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You can now serve large numbers of refugees and immigrants in your community with a breakthrough smartphone-based learning model. Developed through a successful global deployment with Afghan refugees, the Learning Upgrade Refugee Program uses WhatsApp to onboard large numbers of refugees and create learning community groups. Staff or volunteer coaches enroll learners into courses covering English ESL, math, test prep, and job skills. Learners use smartphones at home to complete engaging lessons for rapid growth to reach their goals of proficiency, GED, higher ed, and better jobs. Providers using this new model have documented a 4x rate of learning with 1 year of growth in 3 months. Join us to learn about this exciting new model and receive access to a no-cost pilot for your program. More info and pilot signup (link): https://web.learningupgrade.com/partners/org-ngo/ Original webinar date: May 4, 2022 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/blEd9lmXC1Q
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This webinar will take a dive into how to be a better advocate for adult education through thinking strategically, building capacity for change, and defining and evaluating successful advocacy efforts locally, regionally, and nationally. We will explore tips and tricks that can help you in advocating for additional programmatic and funding support for adult learners. Building an advocacy game plan, coalition building, and intentional communication campaigns will be considered and explored. Finally, understanding and defining advocacy success will be discussed as we help you to become an awesome advocate for yourself, your colleagues, and students across the country. Numerous resources and tools will be reviewed and shared for your immediate use. Original webinar date: April 22, 2022 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/6OhoB4Emnlo
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Meet the adult learners where they are in their lives, but also be the advocate to help them improve their lives, and instill the confidence needed for them to be their own advocate as well. Developing advocacy skills can empower them to go beyond their own simple goals, proving to themselves and others they CAN do anything that they set their mind to! Original webinar date: April 20, 2022 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/_IjTkvVZ4Pg
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Pull away for just one hour as we focus on the incredible nationwide need for funding to serve our students and deal with the challenges brought to our field from COVID-19 and our solution to address this dilemma. Join us for a special webinar featuring advocacy experts including COABE's Advocate of the Year who are working to impact funding at the state and federal level! You will leave the webinar with tools and tips for super easy, no fuss outreach tools that will help you connect with legislators who need to hear from our field during this critical time as we pull together for funding at the national and state levels. This is a webinar you will not want to miss! Original webinar date: March 28, 2022 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/90E9VbhmbzE
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The webinar will prepare advocates to contact their mayors, governors, and federal members of congress during Adult Education and Family Literacy Week (September 19 to September 25). We’ll begin with the inside scoop from Washington, D.C. on the state of COVID-19 relief and the appropriations process. We will cover tips for being an effective advocate and explain why your voice, as adult educators and administrators in the field, truly makes a difference. The webinar will also showcase best practices and examples from a local Adult Education program and from a state association. Join us to raise your voices on behalf of all adult teachers and students!
Original webinar date: August 31, 2021
Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/O1w7pqvgH7s
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Impactful, sustainable advocacy is built on strong relationships, unified messaging, and compelling stories. Join IACEA, the voice of Illinois Adult Education’s Legislative Awareness Day Committee, to learn about their experience with advocacy that culminated in two high energy Virtual Rallies (one last fall and one this spring) that consistently drew well over 100 student and staff participants from across the state. In this session, presenters will share the steps taken that resulted in these successful virtual rallies including the development of the planning committee, the promotion of the event, the integration of legislator conversations, the creation of student videos, and the inclusion of state-level leadership as presenters. During this interactive session, attendees will be invited and supported to create an easy to implement action plan of their own. Original webinar date: August 13, 2021 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/JeQqd4oRUfc
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Discover COABE's Student Ambassador Training - an award-winning advocacy training program that teaches learners how to advocate for and spread awareness of adult education, write their own adult education stories, discover ways to share their stories, and prepare for and practice meeting with public officials. This exciting program also gives learners leadership opportunities, builds a nationwide network of motivated and powerful adult learners, and improves test scores. The training is offered in both synchronous facilitated and asynchronous modular formats, and the asynchronous version is FREE! Learn how to implement this training in your own program and use it to help build a culture of empowerment. Original webinar date: July 28, 2021 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/6lWf6P7E1SU
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Members of Congress and legislative staff are invited to join a Capitol Hill briefing on Adult Education on Thursday, February 25 at 2:00 PM EST. During the briefing, you will hear from panelists that represent the voices of adult students, educators and administrators from around the country and in your home States and districts. The briefing will touch on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the adult education field and emphasize the critical need for additional funding to be able to serve our students in a high-quality and safe manner. There will be time for a question and answer session at the end of the briefing.
Recording link:
https://youtu.be/ocZRDqfCqS0
Slideshow:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8W5KQgk-zgT47q-eyan8lDjRp2Jx2dU/view?usp=sharing
National Fact Sheet:
https://coabe.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Data-sheets-4-pages-2.22.21.pdf
State Data:
https://educateandelevate.org/map-locator-tool/
Recommendations to Biden & 117th Congress:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Detk9fwovS0RqkHFSvkVfnEJP8UvgWK8RsO1H8MGEM/edit?usp=sharing