The SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum & Instruction PD Center is creating a context-driven math unit about “being your own boss.” The unit will feature student voices, using real students’ self-employment and entrepreneurial experiences to direct learning. We are looking for current or...

An overview of the ESOL PD Center's offerings for the year, starting in August, to help you plan your professional development.

Join us for a webinar on September 23rd from 2:30-3:30 to listen to a discussion about how to prepare learners for the future, and the future of work. Learn about the Personal & Workplace Success Skills Library, a new tool in that ecosystem for building adaptive, resilient skills. Visit the Library...

Two excellent nonprofit educational organizations based in Massachusetts provide these free educator webinars. While geared toward K–12 educators, the webinars will also be relevant to ABE and ESOL teachers who wish to incorporate these topics into classes, or to use the teaching strategies modeled...

EBRI PD in 2021-22 Learn how to support your students at all grade level equivalents (GLEs) with Evidence-Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) tools and strategies through the following PD opportunities. Need the big picture? Read To the Point: WIOA, EBRI, and STAR. Want some details? Read more about...

The Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (CALM) was designed to give adult students a strong conceptual foundation in mathematics. Teachers who have worked with CALM know that it relies heavily on tactile manipulatives, visuals, and student collaboration and may feel very different (to both students...

In the 53rd issue of The Change Agent, Doing Our Jobs and Caring for Our Children, writers discuss changing work conditions during the pandemic and what it's been like doing the work of parenting during these challenging times. This particular issue will resonate with adult learners as it relates...

Overview of the STAR Initiative The STudent Achievement in Reading (STAR) initiative focuses on building the reading skills of intermediate level adult learners (GLE 4.0–8.9). STAR is explicitly listed as one of the ways in which OCTAE “supports states in meeting these new WIOA requirements”. Years...

The Boston Immigrant Professionals Fellowship will place ten talented, diverse, and multilingual Black immigrant professionals from Africa and the Caribbean in a three-month paid internship with one of the leading hospitals in the Greater Boston region. College-educated refugees and immigrants...

The SABES Program Support PD Center (PSPDC) is seeking a part-time coordinator to coordinate Advisor Sharing Group (ASG) facilitators for meetings in all Massachusetts regions. In addition, the coordinator will facilitate ASG meetings for the Southeast region. This is a part-time, 10-month contract...