Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This paper provides stakeholders with the data needed to prove that support of Adult Basic Skills programs results in a strong return that impacts both the adult learner and society as a whole. 

This report explores the potential for technology to enhance the teaching and learning of advanced math skills to adults. 

Introductory guide describing how adult literacy practitioners might support adult learners by incorporating relevant tools from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies' (PIAAC) literacy framework to frame reading instruction.

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

This webinar describes savings options available to individuals with disabilities that do not jeapordize public benefits.

This report details the progress of all 50 states and the District of Columbia towards achieving the Workforce Data Quality Campaign’s (WDQC) 13-point State Blueprint for state data systems.

This report provides recommendations for expanding and systematizing career pathways implementation within the Early Care and Education sector.

IMET is a tool for evaluating a comprehensive textbook or textbook series for alignment to the Shifts and major features of states’ challenging academic content standards.

This publication outlines the components, structure, and process involved with creating an adult citizenship education curriculum.

This plan from the Connecticut Department of Education provides administrative guidance and tools for conducting teacher observations and evaluations that support the continuous improvement of adult educators.

This brief provides an overview of research on effective teaching that can be applied in multiple settings by a broad range of teachers. 

This fact sheet highlights opportunities for adult educators to engage with partners across the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) system to ensure that planning and implementation under the new law is responsive to the needs of adult learners, and makes effective use of adult education partners’ expertise.

Achieve the Core’s Aligned is a publication dedicated to the conversation about Common Core aligned instructional materials.

BetterLesson provides a well-organized collection of teacher-created mathematics lessons that address each of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics.

This brief discusses the implementation of career pathways under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and considerations for state adult education staff in developing career pathways systems to support individuals in their pursuit of education and employment. 

The newest revision to the Career Pathways Toolkits includes writeable worksheets that can help State and program teams develop, maintain, and enhance career pathways systems and programs. 

CCR Standards-based professional development (PD) English Language Arts/Literacy materials made for adult educators.

CCR Standards-based professional development (PD) Math materials made for adult educators.

This checklist is a useful tool for teachers and learners to evaluate website quality.

A video series featuring teachers leading adult ESL classes through common classroom activities.

The English Language Arts/Literacy Advanced Units contain three components: a facilitator’s guide, an annotated PowerPoint presentation, and participant materials.

The Math Advanced Units contain three components: a facilitator’s guide, an annotated PowerPoint presentation, and participant materials.

This video features a math lesson on teaching inequalities using the concept first, notation last teaching strategy.

This toolkit offers information about policies and legislative templates that states can enact to improve data infrastructure and promote data use.

This brief describes how adult learning theory can be applied in the design of age appropriate digital learning experiences.