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ACLS Mailing with Summaries
| To: | ABE Directors, SABES Coordinators, WIA Administrators and LWIB Directors, Teacher/All Staff |
| From: | Anne Serino |
| Date: | February 8, 2008 |
What's in this Mailing?
This monthly mailing for February contains materials that are important to our programs and that will help to serve our current and future students as well. Please review the information and share with your staff.
Save The Date! April 15, 2008:   For the spring ACLS conference "Integrated Curriculum Models Get Better Results". Tom Sticht will be the keynote speaker. See the attached flyer for conference details. - SMARTT Updates:
- Cognos Updates
- GED Data Matching
- ABE Program Design Regional Trainings
- Professional Development Data Entry
- ACLS Listservs
- SMARTT Training Schedule
- Curriculum and Assessment Update:
- ACLS web page on Curriculum Frameworks has been updated! In addition to the 6 Massachusetts ABE Frameworks and the Common Chapters, a section for curriculum development resources has been added to the Frameworks portion of the ACLS web page: http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/frameworks/
- New Edition Published of an Excellent Resource. The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills, by Jon Saphier, Mary Ann Haley-Speca and Robert Gower has just been reissued in a 2008 edition.
- Workforce Development Updates :
- Hot News - ABE-ESOL Subcommittee of the MA Workforce Investment Board: P-21 WIA Incentive Grants
- ACLS News - Save the Date. Integrated Curriculum Gets Better Results - April 15, 2008
- Workforce System News
- Career Center Events
- Funding
- Conferences/Meetings
- SABES
- Publications
- Resources
- Financial Literacy Resources:
- It's Tax Time - Your students may benefit from more information
- IRS.gov -Covers basics of payroll and income taxes, complete with 36 lesson plans
- mymoney.gov - Common topics - credit, banking, planning for college, starting a business
- Your Government, Your Taxes, Your Choices
ADA Coordinators: ACLS would appreciate a few minutes of your time to complete a brief survey. The purpose of this survey is to find out disability topics that are of interest to you. Your responses to this survey will be used to plan workshop and discussion topics for future ADARN Sharing Groups and the Annual Disability Workshop being planned for the spring of 2008. Please click on the link below to start the survey.
Please note that the deadline for this survey is Friday, February 15, 2008 at 5PM.
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227BG9C7GPG
last updated: February 8, 2008
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