Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This research is aimed towards the development of a European key competency profile for the adult learning professionals working in correctional criminal justice system, based on key competences for adult learning professionals, national researches in partner countries conducted on relevant stakeholders and European analysis of available materials on topic developed in other LLP initiatives.

This meta-analysis review from the field of discipline-based education research contains insights on how students learn science and engineering and how to design instructional strategies that build on these insights.

This report examines the implementation of the Reentry Education Model at three demonstration sites and identifies key lessons for linking correctional and reentry education programs.

This interactive tool helps instructors diagnose classroom problems, think about possible causes, and explore solutions.

This report revises and reinvigorates previously developed goals from the 2011 National Research Council (NRC) report titled Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in STEM to expand the STEM workforce by targeting individuals who are least likely to pursue STEM careers.

This webpage from Stanford University is a collection of several resources for science educators interested in the intersection between the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 

The main goal of the project, “is to inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on math learning into accessible and practical forms.” The site provides research-based methods, tasks, videos, and ideas which aim to inspire teachers and empower students.

The Teacher Effectiveness Glossary provides definitions of the acronyms and terms found throughout the Adult Education Teacher Induction Toolkit, including the online courses, guides, and information briefs. It is helpful for every step of the Teacher Induction Pathway. 

This brief provides an introduction to and overview of what teacher induction is and what the process involves.

This brief describes important components of mentoring programs within teacher induction.

The Teacher Induction Pathway provides a quick visual framework for teacher induction process of inducting a beginning teacher, including those who are teaching a new content area or implementing a program’s new priority initiativee. 

This resource can be used for teaching English letter-sound patterns or phonics.

This resource looks particularly at different activities and strategies to enhance classroom cohesion. 

The resource explores students' mindsets and how it affects how they learn math. It also identifies core teaching principles and provides teaching materials to support those principles. 

This resource looks at suggested professional development activities for social studies, science, mathematics, and other content areas. 

This framework aims to help students learn basic science content knowledge while developing their reading, writing, and analytical skills.

The Social Studies: Integrating Reading & Writing Curriculum Framework incorporates U.S. history, basic economics and civics concepts, and geography, using the U.S. timeline as an organizing principle, or “backbone.”

This website introduces employers and educators to the value of partnering, presents best practices and success stories, and provides links to evidence-based tools for building and sustaining partnerships and creating career pathways.

This report breaks down the results of the 2011 PIAAC Survey, which assessed the cognitive and workplace skills needed for success in the 21st-century global economy.

The Council of the Great City Schools is a membership organization of 67 of the nations’ largest urban public school districts

A part of a series of info sheets that looks at the particular attention needed to motivate students with learning disabilities 

One place to go for Americans to find information and help that they need to find work. 

This report explores the role of race in community college education, specifically as it pertains to African American and Latino males. 

This guide is designed to help presenters design and deliver adult education presentations.

Emphasizing results from quasi-experimental and experimental research, this literature review identifies the most promising approaches for increasing dropouts’ rate of attaining a GED certificate or other high school credential and making a successful transition to college.