Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/11/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Save the date for Literacy Action Network's annual Summer Institute 2026. More information to come!

Registration Deadline: MON. 8/17/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Participants learn how to apply teaching practices that support language and skill development for all learners. These practices include ensuring that instruction is learner centered, using an appropriate level of teacher talk and delivering error correction.

Registration Deadline: FRI. 8/21/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Teaching intermediate alphabetics (syllables, prefixes, suffixes, root words) is a great way to help students build their decoding and comprehension skills. Come learn a variety of fun and easy-to-use routines and activities for helping intermediate-level readers develop these important tools.

Registration Deadline: MON. 8/24/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Participants will engage in a couple of classroom activities to experience scaffolding, checking comprehension and the gradual release of responsibility. These aspects of teaching and tutoring are then defined, explained further and participants get opportunities to practice them.

Join the ATLAS Lounge for Ask ATLAS Office Hours. Passcode to join the meeting: lounge2026   Welcome to a new endeavor for ATLAS - open office hours! Join the Zoom on Friday, August 28, between 9:30-10:30am, for the inaugural virtual "ATLAS Lounge." This first office hour is dedicated to language teaching, and Patsy will be […]

Join the ATLAS Lounge for Ask ATLAS Office Hours. Passcode to join the meeting: lounge2026 Welcome to a new endeavor for ATLAS – open office hours! Join the Zoom on Monday, August 31, between 2:00 - 3:00 pm. This office hour is dedicated to Transitions, and Carly will be sipping coffee, awaiting a conversation with […]

Registration Deadline: WED. 9/2/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Come and review the important role of fluency in reading instruction. We will discuss the three key components of reading fluency and look at a variety of activities tutors and teachers can try. We will talk about the mechanics of doing fluency practice via Zoom, Google […]

Registration Deadline: WED. 9/9/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Presenters: Carly Voshell (ATLAS), Sonji Davis (Office of New Americans) and additional panelists  The Recredentialing Pathways (RCP) assists internationally trained professionals reconnect with careers in Minnesota by recognizing the education and experience they earned outside the United States. Since launching in December 2025, the pilot has […]

Registration Deadline: WED. 9/9/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Participants learn about Adult Basic Education programming in Minnesota, demographics of learners, instructional content standards as well as initial and on-going assessment. This session wraps up with learner motivations, barriers and persistence.

Join the ATLAS Lounge for Ask ATLAS Office Hours. Passcode to join the meeting: lounge2026 Welcome to a new endeavor for ATLAS – open office hours! Join the Zoom on Friday, September 11, between 9:30 and 10:30 am. This office hour is dedicated to those new to ABE, and Lindsey will be sipping coffee, awaiting […]