Considerations for providing remote instruction for adult learners are many and complex. Student and teacher access to hardware and software and comfort with technology; finding ways to create a sense of community in our classrooms when we cannot be present in the same space; deciding which of the...

The past months have demanded every ounce of educational leadership that adult educators have to offer. As we pivot from our spring rapid response phase, many program directors have expressed the desire to transition to a more structured, cohesive approach, and we recognize that program teams have...

“Everyone is an advisor now” is a familiar refrain these days, as we all recognize that learners need many supports normally relegated to advising programs. To support a programmatic approach to advising, the Program Support Professional Development Center (PSPDC) developed and circulated The...

Equity and access for learners should be at the core of every decision we make regarding program models. The PSPDC supports programs in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for online and blended learning models. This Accessibility Resource List consists of recommendations and...

This fall, as your distance and blended teaching program continues to evolve, the Program Support Professional Development Center (PSPDC) is offering a PD series designed to support you in building high-quality distance and blended learning classes, both in the short-term to address our remote needs...

A colleague described her first week of remote teaching this Fall as "*mostly* successful chaos." Yes! Is your school year off to a somewhat chaotic start? Is it at least partially successful? How are you defining success, these days? One measure of success is using available tools effectively to...

We are excited to share our new Zoom Resources page, which now includes our new seven-minute Zoom video tutorial for teachers: Introduction to Zoom: Tips and Tools for Planning and Facilitating Zoom Meetings and Classes. You will also find Student User Guides in six languages, generously shared by...

Massachusetts is fortunate to be one of only a few states that offers an ABE Teacher License. To help ACLS and SABES develop plans to promote the ABE License and support educators who pursue it, we are asking all adult educators to complete a brief survey. The survey should take less than 10 minutes...

Keep it simple—for students and for you. Choose one tool or platform to be the main home for the materials you and students will use. This could be as formal as Schoology or Google Classroom, or as simple as a hyperdoc. For these ideas and more, including examples, visit our Distance Education and...

ACLS defines digital literacy as: the skills associated with using technology to enable users to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information. While many of us focus on the ‘literacy’ part of digital literacy and think about reading and writing, the definition of digital literacy...