ATLAS ABE

Edmentum Courseware: New User & Refresher Training
2023-05-03 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 5/3/23
Edmentum Courseware is a state-supported distance learning platform (i.e., available at no additional cost) with courses in language arts, math, science, social studies, career and technical education, and more! Attend this webinar with our new Edmentum trainer, Andrew Kappel, to learn about (or review) using this platform with your students.

Teaching Online: Support and Idea Swap
2023-05-04 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: THU. 5/4/23
This will be the second of three Teaching Online: Support and Idea Swap sessions. Participants can attend any or all of these sessions; there’s no requirement to attend all three. Participants should be prepared to articulate their current and urgent instructional issues and questions, as well as be willing to provide their expertise and advice, and share resources with others. Consider these sessions as a informal support group for teachers from which you’ll leave with advice, resources, and a productive perspective. Possible topics for support and discussion during these sessions include:

Accessibility options for classroom students and online lessons
Integrating browser extensions in your teaching
Teaching digital literacy skills to participate in blended and online classes
Locating classroom ready lessons online
The state of broadband updates and digital equity planning
Setting up and/or best practices for using Chromebooks
Best practices and tips & tricks using instructional tech tools
Making and using instructional screencasts

Jason Brazier (DL Team/Literacy Minnesota) will be facilitating and hosting these sessions.
One subsequent session is scheduled for Thursday, May 18.
You can get the links to attend on the ATLAS Events page: https://atlasabe.org/events/

LINCS DEI Course – MN Cohort Kickoff Webinar
2023-05-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: THU. 5/4/23
Join a cohort of Minnesota adult educators participating in the new LINCS Course – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): From Awareness to Action. This course leads participants to think through and evaluate DEI at the classroom and program level and culminates in an equity audit.
After completing this 6-hour self-paced course, you’ll be able to:

Understand and define what is meant by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the adult education classroom and program.
Identify steps you can take to advance your commitment to DEI progressively from both an individual and a programmatic perspective.
Identify steps for conducting an equity audit in your classroom or program and work toward the sustainability of DEI efforts.

This cohort experience will include:

Cohort Kickoff Webinar: May 4, 4:00-5:00 pm CDT
Asynchronous participation in the LINCS DEI course, one unit per week (approximately 6 hours total)

Week of May 8: Unit 1: Course Introduction and Understanding and Defining DEI
Week of May 15: Unit 2: Awareness Building: Understanding Adult Learners
Week of May 22: Unit 3: Awareness Building: Cultural Competence and Inclusion
Week of May 29: Unit 4: Awareness Building: The Many Forms of Bias
Week of June 5: Unit 5: Taking Action: Equity Audit
Week of June 12: Course Conclusion

Cohort Wrap-up Webinar: June 15, 2:30-4:00 pm CDT

Those who attend the webinars and complete the course will receive 8 CEUs and a $150 stipend.
Learn more about the course: LINCS Course: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): From Awareness to Action. (Note that you will need to create a free LINCS account to access and enroll in the course.)
Questions about the cohort?
Contact Astrid Liden at astrid.liden@state.mn.us

EBRI Webinar Series - 5 of 6
2023-05-05 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: FRI. 5/5/23
If you require ASL interpretation, please contact Gail Rutan
Join Marn Frank this winter and spring for the EBRI Webinar Series! There are 6 webinars, each on Friday from 1:00-2:30pm CST. Participants may choose to attend some or all of the webinars.
This 6-part series of webinars will provide the background of Evidence-Based Reading Instruction or EBRI, tools and processes for assessing readers’ strengths and weaknesses, crucial skills for all four reading components, and practitioner-tried routines for teaching them across ABE and ESL levels. The meetings focus on the following topics or questions:

May 5 – Webinar 5: What are evidence-based incentives, routines, and resources for teaching fluency (text accuracy, rate, and prosody) across ABE and ESL levels?

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June 2 – Webinar 6: What are evidence-based incentives, routines, and resources for teaching comprehension (text engagement strategies) across ABE and ESL levels?

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Burlington English Lunch and Learn: Pronunciation and Recording
2023-05-09 12:30 - 13:15 | Online
Registration Deadline: TUE. 5/9/23
In this session, we will explore the speech and pronunciation features in Burlington English. We will go over the Speech Trainer, speech in the Vocabulary Practice, and the tutorials.
NOTE: Attendees must have current login credentials for their BE account.

Exact Path: New User & Refresher Training
2023-05-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 5/10/23
Exact Path is a feature within Edmentum Courseware that offers diagnostic assessments and individualized learning paths to fill in learners’ skill gaps in math, reading, and language arts. It is available to all Minnesota adult education teachers and students through our state-supported Edmentum license. Attend this webinar with our new Edmentum trainer, Andrew Kappel, to learn about using this tool with your students.

Reading Activities for Beginning Literacy and Beginning English Language Learners
2023-05-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 5/10/23
Teaching and tutoring very beginning level ESL readers can be intimidating for volunteers and professional teachers alike. Attend this webinar to get practical activities and ideas for one-on-one, remote and in-person instruction with tech and no-tech options. Leave feeling ready to provide your learners with meaningful and effective reading activities.

EdReady Teacher Training
2023-05-11 13:30 - 14:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: THU. 5/11/23
Learn how to get your students started with EdReady, a state-supported distance learning platform for math and English language arts. EdReady can help adult learners prepare for college, high school equivalency tests, TABE tests, and more.

Teaching Citizenship
2023-05-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: MON. 5/15/23
Jessica Horning, citizenship teacher for the Literacy Minnesota Open Door Learning Centers, will share multiple ways to teach and review the content of the citizenship interview in fun, interactive ways. Participants will receive links to online resources that can be used in one-on-one or small group teaching settings. Please note that this training will be recorded.

Burlington English Lunch and Learn: Career Content!
2023-05-16 12:30 - 13:15 | Online
Registration Deadline: TUE. 5/16/23
In this session, we will explore the English for Specific Careers tile and the Career Exploration and Soft Skills course. These resources are here to help your students build vocabulary for a career field they are interested in pursuing and also to gain the soft skills needed for working here in America.
NOTE: Attendees must have current login credentials for their BE account.

Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency
2023-05-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: TUE. 5/16/23
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 Meet, Teams or any other remote tutoring tool (including the phone!). Participants will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share resources.
This workshop will be most useful for instructors working with low-intermediate to advanced readers.

Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics
2023-05-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 5/17/23
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.

Teaching Online: Support and Idea Swap
2023-05-18 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: THU. 5/18/23
This will be the last of three Teaching Online: Support and Idea Swap sessions.
Participants can attend any or all of these sessions; there’s no requirement to attend all three. Participants should be prepared to articulate their current and urgent instructional issues and questions, as well as be willing to provide their expertise and advice, and share resources with others. Consider these sessions as a informal support group for teachers from which you’ll leave with advice, resources, and a productive perspective. Possible topics for support and discussion during these sessions include:

Accessibility options for classroom students and online lessons
Integrating browser extensions in your teaching
Teaching digital literacy skills to participate in blended and online classes
Locating classroom ready lessons online
The state of broadband updates and digital equity planning
Setting up and/or best practices for using Chromebooks
Best practices and tips & tricks using instructional tech tools
Making and using instructional screencasts

Jason Brazier (DL Team/Literacy Minnesota) will be facilitating and hosting these sessions.

Phonics in Adult ESL: Recommendations, Activities and Resources - POSTPONED
2023-05-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Literacy Minnesota – main office, 700 Raymond Ave., Ste. 180, Saint Paul, MN, 55114, United States
Registration Deadline: FRI. 5/19/23
Phonics–the knowledge of the sounds letters make when they are combined to make words–is essential to beginning literacy and beginning level English language instruction. But, many teachers and tutors lack the knowledge, confidence and resources to teach the topic. Attend this session to learn why phonics instruction is important and leave with several ideas for phonics activities and resources to bring back to your teaching and tutoring sessions.
This session will be most useful to tutors and teachers working with beginning literacy, low beginning and high beginning English language learners.

Burlington English Lunch and Learn: Xue's Office Hour
2023-05-23 12:30 - 13:15 | Online
Registration Deadline: TUE. 5/23/23
You will be able to join Xue’s open office hour to come with any questions or issues that you have. If you need help with a technical issue, Xue will be able to walk you through and train you in how to resolve the issue. If you need teaching tips or strategies, we can brainstorm in this session. If you need training in a specific area of Burlington English, Xue will be able to help you navigate through the features.

Comprehension Strategies for Intermediate-Level Readers
2023-05-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 5/24/23
Research shows that explicitly teaching a set of comprehension strategies is a great way to help intermediate-level readers maximize their understanding of texts. Come learn a handful of great comprehension tools that will help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension skills.

Tutoring with Northstar Digital Literacy
2023-05-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: FRI. 5/26/23
You don’t need to be a computer expert in order to teach computer skills! Come learn how help students build their digital literacy skills using Northstar Digital Literacy.
In the webinar, participants will learn:

The features of Northstar Digital Literacy.
How to help learners set digital literacy learning goals.
How to help learners navigate Northstar Digital Literacy assessments.
How to guide learners through the Northstar Digital Literacy Online Learning Modules.

The training will be appropriate for tutors working one-to-one with learners or assisting in a computer lab.
If you are not familiar with Northstar Digital Literacy Assessments, please go to digitalliteracyassessment.org and take the Computer Basics assessment prior to the training.

EBRI Webinar Series - 6 of 6
2023-06-02 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: FRI. 6/2/23
If you require ASL interpretation, please contact Gail Rutan
Join Marn Frank this winter and spring for the EBRI Webinar Series! There are 6 webinars, each on Friday from 1:00-2:30pm CST. Participants may choose to attend some or all of the webinars.
This 6-part series of webinars will provide the background of Evidence-Based Reading Instruction or EBRI, tools and processes for assessing readers’ strengths and weaknesses, crucial skills for all four reading components, and practitioner-tried routines for teaching them across ABE and ESL levels. The meetings focus on the following topics or questions:

June 2 – Webinar 6: What are evidence-based incentives, routines, and resources for teaching comprehension (text engagement strategies) across ABE and ESL levels?

Completing the Annual Volunteer Report
2023-06-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: TUE. 6/6/23
Are you ready to complete the Annual Volunteer Report using your data in SiD? Join data gurus Jenny Schlukebier and Mary Zimmerli as they look over the report and discuss where the numbers come from. They’ll also cover how to find and clean up potential errors in your SiD data. Finally, they will reveal SiD features and strategies for keeping your data current, making next year’s reporting even easier.

How Adult Brains Learn Languages
2023-06-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: FRI. 6/9/23
Learn what research has to say about how adult brains learn a new language, how trauma and stress impact learning, and how this influences the teaching practices that we use in the language classroom. Participants will leave the webinar with suggestions for ways teachers and tutors can apply brain-based teaching practices as we are helping adult ESL students develop their language skills.

Teaching Online: Support and Idea Swap
2023-06-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: TUE. 6/13/23
Teaching Online: Support and Idea Swap session.
Looking for new ideas , excited about a new project or need a little advice with something you are already working with? Attend the Teaching Online: Support and Idea Swap.
Come prepared to share, ask, and advise. Teachers often have more knowledge and good ideas than they believe.
Consider these sessions as a informal support group for teachers from which you’ll leave with advice, resources, and a productive perspective. Possible topics for support and discussion during these sessions include:

Accessibility options for classroom students and online lessons
Teaching digital literacy skills to participate in blended and online classes
Locating classroom ready lessons online
Best practices and tips & tricks using instructional tech tools
Making and using instructional screencasts

No previous attendance required.
Jason Brazier (DL Team/Literacy Minnesota) will be facilitating and hosting this session.

Phonics in Adult ESL: Recommendations, Activities and Resources
2023-06-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Literacy Minnesota – main office, 700 Raymond Ave., Ste. 180, Saint Paul, MN, 55114, United States
Registration Deadline: FRI. 6/16/23
Phonics–the knowledge of the sounds letters make when they are combined to make words–is essential to beginning literacy and beginning level English language instruction. But, many teachers and tutors lack the knowledge, confidence and resources to teach the topic. Attend this session to learn why phonics instruction is important and leave with several ideas for phonics activities and resources to bring back to your teaching and tutoring sessions.
This session will be most useful to tutors and teachers working with beginning literacy, low beginning and high beginning English language learners.

Teaching Reading Vocabulary Remotely or In Person
2023-06-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: FRI. 6/16/23
Vocabulary is everyone’s favorite reading component! And helping students master reading vocabulary is a key to helping them master comprehension.
But how many words should you teach? And which words are the most important? What strategies are best for helping students learn new words? How do you get students to make new words part of their receptive and productive vocabularies? This webinar will focus on the theory and best practice behind choosing, teaching and reviewing reading vocabulary. You’ll get a chance to learn about (and practice) a variety of activities that can be done remotely or in person. Links to great online resources will also be provided.
This workshop will be most useful for instructors working with low-intermediate to advanced readers.

Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency
2023-06-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: MON. 6/19/23
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 Meet, Teams or any other remote tutoring tool (including the phone!). Participants will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share resources.
This workshop will be most useful for instructors working with low-intermediate to advanced readers.

Tips and Strategies for Online Instruction
2023-06-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 6/21/23
During the early days of the pandemic, remote instruction was a necessary evil that many begrudgingly endured. But as the options for in-person instruction opened up, many learners chose to continue to learn in an online environment. Join this session to learn and see modeled tips and strategies for teaching and tutoring online, and determine how to bring them back to your context. This session is appropriate for educators working with both English language learners and adult education students. (Note: This session does not include technical how-to skills for using Zoom or other platforms.)

Core Training Module 4: Instructional Best Practices: Working with Materials
2023-06-27 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: TUE. 6/27/23
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.

Understanding the Somali People: History, Culture and Migration to Minnesota
2023-06-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 6/28/23
Presenter: Jaylani Hussein is currently the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN). Hussein worked as the Community Liaison Officer at Metro State University and as a Planner for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. In 2013, he created Zeila Consultants to develop and offer cross-cultural training workshops on East African cultures. Hussein has presented on the Somali Culture to diverse public and private organizations across the US. He specializes in the areas of urban planning, community development, youth development (with over 8 years’ experience in working in juvenile treatment centers for court adjudicated youth), legal and civil rights.
Description: Somalis are estimated to be the largest African immigrant group in Minnesota with approximately 75,000-100,000 residing in the state (source: McKnight Foundation).
This training covers:

Pre- and post-modern history of the Somali people.
Culture.
Migration to Minnesota.
Cultural gaps between the Somali and American communities.
Recommendations for outreach to Somali community members.

This training will be recorded.

Comprehension Strategies for Intermediate-Level Readers
2023-06-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: THU. 6/29/23
Research shows that explicitly teaching a set of comprehension strategies is a great way to help intermediate-level readers maximize their understanding of texts. Come learn a handful of great comprehension tools that will help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension skills.

Essential Zoom Skills for Online Instruction
2023-06-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Registration Deadline: FRI. 6/30/23
Join this hands-on session to learn and practice essential Zoom skills for the virtual classroom that may not be in your repertoire if your experience with the platform is limited to meetings with friends and colleagues at work.
The workshop will cover:
1. Turning off participants’ cameras and microphones.
2. Re-naming participants.
3. Sharing your screen.
4. Annotating your screen.
5. Setting up and visiting breakout rooms.

Core Training Module 1: Overview of Minnesota Adult Education and Program Accountability
2023-07-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 7/5/23
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.
