Webinar Materials

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Google and COABE are co-hosting a webinar series around Google's free digital literacy curriculum. In this webinar, Google's Applied Digital Skills team will walk us through popular lessons to learn digital skills for the office: 1. Connect and Collaborate Anywhere with Digital Tools 2. Give and Receive Feedback 3. Effective Communication at Work 4. Negotiate Your Salary 5. Plan Effective Meetings To sign up for free and start using Applied Digital Skills with your learners, go to g.co/applieddigitalskills/coabe and click Sign Up to create a teacher account.

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If you signed up for a COABE XPRIZE account with Learning Upgrade, you can start enrolling ESL, ABE, and HSE learners now! In this webinar you will learn how to onboard learners, set up classes, add more teachers, monitor student progress and view detailed time-on-task reports. Don’t have an account yet? Just fill in this form and you will receive a no-cost license with instructions. https://web.learningupgrade.com/coabe-xprize-cc/

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Google and COABE are co-hosting a webinar series around Google's free digital literacy curriculum. In this webinar, Google's Applied Digital Skills team will walk us through a deep dive starter lessons for adults: 1. Digital Tools for Every Day Tasks 2. Start a Resume 3. Edit a Resume 4. Send Professional Emails To sign up for free and start using Applied Digital Skills with your learners, go to g.co/applieddigitalskills/coabe and click Sign Up to create a teacher account.

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Many adults who leave high school before graduation go on to lead productive lives through grit and gumption. Some opt to return to our community college to complete their diploma. In addition to the GED® credential, our school offers a competency-based high school diploma program called High School 21+ (HS21+). The HS21+ option allows students to re-enter school with a proficiency focus that incorporates high school credits already earned, documented work and life experience related to high school academics, and technological, literacy, and cognitive skills demonstrations within the classroom. We provide an emergent learning space for achievement and completion that maximizes prior learning success. This webinar demonstrates competency-based college and career readiness that, through effective interaction and technology-intensive rigor, scaffolds high school completion with workplace and college readiness.

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This webinar provides a first look at the new TABE 11/12 tests. This overview describes the new subtest structure and length, testing time, item types and alignment to NRS EFLs and adult education standards, relevance to high school equivalency tests, and improved Locator. Participants will view the new, greatly improved online testing platform, INSIGHT that both TABE and TASC share. We will provide an overview on the new TASC test forms for 2018, the newest option for high school equivalency testing.

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This webinar will provide a research-based framework for teachers and tutors to better understand the most effective sequence for teaching students to read. Understanding why sequence matters and being able to pinpoint where students are along their path will allow teachers to more effectively target lessons to focus on the students' current skill level. Components in learning to read include: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

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The Iowa Department of Education presented at the 2019 COABE Conference on their collaboration with Iowa’s 15 community colleges to build, connect, and empower employer-led, community-based sector partnerships to combat a shortage of skilled labor through a wide variety of talent attraction, retention, and development initiatives. The discussion centered on newly developed statewide materials, strategies, and initiatives which continue to support the development and growth of collaborative sector partnerships in Iowa, including a series of educational toolkits, community of practice initiatives, and statewide career pathway development strategies for critical industries like health science, advanced manufacturing, IT, and energy. Many of these resources, strategies, and general ideas can be easily and quickly replicated in other communities across the US. Visit SectorPartnerships.EducateIowa.gov to learn more and download many of the highlighted materials and additional resouces!

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The Open Door Collective (ODC) is dedicated to reshaping U.S. society to have dramatically less poverty and economic inequality and more civic engagement and participation in all our society has to offer. ODC is made up of professionals working in adult basic skills, social services and poverty reduction, who believe that adult basic skills and lifelong learning programs can open doors of opportunity to healthier, more prosperous and more satisfying lives.  ODC members have expertise in connecting adult basic skills to healthcare, employment and training, corrections and family and social services.  We advocate including adult basic skills, including English language, basic literacy, numeracy, high school equivalency, college readiness and technology skills as an integral part of a larger agenda of reducing poverty and income inequality, broadening social participation, and moving us closer to the kind of society in which we all want to live.