Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This report provides the findings of an evaluation of Arkansas’s Career Pathways Initiative, which provides education and training to low-income Arkansans helping them to acquire degrees and/or certificates to obtain and hold jobs in selected high-demand and high-wage industries.

The Career Pathways Planner offers a framework for adult education state leaders to use in supporting local adult education providers in the development of a local/regional career pathways systems.

This guide helps administrators and teachers in identifying instructional domains and establishing a system of professional development for adult citizenship educators.

This two-part webinar provides stakeholders with a better understanding of the performance accountability provisions in section 116 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the accompanying regulation.

Your Money, Your Goals is a set of financial empowerment materials to help people meet their financial goals by increasing their knowledge, skills, and resources.

Achievethecore.org is a Student Achievement Partners website full of content designed to help educators understand and implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other college and career ready (CCR) standards  

The Adult Education Teacher Competencies are designed to identify the knowledge and skills needed by adult education teachers to improve student learning and performance.

This dissertation examines the experiences of 20 offenders involved in correctional education programs through the lens of post-incarceration employment.  

The Annotated Bibliography is intended to be a resource for anyone who is interested in learning more about the research that is most relevant to the Promoting Teacher Effectiveness in Adult Education project.

The Toolkit features v​ideos and supplemental materials to help teachers write and select well-designed assessments.

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 reader from British Columbia contains nine original stories written specifically for adults at the beginner to grade 1.5 reading level.

Written specifically for adults, this beginning-level reader contains eight chapters about Langston Hughes' family history and personal life.

This course pack features a set of nine high-interest reading materials that are designed to meet the learning outcomes for Adult Literacy Fundamental English Level 5 (roughly equivalent to grades 6 to 7.5 in the K-12 system).

This course pack embeds fundamental English and computer literacy learning in a project-based curriculum that is designed to meet adult education learning outcomes that are roughly equivalent to grades 7.5 to 9 in the K-12 system.

This reader from British Columbia contains nine original stories written specifically for adults reading at the 3 to 4.5 grade level equivalent (GLE).

This reader contains nine original stories about human rights written specifically for adults who read at the grade 4.5 to 6 reading level.

Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools (BATT) strives to provide a ‘principled’ system for ABE/ESL teachers who want and/or need to develop their students’ knowledge of Roman alphabet letters, English letter-sound patterns, sight or high frequency words, and transfer of those lettersound-word skills to text fluency and comprehension.

This report covers efforts to institutionalize, sustain, and scale Adult Education Bridge Programs in three states: Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

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 summarizes responses to a request for information about career pathways systems, including respondent-identified facilitators and barriers to career pathways development and implementation as well as promising practices.

This site shows how to incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into curriculum, as well as learn about UDL and explore resources related to it. 

This brief identifies the conditions within an adult education program that increase the likelihood of success of an induction process in having a positive impact on beginning teacher performance.

Examination of digital literacy acquisition learning experiences designed to prepare prisoners for re-entry (a case study)