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Workshops & Continued Learning
Before you sign up, please note:
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All trainings are virtual
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Trainings are FREE to Community Literacy Members
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Trainings are $15 for non-members
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Deportation Defense for Allies Panel: Putting Knowledge Into Practice With Learners
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time: 6-7:30 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for all
In January, we shared information on what teachers, tutors, and administrators can do right now to support undocumented learners in their programs and communities.
Now, we want to showcase how allies in adult education are putting deportation defense into practice with students. You’ll hear from a panel of adult education teachers and staff members who are actively working to make their adult education spaces welcoming and safe for immigrants.
This training is part of our Student Support series. Content is designed for those working in adult education in mind, although everyone is welcome!
Using Assessments With Emergent Literacy Learners
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Time: 6-7:30 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for members; $15 for all others
Facilitator: Ginger Kosobucki & Julia Lohla
Assessments help us determine our students’ strengths, weaknesses, and progress over time. They can be a great source of information for teachers, tutors, and students. But most formal assessments aren’t written with English language learners with limited literacy in mind.
The Adult ELL Pathway to Literacy Initiative in Indianapolis grew out of this gap in resources for literacy-level English language learners.Our facilitators, Ginger Kosobucki and Julia Lohla, helped to develop an assessment specifically for emergent literacy learners. In this training, they’ll introduce us to the assessment tool and walk us through how to use it. If you’re a literacy level teacher of English, you won’t want to miss this!
This training is part of our Instructional Techniques series. Content is designed with tutors and teachers in mind, although everyone is welcome!
Teacher Solidarity Study Group
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 5:30-7 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for members; $15 for all others
Facilitator: Jane Rothschild
How does this moment of turbulent social change relate to us, as educators? We are starting the Teacher Solidarity Study Group in order to learn and reflect on United States history so that we can try to understand current events and our roles as teachers and change makers in this moment.
We will meet quarterly with our facilitator, Jane Rothschild, to discuss selected chapters of Howard Zinn's A Young People’s History of the United States, and our focus will be on ordinary people and grassroots movements that have worked to create political and social change.
Join us for community, learning, and reflection on how history can give us and our students courage to work towards a more just and equitable future. You don’t need to commit to the whole year to attend. We will send you digital excerpts of the book and supplemental materials before our discussions. If you’d rather get your own copy of the book, you can buy it here.
This group was created with adult education teachers, tutors, and administrators in mind, although everyone is welcome!