Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library is a curated collection of resources to guide the integration of personal and workplace success skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design.

Each case study highlights notable practices in remote ESOL instruction and administration from eight programs that represent the diverse range of organizations that offer adult ESOL across the US.

This site includes information on promising remote adult ESOL practices and program models.

This page links to projects and resources supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that provide perspective and insight on the Asian-American experience.

This website contains resources curated by state staff in Wisconsin to support the development and expansion of Integrated Education and Training.

This report explores an approach for enhancing career-relevant learning in the classroom. 

This study examines teachers’ implicit biases and their correlates, largely confirming hypotheses that connect county-level teacher implicit bias to disparities in achievement and school discipline between Black and White students.

This report from the Digital US coalition is the result of a six-month landscape analysis and strategic planning period, laying the groundwork for a new collective impact approach to support both on-ramps to digital skills as well as pathways to new opportunities.

This e-guide provides resources and guidance to internationally trained immigrants seeking to use their education in the field of law in the United States.

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

This resource provides an outline for how to implement technology tools that are standards-based and meet the instructional needs of adult educators and learners.

This brief explains what civics education skills are and why they are important for adult learners.

This brief explains what digital literacy skills are and why they are important.

This brief explains what financial literacy skills are and why they are important.

This brief explains what health literacy skills are and why they are important.

This brief explains what workforce preparation skills are and why they are important.

This Open Educational Resource Book it covers whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages in trade professions.

This guide, developed for Model UN students, could be used to better understand how to support refugees and migrants who participate in adult basic education programs.

Adult English learners (ELs) may need numeracy instruction to navigate daily life or understand health information, so this paper examines numeracy skill levels and home skill use of adult ELs in Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) 2012/2014 data and recommends implications for EL numeracy instruction.

Ready, Set, Go: Steps to Rapidly Start Distance Learning provides guidance to adult educators on how to quickly set-up distance learning programs for their students.

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 website, TeachingEnglish by the British Council, contains a wide range of practical resources for teaching English to adults.

Teaching Online: Communicating and Tracking Learner Progress presents a clear and comprehensive approach for instructors to transition from an in-person to online learning environment.

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 course was designed for education providers and practitioners teaching adult basic academic skills, ESOL, and literacy at a distance and/or through blended learning; it provides strategies and resources that are essential for both setting up and implementing distance education or teaching with a blended approach.