The SABES ELA C&I PD Center has a new Director! Evonne Peters is taking over for Merilee Freeman, who retired on November 20th. Evonne brings 20 years of experience in teaching, training, and education administration to this position, including teaching and program coordination in Adult Education...
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Support student outcomes by using standards-aligned curriculum and instruction. Good idea! So...what does it mean to be standards-aligned? Three main characteristics of a standards-aligned ELA class include: Texts worth reading / listening to; Questions worth discussing and answering; and...
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With the event of COVID-19, we hear the word "pandemic" all the time. But do you and your students know the math behind how pandemics spread so quickly? The SABES Math Center, in partnership with the SABES ELA Center, has developed two sets of ready-to-use, downloadable lesson plans and student...
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STAR (STudent Achievement in Reading) is entering its 11th year in Massachusetts! We’ve come a long way since 2010, when STAR was first introduced. Originally, the training was facilitated in person over six days. This evolved into a blended training, with only three days for face-to-face meetings...
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A colleague described her first week of remote teaching this Fall as "*mostly* successful chaos." Yes! Is your school year off to a somewhat chaotic start? Is it at least partially successful? How are you defining success, these days? One measure of success is using available tools effectively to...
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Good day. How are you managing? There is a lot to manage, for us and our students. We will help by sifting through the vast amounts of information related to COVID-19 and to distance teaching and learning. See the ELA Connections page for useful resources, and check back often. Like the other SABES...
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Is your online PD accessible? If it's within Blackboard, the answer is a resounding “YES!” When you sign up for online professional development with the SABES ELA and ESOL C&I PD Centers, your courses are hosted within the Blackboard learning management system (LMS) used by Quinsigmanond Community...
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What makes an effective ELA teacher? How might you recognize it, in yourself or others? There are SO many ways into this question. Countless books and papers exist on this topic. One approach is to ask, Are students learning? What is the teacher doing that contributes to and supports that learning...
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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. * * * * *...
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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...
