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Vickie Byrd, AEL Instructor at Literacy KC, Kansas City, MO
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10 Lessons from 30 Years in Adult Education
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Steve Schmidt
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September 1st, 2022 marked my 30th year in adult basic skills education! Looking back, I’ve distilled ten lessons that apply to our work. In this interactive session, I’ll share what I’ve learned over the years during my time as an instructor, administrator, and professional developer. We will cover a variety of important lessons, such as the danger of a single story, and how success often looks like failure halfway through. Participants will be invited to share their best practices!
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Accelerating Student Success by Leveraging Assessment and Learning Data
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Laura Fetter and Robert Breitbard
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Data has become an even more vital and daily part of helping adult learners reach their short and long-term goals. Used effectively, it can guide teachers toward effective and personalized instructional delivery. For students, it is information that can empower and motivate them to be even more active in their own educational success. This webinar will explore how advances in data accessibility and usage have made utilizing and employing data easier and more positively impactful.
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Part 1: Positioning Your Adult Education Brand for Recognition and Value
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Celina Shands & Anika Jackson
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Learn how to reposition your adult education organization from being undervalued and overlooked to a highly relevant organization that gets its deserved share of funding, recognition and enrollments. We’ll layout the steps to develop a compelling brand story, and you’ll learn from case studies on how repositioning strategies helped garner leads to boost enrollments. Get a solid roadmap to reposition the adult education mission within your community so that it is valued and respected.
Understand the foundational elements of branding, the pitfalls of poor messaging and how to course correct to demonstrate the value of the adult education mission. This webinar is part 1 of the 4 part series “Building an Effective Adult Education Brand”.
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Student Engagement from Start to Finish: Strategies for Engaging Students at Every Stage in the Journey
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Neil & Amy Richmund
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Are you confident that you’re effectively reaching and retaining all potential students for your program? Have you noticed certain students gradually fading away at various stages of their journey? Developing systematic approaches within your programming can halt student attrition and enhance your ability to draw in a larger student body. You’ll learn about some great strategies that you can start to implement TODAY to address these and other lingering questions you may have about increasing enrollment and improving engagement and retention, regardless of program size, budget, or staffing structure.
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The Correctional Classroom: Cultivating a Culture That Promotes Creativity
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Coach Alisa Smedley
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This webinar will teach methods for educators to explore their own creativity and develop classroom approaches that will inspire students. Coach Smedley will teach proven strategies for collaborating with students and cultivating a passion for their own success. Participants will leave with strategies for building rapport with students, ready-to-use classroom ideas, and important insights about teaching in a correctional setting.
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Next STEPS for Student Success: Raising the Bar for English Language Learners
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Laura Fetter & Robert Breitbard
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Adult English language learners must develop critical thinking skills and improve language proficiency to excel in today’s demanding workforce and successfully navigate the challenges of everyday life. Join this webinar to learn how the new CASAS STEPS Reading and Listening tests have been developed to better assess students’ progress in higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills. Then, learn how Burlington’s comprehensive curriculum aligns with the ELP standards to ensure that students are prepared to demonstrate their knowledge on the CASAS STEPS assessments and use those skills to pursue their educational, employment, and personal goals.
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Supporting Teachers Through Instructional Coaching
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Susan Finn Miller
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It’s been said that everyone can benefit from having a coach! This session highlights what the research suggests about the value and impact of instructional coaching. The presenter introduces a set of principles to guide instructional coaching and invites attendees to a discussion about what makes for effective and ineffective feedback to teachers. A practical and manageable process for offering effective feedback to instructors is shared.
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Part 2: The Art of Storytelling: Building Your Adult Education Brand through Stories
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Celina Shands & Anika Jackson
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Learn how to reposition your adult education organization from being undervalued and overlooked to a highly relevant organization that gets its deserved share of funding, recognition and enrollments. We’ll layout the steps to develop a compelling brand story, and you’ll learn from case studies on how repositioning strategies helped garner leads to boost enrollments. Get a solid roadmap to reposition the adult education mission within your community so that it is valued and respected.
Why does the brain react positively to storytelling and how do you leverage this powerful strategy to leave a lasting and memorable impression in your community? This webinar is part 2 of the 4 part series “Building an Effective Adult Education Brand”.
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Differentiating Instruction: How to Facilitate Mixed-Ability ESL Classes
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Katie Welch, Ph.D.
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Learn strategies for teaching a classroom of mixed-ability learners using fundamentals of differentiated instruction. Drawing from Carol Ann Tomlinson’s seminal research on the subject, attendees will learn how to use flexible group configurations to tailor instruction to the unique needs of their students.
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How to Utilize Paid and Free Resources to Boost Student Enrollment in your Local Program
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Dr. Anthony Mangiafico & Kristin Hempel
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Do you have $1,000 to spend on recruiting new students to your program? Do you have no money at all? Come learn both free and paid ways to boost the number of students you have in your program. Hear what the Connecticut Association for Adult and Continuing Education did as a state, and what several local programs did with limited funding. Print, TV, mail, digital marketing, and social media will be discussed.
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Part 3: Leveraging Public Relations to Build your Adult Education Brand
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Celina Shands & Anika Jackson
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Learn how to reposition your adult education organization from being undervalued and overlooked to a highly relevant organization that gets its deserved share of funding, recognition and enrollments. We’ll layout the steps to develop a compelling brand story, and you’ll learn from case studies on how repositioning strategies helped garner leads to boost enrollments. Get a solid roadmap to reposition the adult education mission within your community so that it is valued and respected.
Earned media is a highly effective tool to expand your reach about your adult education mission. Learn three strategies that will give you a jump start on working within your local community media landscape and beyond. This webinar is part 3 of the 4 part series “Building an Effective Adult Education Brand”.
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Door Leadership: How to Build Capacity and Lead Through Collaboration for Adult Learning Programs
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Elizabeth Payne Harner
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Learn key takeaways about leadership in adult learning programs, including what it means to be a collaborative, results-driven leader. Take stock in what works for your program and what buy-in practices can help improve program retention and overall results. Key takeaways include leading with a growth mindset, collaborative problem-solving practices, and student-centered community building.
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Title: Part 4: Building Effective Campaigns to Position your Brand & Boost Enrollments
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Celina Shands & Anika Jackson
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Learn how to reposition your adult education organization from being undervalued and overlooked to a highly relevant organization that gets its deserved share of funding, recognition and enrollments. We’ll layout the steps to develop a compelling brand story, and you’ll learn from case studies on how repositioning strategies helped garner leads to boost enrollments. Get a solid roadmap to reposition the adult education mission within your community so that it is valued and respected.
Did you know there is a turnkey solution that helps you build an effective adult education brand and boost enrollments? Case studies will help you replicate in your area. This webinar is part 4 of the 4 part series “Building an Effective Adult Education Brand”.