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PSPD offers individual and program-based coaching for staff in any role looking to grow and strengthen their practice in any of our key priority areas, which include educational leadership and program management, advising, career pathways, digital literacy, and ADA coordination. We also offer individual coaching and support for those looking to acquire a professional ABE license. If interested, please submit a Contact Us request.
All PD offerings are online and facilitated unless indicated otherwise.
Professional Development: “On Demand” When Your Schedule Allows! (Self-Paced Modules)
Different times work best for busy adult educators to attend PD. Did you know you can access PD when it’s most convenient for you? Visit our online asynchronous courses, including series that focus on Digital Literacy and Advising. You can find these courses on the Program Support's On-Demand PD Google Site, which offers more than 30 sessions organized according to seven strands.
Advising & Student Support Services
Support Staff Sharing Groups are peer-facilitated meetings where support staff provide program updates, discuss and troubleshoot common challenges, and share resources, promising practices, and more. This group is open to anyone who works in an adult education program and provides support staff services.
- Oct. 23, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Career Pathways
Workplace Education Sharing Group
The Workplace Education (WPE) Sharing Group is a peer-facilitated opportunity for staff from WPE programs to network, share resources and strategies, ask questions, and learn from and with one another.
Digital Literacy
Newsela: Designing Learning Experiences & Complementing Your Curriculum
Are you wondering how to integrate Newsela content and resources into your classroom instruction? This session will outline Newsela’s "4 Ps approach" (Prepare, Preview, Practice, and Process) to designing learning experiences with the Newsela platform.
- Oct. 10, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
EdTech in Action: Communication with WhatsApp (Online Blended)
EdTech in Action sessions are your chance to explore and engage with educational technology—the ideas, tools, and techniques that use digital technology to facilitate changes in knowledge, skills, or attitudes. Each session introduces a new EdTech tool and presents two replicable EdTech routines that you can adapt for your classroom or for administrative use to build students' digital skills. In this first session, you will learn about using WhatsApp as a communication tool that supports engagement, reflection, and persistence—not just for the classroom, but for program-wide communication as well.
- Oct. 6, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. (course opens for pre-work)
- Oct. 16, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
KET FastForward Refresher and New Features
Learn about the basics and newest features of FastForward, an online high school equivalency study system for all test subject areas that students can access anytime, anywhere.
- Oct. 17, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Are you an Aztec Admin and would like to deepen your skills? Or has it been a while, and you could use a refresher on all the Aztec Admin tools available? In this session, you will strengthen your ability to customize support for your learners by exploring the administrative resources in Aztec.
- Oct. 24, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Educational Leadership
Foundations for New Staff (Self-Paced Modules)
No matter what your role or title, if you work in the field of adult education, you are part of a national network of professionals who are working together to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive. You play a critical role in this mission, so this course introduces and connects you to the systems and people that drive this work.
- Oct. 20, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. (self-paced course opens)
LACES
This webinar will discuss the import process as an alternative to manual data entry, as well as how the redesign makes importing faster, clearer, and easier.
- Oct. 23, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Collaboration Events:
If you are a program or instructional leader, you know that high quality teaching and advising practices are the greatest driver of student retention, outcomes, and success. Whether you are new in your role or have many years in the field, SABES is here to support you and your team in strengthening instructional and advising practices, collaborating for continuous improvement, and fostering student success.
- Oct. 17, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
