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Workshops & Continued Learning

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  • All trainings are virtual

  • Trainings are FREE to Community Literacy Members

  • Trainings are $15 for non-members​

  • Email bria@litworks.org with questions

 

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Engaging Critically with AI: Introducing Our AI Policy

Date: Thursday, July 16, 2026
Time: 1 - 2:30 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for everyone
Facilitator: Literacy Works Staff

At Literacy Works, we've spent a lot of time thinking about how Generative AI fits into our values and workflow. After many months of research and collaboration, we're excited to share our AI policy with you all. In this webinar, Literacy Works staff will share why we decided to create an AI policy and the things we considered (and debated) as we developed it. We hope this will give you some ideas for how to have this conversation where you work. 

 

Join us to:

✅ Identify reasons why it’s important to have an AI policy
✅ Recognize elements to include in your AI policy
✅ Explore resources and guiding questions to develop your own AI policy

 

This webinar is for anyone who is curious about developing an AI policy. 

Teach Math With Real-World Data

Date: Thursday, July 24, 2026
Time: 5:30 - 7 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for members; $15 for non-members
Facilitator: Janise Hurtig

In Janise’s GED/HSE-prep math class, Thursday’s math class is referred to as “data Thursday.” Every Thursday she brings a worksheet of word problems she has created based on graphs, charts, tables, and number stories focusing on social justice-related issues the students have identified as important to them: visual data about AAPI Heritage Month, increases in carbon emissions around the world, or the politics of the World Cup are some recent examples.  

 

The problems Janise creates focus on math skills needed to make sense of data, including finding averages or comparing fractions and percentages. The purpose of these math activities is both to improve math skills for the GED test and to develop the competence needed to interpret real world issues that adult learners care about.

 

In this training, Janise will take you through the process of finding useful sources for teaching GED and pre-GED level data math, and give you guidance on how to write questions that help students practice data-related math skills AND critical literacy. 

 

If you attended Janise’s training on exploring social justice topics with math and graphs in June, think of this training as a part two of that training, with a deeper dive into math concepts and how to teach them.

This training is part of our Instructional Techniques series. Content is designed with tutors and teachers in mind, although everyone is welcome!

Build English Literacy Skills With the Language Experience Approach

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2026
Time: 5:30 - 7 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for members; $15 for non-members
Facilitator: Bria Dolnick

Here’s how the Language Experience Approach (LEA) works: a teacher/tutor writes down what students say about an individual or shared experience, students practice seeing and reading words that they already know orally, and then their words serve as a text for other reading and writing activities. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking are integrated into activities  that are personal and meaningful. It’s a great method to have in your teaching toolbox!

 

In this training, we’ll model how to lead different kinds of LEA experiences and give you plenty of time to practice. Get ideas for follow up activities you can do with student-generated texts to further strengthen students’ reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. Whether you’re new to LEA or would like to develop and diversify the ways you use LEA with students, this training will get you ready to try out new ways of using this approach in your teaching context.                   

This training is part of our Instructional Techniques series. Content is designed with tutors and teachers in mind, although everyone is welcome!

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