See below for upcoming SABES PD events for Math & Numeracy. Or, check out the Math & Numeracy Upcoming Events Calendar tab anytime!
Note: you are welcome to request Math & Numeracy instructional coaching for program staff. If interested, please submit a Contact Us request.
All PD offerings are online and facilitated unless indicated otherwise.
Wednesday, February 25
BeCALM Geometry: Remote-Ready Curriculum for Beginning Learners (GLE 2-4)
Adults who are beginning math learners can sometimes find themselves left behind by HSE curriculum or stuck trying to memorize their way through calculations they don’t understand. BeCALM (Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math) was designed to be a conceptually focused, cognitively rigorous curriculum that supports beginning math learners in developing math concepts and skills. This 1.5-hour online workshop will introduce a curriculum specifically designed to help beginning-level math learners develop knowledge of shapes and spatial reasoning, including visualization and recognition of basic shapes, identifying the basic attributes of shapes, and beginning to categorize shapes by their attributes. This resource can be used for remote or in-person classes and includes a student packet, teacher’s guide, and other downloadable materials.
- Feb. 25, 2026 | 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 3
Teaching Word Problems to Beginning Math Learners
Many students struggle with word problems, even if they are competent at reading and calculating. What makes word problems so challenging? How can we help our students build the skills they need to be successful? This two-part online workshop will break down different language, math, and cognitive skills involved when students tackle word problems. This can help you more accurately diagnose what individual gaps students have when they are struggling with word problems. This workshop will also help you plan your units to make sure you are intentionally addressing the variety of skills students need to be successful when working on them. The strategies in this course can be used for students studying math at any level, but the examples focus on beginning math learners (GLE 2–4), who may require more intentional scaffolding and support.
- Mar. 3, 2026 | 2:30 - 4 p.m.
- Mar. 10, 2026 | 2:30 - 4 p.m.
Wednesday, March 4
BeCALM Measurement and Data: Curriculum for Beginning Math Learners (GLE 2-4)
BeCALM (Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math) contains remote-ready units for adult learners who need math instruction at beginning levels (GLE 2-4). Adults who are beginning math learners can sometimes find themselves left behind by high school equivalency curriculum or stuck trying to memorize their way through calculations they don’t understand. What these learners need is a conceptually focused, cognitively rigorous curriculum that supports them in developing number and operation sense. This online workshop will introduce a curriculum specifically designed to help beginning-level math learners learn measurement concepts and skills and begin to collect and analyze data. This resource was designed for in-person classes and includes a student packet, teacher’s guide, and other downloadable materials. Units include application activities in the context of consumer literacy.
- Mar. 4, 2026 | 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 12
Using Visual Mathematics with English Learners: Percents and Ratios
When students work with visual models that they can see, manipulate, or create, it opens visual pathways in the brain that provide added meaning to the area of the brain that processes abstract numbers. In this workshop, we will work with visual representations of percents and ratios and discuss how this enables students at multiple levels of math and language proficiency to better understand abstract mathematical concepts.
- Mar. 12, 2026 | 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Collaboration Events
Introduction to Teaching Skills That Matter (Self-Paced Modules)
This introduction to the Teaching Skills That Matter in Adult Education provides an overview of the TSTM instructional framework and the TSTM Toolkit. The introduction also provides materials and guidance to train teachers to incorporate the skills that matter into adult education programming by using instructional approaches that work across relevant topic focus areas that are connected to student needs. Using the TSTM project’s tools and training, adult education teachers can teach the transferable skills students need in these critical contexts.
- Mar. 2, 2026 | Modules open at 9 a.m.
- Apr. 17, 2026 | Course closes at 11:59 p.m.
