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Training Leaders in Adult Basic Education
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Notice of Disclosure |
This project is funded by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and supported by Holyoke Community College.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
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SABES West has settled into our new offices in downtown Holyoke. The paint has dried, the paper files purged and the new restaurants have all been sampled. Now it's time to crank up the professional development heat. In the next few months you'll be invited to participate in a broad array of events including: workshops on the ABE Professional Standards, SMARTT & Cognos trainings delivered online, counselor sharing groups, and assessment trainings. We hope that you can take advantage of these and more in our new setting before the winter sets in.
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College for a Day
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Offered again!
This year, we are doing one event. It will be on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 from 8:30 - 1. You can expect the usual; a light breakfast, inspiring keynote speaker, wonderful faculty and a great introduction to community college for all students!
Registration information will be coming out in February. For now, Save the Date and plan ahead!
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A New Look at Distance Learning
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The Ludlow Adult Learning Center (LALC) and The Literacy Project, Greenfield (TLP), are trying out a revised model of distance learning from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. One hope is that the new design will bring adults into the centers and not keep them at a distance. Perhaps better named "Online Learning" to distance this type of service delivery from the physical distance and oftentimes resultant isolation felt by participants, adult students will have many different ways to maintain contact with others and develop their own learning community. At these two sites, the overall intent of this service delivery model is to, in the case of ABE, address transportation challenges, and in the case of ESOL, address unserved students on the waitlist.
TLP has 10 slots funded for online GED/Pre-GED instruction, where they recruit, intake, and do some support and counseling for students, who get all of their online instructional services through the distance learning 'hub' at Quinsigamond Community College. In addition, TLP has partnered with a new organization in Turners Falls called STRIVE, which provides web-connected computers and some tutoring to adults working towards their GED. All students will be using McGraw-Hill's GED.
LALC has 20 slots funded, all in ESOL. Of those 20, 10 slots will be served directly from the 'hub' out of Notre Dame / Cathedral in Boston. These students will be recruited from the waitlist. And, in a new twist, the remaining 10 slots will be for students already enrolled in a rates-based class at the center. These ten students will be getting greater intensity of services by being able to continue their studies at home. All 20 students will have access to counseling and other support services. The staff are currently finishing a four week staff development training. Students will use USALearns.org for their online instruction. USALearns.org is a free software package for ESOL students teachers at the LALC have already been using.
Statewide there are two hubs, one for ESOL and one for ABE. Then there are 11 partner sites, like LALC and TLP, which work directly with the hub to recruit and support students. This initiative falls under DESE's mission to increase access and intensity of instruction to MA adults. In a few months we'll touch base with both sites to see how they are doing. Here's hoping that these students go the distance!
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Tech Tidbits
|  Lynne Weintraub, of the Jones Library in Amherst, has done the invaluable work of sorting through the multitude of websites available to English Language Learners.She organizes them and gives them a brief introduction and overview. Find her invaluable list here http://www.joneslibrary.org/esl/info/adult.html and look for a SABES-hosted training on these resources in January.
- Adult Basic and Secondary Education Web Sites
David Rosen, of Newsome Associates and long-time technophile/ABE wizard, maintains this website of online resources. Check it out. http://www.newsomeassociates.com/
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WMass at Network!
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The following people from WMass presented at the November Network conference. Thanks for showcasing the great work that our region's programs do!
- Pesha Black, Center for New Americans
- Kermit Dunkelberg, Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center
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Caroline Gear, International Language Institute of Massachusetts
- Catherine King, TLP North Quabbin (with the following students: Jacqueline Giroux, Ariel Lovely, Efrain Mendoza, Yarras Fletcher, Chris Roberts, Jessica Ramirez, Krystal Anderson and Jane Giroux, parent)
- Maya Krinsky, International Language Institute of Massachusetts
- Nancy Lee, Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center
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Dori McCormack, SABES
- Dan O'Malley, Hampden County Sheriff's Office
- Laura Porter, Holyoke Works (with Sara Fraga, student)
- Kristin Simonds, Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center
- Diane Worth, Center for New Americans
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and see Charlie Herbert and George Kohout who supply invaluable technology assistance to the conference.
(Our apologies if we missed anyone or misrepresented who presented. This issue of The Pipeline was completed before Network so we took the information from the conference registration booklet.)
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Comin' & Goin' in ABE
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Movin' IN...Welcome to the field: - Jim Bell is the new ABE/GED Instructor at Franklin County Sheriff's Deptartment.
- Stephen Hussey is the new ABE/GED Instructor at Franklin County Sheriff's Department.
- Donna DuSell is the new ABE/GED Instructor at Franklin County Sheriff's Department.
- Sarah Schmidt is the Advanced ESOL teacher at Holyoke Works.
- Michelle Walch has joined the teaching staff at the International Language Institute.
- Lisa Clark is now teaching Pre-ASE at the Pittsfield Adult Learning Center.
- Chelsea Happ is the new Tech Coordinator and Coordinator of Adult Continuing Education at the Pittsfield Adult Learning Center.
Moving UP and OVER: - Ed Hayes was an ABE Teacher at Hampden County Sheriff's Office. He is now the Education Program Coordinator Franklin County Sheriff's Department.
- Mary Martone was a part-time Computer Instructor at the Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center. She is now a full-time counselor position with Community Education Project (Transitions to College and Careers program). Mary also teaches a pre-GED class to Valley Opportunity Council incumbent childcare workers.
- Sara MacKay, Technical Coordinator, and Barbara Paul, Health Outreach Coordinator, at the Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center are both working as Distance Learning Instructors, under a new grant.
- Debbie Bottaro, GED teacherat HolyokeWorks, is now the new counselor for their ESOL classes.
- Mary Beth Ogulewicz has left the International Language Institute to teach criminal justice and ESOL at Springfield Technical Community College.
- Norma Cabral, has left the Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center to accept added responsibilities at Career Point.
- Alexandra Mello has left CNA. She is now the Transitions Counselor at Valley Opportunity Council.
- Susanne Campagna has assumed the role of ABE Coordinator at the Hampden County Sheriff's Department and Correction Center.
Movin' ON: Good Luck to You All:- - Kristin Simonds (Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center)
- Jim Rathschmidt (Franklin County Sheriff's Office)
- Buddy Downey (Franklin County Sheriff's Office)
- Martha Rullman (Franklin County Sheriff's Office)
- Jo-Ann Mongue (Pittsfield Adult Learning Center)
- Donna Ellery (Pittsfield Adult Learning Center)
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Upcoming Regional Trainings & Events
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For Detailed information on professional development opportunties, visit the SABES statewide calendar and stay tuned to the SABES West listserv.
All activities will be held at the Picknelly Adult and Family Education Center in the Holyoke Transportation Center, 206 Maple Street, Holyoke, MA. 01040.
Training are free for ABE practitioners. We just asked that you honor your commitment to attended for those events for which you have registered.
Pre-registration is required for all SABES' events. Low registrations result in the cancellation of workshops. Please register at least 1 full week prior to the date of the activity.
3-Option Registration As The Pipeline went to press, SABES was still firming up its menu of FY'11 activties. We have listed below what is currently scheduled. Please stay updated through our statewide calendar and our regional listserv announcements.
November, 2010
- New Staff Orientation, Sessions 3 and 4
- Classroom Data: Starting the New Year
- TABE Literacy Level Webinar
- TABE 9/10 (statewide at Devens)
- Network 2010 Conference
December, 2010
- Classroom Activities that Support Learner Persistence
- Tech Roundtable: Financial Literacy
- Counseling Sharing Group
- SMARTT/Cognos Updates (Pittsfield)
- MAPT for Math Score Reporting
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System for Adult Basic Education Support | Picknelly Adult and Family Education Center | 206 Maple Street - 4th Floor | Holyoke | MA | 01040
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