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The ESOL teacher facilitates language learning using a variety of rigorous instructional methods and relevant materials to optimize student engagement, encourage productive struggle, foster critical thinking, and address the needs of a diverse class of students.  Explore this collection of…
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In our Fall 2022 Newsletter, you read a lot about HQPD—High Quality Professional Development. The SABES Adult Education PD System provides PD offerings that are responsive to the Massachusetts Adult Education Standards for HQPD: HQPD acknowledges and addresses the unique context of ABE, the…
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Beginning-level English learners require special support to build their literacy skills, especially if they have limited or interrupted prior education and/or any type of learning differences or disabilities. This collection of recommended teaching resources includes materials designed specifically…
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Digital Promise, an organization working toward equitable education systems, has created a self-study guide to support teachers in exploring learner variability and using the Learner Variability Navigator, a free online tool that translates the science of learner variability into easily accessible…
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At the foundation of ESOL instruction are principles of Second Language Acquisition.  This collection, newly updated in fall 2022, includes an overview of key SLA theories and a selection of instructional resources describing the effective application of these principles in the ESOL classroom.
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To meaningfully evaluate student learning, the ESOL instructor needs to understand and apply the principles of backward design. This includes planning meaningful summative assessment aligned to learning objectives, while engaging learners in self-assessment and formative assessment along the…
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Please review the attached document for details about the new ACLS and SABES FY23 Digital Literacy Advisory Group. We are in the process of recruiting a diverse group of members who can represent a range of roles, experience, and types of programs from across the state. Interested applicants should…
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The Basic Disability Screenings for Adult Education Program Use (BDSAE) provides several basic screening tools that can help start the conversation between providers and students about disability-related assessments and accommodations.  The goal of this resource is to help adult educators…
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  “Data Science K-10 Big Ideas are descriptions of the most important content in data science through the grades to help focus attention on ways to increase data literacy. Big ideas are those that are central to the discipline of data science, and that link understandings into a coherent whole…
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Take Action! is a civic engagement unit developed for a social studies class at the HSE level. Students learn about the fundamentals and limitations of the municipal, state, and federal levels of government, and apply this knowledge by writing about an issue of importance to them in a formal letter…