LAC Workshop CalendarThese professional development offerings are provided through funding from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development and the Literacy Assistance Center.
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FY23 Fall Public Calendar
Google Club: Using Google Forms to Gather Information
Dates: 9.28.22
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Description: The LAC’s Google Club is a monthly opportunity to meet with colleagues to learn and share Google knowledge. Google Club meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month from 4 to 5:30pm. At each meeting we cover a topic related to Google applications and hear from you about how you use them or questions you have about them. You can see past meetings on our blog.
At this club meeting we will review how you can use Google Forms to survey your students to find out their goals, their contact information, the food they want to bring for a class party, and more. We will look at reviewing the data on a Google Sheet and how you can turn that data into an easy to read word document. Come with your own examples of how you have been using Google Forms if you want to share.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley and TBA
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors, Program Managers, Case Managers
To Register: https://googleclub92822.eventbrite.com
Brain-Based Strategies in the Reading Classroom
Date: 9.30.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12 :30 pm
Description: If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. The best way to remember is to sometimes forget! During this session we will explore the seemingly counterintuitive approach of brain-based teaching which can help students learn and retain reading strategies. These strategies are easy to learn, easy to implement, and don't require additional preparation. Come to this session and you’ll be ready to use them before you’re ready for lunch.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://albrainbasedreading.eventbrite.com
Developing Student Agency Through Project Based Writing
Date: 10.7.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: During this session we will explore a writing framework inspired by the tenets of project based learning. Building upon student voice and choice, this framework provides teaching strategies to help your students develop the necessary skills to become independent readers and writers. In addition, we will look at tools within this structure to teach our students to effectively manage real world writing tasks. Come to this session and let’s explore how to teach writing as a writer! No project based learning knowledge is necessary to attend this session.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://ALdevelopingstudentagencypbw.eventbrite.com
Developing Online Materials Using Canva
Date: 10.14.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: Looking for a refresh for your online materials? In this session we will explore several ways Canva can be used to create materials that you can use in synchronous and asynchronous instruction. You will learn how to sign up for a free Canva for Education account, how to access a number of templates including presentations, and how to download your creations and use them in your instruction.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://DevelopingOnlineMaterialsUsingCanva101422.eventbrite.com
Using Infographics to Communicate Learning
Date: 10.19.22
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Description: More than ever, information is being delivered in visual terms. Infographics can attract or scare consumers, express complicated concepts, or grab the 21st century students’ brains that are image-responsive. Come to this coffee break to learn how to bring alive the media literacy critical thinking skills that are also needed to understand infographics. You will walk away ready to develop your own infographics.
To Register: https://air-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcumhqDsvGdGcgKKIq228oAQXkFVi3nr6
Note: This is a LINCS sponsored event.
Google Club: Google for Asynchronous Instruction (Slides, YouTube, Gmail, Sites)
Dates: 10.26.22
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Description: The LAC’s Google Club is a monthly opportunity to meet with colleagues to learn and share Google knowledge. Google Club meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Each Google Club session will include an hour on a Google topic and half an hour open to show and tell and questions from participants. Participants can also develop their own personal learning plan to increase their Google skills.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley & TBD
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: Program Managers, Program Directors, ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://GoogleClub102622.eventbrite.com
Digital Tools You Should Be Using in Your In-Person Math Class
Date: 10.27.22
Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Description: During remote instruction we all learned a lot about digital and ed tech tools. Some of us even became very effective teaching math remotely with these tools. Now you’re back to teaching math in-person. You don’t have to go back to just paper and whiteboards. You can and should strategically use digital tools to enhance your math lessons. Attend this workshop to learn which tools are great at doing this and walk away with some instructional routines that you can use with these tools in your lessons.
Presenter: Cynthia Bell
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Cynthia at cynthiab@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://102722digitaltools_formath.eventbrite.com
Six Essential Strategies for Achieving Success with Standards-Based Instruction
Date: 10.28.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30pm
Description: During this session we will look at strategies that help us build our instructional sequences with key standards- based strategies in mind. Useful for any classroom this includes: Reading for Meaning, Compare and Contrast, Inductive Learning, Circle of Knowledge, Write to Learn and CODE. These are teaching practices that support our standards- based instruction for every learner in any subject. Join us for examples and activities that will make them easy for classroom implementation.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://AL6strategiessbinstruction.eventbrite.com
Apps for In-Person ESOL: Flippity
Date: 10.31.22
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Description: Flippity is a free tool for making online games that can be easily integrated into your in-person ESOL lessons. With an abundance of activities that will facilitate nuts-and-bolts grammar and vocabulary practice as well as authentic communication, Flippity has something to offer students at any level. Neither students (nor teachers) need to register to use Flippity, so it’s easy to access. Participants in this workshop will have an introduction to Flippity, hands-on practice with several Flippity games, as well as the opportunity to create Flippity games of their own.
Presenter: William Linn
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Will at willl@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://AL-in-person-flippity-esol.eventbrite.com
Seeing and Supporting Student Learning with ECRIF
Date: 11.3.22
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Description: A key part of being able to support students’ learning is having the tools to understand it. It’s hard to know what your students need if you’re wondering whether they have “kind of” learned the content, “mostly” learned it, or “really” learned it. The ECRIF framework offers a lens for identifying specific and clear stages of student learning as well as a variety of strategies for adaptively helping students to progress. This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the ECRIF framework, examples of its implementation in adult education contexts, and hands-on practice integrating ECRIF into their lessons.
Presenter: William Linn
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Will at willl@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE, HSE Instructors
To Register: https://AL-ECRIF-ABE-HSE.eventbrite.com
Using Video for Instruction and Feedback
Date: 11.4.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: We’ve all experienced learning how to do something from a video on YouTube, but have you considered making your own how-to videos? In this session we will explore how we can make our own (short) videos to provide students with instructions, review lessons, and provide feedback. We will review how you can share your videos and manage your own YoutTube Channel.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://VideoFeedback11422.eventbrite.com
Enhance your GED Science and Social Studies Teaching Using Stories for Inquiry-Based Teaching
Date: 11.18.22
Time: 10:00 - 12 :30pm
Description: Want to help your students articulate their reasoning? How about encouraging them to explore ideas and share the perspectives of others? Perhaps fostering a shared understanding of concepts as well? Yes please! In this session, we will explore how using stories for inquiry-based teaching presents opportunities for students to ask questions, form hypotheses, test ideas, and come up with explanations. We will look at specific examples that center around core skills needed for the Science and Social Studies test in the GED prep classroom.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://ALGEDScSSIBTstories.eventbrite.com
Google Club: Google for Synchronous Instruction (Slides, Jamboard, Photo, Search)
Dates: 11.23.22
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Description: The LAC’s Google Club is a monthly opportunity to meet with colleagues to learn and share Google knowledge. Google Club meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Each Google Club session will include an hour on a Google topic and half an hour open to show and tell and questions from participants. Participants can also develop their own personal learning plan to increase their Google skills.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley & TBD
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: Program Managers, Program Directors, ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://googleclub112322.eventbrite.com
Authentic Strategies for Your Everyday Writing Instruction
Date: 12.9.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: Motivate and Engage! When teaching writing, nary a goal of greater challenge or greater reward exists then to motivate and engage your students with content. Come to this session to explore proven writing strategies that will motivate students in any classroom setting, helping lead to a deeper level of engagement no matter the content.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://ALauthenticwriting.eventbrite.com
Integrating Digital Literacy Skills and Resilience in Content Instruction
Date: 12.16.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: The need for digital literacy has never been greater, but what are digital literacy skills and how can we make sure we are incorporating them in our instruction? In this session we will review the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative Digital Skills Framework and discuss how these skills can be introduced and developed through content instruction. We will also explore how to support digital resilience in yourself and your students.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://digresilience121622.eventbrite.com
Learning Stations for Multi-Level ESOL Classes
Date: 12.16.22
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Description: Naturally, each adult learner has their own goals, strengths, and needs, so how does an adult educator address the numerous goals, strengths, and needs of an entire ESOL class? Learning stations provide a unique solution that can easily accommodate multi-level classes and the diverse interests of our adult learners. This session will cover the practical aspects of implementing learning stations, sources for ready-made materials, and techniques for multi-leveling your own materials for use in learning stations. Participants will also have time to start curating learning stations for their own use.
Presenter: William Linn
Location: WeWork, 450 Lexington Ave. Room 4A
Audience: ESOL Instructors and Program Managers
To Register: https://AL-learning-stations-esol.eventbrite.com
Dates: 9.28.22
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Description: The LAC’s Google Club is a monthly opportunity to meet with colleagues to learn and share Google knowledge. Google Club meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month from 4 to 5:30pm. At each meeting we cover a topic related to Google applications and hear from you about how you use them or questions you have about them. You can see past meetings on our blog.
At this club meeting we will review how you can use Google Forms to survey your students to find out their goals, their contact information, the food they want to bring for a class party, and more. We will look at reviewing the data on a Google Sheet and how you can turn that data into an easy to read word document. Come with your own examples of how you have been using Google Forms if you want to share.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley and TBA
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors, Program Managers, Case Managers
To Register: https://googleclub92822.eventbrite.com
Brain-Based Strategies in the Reading Classroom
Date: 9.30.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12 :30 pm
Description: If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. The best way to remember is to sometimes forget! During this session we will explore the seemingly counterintuitive approach of brain-based teaching which can help students learn and retain reading strategies. These strategies are easy to learn, easy to implement, and don't require additional preparation. Come to this session and you’ll be ready to use them before you’re ready for lunch.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://albrainbasedreading.eventbrite.com
Developing Student Agency Through Project Based Writing
Date: 10.7.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: During this session we will explore a writing framework inspired by the tenets of project based learning. Building upon student voice and choice, this framework provides teaching strategies to help your students develop the necessary skills to become independent readers and writers. In addition, we will look at tools within this structure to teach our students to effectively manage real world writing tasks. Come to this session and let’s explore how to teach writing as a writer! No project based learning knowledge is necessary to attend this session.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://ALdevelopingstudentagencypbw.eventbrite.com
Developing Online Materials Using Canva
Date: 10.14.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: Looking for a refresh for your online materials? In this session we will explore several ways Canva can be used to create materials that you can use in synchronous and asynchronous instruction. You will learn how to sign up for a free Canva for Education account, how to access a number of templates including presentations, and how to download your creations and use them in your instruction.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://DevelopingOnlineMaterialsUsingCanva101422.eventbrite.com
Using Infographics to Communicate Learning
Date: 10.19.22
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Description: More than ever, information is being delivered in visual terms. Infographics can attract or scare consumers, express complicated concepts, or grab the 21st century students’ brains that are image-responsive. Come to this coffee break to learn how to bring alive the media literacy critical thinking skills that are also needed to understand infographics. You will walk away ready to develop your own infographics.
To Register: https://air-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcumhqDsvGdGcgKKIq228oAQXkFVi3nr6
Note: This is a LINCS sponsored event.
Google Club: Google for Asynchronous Instruction (Slides, YouTube, Gmail, Sites)
Dates: 10.26.22
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Description: The LAC’s Google Club is a monthly opportunity to meet with colleagues to learn and share Google knowledge. Google Club meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Each Google Club session will include an hour on a Google topic and half an hour open to show and tell and questions from participants. Participants can also develop their own personal learning plan to increase their Google skills.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley & TBD
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: Program Managers, Program Directors, ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://GoogleClub102622.eventbrite.com
Digital Tools You Should Be Using in Your In-Person Math Class
Date: 10.27.22
Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Description: During remote instruction we all learned a lot about digital and ed tech tools. Some of us even became very effective teaching math remotely with these tools. Now you’re back to teaching math in-person. You don’t have to go back to just paper and whiteboards. You can and should strategically use digital tools to enhance your math lessons. Attend this workshop to learn which tools are great at doing this and walk away with some instructional routines that you can use with these tools in your lessons.
Presenter: Cynthia Bell
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Cynthia at cynthiab@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://102722digitaltools_formath.eventbrite.com
Six Essential Strategies for Achieving Success with Standards-Based Instruction
Date: 10.28.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30pm
Description: During this session we will look at strategies that help us build our instructional sequences with key standards- based strategies in mind. Useful for any classroom this includes: Reading for Meaning, Compare and Contrast, Inductive Learning, Circle of Knowledge, Write to Learn and CODE. These are teaching practices that support our standards- based instruction for every learner in any subject. Join us for examples and activities that will make them easy for classroom implementation.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://AL6strategiessbinstruction.eventbrite.com
Apps for In-Person ESOL: Flippity
Date: 10.31.22
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Description: Flippity is a free tool for making online games that can be easily integrated into your in-person ESOL lessons. With an abundance of activities that will facilitate nuts-and-bolts grammar and vocabulary practice as well as authentic communication, Flippity has something to offer students at any level. Neither students (nor teachers) need to register to use Flippity, so it’s easy to access. Participants in this workshop will have an introduction to Flippity, hands-on practice with several Flippity games, as well as the opportunity to create Flippity games of their own.
Presenter: William Linn
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Will at willl@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://AL-in-person-flippity-esol.eventbrite.com
Seeing and Supporting Student Learning with ECRIF
Date: 11.3.22
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Description: A key part of being able to support students’ learning is having the tools to understand it. It’s hard to know what your students need if you’re wondering whether they have “kind of” learned the content, “mostly” learned it, or “really” learned it. The ECRIF framework offers a lens for identifying specific and clear stages of student learning as well as a variety of strategies for adaptively helping students to progress. This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the ECRIF framework, examples of its implementation in adult education contexts, and hands-on practice integrating ECRIF into their lessons.
Presenter: William Linn
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Will at willl@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE, HSE Instructors
To Register: https://AL-ECRIF-ABE-HSE.eventbrite.com
Using Video for Instruction and Feedback
Date: 11.4.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: We’ve all experienced learning how to do something from a video on YouTube, but have you considered making your own how-to videos? In this session we will explore how we can make our own (short) videos to provide students with instructions, review lessons, and provide feedback. We will review how you can share your videos and manage your own YoutTube Channel.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://VideoFeedback11422.eventbrite.com
Enhance your GED Science and Social Studies Teaching Using Stories for Inquiry-Based Teaching
Date: 11.18.22
Time: 10:00 - 12 :30pm
Description: Want to help your students articulate their reasoning? How about encouraging them to explore ideas and share the perspectives of others? Perhaps fostering a shared understanding of concepts as well? Yes please! In this session, we will explore how using stories for inquiry-based teaching presents opportunities for students to ask questions, form hypotheses, test ideas, and come up with explanations. We will look at specific examples that center around core skills needed for the Science and Social Studies test in the GED prep classroom.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://ALGEDScSSIBTstories.eventbrite.com
Google Club: Google for Synchronous Instruction (Slides, Jamboard, Photo, Search)
Dates: 11.23.22
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Description: The LAC’s Google Club is a monthly opportunity to meet with colleagues to learn and share Google knowledge. Google Club meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Each Google Club session will include an hour on a Google topic and half an hour open to show and tell and questions from participants. Participants can also develop their own personal learning plan to increase their Google skills.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley & TBD
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: Program Managers, Program Directors, ESOL, ABE, Pre-HSE and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://googleclub112322.eventbrite.com
Authentic Strategies for Your Everyday Writing Instruction
Date: 12.9.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: Motivate and Engage! When teaching writing, nary a goal of greater challenge or greater reward exists then to motivate and engage your students with content. Come to this session to explore proven writing strategies that will motivate students in any classroom setting, helping lead to a deeper level of engagement no matter the content.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Lizelena at lizelenai@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://ALauthenticwriting.eventbrite.com
Integrating Digital Literacy Skills and Resilience in Content Instruction
Date: 12.16.22
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Description: The need for digital literacy has never been greater, but what are digital literacy skills and how can we make sure we are incorporating them in our instruction? In this session we will review the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative Digital Skills Framework and discuss how these skills can be introduced and developed through content instruction. We will also explore how to support digital resilience in yourself and your students.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you once you have registered. Please contact Nell at NellE@lacnyc.org if you don't receive a link.
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://digresilience121622.eventbrite.com
Learning Stations for Multi-Level ESOL Classes
Date: 12.16.22
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Description: Naturally, each adult learner has their own goals, strengths, and needs, so how does an adult educator address the numerous goals, strengths, and needs of an entire ESOL class? Learning stations provide a unique solution that can easily accommodate multi-level classes and the diverse interests of our adult learners. This session will cover the practical aspects of implementing learning stations, sources for ready-made materials, and techniques for multi-leveling your own materials for use in learning stations. Participants will also have time to start curating learning stations for their own use.
Presenter: William Linn
Location: WeWork, 450 Lexington Ave. Room 4A
Audience: ESOL Instructors and Program Managers
To Register: https://AL-learning-stations-esol.eventbrite.com