State Leadership Initiatives for Adult Education

Implementing evidence-based reading instruction for ABE students.

Required for:

• Programs that do not currently have a STAR/ARISE Trained cohort or
• Programs who would like to expand evidence-based reading instruction and
• Administrators who were not part of their programs' STAR/ARISE cohorts

Year 1 Cohort Important Dates

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Year 2+ Schedule

Building Relevance Through Contextualized Learning

Presented by Chris Miller, an Adult Education Professional Learning and Workforce Specialist

This professional learning series will help Arizona adult education teachers and administrators strengthen learner engagement by connecting academic instruction to meaningful life, career, training, and postsecondary applications. Participants will learn a practical framework for contextualizing instruction, apply it to an existing lesson, test the redesigned lesson with learners, and share results during a follow-up session.

Part 1 on Wednesday, November 4^th from 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Part 2 on Wednesday, November 18^th from 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Building Relevance Through Contextualized Instruction - Nov 4 / 18 3:00p - 4:00p

The Teaching the Skills That Matter in Adult Education project (TSTM) trains teachers to integrate the skills that matter to adult students using approaches that work across engaging topics. Using the project's tools and training, adult education teachers can teach these transferable workforce skills students need across multiple contexts.

Explore the Online Toolkit to get started with read-made lesson plans and resources for the classroom.

This is the first of the quarterly meetings supporting Teaching Skills that Matter (TSTM). This community of practice is open to any teacher or administrator wanting to utilize the TSTM framework in their classroom/program.

The meeting is discussion-based and centers on a featured topic each month. This month, two teachers from Rio will share how they have applied the TSTM framework through their monthly PLC work focused on the nine essential skills.

Meeting on Friday, November 6^th from 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

TSTM COP PY26-27: 11/6/26; 1/15/27; 3/5/27; 5/7/27 (10:30a-11:30a)

The Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math, or BeCALM, was developed by the Technical Education Research Center (TERC) development team to craft a coherent progression of units and lessons that integrates the Mathematical Standards domains for beginner levels.

BeCALM features remote-ready units for adult learners needing math instruction at beginning levels (ABE 2 - ABE 4.) BeCALM is a conceptually-focused and cognitively rigorous curriculum that supports begnning math learners in developing math concepts and skills while centering student thinking.

The Building an EdTech Strategy Toolkit Course (BEST) is designed to help instructors develop adaptable edtech routines tailored to their unique contexts. This course uses a blended model, including five synchronous virtual sessions, to guide participants through a carefully sequenced set of considerations as they work to complete the design of edtech routines for their classroom.

Thank you for participating!