Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This practice guide provides community colleges with five specific recommendations for supporting occupational skills training through career pathways.

This compendium describes the four innovative practices in secondary
credentialing selected from the Round 1 Advancing Innovation in Adult
Education applications.

The Self-study Guide for Evidence-Based Practices in Adult Literacy Education helps adult literacy education providers collect, organize, and analyze evidence they can use to plan for and improve program implementation and performance.

This guide is for teachers, tutors, and administrators of programs and schools who provide adult basic skills education and who are hoping to initiate or improve blended learning for their students.

This introductory guide for educators is part of the Power in Numbers initiative, funded by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). Power in Numbers aims to help adult learners receive the higher-level math skills they need to succeed. This guide provides educators with step-by-step instructions for identifying, reviewing and remixing high-quality OER.

The Kentucky Skills U Instructional Technology Framework provides a common instructional technology foundation for comprehensive, assessment-aligned instructional support for adult educators. 

The Reasoning Through Language Arts Instructional Framework enumerates language arts standards, standards descriptions and resources related to teaching to those standards.

The UDL Guidelines Graphic Organizer is a tool that can be used to design learning experiences that meet the needs of all learners.

This paper examines how to best provide teachers with the time, support, and space to learn how to use new technological tools and resources effectively.

A special issue of the Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary and Basic Education devoted to numeracy.

A resource for state and local program leaders looking to support the effective implementation of state academic content standards.

This guide for adult education facilitators provides information and strategies for supporting adult learners living with mental health conditions or disorders.

Archive of September 14, 2016 webinar. 

This practice brief offers considerations and step-by-step instructions for planning and executing task analyses for teaching new skills to students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

This revised Career Pathways Toolkit: A Guide for System Development features Six Key Elements of Career Pathways that help to guide local and state teams through the essential components necessary for developing a comprehensive career pathways system. 

This report explores the latest research around how decision-making and actions are influenced by poverty and outlines research-driven strategies that workforce providers can use to help workers become more self-sufficient.

The Mentoring Guide for Teacher Induction provides specific guidance and resources for mentoring beginning teachers in adult education and for using the Adult Education Teacher Induction Toolkit.

This guide provides suggested classroom tasks that combine the academic knowledge and skills described by the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education with behaviors and composite skills needed to succeed in college, workplace, and civic life (essential competencies).

This directory has been created to help correctional educators enhance existing or create new parenting programs in their correctional facilities.

This report provides information on the Transformative Change Initiative (TCI), which is dedicated to assisting community colleges scale-up innovation in the form of guided pathways, programs of study, and evidence-based strategies to improve student outcomes and program, organization, and system performance.

This review defines and describes the Flipped Learning model, briefly notes its historical foundations, and addresses common misconceptions. 

This is an instructional guide for a flipped classroom in which instructional material is learned outside of the classroom and class time is used to complete assignments. 

This report explores the connection between correctional education a reduction in postrelease recidivism.

This brief highlights the experiences of five organizations that participated in a six-month Learning Cluster as they worked to integrate services that strengthen the financial capability of their clients. through strategies developed to overcome early challenges to integrating financial services into their traditional programming.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in mathematics began with progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels.