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You asked and we listened! Here is a one-page Year-at-a-Glance listing of all the professional development offerings that the SABES ESOL PD Center will be delivering this year.
There are additional PD offerings that we are not scheduled to deliver this year listed in the SABES Catalog. If you…
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Like many educators working with immigrant learners, you may be asking this question. The SABES ESOL PD Team suggests these five ways you can help immigrant students feel safe, welcomed, and informed in class:
Display messages of respect, inclusion, and solidarity (e.g., “All are…
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Back to School Math Resources (2025)
This handy resource list contains high-quality math PD opportunities and instructional materials and strategies designed to help engage your ABE, HSE, English learners, and ESOL students. All resources align with the MA Professional Standards for Teachers…
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This packet introduces an instructional routine called a Test Talk. Test Talks will help you create and nurture a classroom culture that values flexible thinking and conceptual understanding and that explicitly prepares students to apply their learning in the context of standardized tests. The…
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To help sort through the many materials and professional development (PD) options available to you on the SABES ELA website, we have compiled a list of the Top 10 Back-to-School SABES ELA Courses and Resources. This list describes ten high-quality, standards-aligned ELA PD opportunities and…
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This collection includes teacher and student materials that can be downloaded as Word documents or PDFs. The math content is aimed at ABE level math students (approximately GLE 2–4). While adult students at this math level may have any level of reading, the text was kept to a minimum in…
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This collection includes teacher and student materials that can be downloaded as Word documents or PDFs. The math content is aimed at ABE level math students (approximately GLE 2–4). While adult students at this math level may have any level of reading, the text was kept to a minimum in…
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Various Variables: Using Scientific Thinking to Solve Real-Life Problems is a contextualized science unit developed for a science/English language arts class at the intermediate level (GLE 4–8). It should follow a unit on the basics of the scientific method, as this Various Variables unit…
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Innovations & Society (FOCUS: Second Industrial Revolution) explores the events and changes within the United States related to the inventions, technologies, and advances that transformed the growing United States from an agriculturally based economy to the industrial giant it became. The…
