Subject: SMARTT

Description: This training will focus on helping you create and save custom views and reports with Cognos to aid in looking at and analyzing your data. Be sure to bring a list of your questions and please make sure you know your Cognos Program logon and password (this is not the same as your Smartt logon and password!)

Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development

Description: This is the third of a 4-session series focused on the algebra strand of the Curriculum Frameworks. This session is focused on algebra instruction. Some brief homework tasks will be assigned between sessions. The dates for this series are January 29, February 5, March 5 and March 12. Please be sure to register for each session! Please read and bring homework assignments

Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Curriculum Development

Description: This session is one of a 4-session series focused on the algebra strand of the Curriculum Frameworks. The first two sessions focus on algebra content, while the second two sessions focus on algebra instruction. Some brief homework tasks will be assigned between sessions. The dates for this series are January 29, February 5, March 5 and March 12. Please be sure to register for each session!

Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling

Description: All ABE Program staff and students from across the northeast region of the state are invited to “COLLEGE FOR A NIGHT: A DOORWAY TO LIFE-CHANGING POSSIBILITIES!” Students will have the opportunity to attend classes, meet NECC faculty, counselors and student ambassadors, learn about the many NECC student support services available for transitioning ABE students, and experience a small slice of college life! Help your ABE learners discover that college IS a possibility! By participating in this very special event, ABE learners will have the opportunity to explore the possibilities of their academic and career “Next Steps”; experiencing an evening of information gathering and engagement in college degree and certification classes of their choice at NECC. Participants will also have the opportunity to meet and interact with a panel of former ABE learners, currently enrolled as NECC students, who will share the successes and challenges they have met as alternative learners and the supports the community college environment has provided them.

Subject: ESOL,Curriculum Development

Description: This workshop is sponsored by both Boston and Northeast SABES. Laurel Pollard, co-author of the Zero Preparation teacher resource books, is returning to Massachusetts. This hands-on workshop will provide you with activities you can use tomorrow and for the rest of your teaching career -- activities that help students take charge of their own learning while giving you more time to think, breathe, relax, and recover your vision.

Subject: Curriculum Development

Description: Are your students being prepared for success in their next steps goals for employment, post secondary education or training while in your classroom? During this workshop you will explore how you can integrate job readiness and 21st Century Skills for successful next steps into your current curriculum, no matter what the content. This workshop is eligible for PDPs as part of the Integrating 21st Century Skills in ABE/ESOL professional development series.

Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction

Description: This final workshop will begin with a review of the key concepts for Workshop 1 and 2. Participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences trying one or more of the suggested vocabulary teaching approaches and one or more of the print skills teaching approaches. Guiding questions will include: What approaches were tried and with which levels of learners? What were the results? How if at all will these experiences change the way you teach and how you teach it?

Subject: SMARTT

Description: This is a required DESE training. All programs need to have at least 2 staff members who have completed the SMARTT New User training. This workshop covers all aspects of entering and viewing data in the SMARTT system.

Subject: ABE,ESOL,GED,Counseling,Share Group

Description: If you are the designate Counselor in your program- or if you have any ABE/ESOL counseling responsibility in your work, you are invited to attend our first Counselors’ Sharing Seminar of 2010, facilitated by experienced counselor, Laura Kranis of SCALE in Somerville.