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This interactive workshop explores how adult basic education providers can strengthen outcomes by building innovative, results-driven partnerships with their workforce development boards. Through real-world examples and guided discussion, the session highlights how co-enrollment, integrated education and training (IET), pre-apprenticeships, shared data, and braided funding can help workforce development and ABE partners respond to talent shortages while expanding access and equity for job seekers. Attendees will identify common challenges to effective partnerships and learn concrete strategies for overcoming them through trust-building, joint planning, and continuous communication. The workshop emphasizes by positioning ABE programs and workforce development boards not only as referral agencies, but as strategic partners in talent development. Participants will leave with actionable ideas, partnership tools, and next steps they can adapt to their local systems to better serve job seekers, employers, and communities in a rapidly changing economy. Participants will (1) identify effective partnership models between workforce development and adult basic education, including co-enrollment, pre-apprenticeships, and Integrated Education and Training; (2) apply strategies to align goals, data, and resources across systems to address common partnership challenges; and (3) develop actionable next steps to strengthen local collaborations that improve outcomes for jobseekers and employers. Original webinar date: May 14, 2026 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/Cht1pbZg75w
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How can we use multimedia storytelling to promote student voice in adult ed? Using digital stories in the classroom and professional development promotes inclusive and relevant instruction, leadership development, community building, and media literacy. In this session, attendees will explore the digital storytelling process and important elements of producing a personal narrative focusing on message and audience. They will also get practical resources, tools, and strategies for the classroom and community. Original webinar date: May 8, 2026 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/nQIW-bL72JM
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Adult education is not a feeder system—it is a foundational workforce partner. In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week, this webinar will spotlight how adult education programs are advancing Registered Apprenticeship through IET models, contextualized instruction, and strong employer engagement. Hear real-world examples of programs that are aligning instruction with industry needs, removing barriers for adult learners, and creating seamless transitions into apprenticeship and family-sustaining careers. Discover actionable steps to elevate your program’s role in apprenticeship partnerships. Original webinar date: April 29, 2026 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/VmMdQ95JtG0 Important links:Public Access NRS Adult Education Data: Home | National Reporting System
Michigan Center of Data Analytics: Michigan Hot 50 Job Outlook through 2032
U.S. Employment Projections: Employment Projections Home Page : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Finding Your State Apprenticeship Contact: State Offices | Apprenticeship.gov
Michigan Apprenticeship Readiness Certificate: LEO - Michigan Apprenticeship Readiness Certificates (MARC)
Michigan Adult Education: www.michigan.gov/adulteducation
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Nucleos presents, "One Person. One Plan. Many Partners." Every individual on a second-chance journey has a different story, different challenges, and different goals. A one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t work. In this webinar, we’ll explore how personalized learning and support pathways can help individuals identify their strengths, address their needs, and build a meaningful path forward. Through the Nucleos platform, education, career development, mental health resources, reentry support, and essential soft skills can come together to form a coordinated strategy for success. When these services are connected through trusted partners, organizations can move beyond separate programs and create a support system tailored to each person. Because real progress happens when we focus on one person, create one plan, and bring together many partners. Original webinar date: April 21, 2026 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/xP7LMUcKJNk
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Online lessons and practices designed to help instructors teach and foster adaptive beliefs about learning.
Learning mindsets are a set of beliefs that can support increased academic performance in students. There are three main learning mindsets commonly referenced: growth mindset, belonging, and purpose & relevance. Individuals who believe intelligence is set at birth have a "fixed mindset". They tend to perform worse academically and may give up when challenged or think that having to work hard means you don’t ‘have what it takes’.
In contrast, students who believe their intelligence can grow with effort and practice perform better in school and in life. This belief is called a "growth mindset". Students with a growth mindset understand that they have control over their own success. They are more motivated to work hard; they put more effort into their schoolwork; they are more resilient in the face of obstacles; and they ultimately perform better in school.
The Mindset Kit is a collection of resources that help adult educators and parents learn about the most effective learning mindset materials available. All of the resources are based on research that has been carefully translated into lessons and practices intended to improve students’ mindsets and make them better learners. There are several videos to help users learn more about these mindsets and example practices that can help them get started.
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The Mindset Kit is organized into materials for teachers, parents, mentors, and professional development. Lessons are short and easy to understand and most include a short video. Along with the lessons on growth mindset teachers will find lesson plans to try in their classrooms to help their students develop a growth mindset. Although the lessons are developed for K-12 classrooms, they are easily used or adapted for adult education classrooms. Lessons on developing learning tasks and assessments are illustrated in a math classroom that will resonate with adult education teachers.
The research on growth mindset is presented in a way that is easy to understand. Lessons for teachers emphasize the importance of helping students understanding the research and lesson plans are provided that make the research easily accessible for students. The kit also contains a set of five one-hour professional development courses and a list of downloadable professional development activities and resources.
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This flyer highlights LINCS resources of interest to adult educators working in career pathways or workforce development.
This flyer may be of interest to adult educators working in career pathways or workforce development who are looking for recommended LINCS resources. State staff and program administrators should feel free to download, print, and distribute these flyers.
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This site includes links to information created by other public and private organizations. These links are provided for the user’s convenience. The U.S. Department of Education does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this non-ED information. The inclusion of these links is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse views expressed, or products or services offered, on these non-ED sites.
Please note that privacy policies on non-ED sites may differ from ED’s privacy policy. When you visit lincs.ed.gov, no personal information is collected unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of non-ED websites that you visit. We invite you to read our privacy policy.
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This flyer highlights LINCS resources of interest to adult educators.
This flyer is intended to highlight selected resources from the LINCS Community, Learning Portal, and Resource Collection that would be of interest to most adult educators.
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This flyer may be of interest to adult educators looking for recommended LINCS resources. State staff and program administrators should feel free to download, print, and distribute these flyers.
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This site includes links to information created by other public and private organizations. These links are provided for the user’s convenience. The U.S. Department of Education does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this non-ED information. The inclusion of these links is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse views expressed, or products or services offered, on these non-ED sites.
Please note that privacy policies on non-ED sites may differ from ED’s privacy policy. When you visit lincs.ed.gov, no personal information is collected unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of non-ED websites that you visit. We invite you to read our privacy policy.
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The Kentucky Skills U Instructional Technology Framework provides a common instructional technology foundation for comprehensive, assessment-aligned instructional support for adult educators.
The Kentucky Skills U Instructional Framework Series was designed to provide a common instructional foundation for all of Kentucky’s adult education providers. This resource was developed by a state-level team and was informed by local providers and is intended to align with the LINCS Professional Development Center State Leadership Self-Assessment Tool, the LINCS Adult Education Teacher Competencies, the Data Recognition Corporation TABE 11/12 Blueprints, and the GED® Testing Service High Impact Indicators (HIIs). The framework has four components: The Student Framework; The Mathematics Instructional Framework; The Reasoning Through Language Arts Instructional Framework; The Instructional Technology Framework.
This resource focuses on The Instructional Technology Framework and provides instructional resources that are accompanied by links, descriptions, screenshots and video tutorials. The resources are aligned with LINCS AE Teacher Competencies for Domains 2 and 3, specifically competencies 2.1 through 2.5 and 3.2. While the resources are designed for the K-12 setting, they can be used as is or revised to meet the needs of adult learners.
To note, the examples of Instructional Technology described in the framework are meant to supplement instruction, not to replace it. Sound instruction is designed around learning objectives, and integration of the technology tools highlighted below contextualizes instruction to increase the digital literacy needed for both college and career success.
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The Kentucky U Skills Instructional Technology Framework provides a helpful list of online technology tools (websites, platforms, and apps) that are intended for use in educational contexts. The list is aligned with the LINCS Adult Ed Teacher Competencies for Domains 2 and 3, specifically competencies 2.1 through 2.5 and 3.2. The resource provides a brief description of each tool and links (where available) to tutorials on its use, so that teachers can explore the potential of each for providing instruction to their learners. Many of the listed tools are designed for K-12 learners. The resource can be quite helpful for adult educators who understand how to evaluate K-12 materials for use with adult learners and how to incorporate technology tools as supports to the achievement of learning objectives.
Like most compilations of websites, this resource has both benefits and flaws. There are many excellent websites, apps, and products here that would be very helpful to teachers in their classrooms. However, unless the teacher has prior knowledge about each one, the information given in the resource is not sufficient. As with any collection of websites, there are some that have changed and some that seem to have disappeared. There is no organization according to class (Literacy, GED, ESL) or level of English or basic skills, and some of the sites are free only for schools in Kentucky. The wonderful videos in some of HippoCampus, the great curriculum in USALearns, the innovative approach of live tutors in Ask Rose are there to be found, but the finding isn't easy.
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This site includes links to information created by other public and private organizations. These links are provided for the user’s convenience. The U.S. Department of Education does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this non-ED information. The inclusion of these links is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse views expressed, or products or services offered, on these non-ED sites.
Please note that privacy policies on non-ED sites may differ from ED’s privacy policy. When you visit lincs.ed.gov, no personal information is collected unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of non-ED websites that you visit. We invite you to read our privacy policy.
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2018