Department of Education
The ABE teacher's license is overseen and administered by the Massachusetts DOE's Office of Academic Affairs and Educator Licensure. You can direct questions about the adult basic education license to licenseabe@doe.mass.edu or call 781-338-3000.

DOE also maintains a Web site at www.doe.mass.edu/educators/abe.html where all regulations, guidelines, and documents relating to the ABE teacher's license can be viewed and downloaded.

SABES
SABES is developing support for license seekers in several forms. Support information, worksheets, lists of resources, and local contact people are posted on their License Support Web site at www.sabes.org/licens. You can direct questions to Carey Reid at 617-482-9485 or send him an e-mail at creid@worlded.org.

Each SABES Regional Support Center (RSC) is committed to helping license seekers as well. Primary staff contacts for licensure are as follows:

• Southeast SABES—Annemarie Espindola
  508-678-2811 ext. 2782 or aespindo@bristol.mass.edu
• Northeast SABES—Janet Fischer
  978-738-7307 or jfischer@necc.mass.edu
• Greater Boston SABES at ALRI—Maria E. González
  617-782-8956 ext. 15 or maria@alri.org
• Central SABES—Merilee Freeman
  508-854-4296 or mfreeman@qcc.mass.edu
• West SABES—Pat Mew
  413-552-2393 or pmew@hcc.mass.edu

The librarians at each RSC are also standing by to help with resources you might need to meet standards.

NCSALL Focus on Basics
The editors of Focus on Basics at NCSALL have generously provided suggested readings for each of the Route 4 standards. Individual volumes can be printed out or downloaded from ncsall.gse.harvard.edu/fob. There is also a subject index linked to the main page.