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A Collection of Four Standards-in-Action Classroom Videos and Two Video Resource Packages for Mathematics

2023

These four classroom videos and accompanying materials are designed to provide adult educators with models of effective standards implementation. Through these Standards-in-Action (SIA) videos, adult educators can identify instructors employing effective teaching and learning practices in mathematics required by challenging academic standards.

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Contextualized College Transition Strategies for Adult Basic Skills Students: Learning from Washington State’s I-BEST Program Model

2012

Findings and recommendations are presented from the final phase of a multi-year evaluation of the Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) model in which basic skills instructors and professional-technical faculty jointly design and teach college-level occupational classes that admit basic skills-level students.

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Adult Education Educator Evaluation and Support Plan

2016

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.

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Guide to ELA Classroom Activities that Promote Life Skills, College and Career Readiness

2014

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).

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Preparing Workers for 21st Century Employment: Making Sense of Math at Work

2010

This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.

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Preparing Workers for the 21st Century: Written Communication in the Workplace

2008

This resource supports the teaching of specific education and training content that can be implemented by classroom instructors in the context of a particular career cluster.

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Building Pathways to Postsecondary Success for Low-Income Young Men of Color

2010

This book chapter looks at strategies for connecting male high school dropouts of color between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four to pathways to postsecondary credentials that have value in the labor market.

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Identify Theft: What to Know, What to Do

This resource is a step-by-step guide on what to do if your identity is stolen.

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Integrating Curriculum: Lessons for Adult Education from Career and Technical Education

2010

This report describes and examines the integrated curriculum as a strategy that has been implemented in career and technical education (CTE) programs in high schools that holds promise for preparing students for career advancement and training or postsecondary education. 

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