Welcome

Advising is essential to helping students stay motivated and persist in setting and achieving their education and career goals. Effective advising is more than establishing student education and career goals. Advising also involves assessing the supports and barriers students encounter on their pathway and connecting students to organizations that can help address them. It also entails collaborating with instructors to help students develop effective personal, college and career readiness, and workforce preparation skills. 

The SABES Program Support Professional Development team offers workshops, resources, and guidance to support advisors in adult education programs on topics including an orientation for new advisors, advising program curricula, and trauma-informed advising. 

Read below for a summary of our offerings, check out resources in the Resource Library, view all advising offerings in the Canvas catalog, and view the SABES calendar for upcoming professional development offerings.

Advisor Sharing Groups 

The Advisor Sharing Group is a peer-facilitated opportunity for support staff to provide program updates, discuss and troubleshoot common challenges, and share resources, promising practices, and more. This group is open to all advisors working in adult education in Massachusetts.

To learn more about Advisor Sharing Groups, please visit the Canvas course catalog.

Advising Community of Practice 

The SABES Program Support PD Team manages the Community of Practice (CoP) for Advisors. This online CoP is for advisors working in Massachusetts adult education programs to collaborate, network, share resources and materials, and solve tricky situations together.

To join the Advising Community of practice, click the Direct Enrollment (Join) Link and follow the directions. Please note that if you do not have a Canvas account, you will be asked to create one before you can select “enroll in course”. 

Advising Courses 

Courses and offerings support advisors in learning about the role, building their skills, developing an advising curriculum, providing trauma-informed advising, and developing career contextualized advising workshops and instruction. 

View upcoming events and register for courses using the SABES Calendar. To view all available Advising & Student Support Services offerings, visit the SABES Canvas catalog. To plan your advising professional development, check out the SABES PD Pathways Guides and the Program Support PD Team Year-at-a-Glance document.

What’s New?

See SABES news items related to Advising & Student Support Services in the column to the left. To receive updates on new offerings, resources, and news as they become available, create or update your SABES account. Click on “My Notifications” and select “Program Support” and “Advising”. 

PD Opportunities 

To see all currently-scheduled PD from the SABES Program Support Team, check the Event Listings or search the SABES PD Calendar. (You can filter both the Event Listings and the Calendar by “Advising and Student Support Services.”)

Not seeing what you’re looking for? We’re here to help and happy to help you navigate resources and opportunities from SABES and our partners. We can also create customized PD or coaching for you or your program. Please reach out! See our contact information below. 

Resources 

Find all resources from the SABES Program Support Team – including research, reports, and course materials – by navigating to the Resource Library. Filter for “Advising & Student Support Services” under “PD Area,” or search by topic or keyword.

Contact Us

Need help? Have a question or idea? Reach out.

• For general support (including registration and accessing PD), please contact Sovanna Carnell Guyon at sovanna_carnellguyon@worlded.org.

For technical support (including program-based PD, coaching, and research requests), please reach out to Dani Scherer at dani_scherer@worlded.org.