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Workshops & Continued Learning
Before you sign up, please note:
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All trainings are virtual
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Trainings are FREE to Community Literacy Members
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Trainings are $15 for non-members
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Email bria@litworks.org with questions
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Explore Social Justice Topics with Math & Graphs
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time: 5:30-7 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for members; $15 for all others
Facilitator: Janise Hurtig
Help your ABE and HSE/GED students make connections between math, graphs and charts, and their lives!
Our facilitator, Janise Hurtig, will show us how she infuses social justice topics and current events into her math lessons. Learn about how she finds sources for data sets, the language and vocabulary she focuses on to help students make sense of data, and the kinds of math problems she crafts to help students practice fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, and more– all while discussing social justice issues that are relevant to students’ lives.
This training is part of our Instructional Techniques series. Content is designed with tutors and teachers in mind, although everyone is welcome!
Queer Language in the Classroom
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 5:30-7 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for members; $15 for all others
Facilitator: Keighty Ward
Happy Pride, y'all! We're celebrating by talking about language and how using loving terminology to talk with people is an important part of a trauma-informed practice.
This training was created to support adult ed teachers and tutors in creating welcoming and safe learning spaces for their queer learners. Regardless of your learner, this training is meant to be a place to ask questions, try new ways of doing things, and build empathy.
We will discuss all those terms you're not sure how to use and how to create a welcoming classroom. We'll also talk about everyone's favorite: pronouns - how to use them, how to ask for them, and how to share them. And we'll offer some suggestions for introducing queer language into your ESL or ABE tutoring sessions and classrooms.
This training is part of our Program Support series. Content is designed with those working in adult education in mind, although everyone is welcome!
Popular Education & Student-Centered Learning
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Time: 5:30-7 pm (CST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Price: Free for members; $15 for all others
Facilitator: Bria Dolnick
The term popular education is often associated with the work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire. He developed an adult literacy model that envisions everyone in the classroom as a learner and a teacher, and education as a way to envision new possibilities for ourselves and for society.
There’s no one way to do popular education, and it’s all about the context you’re in. In this training, we’ll explore the basic principles and talk about ways you can incorporate popular education ideas into your teaching and tutoring. We’ll give you time to reflect on your own teaching context and we’ll model some tools, practices, and projects that have worked well for other adult education teachers and tutors.
This training is part of our Instructional Techniques series. Content is designed with tutors and teachers in mind, although everyone is welcome!