Institute Goals
- Provide an opportunity to delve deeply into the contents of the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education report and its implications for adult education.
- Share a practical and transferable understanding of the fundamental advances in instruction embedded in the college and career readiness (CCR) standards and the research base that supports them.
- Present results of a gap analysis that will tell participants how aligned their state’s reading, writing, and mathematics standards are with the CCR standards.
- Offer individualized support to participants from expert coaches in literacy and mathematics about how best to integrate CCR standards into their current programs.
- Introduce in-depth advanced CCR training and technical assistance that will be available to adult education programs in 2015 and 2016.
Day One
7:30-8:30 a.m. | Registration and Information |
8:30-8:40 a.m. | Welcome From the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) Ronna Spacone, OVAE Program Manager |
8:40-9:00 a.m. | Introductions and Purpose-Setting Susan Pimentel and Barbara Van Horn, StandardsWork (SW) Project Staff SW project staff will provide an overview of the agenda and set the purpose of the two-day session: to help participants grasp the importance of CCR standards for adult education and learn how to implement them. |
9:00-10:00 a.m. | CCR Standards and Their Implications for Adult Education Susan Pimentel, SW Project Staff This session will summarize the research that supports the CCR standards and the process that led to the identification of CCR standards for adult education. It will lay out the key advances in these standards and how they inform our notion of what adult students need to know and be able to do to succeed in college and careers. The session will explore what it means for adult education programs to adopt CCR-aligned standards and how to do so in a manner that is sustainable. (This session will be tailored to the needs of the participants based on the information obtained during registration.) |
10:00-10:15 a.m. | Break |
10:15-11:00 a.m. |
Exploration of Key Instructional Advances in Literacy and Mathematics Mathematics: What Is the Major Work of Each Level? Literacy: Connecting the Standards to the Key Advances in Literacy |
11:00 a.m.-noon |
Exploration of Key Instructional Advances, Concurrent Sessions, Continued Literacy: Selecting Texts Worth Reading and Writing About |
Noon-1:30 p.m. | Lunch Lunch on your own. The institute will resume promptly at 1:30. |
1:30-2:30 p.m. |
Exploration of Key Instructional Advances, Concurrent Sessions, Continued Literacy: Importance of Providing Students With Regular Practice at Drawing Evidence From Texts |
2:30-2:45 p.m. | Break |
2:45-3:45 p.m. |
Exploration of Key Instructional Advances, Concurrent Sessions, Continued Literacy: CCR Writing |
3:45–4:00 p.m. | Wrap-up (Whole Group) Barbara Van Horn This session will summarize progress toward the institute's objectives and set the stage for tomorrow's topics and discussions. |
Day Two
8:30-9:15 a.m. | Reflections on Yesterday’s Session and Today’s Objectives Barbara Van Horn and Susan Pimentel This session will recap the feedback received at the end of Day One and answer questions that participants might have after reflecting on the key instructional advances in mathematics and literacy. |
9:15-10:30 a.m. |
Individualized Coaching Sessions Adult Education Teams With Existing Adult Education Standards Adult Education Teams Without Adult Education Standards |
10:30-10:45 a.m. | Break |
10:45-11:30 a.m. | Highlights of Upcoming Advanced Implementation CCR Workshops Susan Pimentel, Meredith Liben, and Mimi Alkire This session will preview the advanced CCR training and technical assistance that will be available to a limited number of states and participants, including how adult education can best implement CCR standards in a sustainable way. |
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Lunch With Coaches |
1:00-2:30 p.m. | Cross-State Sharing of Next Steps and Final Question-and-Answer Session Susan Pimentel and Coaches This networking session will provide an opportunity for participants to share their next steps and learn about, as well as respond to, the plans of other participants. It will also provide participants time to ask further questions about key instructional advances, implementation strategies, and advanced CCR workshops in light of the plans they have formulated for implementation. |
2:30-3:00 p.m. | Wrap-up, Meeting Evaluation, and Goodbyes Ronna Spacone and Barbara Van Horn |