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Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1027] Online professional development opportunities
Author:Taylor, Jackie jataylor at utk.edu
Date:Mon May 7 10:22:01 EDT 2007

PD List Colleagues:

As you know, guests will be joining us next week (May 14-21) for a discussion of online and blended professional development, including professional development-at-a-distance. Given that our work in this area is continually expanding, I thought this week could provide us a useful opportunity to learn about what different states or organizations offer, particularly in online professional development.

Over the next two weeks, I will also be encouraging you to 'take notes' [yep! :-) ]. Keep a scratch pad nearby. Jot down ideas or questions as they come to you. Save your questions for next week or send them in advance of the discussion to help our guests prepare.

1) So please tell us about your program's, state's, or organization's work in online PD -- What's happening in online professional development?

Include considerations, such as:

  • Provider:
  • Website:
  • Online PD topics:
  • Open to the public?
  • Cost?
  • Are CEUs or other credits available? (if so, what type)
  • What institution issues the CEUs?
  • When offered?
  • Unique options or features?
  • Anything else you'd like to add?

Please give us a rich description from your perspective, or just send us the basic information listed above.

I look forward to hearing from you ~ enjoy the day!

Best wishes, Jackie

Jackie Taylor, List Moderator, Adult Literacy Professional Development, jataylor at utk.edu

Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1029] Re: Online professional development opportunities
From:George Palamattam gpalamattam at yahoo.com
Date:Mon May 7 11:19:33 EDT 2007

Dear Jackie, Below info on CDL:

  • Provider: The Center for Discovery Learning (CDL)
  • Website: www.discoveryjourney.org (needs updating though!)
  • Online PD topics:

Literacy, non-formal education, community development, NGO management, school administration etc. CME (Continuing Medical Education) for physicians, offered through medical associations or universities, Various PD topics for Social Work-related topics; CEUs offered through different universities and/or professional organizations PD for teachers; CEUs offered through CDL and other universities and professional organizations. PD in public health PD in 'Capacity Building', for professionals from different disciplines.

  • Open to the public? YES
  • Cost? ; varies - usually travel and accommodation cost + CEU cost + Admin cost.
  • Are CEUs or other credits available? YES. CDL offers CEUs for teachers in Illinois. For other type of CMEs and CEUs we partner with universities and/or professional organizations
  • What institution issues the CEUs? : see above
  • When offered?: Soon after participants complete course requirements.
  • Unique options or features?

Partnerships with different universities offer opportunities for participants from different disciplines and regions. Communities, culture, value-systems, priorities and philosophy of the land we visit provide the learning environment (by design); interaction with local communities and professionals are built into the programs. On all discovery learning events (journeys) we also focus on transformative-type learning - Experience shows when we discover a community, culture, lifestyle, set of priorities and value system so different from our own, we discover our own communities, lifestyle, value system, priorities etc. and at times we challenge them as well, on these journeys

  • Anything else you’d like to add?- Will be pleased to share more info or encourage you to talk with some former participants - Pl. Let me know

Dr. George Palamattam, gpalamattam at yahoo.com, 630 616 1414.(ph)

Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1028] Profile: Four Corners, CO
From:Leecy Wise leecy at fone.net
Date:Mon May 7 15:37:53 EDT 2007

>1) So please tell us about your program's, state's, or organization's

>work in online PD -- What's happening in online professional

>development?


I represent the Four Corners Professional Development Resource Center (4CRC) for the Dept of Ed's (CDE) Adult Education and Family Literacy Program.

My focus is on providing training opportunities and information to encourage practitioners to integrate technology into teaching and to learn through distance education opportunities. I run a number of Websites to promote that mission. You may want to check our main content site, http://www.coloradoadulted.org/. My last newsletter on that site, Tech Beat, focused on professional development and announced a series of blended workshops that I'll be offering in the new future. To check that issue, go to http://www.coloradoadulted.org/techbeat/techbeatApril_May07.htm. Those particular workshops will offer Prof Dev points from the state and graduate credit for those who wish to pursue it (I have a great working relationship with Adams State). The workshops themselves are free, except for the GotoMeeting session, which requires participants to pay their own regular long distance fees. I've offered to send 1-hour, pre-paid phone cards to programs that are really struggling financially.

4CRC offers many training opportunities for faculty throughout the state through blended or hybrid instruction. I often visit programs for a little hands-on work when they wish. We have just purchased Moodle for a year, which I want to use extensively for students and staff development. Moodle is a powerful online classroom program with great bells and whistles: gradebook, forums, chats, resource and assignment rooms, calendars and more. I'm glad to share info on that for anyone who wants. Moodle itself is free; however, I thought I would use Classroom Revolution's hosting and technical support plan for a year, before I try to host Moodle on my own server. Under that plan, I pay $800, plus any training fees I may want to add. The training is super expensive in my view ($400 for three hours in hybrid form), but I had several teachers join me (up to ten) while I learned how to work with the system myslef. I have found that this type of training money is well used, when available, and avoids hours and hours of troubleshooting on my part.

GotoMeeting is just one option for blended instruction. I have found it super easy and reliable, allowing connection through computer and phone. It costs around $400 a year for unlimited use. Yugma provides similar services for free. There are others around.

Colorado has required that all programs pursue teacher certification in adult ed. Those courses are offered onsite to some areas, but most courses are offered through Colorado Community Colleges Online (CCCOnline). I've taught several sessions and find the online offerings ideal for teachers who have trying schedules.

Adult Ed teachers are no different than K-12 teachers in that their days are filled with conflicting tasks of all types. They have little time to devote to their own prof growth. I would like to see $ to provide oodles of incentives for teachers who want to grow. It's too easy to put our own needs for professional development behind everything else in our lives. I know because I to it to myself all too often.

Lot more on the subject, but I'll stop here.

Leecy

[ProfessionalDevelopment 1062] Re: Profile: Four Corners, CO
Dr. Silvio Avendano savend1 at umbc.edu
Mon May 7 16:11:06 EDT 2007

Leecy,
You seem to be doing a lot and I know I will enjoy looking at all the materials that you have developed. As a student, I'm usually lost, so I'm not sure if we are to ask questions right now, but I thought I would ask you know, because I also tend to forget things easily. I am curious about your choice of course management software. If you're paying that much for Moodle-related services, what made you choose Moodle over Blackboard?
I like Moodle, but as you probably already know, you don't get direct support. You do get a lot support from users through forums and online communities, but I was wondering that if you had grant money you might as well spend it on something already set up?
I don't work for Blackboard and I like Moodle...but I'm just curious and I want to learn...
I like the lessons and their format and approach. Question: Is there an html format of these resources too? I am thinking about the links to other resources in the lesson plans would be easier to navigate. Also, can anyone use those resources? or is it just for teachers in Colorado?

Thansks for sharing

Silvio

Silvio J. Avendano, Ph.D.
Director
Online TESOL Professional Development Programs
UMBC English Language Center
207 University Center
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
410-455-1578
410-455-1115 (Fax)
http://www.umbc.edu/elc/

Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1064] Re: Profile: Four Corners, CO
From:Leecy Wise leecy at fone.net
Date:Fri May 11 11:56:14 EDT 2007

Glad you asked, Silvio. I chose Moodle, originally, because it was free and offered all of the features I saw in more expensive programs. I used different versions of Blackboard over the years and found the platform to be challenging, requiring lots of tech support and student orientation. PBS used to use Blackboard and switched to Desire to Learn (D2L), which, I believe is a separate company. D2L is fantastic, and I've taught several classes with it. Of course, I can't afford it. I think that once I learn Moodle well, I'll be able to have it free on my own server, and that's why I paid that much for the first year. Classroom Revolution is hosting it all year and it provides total tech support for the software itself. Otherwise, there are many tutorials online to get through the management part.

As to the lessons, I assume that you are referring to the lessons I created on ebooks on TechBeat. I have oodles of other lessons as well on different sites. I am now moving toward developing lessons for students themselves (ABE, ESL levels), so that teachers can just assign them while working with students that have more need for contact at different stages. If they use the lessons and are successful, they'll pick up the working strategies, which is a form or PD!

I'm not sure about your question regarding html format. Are you asking about a template? I have stopped using a lot of links to Web resources in the lessons themselves because of the constant changes that happen with URLs. I share URLs generously through other means, but I don't depend on them or outside materials in the lessons themselves. I get really frustrated when I find an ideal topic for a lesson online, only to see a link to a book or something else teachers need to implement to content.

As to access, please help yourself and share generously. That's what we are about! Your feedback is precious to me, so do let me know how things go. You have my individual email, and we can keep talking! leecy at fone.net

Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1030] Online PD: Pre-service training
From:Sharyn Yanoshak saylv5 at cox.net
Date:Mon May 7 16:21:43 EDT 2007

Nevada developed a self-paced (non-facilitated) interactive Pre-Service training module three years ago. It's purpose: To provide training common to all federally funded programs in Nevada so that new hires and volunteers can work independently to become acclimated to teaching and tutoring adult ABE/ESL students in NV. Primary audience is teachers and tutors who are new to educating adults and/or new to adult education in Nevada. Some of the accountability information is specific to Nevada; much of the other content is generic to teaching adults.

The training consists of PDF files, links to many Web sites (including videos), a suggestion to audit Dr. Richard Cooper's "Characteristics of Learning Differences" course, and a large interactive piece based on CT's "Orientation for Teachers New to Adult Education." The module is CD-based, i.e., it is not posted online.

The state does not offer CEUs or credit for taking the course (just a Certificate of Completion); however some individual programs offer a stipend to those who complete it.

We also do a 3-hour face-to-face pre-service training and we've found that usage of the CD increased greatly when we talked about it during that meeting and had CDs available for people to take home with them.

Sharyn Yanoshak
Manager, Professional Development for ABE Nevada
Phone/fax: 702.253.6280

Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1031] Re: Online professional developmentopportunities
From:Guckert-von Ehren, Denise A dg21 at txstate.edu
Date:Mon May 7 16:50:09 EDT 2007

I work with The Education Institute, College of Education, Texas State University-San Marcos (www.tei.education.txstate.edu <http://www.tei.education.txstate.edu/> ). Within the institute, I specifically work with 2 projects: the Texas Family Literacy Resource Center and Central GREAT (Getting Results Educating Adults in Texas).

The Texas Family Literacy Resource Center is a statewide initiative to provide professional development and technical assistance to Even Start and other family literacy programs. The Central GREAT project provided professional development and technical assistance to adult education programs and their staff throughout the central Texas region; there are a total of 8 of these regions in Texas that are coordinated through our statewide Adult Education office, Texas LEARNS.

The Texas Family Literacy Resource Center professional development activities are targeted for Even Start staff in Texas and directly respond to statewide professional development needs assessment. Topics for our professional development include Birth to Two Initiative, New Coordinators, Home Inventory (Parenting Assessment), PALS Pre-K (Early Childhood Language Assessment), Infant/Toddler Screening Tools, and Program Evaluation/Improvement. Our web site was designed with the goal of providing professional development to Even Start program staff, and contains sections with informative content, resources and references for each component of Even Start, such as Early Childhood, Adult Education, Parenting, and Interactive Literacy Activities. Please view the website at www.tei.education.txstate.edu/famlit.

Central GREAT professional development activities focus on a wide range of adult education topics; a calendar of professional development events and descriptions is online at http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/projectgreat/central/calendar.htm. Though the audience is largely adult education teachers, technical assistance and PD is also tailored to meet needs of program administrators.

Both programs (TFLRC and Central GREAT) have offered distance training in various capacities using several distance learning products, which include Akiva Web Meeting, Akiva Web Board, Qwest audio and online conferencing, and Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze). Many times our PD is offered in a blended approach and teachers and facilitators meet in person and online over time. Types of PD events have included teacher study groups, book studies, ABE/ASE Academies, New Coordinators Training, and ESOL New Teacher/Master Teacher Institutes.

Currently, our online PD events are not open to the general public. However, TFLRC is developing and posting static, self-paced PD modules for Birth-Two and Home Visiting. Because we always need to plan ahead to ensure that the teachers and program staff have access to the technology they need for online PD, we tend to use targeted emails to announce the events and register participants. Often one-on-one technology technical assistance sessions are set up with participants to make sure that they will be able to get onto the scheduled PD events and be able to navigate and participate in them.

Our training is available free of charge to adult educators. We do not issue CEUs, but all of our PD events, whether face-to-face or online, are awarded points that teachers may use towards their Texas Adult Education Teacher Credential. Please see http://www.tei.education.txstate.edu/credential for information on the Texas Adult Education Teacher Credential process.

Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1047] Re: What's happening in online PD?
From:Bonnita Solberg bdsunmt at sbcglobal.net
Date:Wed May 9 15:02:29 EDT 2007

Hello Jackie from California! The Oakland Adult and Career Education department of the Oakland Unified School District provides paid, ongoing PD for both contracted and hourly teachers. We have a PD committee that is currently addressing assessment as part of best teaching practices. We offer presentations throughout the year, during required staff meetings, at retreats, and in the form of workshops offered by our teachers and by CALPRO. We do not pay for PD courses taken online; rather the staff is polled about fourtimes a year to determine what their needs are and are we meeting them. The focus of PD is part of on-going program development. We offer a variety of opportunities due to teachers assigments during mornings, afternoons, evenings, and on Saturdays. I am not able to speak to how other programs address PD; hope someone from CA can provide some insights.

Bonnita Solberg
Teacher on Special Assignment
Oakland Adult and Career Education

Subject:[ProfessionalDevelopment 1049] Re: What's happening in online PD?
From:Evelyn Beaulieu Evelyn_Beaulieu at umit.maine.edu
Date:Thu May 10 08:23:19 EDT 2007

But what about other states? What’s happening in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, California, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, and Virginia? What about other organizations that offer online PD?


Hello Jackie,
Greetings from Maine professional development. Thank you for your invitation to share information on our limited online professional especially for other small states to get idea of what can be offered. Maine Adult Education's online professional development is hosted on the Center for Adult Learning and Literacy's web site.

  • Website:

Center for Adult Learning and Literacy web site: http://www.umaine.edu/call/ Online course web site: https://www.my-secure-site.com/call/onlinedev/

  • Online PD topic(s):


Navigating the Waters of Maine Adult Education. This is an online introduction to Maine Adult Education and is designed for new adult education practitioners. We designed the course into four modules, see the course information from our Professional Development Handbook at the end of this email.

  • Open to the public?

Yes, it is open to the public, but the course is very specific to Maine adult education practitioners.

  • Cost?

There is no cost to complete the online course.

  • Are CEUs or other credits available? (if so, what type)


Yes, the Center for Adult Learning and Literacy offers CEUs for our adult education professional development, including our online course. The local program administrator must sign off on the participant's participation in the online course, see our form below.

Navigating the Waters of Maine Adult Education
Approved Online Professional Development Documentation Form

Please print or type all information below

Date of request:

Name of practitioner:

Practitioner address:
Street

Town Zip

Social Security Number of practitioner: - -

Practitioner signature:

Online learning module request: (Please check one) Approved Contact Hours
_____ Overview: 1
_____ Module 1: Who is the Adult Learner? 1
_____ Module 2: Understanding the Adult Learner 2
_____ Module 3: Building Quality Adult Education Classrooms 2
_____ Module 4: Professional Development Planning 4

Local program director’s name:

Local adult education program:

I, ___________________________________________, verify the above Maine (Local program director signature) Adult Education practitioner completed the requested module in the online Navigating

the Waters of Maine Adult Education course. _______________________________, (practitioner’s name) submitted all the required module documentation to me and is on file in our office.

  • What institution issues the CEUs?


The Center for Adult Learning and Literacy.

  • When offered?

The course is online 24/7 and is available for participants to take one module at a time or all four together.

  • Unique options or features?


The online course was designed to meet the needs of local programs to train new adult education practitioners anywhere in our state, anytime the new personnel joins their program.

The online course promotes communication between the practitioner, their local program administrator and the Center for Adult Learning and Literacy.

  • Anything else you’d like to add?

One question you did not ask of us, and I know others are interested: Are local adult education practitioners paid to take the online course?
Here in Maine that is a local program decision. Some local programs do pay staff the time to take the course and some local programs do not.


Please give us a rich description from your perspective, or just send us the basic information listed above.

Here is the information on our online course from our Professional Development Handbook, which is also available online: http://www.umaine.edu/call/pubs/pubs.html

Navigating the Waters of Maine Adult Education is an online professional development opportunity sponsored by the Center for Adult Learning and Literacy.~ The Overview to Maine Adult Education consists of an Introduction to Maine Adult Education and four learning modules.
~~ ~Module 1: Who is the Adult Learner?
~~ ~Module 2: Understanding the Adult Learner
~~ ~Module 3: Building Quality Adult Education Classrooms
~~ ~Module 4: Professional Development Planning

You, the distance learner, should use the following guidelines to match the best module to your learning needs. ~

The Overview to Maine Adult Education and Module 1: Who is the Adult Learner? These two modules are designed to introduce new adult education practitioners to Maine Adult Education.~ These two components are recommended for anyone who is new or has been employed in adult education less than six months.~ They are applicable to support staff, teachers, counselors and administrators.

Module 2: Teaching the Adult Learner and Module 3: Building Quality Adult Education Classrooms. These two modules are more involved modules for teachers who have been in the adult education classroom for a minimum of one semester.~ These modules will assist teachers to integrate adult learning, teaching theory and practices into their classroom.

Module 4: Professional Development Planning. This module is designed for adult education practitioners who are in the process of developing their professional development plans for their local adult education program.~ The two major components of this module are the professional development resources from the Center for Adult Learning and Literacy (CALL) and the templates for the professional development planning process.

When you complete each module, be sure to print out your module summary page and all printed handouts.~ Include all forms in your module packet and present it to your local program director.~ Your local program director will submit your information to the Center for Adult Learning and Literacy for Continuing Education Units.~ You may only complete each module once for CEU credit.~ You are welcome to go back and visit the course anytime.


2) Or your perspective may be from a slice of what your program, state, or organization offers. Tell us about the online PD you designed or facilitate. I look forward to hearing about these exciting aspects of your work!


Navigating the Waters of Maine Adult Education is designed strictly as an online course. During out 2007 - 2008, we plan to add two online courses that will be hybrid models of professional development.

Of course, we would love to have more online opportunities available, but with a small staff and no staff member's job only to design online courses, we have to integrate designing online professional development into our workplan with our inperson professional development offerings and all other responsibilities.

Thank you for the invitation to share what is happening up here with online Maine Adult Education professional development, Evelyn

Dr. Evelyn Beaulieu, Director
Center for Adult Learning and Literacy
5749 Merrill Hall, UM
Orono, ME 04469
(207) 581-2413
evelyn.beaulieu at umit.maine.edu
http://www.umaine.edu/call/

Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1101] Introductions - Online PD
From: Green, Catherine cgreen at air.org
Date: Mon May 14 19:31:08 EDT 2007

Hello, Everyone!

Thanks, Jackie, for putting this together. I've enjoyed reading the dicsusisons to date and am eager to share. Here is a bit more about the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO), one of the four state Leadership Projects of the California Dept. of Education. Marian Thacher of OTAN already mentioned this one.

To provide a context, CALPRO's mission is to foster continuous program improvement through a comprehensive, statewide approach to high quality professional development for the full range of adult education and literacy providers. CALPRO began in 2001 and its first online courses were piloted in Jan. 2005.

Here's a sketch, following Jackie's guidelines:

  • Provider: California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO)
  • Website: www.calpro-online.org
  • Online PD topics (in the form of four-week asynchronous courses led by facilitators): designing programs for adults with learning disabilities; managing the ESL multilevel class; effective lesson planning; enhancing learner persistence; organizing and monitoring instruction to improve learning gains;

Additionally, CALPRO currently offers two self-directed, self-paced modules on the topics of family literacy and managing a SCANS-based classroom.

Courses, both facilitated and self-directed, on other topics are currently under development.

  • CEUs offered through California State University, Sacramento
  • Open to the public? No (see "Cost" below)
  • Cost? Free to adult ed. teachers and administrators who work in programs that receive state or federal funding (e.g, ABE, ASE, ESL, GED). If space is available, other participants may attend.
  • Are CEUs or other credits available? Yes. CALPRO applies to CSUS for CEU awards: generally 1.5 CEUs are available per four-week online course, which averages about 3-4 hours of participation per week. In addition, upon successfully completing the online course, each participant receives a certificate of completion that is eligible for 9 Professional Growth Hours; the latter may or may not be tracked by the educator's agency; California state requirements for PD have changed recently.
  • What institution issues the CEUs? California State University, Sacramento
  • When offered? Varies. Generally, these are offered on a quarterly basis (fall, winter, spring, summer).
  • Unique options or features?

CALPRO online courses are asynchronous, discussion based and they last four weeks each. Like their face-to-face workshop counterparts, they are grounded in research and are filled with interactive tasks. An advantage of running the courses over four weeks is that they provide multiple opportunities for application and reflection, especially compared to brief workshops. The disadvantage is that without grades, credits or financial incentives, these courses can be hard to sustain for some participants (e.g,. the part-time teacher/"freeway flyer" who works 2-3 jobs to make ends meet and is not paid for professional development or lesson preparation). Whenever possible, the online courses feature multimedia elements (video excerpts, audio clips, PowerPoint presentations) to vary the steady diet of text-based input and written "discussion" though asynchronous forums. Online courses have 15-20 participants enrolled, who are guided through interactive tasks and discussions by a facilitator. The facilitator is a subject- area expert trained in teaching the module both face-to-face and online.

Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1121] Re: What's happening in online PD?
From: Tim Ponder tponder at literacy.kent.edu
Date: Tue May 15 15:09:12 EDT 2007

I wanted to provide a bit more information about some of the courses and resources that can be found at the AEPRO site,
http://www.aeprofessional.org.

As I mentioned in my introduction, AEPRO has offered online facilitated courses using The Learning Manager LMS which run approximately 6 weeks, requiring 2-4 hours a week of participant activity. The courses are now offered under a cost recovery model to states, organizations and several times each year on an individual basis. The list of courses can be found at http://www.aeprofessional.org/courses.htm.

A short demo of some of the features can be found at http://www.aeprofessional.org/demo.htm.

If you are interested in a demo account please email me directly at tponder at literacy.kent.edu.

In response to requests from participants, developers and facilitators we also created a free resource, the Idea Exchange found at http://www.aeprofessional.org/community/ . This is a site designed to provide a forum for questions, answers and shared experiences relating to distance education in the adult education field. Jackie and I are working on how best to incorporate this discussion into the site as well as how that forum can compliment the AALPD list. Content can be viewed by anyone, but you will need to set up an account to post. The site was set up using Moodle, to both give users a taste of what Moodle is like, and to make it easy to incorporate additional tools in the future.

We will also be posting a searchable database of online PD opportunities. This list was initially created as part of a project Noreen Lopez did for the National Institute for Literacy, and we are finalizing the current contacts as well as a mechanism for people to add or update information. I will be contacting several of you off list about opportunities that you have mentioned that are not yet included. This will be online by June 1, and I will be sure to let the list know when it is live.

Best,
tim -- Tim Ponder
Ohio Literacy Resource Center
tponder at literacy.kent.edu

Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1122] Re: What's happening in online PD?
From: McNutt Jr, William R mcnutt at utk.edu
Date: Tue May 15 15:45:03 EDT 2007

Oh, and we're currently planning an ESOL course to start in about two weeks, soon as I confirm the dates with the facilitator. http://www.aeprofessional.org/courses.htm

Bill

Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1144] PD on line
From: maureen hoyt maureenh at azcallateen.k12.az.us
Date: Wed May 16 11:54:59 EDT 2007

Hello, list!
I've been involved in a number of on line professional activities in Arizona. We've used Nicenet with the ETE group (technology experts) and I was part of a project a few years ago which designed teacher modules (this was never published).
Some of my staff have engaged in professional on line learning- one audited a course on Learning differences by Richard Cooper and one took a Verizon course on teaching Adults. Both teachers took the course (I had suggested them as optional) because they were interested in the subjects, and both enjoyed them and shared pertinent information with other staff. Susanne, who took the Verizon course, liked it because it was short, visual, gave her a certificate of completion, and had good information.
I think that the main motivation to take an on line course would be tied to either initial or continuing certification or program requirements. Arizona Adult Education programs recently have gained access to ASSET, a learning portal now available to all Arizona k-12 educators. There are many courses available on this, and we are just now exploring how we'll use it.

Maureen Hoyt
Basic Education Manager
ACYR
602-252-6721ext 223
fax: 602-252-2952
www.azcallateen.k12.az.us
www.az-aall.org

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