Featured State PD Systems
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Regional Professional Development
New England
Silja Kallenbach, Coordinator, New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC)/World Education
Silja develops and coordinates projects for NELRC and supports staff that work on those projects. She also plans and provides professional development. One of her specialty areas is the use of multiple intelligences theory in adult education.
NELRC is a regional professional development (PD) collaborative of the six New England states with 11 affiliated PD centers. Those PD centers as well as each state's ABE director and two practitioners from each state are represented on our 24-member governing board. This governing board guides our work and helps us coordinate with existing state-level initiatives. As a regional coordinating center that brings added value to our affiliated centers' work, we focus on areas that complement our member states' work, e.g. college transitions, civic participation, ESOL, multiple intelligences, using the web in instruction. A limited amount of NELRC's services are available free of charge for our member states (usually one-time workshops). More sustained PD is either grant funded or paid by the recipients of the PD. NELRC serves as an intermediary and TA/PD provider for two local foundations' adult literacy grantees: the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Hyams Foundation. We provide TA for YouthBuild USA (related to preparing students for postsecondary education), for the National EFF Center and for CAELA. We also do some planning and evaluation related work. Currently, we have contracts with the Hartford Foundation to assess literacy needs and capacity in greater Hartford area. And we have a two-year contract w/ the PA Dept of Ed to evaluate the state's Career Gateway project in collaboration with Cassandra Drennon & Associates.
State Professional Development
California
- California Adult Education Professional Development System and California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO)
Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D., Principal Research Analyst and CALPRO Director, American Institutes for Research
Mary Ann Corley is director of CALPRO, the state leadership project that provides a comprehensive system of professional development for California's adult education and literacy providers.
She provides oversight to the following CALPRO activities, including:
- 1. Conduct an annual statewide assessment of professional development needs of adult education administrators and teachers.
- 2. Plan for and develop workshops, institutes, and seminars to meet specific needs and conduct Training-of-Trainers' (ToT) sessions to develop master trainers who will lead these activities across the state.
- 3. Provide oversight to ten CALPRO Professional Development Centers (PDCs) throughout the State.
- 4. Build capacity for adult education programs and agencies to develop an agency PD plan and establish site-based professional development.
- 5. Support and encourage the development of exemplary leaders and programs.
- 6. Expand the use of alternative delivery systems for professional development (e.g., online courses, Webinars, video conferences, Web casts, etc.).
- 7. Develop and disseminate resources and publications on professional development and on research-based instructional practices.
- 8. Establish linkages with California's colleges and universities to provide CEUs and graduate credit for specific CALPRO institutes.
- 9. Explore the feasibility of designing and conducting a research effort to measure the impact of professional development.
- 10. Evaluate the effects of CALPRO PD activities and plan for continuous program improvement.
Erik Jacobson, Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research/CALPRO (The California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project)
Erik specializes in helping California practitioners access, analyze, and utilize research. He is responsible for training and supporting study circle facilitators, developing new workshops, writing and editing research briefs, and providing support to practitioners engaged in on-going professional development projects.
Wendi Maxwell, Education Programs Consultant, California Department of Education
Wendi Maxwell is responsible for monitoring and guiding adult education professional development efforts in California. Specifically, she is responsible for strategic planning for California’s adult education professional development (PD) system, including establishing statewide PD priorities, monitoring the PD contractor, and participating in creation of new PD practices.
Florida
Teresa G. Bestor, State Director of Adult Education and Compliance Monitoring, Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education, Florida Department of Education
Debra Hargrove, Coordinator - Florida TechNet
Debra Hargrove is the coordinator of a technology and distance learning professional development project in Florida called Florida TechNet.
As part of her responsibilities, Debra coordinates technology and distance learning training, provides technical assistance to adult education sites and assists in the development of e-learning for PD and sponsors computer labs for state and regional training workshops.
Massachusetts
Mina Reddy, Director, System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES) Central Resource Center, World Education
Mina Reddy is the director of the SABES Central Resource Center, which is responsible for coordination of the statewide SABES system.
We work in collaboration with the other parts of the Massachusetts SABES system, with funding from the MA Department of Education, to provide a variety of staff and program development services and resources to practitioners in our region. We operate under a work plan that is jointly developed by SABES and MADOE.
SABES includes 5 regional professional development centers as well as the Central Resource Center (CRC). We are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Education and develop a work plan with the Department. The CRC has specific responsibility for coordinating professional development in the areas of assessment, workforce development, learning resources, preparation for licensure, and math, designing some trainings focused on directors and coordinators, and producing a publication called Field Notes.
Steve Reuys, Director, Adult Literacy Resource Institute/Greater Boston SABES Regional Support Center
Steve is now the director of the Massachusetts SABES Regional Support Center for Greater Boston and before that was for many years the Staff Development Coordinator there.
George Kohout, Director, SABES Western Regional Support Center and has worked for five years as Technology Coordinator.
George has been involved with ABE professional development for the past 8 years in Massachusetts, and is responsible for coordinating a full range of ABE PD activities, including long range planning, implementation and evaluation of events. His area of expertise is with integrating technology, supporting on-line student data systems and collaborations with WorkForce Development.
New Mexico
Nick Evangelista, Executive Director, New Mexico Adult Education Association
Nick serves as Professional Development Coordinator for New Mexico Adult Educators. He works with the State Director for Adult Education and the NM Adult Education State Resource Team: 1. providing leadership development and 2. identifying, coordinating and facilitating professional development events for the New Mexico ABE Community.
Leadership Development at all levels of the ABE Community: focus consideration – enhanced involvement of the ‘extended’ members of the ABE Community (i.e. part time teachers, data tech’s, fiscal managers, students, rural programs and staff) – consistently spiraling out the typical circle of ABE leaders/decision makers.
New York
Ira Yankwitt, Director of the New York City Regional Adult Education Network (NYC RAEN), Literacy Assistance Center
Ira is responsible for providing professional development and technical assistance to adult and family literacy programs funded by the New York State Education Department's Office of Adult Education and Workforce Development.
The NYC RAEN is one of seven regional adult education networks funded by the New York State Education Department's Office of Adult Education and Workforce Development. The primary functions of the seven RAENs are to: 1) provide professional development and technical assistance to WIA title 2-funded adult literacy, family literacy, and EL-Civics programs, and 2) facilitate initiatives that better align adult literacy education with higher education, K–12, and the workforce development system. While the seven RAENs share the same broad aims and priorities, each RAEN is responsible for determining its specific professional development and technical assistance activities based on the needs and interests of the programs they serve.
Ohio
Jeff Fantine is representing the Ohio ABLE Resource Center Network, which includes 4 regional resource centers and 1 state resource center, supports the ABLE system to enhance student achievement by providing professional development, resources, technical assistance, research and leadership.
Each regional center has responsibilities to ABLE programs within a region, and ALL center have areas of specialization. The individual information, specialization and contact for each center is:
Region 1: Northeast ABLE Resource Center
Specialization: ESOL and EL/Civics
Director: Gloria Gillette: ggillette@ix.netcom.com
291 East 222nd Street, Euclid, Ohio 44123-1718
216.261.7076 or 800.361.7076
<http://literacy.kent.edu/NEABLE/>
Region 2: Central/Southeast ABLE Resource Center
Specialization: Learning Disabilities/Special Learning Needs and GED Preparation
Director: Jeff Fantine: fantine@ohio.edu
College of Education, Ohio University, 340 McCracken Hall
Athens, OH 45701
800-753-1519
<http://www.able-ohiou.org/>
Region 3: Southwest ABLE Resource Center
Specialization: Reading and Writing
Director: Lynn Reese: Lynn.Reese@sinclair.edu
Sinclair Community College, 444 West Third Street, Room 12201
Dayton, OH 45402
800.558.5374
<http://www.sinclair.edu/facilities/swable/index.cfm>
Region 4: Northwest ABLE Resource Center
Specialization: Assessment and Workforce Education
Director: Jenny Barlos: jenny_barlos@owens.edu
Owens Community College, P.O. Box 10000, Toledo, Ohio 43699-1947
419.661.7355
<https://www.owens.edu/workforce_cs/nw_center.html>
Ohio Literacy Resource Center
Specialization: Data Collection, Technology, Math, Family Literacy and Distance Education
Director: Marty Ropog: mropog@archon.educ.kent.edu
Kent State University, PO Box 5190, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
Phone: 330-672-2007
<http://literacy.kent.edu/>
Rhode Island
Janet Isserlis is Project Director of Literacy Resources/RI, the state's adult education professional development entity. She has worked with adult learners and educators since 1980; classroom work has focused on ESOL literacy and language learning.
LR/RI disseminates information through its website (http://www.brown.edu/lrri), and through frequent email bulletins and face to face meetings with practitioners. Key tasks include facilitating monthly ESOL shares, providing ongoing referrals, offering demonstration classes and workshop on an as-needed basic, organizing the state's annual conference, and facilitating practitioner inquiry and minigrant projects. LR/RI is also present to meetings regarding legislation, systemic issues and development of a new state system for professional development provision.
