ATLAS ABE

TVM Refresher Webinar
2024-05-30 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Registration Deadline: THU. 5/30/24
Join Elizabeth Bennett and Adam Kieffer from the Minnesota TVM Team for a review of the key components and requirements of the Minnesota Teacher Verification Model. Take this opportunity to refresh and re-ignite your TVM practice. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a facilitated discussion with other TVM certified teachers regarding TVM implementation considerations, resources, and best practices. Bring your curiosity, any burning questions, and any advice or resources you’d be willing to share.
Note: This is NOT a TVM Certification Webinar; this is for TVM Certified staff only.

Teaching Reading Vocabulary
2024-05-30 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: THU. 5/30/24
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.

Volunteer Core Training Module 1: Overview of Minnesota Adult Education and Program Accountability
2024-06-03 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: MON. 6/3/24
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.

Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency
2024-06-04 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: TUE. 6/4/24
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.

Completing the Annual Volunteer Report
2024-06-06 14:00 - 16:00
Registration Deadline: THU. 6/6/24
Are you ready to complete the Annual Volunteer Report using your data in SiD? Join 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 explain how to complete this year’s new required volunteer training report.

Essential Zoom Skills for Online Instruction
2024-06-07 13:00 - 15:00
Registration Deadline: FRI. 6/7/24
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.

Volunteer Core Training Module 2: Understanding Adult Learners
2024-06-10 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: MON. 6/10/24
Participants develop their personal cultural awareness and learn how expectations around school culture shape how people teach and learn. Guiding principles for effectively delivering instruction to adults are also covered. Finally, participants increase their sensitivity to the challenges of learning English and developing literacy as an adult.

Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics
2024-06-12 13:00 - 15:00
Registration Deadline: WED. 6/12/24
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.

Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices for Adult Learners Presented by Andrea Echelberger
2024-06-12 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: WED. 6/12/24
Learning new languages and skills as an adult is a challenge for most people, and that challenge grows when trauma and stress are present. Trauma and chronic stress can come in many forms, and impact people’s ability to learn new skills and process information in a variety of different ways. In this webinar, learn how stress and trauma can manifest in the adult education classroom, and learn about healing-centered teaching practices that can help to support positive learning behaviors and increase retention and learner comfort.

Volunteer Core Training Module 3: Instructional Best Practices: Working with Learners
2024-06-17 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: MON. 6/17/24
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.

SiD: Prepping for the PY 23-24 August Submission
2024-06-20 10:30 - 12:00
Registration Deadline: THU. 6/20/24
Got your ducks in a row for the 23-24 NRS Program Year? This webinar will assist you in preparing for your consortium’s August 1 report submission. We’ll go over some last-minute check points before you send in your reports.

Comprehension Strategies for Intermediate-Level Readers
2024-06-21 13:00 - 15:00
Registration Deadline: FRI. 6/21/24
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.

Volunteer Core Training Module 4: Instructional Best Practices: Working with Materials
2024-06-24 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: MON. 6/24/24
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.

Burlington English Lunch and Learn: Connecting IET/IELCE to BE
2024-06-25 12:30 - 13:15
Registration Deadline: TUE. 6/25/24
In this session, we will explore the components of IELCE and IET and breakdown how those components can be found in Burlington English. We will talk about ways to implement them in your class.
NOTE: Attendees must have current login credentials for their BE account.

HSE Testing Coffee Talk Series
2024-06-25 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-07-23 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-08-27 13:30 - 14:30
Registration Deadline: Register up to the date of each Coffee Talk.
This past year, we have added a new option to our testing services, making us a two-test state. We have had and continue to need help with connectivity issues, online proctoring, scheduling availability, student identifications, accommodation issues, etc. This series is intended to begin creating a space for us to come together, discuss, share, and problem-solve.
Coffee Talks will take place from 1:30-2:30 pm on every 4th Tuesday of the month in the 2024 calendar year.
Questions?
Please contact mde.abe@state.mn.us

Phonics in Beginning ESL: Recommendations, Activities and Resources
2024-07-08 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: MON. 7/8/24
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.

Understanding the Somali People: History, Culture and Migration to Minnesota Presented by CAIR-MN
2024-07-09 13:00 - 15:00
Registration Deadline: TUE. 7/9/24
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

WebChat with MNABE
2024-07-10 13:00 - 14:30
Registration Deadline: WED. 7/10/24
WebChat with MN ABE is a webinar discussion led by state ABE staff from the Minnesota Department of Education. Web Chat webinars provide updates from the state ABE office on new and emerging issues and an opportunity for local ABE staff to ask questions and provide information to the Minnesota Adult Ed state team.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
If you need ASL interpretation for this event, please contact Wendy Her at info@literacyactionnetwork.org by Monday, July 1, 2024.

Topics will include:

Preparing for the August Reporting Submission
Federal Corrective Action Plan for Minnesota Adult Education

For those unable to attend, the meeting and materials will be available on the Literacy Action Network website after the meeting.

Volunteer Core Training Module 2: Understanding Adult Learners
2024-07-22 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: MON. 7/22/24
Participants develop their personal cultural awareness and learn how expectations around school culture shape how people teach and learn. Guiding principles for effectively delivering instruction to adults are also covered. Finally, participants increase their sensitivity to the challenges of learning English and developing literacy as an adult.

Racial Equity 101 Presented by Jimmie Heags
2024-08-06 10:00 - 12:00
Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/6/24
Join presenter Jimmie Heags, Jr., MA, LSC, LPCC, LADC, ACS, for this session that exposes how race is defined and how racism impacts individuals and institutions. The session will provide learners with a framework for understanding and disrupting the attitudes and structures that perpetuate inequality. Participants will be introduced to basic interventions to identify and disrupt racialized mindsets and practices that promote equity. Interventions will include how to be an anti-racist.
Objectives include the following:
1) Define the nature of race and racism and their origins and impact.
2) Examine the concepts of white privilege and white fragility.
3) Understand the nature of microaggressions and their impact.
4) Develop interventions for disrupting racist mindsets.

Volunteer Core Training Module 1: Overview of Minnesota Adult Education and Program Accountability
2024-08-06 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/6/24
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.

Volunteer Core Training Module 2: Understanding Adult Learners
2024-08-13 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/13/24
Participants develop their personal cultural awareness and learn how expectations around school culture shape how people teach and learn. Guiding principles for effectively delivering instruction to adults are also covered. Finally, participants increase their sensitivity to the challenges of learning English and developing literacy as an adult.

Summer Institute 2024
2024-08-14 08:30 - 2024-08-15 17:00
Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/13/24
This year Summer Institute is a two-day virtual conference from August 14-15. There are 37 breakout sessions, an MDE update, trivia night, the vendor fair, restorative movement and more!

Summer Institute 2024 Session Descriptions
Presenter Bios

Early-bird Registration Rates (good until June 30, 2024):

$60.00 – LAN Member
$120.00 – non-LAN member

General Registration Rates (from July 1 to August 13):

$70.00 – LAN Member
$130.00 – non-LAN member

Teaching Reading Vocabulary
2024-08-19 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: MON. 8/19/24
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.

Volunteer Core Training Module 3: Instructional Best Practices: Working with Learners
2024-08-20 18:30 - 20:30
Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/20/24
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.

Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics
2024-08-26 13:00 - 15:00
Registration Deadline: MON. 8/26/24
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.

Assessment Training for New Staff – CASAS Implementation Training (Virtual)
2024-08-27 09:00 - 12:00
Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/27/24
Register now for a virtual CASAS Implementation Training!
Join your state trainers virtually for a CASAS Implementation training. This training provides an overview of the approved CASAS tests. It will cover selection and administration of the appropriate CASAS test, interpretation of test scores, and measurement of student progress. This training is geared toward newer users of the assessments. Participants who complete this training will be certified to administer CASAS multiple choice assessments.
For more information on this training, contact Marty Olsen – martha.olsen@gmail.com

Assessment Training for New Staff - TABE Implementation Training (Virtual)
2024-08-27 13:00 - 16:00
Registration Deadline: TUE. 8/27/24
Register now for a virtual TABE Implementation Training!
Join your state trainers virtually for a TABE Implementation training. This training provides an overview of approved TABE tests. It will cover selection and administration of the appropriate level test, interpretation of test scores, and measurement of student progress. This training is geared toward newer users of the assessments. Participants who complete this training will be certified to administer TABE multiple choice assessments.
For more information on this training, contact Marty Olsen – martha.olsen@gmail.com
