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Minnesota Association of Workforce Boards (MAWB) Website
MAWB represents the cooperative efforts of 16 area workforce development boards across the state. The MAWB website is the go-to online source for regional and local workforce development board plans, WIOA resources, the Governor’s workforce development board, and much more.
Developing a Single Set of Shared Learning Objectives for Integrated Education and Training – Webinar and Worksheet
An introduction to the elements needed for successful team teaching and, specifically, the development of a single set of integrated learning objectives to guide instruction. IET administrators, ESL instructors and workforce training (CTE) teachers explore approaches and strategies for the planning and successful implementation of integrated programs.
Developing Basic Skills Curriculum for an IET: A Guide for the Pathways to Employment Program
This guide provides resources and tools that will help practitioners plan, design, and implement the basic skills component of an IET (Integrated Education and Training) curriculum. Informed by ISAL’s curriculum design for a variety of career pathways.
Career Path Graphics
These two-sided, colored, nicely designed and formatted graphic handouts are excellent examples of materials that illustrate the value of moving along a career path. Eight documents cover careers in construction, education, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, transportation, information technology and agriculture.
Adult Career Pathways Glossary
Confused about Adult Career Pathways and transitions terminology? You're not alone! Check out this handy ACP glossary.
ACES Observation Tools
These observation tools have been developed to make it easier for you to keep track of ACES implementation in your program.
Explicit Instruction Poster
A printable poster of the 4 steps of explicit instruction.
Navigating the CCRS Tools – ELA
This document provides an overview of the tools to support CCRS Implementation.
CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool – for Programs
The CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool is intended to help teachers in one-room school house or other individualized instruction settings plan and document standards-aligned experiences for all students. This document could be used as a teacher planning tool or as a tracking document in a student’s folder.
CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool – Math
The CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool is intended to help teachers in one-room school house or other individualized instruction settings plan and document standards-aligned experiences for all students. This document could be used as a teacher planning tool or as a tracking document in a student’s folder.
Sample Program Implementation Plan – Metro North
This sample implementation plan is from Metro North, Columbia Heights. Metro North is a large, suburban program, and Columbia Heights is a site within that larger consortium.
Sample Program Implementation Plan – Neighborhood House
Neighborhood House is a community-based organization in St. Paul that serves many non-native speakers of English. This plan includes ideas for CCRS implementation at a site in a very diverse, urban setting that uses many volunteers to support instruction.
Sample Program Implementation Plan – NWSC
This is a sample from Northwest Services Cooperative in Northwest Minnesota. NWSC covers a large rural area of the state with multiple sites.
Program CCRS Implementation Plan – TEMPLATE
This blank template was designed to help program teams in the CCRS Implementation Cohort expand several key components of standards implementation beyond their cohort participants.
Sample Program Implementation Plan – Adult Options in Education
This sample implementation plan is from Adult Options in Education, a suburban program with multiple sites.
Sample Program Implementation Plan – AEOA
AEOA (Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency) serves ABE learners in several counties in northeast Minnesota. CCRS implementation in this area is unique, and this plan includes innovative responses to challenges related to the large geographic area and to the rural and part-time nature of this ABE context.
Sample Program Implementation Plan – Lyndale
This sample implementation plan is from Lyndale Neighborhood Association. Lyndale is a small, urban, community-based non-profit agency.
Navigating the CCRS Tools – Math
This document provides an overview of the tools to support CCRS Implementation.
CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool – ELA
The CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool is intended to help teachers in one-room school house or other individualized instruction settings plan and document standards-aligned experiences for all students. This document could be used as a teacher planning tool or as a tracking document in a student’s folder.
New Resources
The 3 R’s: Reaping the Rewards of Routines
Participants in this workout will establish a learner routine that aligns to one or more CCR standards. This workout includes looking at some videos about instructional routines on the Teaching Channel website.
Notice and Wonder about Data: Using Slow Reveal Graphs
Participants in this workout work with slow reveal graphs to notice and wonder about data and experience the activity just as they would present it to students.
Math Practices in the Virtual Classroom
Participants in this workout have the opportunity to experience a task as a student (making origami shapes!), and to reflect on how to use this task with learners to develop a classroom culture (virtual or otherwise) that embeds the math practices.
Presenter Information
Get information about stipends, reimbursements, and other instructions for presenters.
MN ABE YouTube Channel
The MN ABE YouTube Channel is a free online PD resource that you can use to explore teaching techniques and classroom ideas in action! Find out more in this MN ABE Connect newsletter article.
Upcoming ABE Events
December 2, 2020
6:30 pm–8:00 pm
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Remote Tutoring 101
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Registration Deadline: WED. 12/2/20 Join Literacy Minnesota Adult Basic Education and ESL trainers for a virtual workshop on how to be an effective tutor from a distance! Learn best practices for connecting and communicating one-on-one with adult learners on the phone or online, get suggestions for correcting… Learn More
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December 3, 2020
10:00 am–12:00 pm
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Welcoming Counter-Stories in the ABE Classroom
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Registration Deadline: THU. 12/3/20 Counter-stories are a tool used by minoritized communities to tell stories that reflect their experiences and knowledge. Counter-stories challenge the grand narratives accepted and advanced by the majority in society. As adult learners are invited to speak openly and share their experiences and… Learn More
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December 3, 2020
1:30 pm–3:00 pm
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Adult Career Pathways Webinar #2 – Collaboration in ACPs: Co-teaching for Student Success!
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Registration Deadline: THU. 12/3/20 Wondering about ways to collaborate and improve co-teaching with Adult Career Pathways (ACP)? We’re all in this together! Hear from MDE staff and ACP leaders around the state on this important topic. We’ll share current examples of successful ACP collaborative efforts big and small, as… Learn More
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