Use this checklist, based on the Massachusetts Flexible Framework for Implementing Trauma Informed Educational Programs, to guide your program’s self-reflection as it relates to leadership, environment, and access towards creating a trauma informed education program. Areas of self-reflection include: program culture and infrastructure, staff training, links to mental health agencies, academic and non-academic strategies, and school policies and procedures.

Harvard University’s Implicit Association Test (IAT), part of Project Implicit, is a resource that enables individuals to better understand their own implicit biases and reflect on how those biases influence our beliefs, actions, decisions, and attitudes. 

Individuals are invited to select an IAT from a list of topics related to health and social attitudes including, but not limited to, age, race, religion, gender and employment, sexual orientation, drug and alcohol consumption, mental health, and many more. 

This overview of Roger Gould's adult development theory is intended for practice use by License-seekers working with a SABES coach and/or in the MA ABE Teacher's License online course.

The SABES Program Support PD Center has developed this resource to support MA practitioners who are seeking the state’s ABE Teacher’s License. 

As a License-seeker, you must demonstrate that you understand and apply the main ideas of at least one adult development and one adult learning theorist, which you demonstrate in writing as part of a portfolio submission.