All adult learners deserve to receive high-quality instruction from effective teachers. There are many factors that impact student learning; however, research has shown that the single most influential school-based factor impacting student achievement is teacher quality and effectiveness. For this...

Massachusetts adult educators are fortunate to work in one of the nation’s few states that offer an Adult Basic Education teaching license. The process of pursuing the ABE License provides adult educators with tools and learning to strengthen their instruction across the professional standards. The...

The Program Support PD Center (PSPDC) has written an outstationing brief that highlights the work of outstationed staff across the state, including successful partnerships within workforce areas and resulting student success. In developing this brief, the PSPDC identified and interviewed current...

Frustrated that your students continue to struggle with word problems? You might think it's because they don't read carefully enough, but it could be that they don't know how to make sense of the situation. Singapore Strips (also called bar models or tape diagrams) are a visual tool that can help...

We use them all the time, so why not get cozy with percents? Check out the new adult numeracy blog by Sarah Lonberg-Lew entitled, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Percents."

Support your students with Evidence-Based Reading Instruction tools and strategies. Support yourself / your colleagues in this endeavor with quality professional development from the SABES ELA Curriculum & Instruction PD Center. Get the big picture with To the Point: WIOA, EBRI, and STAR. * * * * *...

Too often, we think of culture as an attribute that is unique to our immigrant students, celebrated through sharing food, music, and traditions in classroom or program-wide activities. But we all have cultural backgrounds, and are all shaped by multiple cultural identities, regardless of where we...

The D in Disabilities does not stand for Deficit—as this issue’s Math and Numeracy article exclaims. Indeed, although students may struggle for any number of reasons—physical, emotional, neurobiological—we know they all have the ability to learn and progress. Differentiating teaching to ease and...

As an adult education teacher, you do your best to teach, and some of your students make significant progress. Others, however, linger behind and struggle to move forward. Some of these students arrive with IEPs from the K–12 system, but many do not. You wonder, could there be something else going...

The “D” in LD—learning disabilities—does not stand for deficit. Therefore, we should not think of students who learn differently as being deficient in some way, although that is often how they have been treated. In fact, even the word disability suggests that someone is unable to learn or that he...