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Get It Right Off the BATT!
Introducing Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools (BATT), a new ATLAS resource for testing and teaching the CCRS Reading Foundational Skills (K-5)! Read More
A Perspective on the Flipped Classroom
Amy Vickers, MNI Senior Consultant, shares her learnings from the COABE Conference about flipped classrooms, including a surprising take-away that changed her understanding of this pedadogical approach. Read More
More Retired Minnesota ABE Manager Wisdom!
Read this year's version of combined answers and advice! Twelve recently retired or retiring ABE managers graciously share their accomplishments, frustrations, and hard-earned manager wisdom with us. Read More
Highlights from ISTE: Free Online Resources for Educators!
Do you need free resources for teaching math and science? How about quick and easy group text messaging that keeps your phone number private? We've got links for you! Read More
Key Updates from GED Conference, Reaching New Heights
Key updates from the GED Testing Service annual conference, including new Extended Response tools and information on the GED Ready® practice test. Read More
Practical Takeaways from COABE
Danielle Legault, an instructor at Minneapolis Adult Education, synthesizes three key learnings from her attendance at a variety of sessions at the annual COABE (Commission on Adult Basic Education) Conference, touching on everything from low-level ESL to GED. Read More
LearningExpress Library for ABE
LearningExpress Library contains nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books. It covers job search and workplace skills improvement; skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science; and prep for career certification, licensure exams, college and grad school entrance tests, GED, and more. Read More
Plan First, Write Second
One of my goals is to show my students how spending time in the planning stage pays off in a better finished product. The technique discussed here is a method of getting students to think about all of the ways that a topic could be discussed or explored. Read More
Introducing Teaching Analogy Phonics!
This free alphabetics resource provides ABE/ESL reading teachers/tutors with convincing background information and testimonials, a lesson plan model and template, other reinforcement ideas, and over 100 common or sequential phonogram and word family lists for immediate analogy phonics instruction. Read More
21st Century Demands on Adult Education
Are we, with current WIOA guidelines, required solely to prepare students to be good workers for the U.S. workforce, or do we also have a responsibility to be agents for social change, or at least to equip learners to be active, informed citizens? Read More