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This report from English for New Bostonians (ENB) draws on survey responses from nearly 1,500 adult ESOL students in 39 programs in Metro Boston and throughout Massachusetts. The findings shed light on the current employment status of ESOL students and the types of jobs, industries, and businesses…
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This brief is from the LINCS ESL Pro suite of resources. It provides practical strategies that instructors, advisors, and administrators can use to design and deliver programming that helps English language learners connect to career pathway opportunities.
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This fact sheet from the Networks for Integrating New Americans initiative describes the work of three employment-focused networks that formed to support immigrants and refugees in their communities. Adult education programs are at the center of these networks to address gaps in educational and…
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Resiliency in Action is an organization whose mission is “to share the growing body of social science research that documents how people of all ages bounce back from life challenges of all kinds.” In addition to publications available for sale, the website provides a number of free resources and…
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This packet of resources was compiled by Emily Wilson for the SABES workshop she presented in May 2016 on trauma-informed teaching, advising, and learning. The packet contains the slides from Emily’s workshop as well as numerous links to information websites, research papers, and fact sheets on…
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The Employability Skills Framework is a tool that was developed to help educators—career and technical, K–12, workplace, and adult education—incorporate employability skills into instruction.
The Employability Skills Framework identifies nine general skills necessary for success in the labor market…
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Under WIOA, adult educators are charged with forging partnerships with the public workforce development system. This brief provides a general overview (not specific to Massachusetts) of the types of agencies and services that make up the workforce system and the populations they aim to serve.
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This tool can be used in career exploration and planning. Students can use it to see what it costs to live in different parts of the country or state and then consider occupations that pay a wage that meets that standard. Programs can also use it to design career pathways aligned with living wages…
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The purpose of this study, as described in the Executive Summary (p. ix), was to "understand the relationship of the component skills of reading, such as word recognition, vocabulary, and spelling, to large-scale measures of literacy" using "real-world items such as advertisements, bus schedules,…
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STudent Achievement in Reading (STAR) began as a six-state pilot project that was designed "to improve classroom instruction through the use of a toolkit that translates reading research into practice, as well as systematic training and technical assistance."This document "highlights key findings…
