Schedule

Neda Anasseri

Join us for breakfast - enjoy something to eat before you start your conference day. Welcome to TDLS 2023!

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Neda Anasseri

Please stop at the OTAN registration table first to sign in, get your badge, conference bag, and your maps!

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Cherina Betters (w/ Neda Anasseri)

This keynote will focus on how to lead, learn, and work across differences during shifting organizational, political, and social dynamics. Attendees of the Technology and Distance Learning Symposium will have common language rooted in terms such as diversity, equity, and belonging as they relate to Adult Education and the schooling process. Recommendations and strategies will be discussed to foster positive working conditions by ensuring equitable and affirming learning environments.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, PAC, SSS)

Cherina Betters

This workshop will focus on conditions for positive student engagement while cultivating a sense of belonging for each-and-every student. Specifically, those students coming from traumatic or minoritized backgrounds, such as race/ethnicity, exceptional needs and or basic needs insecurities.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, OEA, SSS)

Joe Marquez

Understanding how to select the right tools, utilizing the correct digital environment, and understanding student follow-up can help your classroom succeed when planning lessons in a 1:1 environment. Experience the power of voice and choice through visualized learning with the #SlideSnap Learning artifacts protocol, Jamboard, and Flipgrid to encourage student voice and understanding of any material in any class for any subject.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Celine Signorini Bakan

Creating motivating and engaging classes is challenging, and Google Jamboard can help teachers to achieve it. In this workshop, participants will discover how to use this highly visual, user friendly, and free tool, and more importantly create their own jamboards.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, OEA, TA)

Jia Sun (w/ Johanna Gleason)

Are you teaching HyFlex classes? Overseeing a HyFlex program? If so, don’t miss this session. San Diego College of Continuing Education produced a HyFlex Teacher Guide that contains everything teachers need. Discover tips for building class community and tools for engaging in-person and remote audiences simultaneously. Walk away with lesson plans and ideas that you can put into practice tomorrow. Administrators looking for ways to support and motivate faculty will find this workshop valuable.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Anel Martinez (w/ Chase McCubbins, Mary Alvarado)

Learn how Sweetwater Adult Education uses Precision Exams to increase student certifications and employability within the Career and Technical Education (CTE) medical pathways. Explore the different certifications and pre/post tests available within the program. Learn how students prepare with Precision Exams before taking the state board certifications and how it is making a difference in passing rates.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: CTE • CAT: OEA, PAC, TA)

Maria Rosales Uribe (w/ Elisa Uribe McCannon, Kate Gougoutas)

City College of San Francisco high school diploma program's faculty used Canvas, a Learning Management System, during the COVID 19 shelter in place mandate. This past fall semester we went back to teaching in person. Many of our faculty, however, still use Canvas as an instructional tool. This session will showcase the features that enhance student success.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ASE • CAT: BHL, DL)

Debbie Jensen

Technology made it possible for us to tailor education to each student in our classroom, now let’s use technology to create materials online that can include students with disabilities. Learn about the requirements, the resources and the tools available to be compliant to the law but also to expand your reach as educators to include all students. We will include how-tos using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA)

Susan Gaer (w/ Kristi Reyes)

Finally, there is a compilation of research on how adult learning effectively connects with literacy, numeracy, problem-solving, communication, and digital skills. In this session, the presenters will show you the Adult Learner Variability Navigator (ALVN) which integrates research with adult learning practices. You will leave with ideas for integrating ALVN with tools that meet your learners’ needs.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, OEA)

Karin de Varennes

This session offers a three part discussion opportunity to collaborate 1:1, in self-selected groups and as part of an audience. The purpose of the session is to allow time for sharing information about Canvas with one another.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DL)

Heather Martin (w/ Marcia Luptak)

Over the last few years, instructors were forced to use technology to reach students. Now that many of us have returned to teaching in person, it’s time to reflect on the technology tools we are using. Are we using the tools that are most beneficial to our students and our objectives or are we using tools that we became comfortable with or seemed flashy at the time of implementation? In this session, the participants will be walked through the process of choosing tools that fit their objectives.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, TA)

Alisa Takeuchi

Need a way to communicate with your students in a fun and personal way? Bitmoji is an avatar created by you to replicate your likeness--it's essentially a mini you! You can use your Bitmoji in so many different ways. The presenter will guide you with hands-on activities from creating your Bitmoji to using it with everyday activities. Come join this session to have fun and create something unique and special. Bring your Smart phone and a device or just watch and enjoy!

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Neda Anasseri

Join us for lunch. Enjoy a meal before heading into more sessions.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Ryan Whetstone (w/ Meredith Tait, Hilary Estes)

In this workshop, we will share some of the lessons we learned from the pandemic and how those lessons are informing our current work and strategic planning at Torrance Adult School. We will also share insights from our experience participating in OTAN’s Digital Leadership Academy and how that is influencing our school plan.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, TA)

Nikki Middleton (w/ Jenna Hanson, Jennifer Owens, Barbara Van Dyken)

This presentation will highlight current onboarding, ESL Distance Learning, and Technology Tools for Language Acquisition and Grossmont Adult Education's road to utilizing both Canvas and robust support services to expose students to technology, expanding their education and increasing their access to its benefits as they prepare for college and career.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, OEA, SSS)

David Rosen (w/ Jen Vanek, Destiny Simpson)

This session will be a review of a new, free "Guide for Design and Implementation of Hybrid–Flexible (HyFlex) Models in Adult Education." The Guide is for adult foundational education (AFE) programs, e.g. ESL, adult basic education, adult secondary education, and IET programs. We will look at authentic short videos of HyFlex classes, and at brief descriptions of how AFE teachers in California, Arizona, Illinois and Wisconsin are using HyFlex. There will be time for questions and comments.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, OEA)

Kenya Bratton (w/ Margaret Macabasco)

“Learners with disabilities cannot access technology for learning.” The purpose of this hands-on workshop is to: (a) dispel the myths associated with adult learners with disabilities, (2) provide a medley of specific digital resources that empowers student individual lives and learning experiences; and (3) address the technology myth by implementing solutions for inclusion, access, and availability of technology to engage and equip these learners.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, SSS, TA)

Katrina Benson (w/ Ben Ihlenfeldt)

We will discuss a collaboration across an Adult Education program and the local library to reach qualifying Affordable Connectivity Program families in our Saint Paul, Minnesota community. We supported the application process and continually follow-up with applicants. We will present our specific context/funding streams and how they are changing in the field. We will share access to the bilingual (Spanish/English) tools we co-created. We'll offer program solutions to secure devices for families.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, PAC, SSS)

Janice Fera (w/ Luke Philley)

What programmatic tools can help agencies evaluate writing skills more consistently? Will our students' writing skills be strong enough to transition to post-secondary? This session introduces the CASAS Writing Assessments: Essay Test and Language Test. Teachers appreciate the automated "autoscorer" which eliminates hand-grading essays. Students benefit from immediate feedback and suggestions for improvement. Whether the goal is writing a term paper or a resume, learn the four steps to success!

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: OEA, TA)

Eva Bowler (w/ Randy Erickson, LoAnn To, Rachel Budde, Adrianna Gonzalez)

Digital Online Learning Solution and review of an OTAN pilot with Berkeley Adult School using the New Readers Press Online Learning program focused on pre-high school equivalency and HiSET preparation

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Monica Cueva (w/ Diana Vera-Alba)

Are you doing most of the talking in your online synchronous class sessions? Are you looking for new, fun ideas to engage your students? Come to this session to learn creative ways to get your students talking and participating more online. Presenters will share activities and lesson ideas adaptable to most levels of ESL in online synchronous and HyFlex settings. Ready-to-use online tools and resources will be shared.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Jaemi Naish (w/ Neda Anasseri)

Technology integration across programs, Canvas pilot, Social Media, chromebook integration in ESL beginners, Hyflex program, review of the California Adult Education Digital Literacy Guidance manual and other digital literacy wonders and questions from the field.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, PAC)

Karyn Ruiz (w/ Mitch Rosin)

This session will review different blended learning best practices and how their addition to programs will assist instructors in meeting their students' needs, increase their persistence, and actively engage them in their learning activities.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Jay Wright (w/ Tischel Diaz, Martha Perez)

Over the past few years, CASAS has introduced TE Classmate, the application that enables teachers and other staff to enter and track learner attendance on a cell phone; and more recently, added the TE Teacher Portal feature that offers a lot of the same beneficial features and user interface on a PC like what TE Classmate provides on a cell phone. This session reviews these features and introduces some user-friendly ways to implement them at your agency.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: PAC, TA)

Farzana Cassim (w/ Gloria Tavera)

Augmented Reality (AR) is changing the way students interact with course materials in all programs. In this exciting In-Person workshop, participants will experience AR in real-time. During this “hands on” experience, all participants will be given the opportunity to use AR Apps for Academic, CTE, and ESL. Costs and minimum requirements for devices will be covered. Results from a pilot-program for Medical Industry Students at Evans Community Adult School will be presented.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Kristi Reyes

If you teach online with Canvas, you need to know about some important features that will make your life easier! They include publishing a syllabus in Canvas available to the public, using the Speedgrader, embedding files, using history and getting back parts of your course you thought were gone forever, customizing navigation and menu items, and more. Attend this session aimed at beginning and intermediate users to get these tips and feel more in control of your Canvas course!

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL)

Cristiane Galvão

In this presentation, I will share with participants how I have engaged my students using Bamboozle games for warm-up activities, vocabulary, grammar review, and icebreakers. During the follow-along activity, teachers will learn how to create their account and a Bamboozle game. The goal of this follow-along workshop is that each participant will have created their own Bamboozle game by the end of the workshop. Participants will also be able to share the link to their activities with each other.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: OEA, TA)

Celine Signorini Bakan

Designing modern and reliable assessments is challenging, but Google Forms may be the answer. In this workshop, participants will expand their teaching toolkit by discovering how to use this highly visual, user friendly, and free digital tool for assessment and engagement.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, OEA, TA)

Susan Gaer

Wakelet is a free digital curation tool that allows you to save, organize and share content across the Internet. In this presentation, you will experience a lesson plan for beginning literacy students and learn how to create a basic Wake.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, OEA, TA)

Devon Werble (w/ Kathy Davis, Anthony De Lorenzo, Maria Trejo, Judy Beres, Robert Yorgason)

This session will share the Top 6 Survival Sites that have been "tested and approved" by educators across the LARAEC Consortium to add to your toolkit. The session will include a deep dive into these top sites that will help take your teaching and your students' learning to the next level.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Greg Ludwa (w/ Maribel Hernandez)

Since March 2020 when CA went to SIP and, subsequently, returned to in-person instruction, the Monterey COE (MCOE) continued to deliver high level Hi-SET (HSE) preparation and testing to both incarcerated and non-incarcerated adult learners through a combination of online, blended, hybrid, and in-person instruction. The MCOE staff will discuss how we continue to achieve high level HSD and HSE passing rates by focusing on critical thinking and productive struggle.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, TA)

Debbie Jensen

Two years ago adult education partnered with CK-12, premiere free online interactive textbooks, to create digital resources with adults in mind. Now we have added CTE and ESL to ABE and ASE FlexBooks®. Join the OER movement for the best free online resources using AI to help teachers reach every student using any device. Students have a digital assistant as they learn. See how CK-12 can improve your programs and your budgets. Flexbooks are adaptable and you can even create your own.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: OEA, TA)

Penny Pearson

Recently, many new, classic titles of books, film, and other files were released into the public domain. These works are now available to anyone to use, modify, redistribute, and remix these resources. This session will introduce the use of both public domain materials, and those licensed under Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons to help educators and students find, understand, and reuse these materials for the classroom and personal use.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: CRR, DEA, TA)

Karin de Varennes

This interactive session explores words within a blended learning model using Canvas. Delve into the many ways English words make sense all while discovering ways to incorporate flipped learning, station rotation, and asynchronous choices for adult learners.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL)

Veronica Parker (w/ Mandilee Gonzales)

This session will unpack digital equity, social justice, educator agency, and community involvement to understand their significance in creating inclusive educational spaces and examine digital equity.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA)

Kristi Reyes (w/ Susan Gaer, Debbie Jensen)

Have you heard the buzz about Artificial Intelligence tools and their influence in education? Attend this hands-on workshop to hear about how adult educators can leverage readily available AI tools for a variety of purposes from creating practice exercises and generating class content to writing lesson plans. In this discovery session, you will get a chance to see the potential of AI for yourself and walk away with something you can use in your class lessons next week!

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Jennifer Gagliardi

Class is dismissed, but the desire to learn more never ends. Extend opportunities to learn via YouTube and other video apps to deliver quality content to your students inside and outside of the classroom. Empower your students to create and share video content to engage more fully in their own ongoing learning process.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Chun Hee McMahon

The nursing program at Clovis Adult Education(CAE) has been using Moodle as a learning platform. Over 89 nursing courses were created and stored tests, supporting instructional materials, and grading systems in Moodle and have been used by the instructors daily. Through this project presentation, the CAE team shares the journey of transitioning Canvas from Moodle over the year and aspiring to other similar institutions to move forward, adapting Canvas as a main learning management system.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: CTE • CAT: TA)

Susan Coulter (w/ Michelle Faber)

Leam360 and the new Classroom Video On Demand resources can be linked, downloaded, or embedded in Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas, or on your class Website. Classroom Video On Demand (CVOD) offers more than 31,000 additional resources to enhance your lessons which are geared more toward adult secondary learners. Teachers working at California Adult Education agencies can get their own FREE account through OTAN.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, TA)

Lori Howard (w/ Portia LaFerla, Anthony Burik)

The California EL Civics Exchange, a joint project between CASAS and OTAN funded by the California Department of Education, is a repository for original EL Civics instructional materials created by California WIOA, Title II: AEFLA/EL Civics agencies. This presentation introduces the organization of the Exchange and gives information on how an agency can access and submit materials, including the requirements for acceptable materials. Join us to learn more about this exciting website!

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ESL • CAT: PAC)

Abram Jones (w/ Cindy Knoble)

Learn best practices for managing a full-fledged hybrid ESL/CTE program (including face-to-face, distance learning, and flexible hybrid models of instruction). This presentation will also detail how to leverage low- and no-cost educational tools such as the LMS Canvas and Open Educational Resources (OERs).

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, TA)

Mehrnaz Saadat

In this session the remote intake-placement system will be discussed. The presenter will review how paper-based tests were replaced by online tests. The process of remote testing and its challenges will be described.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ESL • CAT: DL, OEA)

Jerry Yamashita (w/ Maria Carrasco)

In this presentation, the author of the COABE Journal article “Connecting The Community: Introducing The Digital Navigator” will take participants on a tour of one agency’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants will learn how Digital Navigators can help their agency support efforts to achieve and maintain a 1:1 digital device environment, elevate digital literacy agency-wide, reach instructional technology objectives, and provide equitable internet access and support for every student.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, PAC, TA)

Karyn Ruiz (w/ Mitch Rosin)

This session will review best strategies with practical, real-classroom examples of teaching utilizing online and print materials either in-person, whole or breakout group, Hi-Flex or blended, or fully remote with independent learners.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Jay Wright (w/ Tom Reid, Lydia Jones, Jodee Slyter, Sudie Whalen)

Since the June 2021 CASAS Summer Institute, a team of CAEP TAP, CALpro and CASAS staff have delivered a series of workshops that address mentorship and networking for agency data managers. Workshops included some “simulated speed dating” where participants interacted as prospective mentors and proteges, and introduced some networking and technology resources to help participants collaborate with other agencies and “break down silos.”

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: OEA, PAC)

Neda Anasseri

Join us for breakfast - enjoy something to eat before you start your conference day. Welcome to TDLS 2023!

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Neda Anasseri

Please stop at the OTAN registration table first to sign in, get your badge, conference bag, and your maps!

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Barbara Van Dyken (w/ Matthew Sussman)

This presentation makes the distinction between Internet search engine queries and AI Chatbot queries while showing how they are useful in the ESL classroom to facilitate learning and improve English language acquisition. This presentation draws on recent studies to substantiate the use of these computer-assisted language-learning tools. The presentation includes a demonstration of FlowSpeak, an automated language practice tool that provides personalized feedback to the student.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, TA)

Matthew Rhoads

K-20 Teachers, regardless of their grade level, content or classroom setting, use some form of interactive slides to present content. Interactive slides relate to Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canva, Jamboard, Pear Deck, Buncee, Mentimeter, and Nearpod. Beyond their interactive features, for students to engage with the content and skills they are learning as well as collaborate with one another, we can integrate research-based active learning instructional strategies to further amplify learning.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, TA)

Jeff Goumas

Have you made an activity using Quizziz or Jamboard lately? Or borrowed a worksheet that another teacher made on Canva? Technology has enabled teachers to design more than ever! As a result, the collection of free and open education resources (OER) available online grows at a rapid pace. Let’s explore how the criteria we use to evaluate and select OER could be the same criteria we apply as we are designing OER to maximize reusability and enable widespread sharing.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Alisa Takeuchi

Integrating technology in your Beginning ESL classroom is not as difficult as you may think. With time, patience, and opportunity, anyone can learn computer basic vocabulary and technique. Let me show you how to engage and foster digital literacy with your students! Participants will walk away with ideas they can start to utilize right away.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ESL • CAT: OEA, TA)

R. Lynne Ruvalcaba (w/ Bryan Boel, Erin Case, Patrick O'Neill, John Richards, Vera Valdivia-Abdallah)

The session will focus on the unique work involved in implementing blended learning in the correctional environment. The presentation will discuss the use of technology to provide access outside of the traditional classroom setting to support Adult Basic Education, Career Technical Education, and Postsecondary Education learners, the challenges of safety and security in the correctional environment, and the path forward to providing digital life skills to all incarcerated individuals.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: CRR)

Omar Andrade

Technology can foster collaboration with students in the same room, school, and other classrooms worldwide. Additionally, teachers and students can develop essential skills by using technology in the classroom. Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is increasingly presented as a necessity in a society where rapid changes, increasing knowledge, and the demands for a constantly updated high-level education.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, OEA, TA)

Maricel Manglicmot (w/ Michael Delaney, Michelle Chuang)

East Side Adult School is piloting a program to train teachers in blended-learning strategies at all programs and levels. This panel discussion will describe the steps taken to implement professional development at East Side Adult Education. You will hear perspectives from the ESL Department Chair, an ESL instructor who is the Canvas administrator, and an ASE instructor who is the lead technology teacher and Digital Leadership Academy leader. We hope to gain input from the field.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, OEA, TA)

Adele McClain (w/ Claudia Escobar, Melina Bezada, Lilia Aguirre, Rebecca Monjaraz, Martha Mendez)

Apple Valley Adult School and Victor Valley College are proposing a joint venture to help students co-enroll in both K12 credit and noncredit programs. Our goal is to provide more hybrid and hyflex options in terms of onboarding processes and curriculum for HSD/ HSE, ESL, and CTE classes. We will give a historical overview of three pilots and what we learned from our early attempts at collaboration in this presentation. We'll talk about the most common problems our students face and how we've co

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, PAC, SSS)

Hillary Hartman (w/ Mariana Silva)

Are you seeking to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your course? How do you make your students feel welcomed and supported from the very first day of your class? Join us to discuss tech tips and tricks to create an equitable, accessible syllabus leading to a warm, caring classroom environment from the start! Our presentation will unveil simple, yet powerful tools and techniques to promote equity, inclusion, accessibility, and transform your students’ experience.

(AUD: STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, OEA, TA)

Sandra Watts

Come and see what is involved when contributing material to the California EL Civics Exchange (it's easier than you think!). You'll see the steps to steps to take--from someone who's been through them. We'll talk about both of the roles you can play as regards to the Exchange: as a contributor and a consumer.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ESL • CAT: BHL)

Kristi Reyes

Do you teach synchronously online? This session provides you with 10 easy-to-use tools for synchronous online classes or even if you are back in the four-walled classroom! These free web-based tools allow you to do everything from sharing multiple widgets at once, to having fun while reviewing class content, to gathering feedback from students. You will walk away with at least one new, useful tool you can use on Monday!

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA)

Maria Grubb (w/ Sandra Gomez)

Flippity is an online application that allows teachers to create fun, innovative activities and games for their students to use online. Come find out more about it!

(AUD: STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Cindy Wislofsky

When was the last time you made a Google Form? In this follow-along workshop, review or learn how to make a survey to poll your audience, create a gradable quiz, develop an exit ticket or feedback form, and schedule appointments with choices automatically disappearing as participants sign up. With this free Google tool, view results and share in different ways and explore options to meet your individual educational needs. Come join the fun with your device, Google account login and password.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: OEA, TA)

Christina Hyatt (w/ Sarah Richins, Colin Cordill)

The Corona-Norco Adult School has recently instituted several orientation processes to enable and encourage persistence. Through this presentation, we will give an overview of the orientation, an explanation and introduction of the technology that supports the process, how this process has provided better outcomes, and share our hopes for future streamlining.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: PAC, SSS)

Marie Doerner (w/ Joy Cole, Elisia Doonan)

When COVID shut our schools, we were concerned about accessibility for our students with disabilities, but Zoom provided a rich environment for students to learn. Come and learn some of the tips and positive outcomes from our experience.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, OEA, TA)

Bernadine Gonzalez (w/ Josh Eick, Prishay Wilson)

Join us on a journey of the first completely virtual adult school in the nation! We'll share the progress that we've made as well as our vision for our school in the future.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Michelle Dullea (w/ Vinod Lobo)

This panel features local adult education leaders who have implemented smartphone-based apps to engage learners and accelerate growth in English, math, and workplace prep. Michelle Dullea from Sweetwater Adult Education will lead the panel. Vinod Lobo, founder and CEO of Learning Upgrade, a learning app for adults, will moderate the panel. Join us for this interactive discussion to learn new approaches for integrating mobile learning into your program.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Susan Coulter

In this presentation, we will highlight the plethora of free resources found on OTAN's website. We will introduce the updated Teaching with Technology database with technology lesson plans now with the Triple E framework that will Engage, Enhance, and Extend the learning. Participants will walk away with activities and video resources to enhance their classroom lessons and online courses.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, TA)

Yecsenia Delgado

Technology has transformed adult education, technology enables new ways of teaching, communicating, collaborating and learning. Presentation will discusses 5 evidence based recommendations around how to use technology to support adult learners. Discussion will include examples of technologies, implementation and overcoming potential obstacles.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Margaret Teske (w/ Portia LaFerla, David Espinoza, Penny Pearson)

Does your school have some good EL Civics instructional materials, but you’ve heard that they were hard to share on the EL Civics Exchange due to accessibility compliance? We are here to help. Our CASAS and OTAN team will demonstrate some simple changes to make your documents worthy of submission. We will illustrate how to adjust documents and check their accessibility. Making step by step changes we will address common errors and how to fix them.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ESL • CAT: TA)

Paul Yung

The popular English as a Second Language series Putting English to Work 1 and 2 are on Canvas with new interactive features.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ESL • CAT: DL)

Matthew Rhoads

The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate how instructional and technology coaches and leaders can collect and transform data to make coaching and instructional decisions. Ultimately, the goal is to support teacher instructional and technology integration growth as well as put teachers in positions to amplify student learning.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, PAC, SSS, TA)

Francisco Pinedo Jr. (w/ Christina Hyatt, John Fleischman)

The Digital Learning Guidance is a document that addresses the importance of digital literacy and learning to empower our students. The Digital Learning Guidance provides examples on how to implement digital learning in the adult education classroom. The Digital Learning Guidance is a document for both teachers and administrators in adult education.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, DL, OEA, SSS, TA)

Elisia Doonan

Are you ready to learn some new tips for all your learners who are challenged in the digital world. You will learn some practical ways to aid with vision, finger dexterity and focusing on task on the computer. If you bring your computer/laptop, you can even practice some techniques. The tips will range from keyboards to immersive reader. There will be many resources sited for more information also.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, TA)

Susan Coulter (w/ Susan Gaer, Debbie Jensen)

In this session, we will look at technology integration and some simple ways to increase student involvement and learning with Liz Kolb’s Triple E Framework. Participants will learn how they can easily add these activities to their current lesson plans. We will stress the importance of focusing on the learning goals first and the technology second. We will share a lesson plan and then show how we can add activities to ENGAGE, ENHANCE, and EXTEND the learning.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL)

Matthias Sturm (w/ Anthony Burik)

The Technology and Distance Learning for California Adult Education report provides an overview of distance learning in WIOA-funded adult schools and noncredit community college programs. We present preliminary findings from the 2021-22 report and invite participants to discuss online and blended learning as well as the impact of technology adoption in the delivery of program offerings as we look at the data. We also will reflect on the challenges and opportunities in a post-pandemic world.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, PAC)

Jennifer Gagliardi

Explore Adult Education online forums to access the latest developments and make your own contributions to our profession.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, TA)

Ruben Rodriguez (w/ Gunhye Oh, Patrick Yutronich, Dr. Carolyn Quetzál, Darren Kelley, Mimi Yang, Farzana Cassim, Johnathan Noel Rodriguez, Johnathon Wong, Chris Schaper, Barry Bakin)

Instructional Technology Teacher Advisors (ITTAs) at L.A. Unified Adult Education support teachers, students, administrators, and staff with the implementation and use of technology in instruction. This panel will cover the history of the position, responsibilities, and duties, project successes, strategies for implementation, and plans for the future.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, TA)

Jerry Yamashita (w/ Maria Carrasco)

An idea that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic response and eventually materialized into a job and a CTE pathway has now passed the two-year mark at Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools (HCCTS). The Digital Navigator initiatives at HCCTS have reimagined what student support services and upskilling look like for adult learners. Through various trials and tribulations, here is what the two-year journey has looked like and how it has impacted adult learners.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Karyn Ruiz (w/ Mitch Rosin)

Is it really easy to track and improve your students’ CASAS scores? Yes, it is! In this session, Karyn Crowe Ruiz from Visalia Adult School will explain how she uses just two TOPSPro Enterprise (TE) reports to monitor student learning outcomes and identify skill gaps that need remediating.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE • CAT: BHL, CRR, DL, OEA, PAC, TA)

Neda Anasseri

Join us for lunch. Enjoy a meal before heading into more sessions.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, CRR, DEA, DL, OEA, PAC, SSS, TA)

Katrina Tamura

Enhance integrated skills lessons and engage diverse student groups in shared learning goals with Buncee, a cloud-based multimedia tool. In this workshop, participants will experience the processes of building a multimedia presentation with Buncee and learn how the tool has been used to increase student engagement and showcase learning outcomes. Benefits, uses, and challenges will be discussed.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Audrey Dierdorff

Want to create professional slides, flyers, and social media posts? Canva is an easy to use, design tool with access to thousands of professional templates, images, and quality content. We will cover the basics of Canva starting with creating an account, selecting a template, design tools, and sharing your finished product. Anyone can create a free account or, if you have a district or school email address, you can sign up for the free education platform.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, TA)

Chris Vela Che

Join my workshop to learn how to make easy videos for your class using YouTube Shorts. In this workshop, you will learn how to create engaging and less-than-a-minute-length videos for your class. You will only need your cell phone to make YouTube Shorts with captions, text, music, backgrounds, and more. These YouTube Shorts are excellent to use on emails, Canvas announcements and discussions, onboarding students to your course, to recap a lesson, and more.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, SSS, TA)

Alisa Takeuchi

Take a tour of USA Learns' NEW Access America course, which helps immigrants integrate into U.S. society. This free course covers civic, workplace, linguistic, economic, and local integration topics and includes hundreds of multimedia elements that teach intermediate English and digital literacy skills. The wide range of topics includes life skills (e.g., banking, home safety), workplace (e.g., soft skills, getting a promotion), family (e.g., finding daycare, starting school), and more.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ESL • CAT: BHL, DEA, DL, OEA, TA)

Anthony Burik

OTAN works to negotiate the best free or reduced-cost special offers for online curriculum licenses and professional development resources suggested by our OTAN Advisory Committee and adult educators in the field. Attend this session to learn more about curriculum offers in different program areas that you might consider for use in your classroom. We will also explore some ways to integrate these resources in your instruction.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: DL, TA)

Jennifer Gagliardi

Participants will identify the latest U.S. Civics resources in the form of quizzes, mobile apps, textbooks, videos, podcasts, websites, online courses, and more. By adapting and incorporating these digital resources, participants can implement learning strategies appropriate for ABE, Adult Secondary, EL Civics, and Citizenship learners, blended learning, distance learning environments, or directed self-study.

(AUD: TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, TA)

Barry Bakin

The pandemic forced most institutions into 100% online instruction. Now, however, many courses are in-person only. But many institutions are trying to leverage the benefits of online instruction for their in-person courses. In this workshop, find out what’s working at North Valley Occupational Center as teachers experiment with Simultaneous instruction.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL)

Kevin Belcher

At TDLS 2018, CALPRO presented research on the value and potential persistence barriers of distance learning models for adult learners. Now, 5 years and many challenges, triumphs, and lessons later, we are asking with new eyes, “What instructional strategies are proven to motivate learners to persist in the distance learning environment?” Drawing from CALPRO’s 2021 Evidence to Action Research Brief, we will explore the latest research and persistence strategies gathered over the last 5 years.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: BHL, DL, OEA, TA)

Karyn Ruiz (w/ Mitch Rosin)

By utilizing the GED High Impact Indicators as well as the Assessment Targets and ged-aligned curricula, instructors can ensure that they are preparing their English and Spanish-speaking students for GED success.

(AUD: ADM, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE • CAT: BHL, CRR, DL, OEA, PAC, TA)

Melinda Holt (w/ TDLS Attendees)

A fast-paced session to watch or share educational technology tips with colleagues.

(AUD: ADM, STF, TEA • PGM: ABE, ASE, CTE, ESL • CAT: OEA, TA)