Advocating Effectively for Professional Development
—A Webinar co-hosted by the Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers (AALPD), the National Coalition for Literacy (NCL), and ProLiteracy, with generous support from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

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February 24, 2010
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Webinar Series on Public Policy Advocacy

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Description
Are you wondering why professional developers should care about the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)? How professional development might change under the new legislation? This Webinar will help you understand how WIA can help adult education professional development systems move away from an “inch deep and mile wide” approach to professional development and how to create conditions that strengthen the adult education workforce. Hear the latest on WIA reauthorization, AALPD’s and NCL’s recommendations to improve professional development and strengthen the adult education workforce. Learn ways to get involved.

The types of questions panelists and participants will discuss include:

• What are the issues with professional development? Who’s addressing them effectively?
• What’s needed from national leadership to improve adult literacy professional development?
• What does AALPD recommend for professional development during WIA reauthorization?
• What can AALPD do to advocate for professional development at the federal level?
• Where are we with respect to WIA reauthorization now?
• How can you help?

Guests

• Moderated by Jane Greiner, Chair, Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers
• Joyce Bullock, Associate, Kentucky Adult Education, Council on Postsecondary Education
• Laurie Sheridan, Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Education (MCAE) Vice President and Working Conditions Committee Co-chair; Workforce Development Coordinator, System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES)
• Jackie Taylor, NCL Public Policy Committee Co-Chair, National Coalition for Literacy

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Handouts

• Advocating Effectively for Professional Development Power Point
  
  
• Themes from the online WIA Community Conversations hosted on the Professional Development List

Links Shared During the Webinar

• NCL Links:
  • NCL Professional Quality Policy Principles
  • National Center for Adult Education, Literacy, and Workforce Skills (The Center) Policy Principles
  • New! Professional Development Section in the Fact Finder of the NCL Advocacy Clearinghouse and Toolkit
  • Get Legislative Updates
  • Participate on the NCL Advocacy Blog
  • Follow NCL on Twitter
    
    
• AALPD Links:
  • AALPD Recommended Policies to Support Professional Development
  • AALPD Policies Matrix with Research-based Rationale and Examples from Practice
  • AALPD Quality Standards for Professional Development
  • AALPD Matrix of Methods for Professional Development
  • Participate in AALPD
    
    
• Kentucky Professional Development Recommendations
  • Kentucky Adult Education Professional Development Management System —Links to PD eHandbook are on the home page; the Institute Syllabi explain the job-embedded project.
  • Kentucky Professional Development Policy on Tuition Reimbursement
  • College Course Approval Application
    
    
• Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Education (MCAE) Links:
  • MCAE Standards for Quality Working Conditions in ABE/ESOL Programs (PT and FT staff)
  • Program Self-Assessment of Quality Working Conditions
  • Ideas for Promoting Improved Working Conditions
  • MCAE Annual Working Conditions Improvement Award
  • Working With Unions
  • Survey of Working Conditions in the ABE Field in Massachusetts —Summary of Results
  • Working Conditions Committee Materials
  • A Little Too Much from the Heart: Working Conditions and ABE, by Cathy Coleman
    
    
• Research on Professional Development and Teacher Change: Implications for Adult Basic Education By Cristine Smith and Marilyn Gillespie
  
  
• WIA Community Conversations on Professional Development

Related Resource:

• A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works – Marzano, Norford, Paynter, Pickering, & Gaddy, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2001