Equity for All through Deeper Learning: Free Professional Learning Series
DESE’s Kaleidoscope Collective for Learning (KCL), a cohort-based approach to spreading Deeper Learning throughout the Commonwealth K-12 schools, is offering free professional learning sessions in which teachers will explore instructional practices that leverage using authentic work to build and sustain student engagement in and across remote, hybrid, and in-person learning.
Educators will engage with colleagues from across the Commonwealth to strategize ways to apply these practices and mindsets in their own virtual or in-person classrooms.
These sessions are tailored to K-12 educators but highly applicable and recommended to adult education teachers as well.
Upcoming sessions from KCL:
- Engaging students as Complex Thinkers, May 18, 3:45-5:00 pm
- Designing for Equity, June 8, 3:30-5 pm
Registration is available
here.
Thank you all for your interest in the professional learning session
Transforming Instruction Through the Lens of Authentic Work. In order to respond to the needs and demands on educators during the month of April as we transition to in-person learning across the Commonwealth, we will be
rescheduling the April 15th session to May 18th.
Please contact Samantha Garcia M. Ed, Kaleidoscope Collective,
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,
781-338-3575,
samantha.garcia@mass.gov for more information.
Teaching the Skills That Matter (TSTM) National Conference
If you attended the ACLS TSTM workshop at the Network 2021 conference, got excited about the TSTM nine skills, five focus areas, and three instructional approaches, and left eager to know more, the national TSTM conference is the solution for you!
If you didn’t attend the TSTM workshop at 2021 Network and wonder what are the most important skills adult learners should master, the relevant areas adult education teachers should focus on, and the instructional approaches that research shows lead to strong student outcomes, the national TSTM conference has the answers for you!
Conference session topics include:
- Teaching the Skills that Matter at a distance
- TSTM, teacher practice, and student outcomes
- Applying instructional approaches that work
- Integrating the skills that matter
- Innovation and best practices with the skills that matter
- Understanding and using the TSTM Toolkit
Registration is available
here.
New PD to Support Mathematics Instruction for English Learners in Adult Basic Education
New online course from the SABES Math Curriculum and Instruction PD Center for programs that have English learners in their ABE classrooms. This asynchronous, self-paced course engages ABE teachers through video clips with actual adult learners and journal reflections. Estimated time to complete: 5 hours.
Resources
- You asked for it, we got it: VIDEOS! Creating Community: Overview of Remote Math Teaching video is now available on the SABES home page. Look out for more videos from the SABES Math Curriculum and Instruction PD Center that will provide examples of how to teach math conceptually even during remote instruction.
- Engage and reflect about math practices in the ABE classroom with the latest posts on the Adult Numeracy Center at TERC blog.
Standards-in-Action for English Learners Training Update
A heartfelt thank you to all educators who expressed interest in the Standards-in-Action for English Learners training! Because each state can only register a limited number of practitioners and because teams should (ideally) include a balanced representation of both ABE and ESOL teachers and program directors, ACLS is regretfully unable to include all the applications received. However, ACLS will work with the team of trainees to disseminate teaching practices from this training in early fall 2021 for all ABE and ESOL practitioners.
