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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.
Career Pathways
Inspiring Career Development And Action: A Curriculum Guide For Adult Educators (Online Blended)
This session introduces you to the Inspiring Career Development and Action (ICA): A Curriculum Guide for Adult Educators. The ICA contains ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that will guide your learners through a supportive and realistic career awareness, career exploration, and career planning process. After exploring the curriculum, you will identify ways to use the curriculum and discuss adaptations needed to meet the needs of your learners in your states, programs, and classrooms. *There are 10 available seats for this offering.
- Apr. 29, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy Sharing Group - May
Instructors, tech specialists, and directors across all adult education settings (corrections, libraries, adult learning centers, workforce development, and more!) are invited to the peer-facilitated Digital Literacy Sharing Group. Join us to connect with fellow educators, share resources and strategies, ask questions, and explore new ideas and practices to strengthen digital literacy and technology integration in your program or classroom. Let's empower your students and staff with essential digital skills!
- May 9, 2025 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Educational Leadership & Program Management
Directors must balance complex staff and student needs, local policies and protocols, and state guidance as they design, lead, and adapt program design, instructional practices, and program culture. The Directors Sharing Group is a peer-facilitated opportunity for directors to network, share resources and strategies, ask questions, and learn from and with one another. In this meeting, we will focus on strategies for cultivating student leadership.
- May 1, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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 ensure 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.
- May 5, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. (self-paced course opens)
LACES
LACES Desk Review and Other Data Analysis
LiteracyPro's Shannon Stangis will facilitate this LACES session about analysis of your LACES program data and generating your program's Desk Review data. This session discusses how to successfully complete pre-generated searches to review the data necessary for completion of all sections of the automatic Desk Review. *There are 9 available seats for this offering.
- May 1, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
LACES for Mass STEP Integrated Education and Training
LiteracyPro System's Shannon Stangis will discuss the requirements for MassSTEP enrollments and data entry and how to track MassSTEP-specific IETP credentials for state and federal reporting.
- May 9, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
