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Pronunciation Webinar 1: Voice Quality Settings
Learn how Voice Quality Settings (VQS) impact accent and pronunciation. Discover ideas for integrating VQS instruction into your classroom instruction and daily routines at any level.
An Introduction to the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education
Webinar, recorded on 1/28/15 - Patsy Egan, Lia Conklin Olson, Astrid Liden, Kristine Kelly, Amber Delliger (members of the MN ABE CCRS Implementation Team)
Integrated Education & Training: A Service Model for Adult Education Across the Spectrum
This one-hour archived webinar reviews the IET definition and guidance in WIOA regulations. It goes on to explore a few of the many adult education programs that have discovered the power of IET and, through a variety of partnerships, have implemented the IET strategy to serve people across the educational functioning level spectrum.
Engaging Employers in Adult Career Pathways – Webinar Recording
Hear from Minnesota ABE professionals and their employer partners about ways they collaborate, their challenges and successes. Understand the role of Career and Technical Education advisory committees and how ABE can get involved and connect with those employers. Gain strategies for effective employer outreach in your own context. (2018)
ABE-Workforce Partnerships for Adult Career Pathways Programming – Webinar Recording
Building relationships with WorkForce Center partners is crucial to successful adult career pathway programming. Hear about successes in the field from workforce and ABE professionals, and get what you need to take the next steps in your locality.
What Does It Really Mean to Look for and Make Use of Structure?
Description: "We will work to clarify what MP7 looks like in K-5 classrooms by exploring generalizations about operating with odd and even numbers, examining both addends unknown problems, developing mathematical arguments, and creating representations to prove our claims. We will also analyze student thinking around these ideas with the use of classroom video."
- Add-Subtract-Multiply-Divide
- Coherence
- Decimals
- Exponents
- Expressions
- Factors
- Fractions
- Levels of Knowing
Uncovering Coherence Using Area Models
When is area more than area? In this recorded webinar, presenters Connie Rivera and Amy Vickers from the Adult Numeracy Network (ANN) explore coherent mathematical content that can be addressed using mathematical arrays.
Season 2, Episode 5: Systems of Equality, Inequalities
Presented by Rebecca Strom (Mankato ABE) and Amy Vickers (MNI Senior Consultant)
Season 2, Episode 4: Complex Geometry with New Formula Sheet
Presented by Abby Roza (Adult Options in Education/Hennepin County Corrections), Kristin Knudson, and Amy Vickers (MNI Senior Consultant)
Season 2, Episode 3: Ratios, Rates, Proportions, and Scale Factor
Presented by Andy Albee (Robbinsdale Adult Academic Program) and Amy Vickers (MNI Senior Consultant)
Season 2, Episode 2: Data, Box & Whisker Plots, Graphs of Central Tendency
Presented by Amy Vickers (MNI Senior Consultant) and Andy Albee (Robbinsdale Adult Academic Program)
Season 1, Episode 5: Finding Surface Area and its Related Dimensions
Presented by Rebecca Strom (Mankato ABE) and Renae Kramer (SW ABE-Granite Falls)
Season 1, Episode 4: Solving Quadratic Equations
Presented by Andy Albee (Robbinsdale Adult Academic Program) and Abby Roza (Adult Options in Education/Hennepin County Corrections)
Season 1, Episode 3: Connecting Coordinates, Lines, and Equations
Presented by Amber Delliger (Metro North ABE) and Rebecca Strom (Mankato ABE)
Season 1, Episode 2: Connecting and Interpreting Graphs and Functions
Presented by Andy Albee (Robbinsdale Adult Academic Program) and Renae Kramer (SW ABE-Granite Falls)
Problem Strings
Problem Strings are an instructional strategy where the teacher facilitates students working through and thinking aloud about a set of math problems (for example: 5 x 6, then 5 x 60, and so on...) as a method for students to learn from each other about math strategies. The strategy offers a way to pack significant math learning into a short time in class.
Writing SMART Goals for English Learners
This blog post from Ellevation provides an overview of a webinar where participants learned how to transform the commonly used SMART goal-setting framework and make it directly applicable for EL educators. The full recording of the webinar is available using Adobe Connect.
TIF-Lens Series: “Zoom In” on Self-Management (SM)
TIF-Lens Webinars and Workshops provide hands-on practice using the A-C-E-S process to integrate TIF (Transitions Integration Framework) skills from the targeted category.
TIF-Lens Series: “Zoom In” on Navigating Systems (NS)
TIF-Lens Webinars and Workshops provide hands-on practice using the A-C-E-S process to integrate TIF (Transitions Integration Framework) skills from the targeted category.
New Resources
- Course Design
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Curriculum Design
- Immigrants & Refugees
- Student Centered
Collective Joy: Leveraging Students’ Collectivist Mindset as a Classroom Asset
View the slides from Collective Joy: Leveraging Students’ Collectivist Mindset as a Classroom Asset, presented by Erin Cary and Cydnee Sanders at the 2025 Minnesota English Learner Education (MELEd) Conference. This session invites educators to shift from deficit-based thinking to an asset-based approach that recognizes the collectivist strengths many multilingual adult learners bring to the classroom. The resource includes practical strategies—such as simple, community-building routines—and reflective prompts to help educators create classroom environments where connection, identity, and joy are central to adult ESL and ABE instruction.
Beginning ESL Literacy Distance Learning / In-Class Units
These lessons for Beginning EL Literacy (NRS ESL Level 1, CASAS STEPS 160-183) can be used in class, or assigned out of class as proxy hours by a TVM-certified teacher. The lessons are paper-packet based, and each has a QR code link to a video for the lesson. Each unit contains 5 lessons. Each lesson introduces 6-8 new vocabulary words, and is meant to build knowledge based on previous lessons.
Presenter Information
Get information about stipends, reimbursements, the MN Adult Ed policy on use of images in presentations, and other instructions for presenters.
MN Adult Ed YouTube Channel
The MN Adult Education 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.
ATLAS Announcements & Future PD
Check out the latest list of ATLAS professional development announcements and opportunities! This is the document that is shared at all ATLAS events.
Virtual Meeting Resources
Find resources for conducting online meetings/events/presentations! You are welcome to use and adapt these materials to fit your own needs and context.
Upcoming ABE Events
April 13, 2026
6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Online
Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency
Online
Registration Deadline: MON. 4/13/26 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… Learn More
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April 17, 2026
8:30 am–2:45 pm
Online
Statewide Virtual Conference
Online
Registration Deadline: FRI. 4/17/26 What? A statewide virtual conference on Friday, April 17! See complete flyer for the program with all workshop titles and descriptions HERE. Where? Anywhere! This event is virtual. Why? To catch timely, informative sessions (including re-licensure areas)… Learn More
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April 22, 2026
6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Online
Teaching and Tutoring with Northstar Digital Literacy
Online
Registration Deadline: WED. 4/22/26 Venue: Online (see details below) 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… Learn More
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