachers to support each other with technology issues, instruction, discussion guidance, & overall community building. Then Monica Zambrano and Zazil Rojas from Building Skills Partnership will share how their employer-union partnership work used Facebook as a convenor to help address the Needs of Immigrant Latino Frontline Workers during the COVID-19 Crisis. Following the lightning talks, we’ll break into two discussions and you can choose which topic you’d like to further explore

Skill Rise Blog Post Featuring the
EdTech Center @ World Education:
Lifelong Learning is the Antidote to the Shifting Workforce

This is an ideal time to offer remote learning and upskilling support to all learner-workers, both to those who currently are able to devote time due to job losses and those in high demand on the frontlines. Looking ahead to a healthier, fully functioning economy, what skills, knowledge and mindsets will learner-workers need? 

The EdTech Center is working with SkillRise to close digital divides and ensure that all learner-workers in the United States have opportunities to develop essential technology skills and digital resilience. In this blog post, our team shares tips and success stories for how adult education and workforce training programs can adapt and innovate to ensure they’re adequately supporting worker-learners.

Free Issues of The Change Agent:
"Stand Up and Be Counted" and "Talking About Race"

During the global pandemic and economic downturn, waves of protest against racism, and two major civics events (the census and the election), teachers and students need relevant, engaging materials grounded in current events. In response,  The Change Agent is making two important issues of the magazine available for free: "Talking about Race" and "Stand Up and Be Counted." Both issues support students to learn basic skills and critical thinking in the context of student-written articles that remind all of us that we can be agents of change in our own lives, families, and communities. Follow these links to request your free copy of  "Talking about Race" and "Stand Up and Be Counted."

These issues are free for all to use with the generous support of our donors and subscribers. If you want to bring powerful student writing on highly relevant topics into your classroom, consider subscribing to  The Change Agent.