Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This guide summarizes considerations, tools, and examples that can be used by state and facility administrators and instructors as they develop and implement IET programs in jails and prisons.

This resource explores the technical, instructional, and other components necessary for expanding the use of technology in correctional education programs.

The Integrated Education and Training Design Toolkit guides users through a team-based approach to develop customized IET solutions that address the needs of adult learners and local businesses through four iterative phases: Research and Assess, Design and Plan, Develop and Implement, and Evaluate and Improve. Train-the-Trainer materials are also available to support the IET Design process. See the abstract for links.

The TBCAE Toolkit was developed to assist adult education program administrators, program  staff, and state staff in planning and implementing text messaging that supports adult education learners’ program participation and attainment of education outcomes.

This toolkit provides communication techniques for facilitating a healthy living program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

These resource sheets for administrators and educators are part of the Power in Numbers initiative funded by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). Power in Numbers aims to help adult students receive the higher-level math skills they need to succeed. This resource provides administrators and educators with an understanding of what open educational resources (OER) are, why they are useful and how to get started using them.

This online resources guides instructions on how to support Black, LatinX, and Multilingual students to a path for math equity.

This toolkit contains tutorials, templates and sample lessons that help adult educators create documents that use hypertext to help students learn key concepts independently.

This online evaluation toolkit is designed to help financial educators understand evaluation concepts and efficiently apply them to document the impact their educational programs have on students.

This open-access version of the Northstar Digital Literacy Project assessments can be used for assessing digital literacy skills to inform instruction.

A collection of in-depth personal finance, courses, articles, calculators, and tips for money managment.

The documents in this toolkit provide guidance to assist healthcare employers and other workforce development stakeholders register and implement healthcare apprenticeship programs.

This checklist is designed as a work aid to help determine the extent to which a newly developed or existing program meets the requirements for career pathways in section (3)(7) of WIOA.

This webinar, published by the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) reviews a variety of free technology resources that can be integrated into the adult education classroom. 

The newest revision to the Career Pathways Toolkits includes writeable worksheets that can help State and program teams develop, maintain, and enhance career pathways systems and programs. 

This toolkit offers information about policies and legislative templates that states can enact to improve data infrastructure and promote data use.

This collection of guidelines, tools and resources is designed to help education providers and their partners create a reentry education continuum for formerly incarcerated adults.

The Career Pathways Planner offers a framework for adult education state leaders to use in supporting local adult education providers in the development of a local/regional career pathways systems.

Your Money, Your Goals is a set of financial empowerment materials to help people meet their financial goals by increasing their knowledge, skills, and resources.

The Toolkit features v​ideos and supplemental materials to help teachers write and select well-designed assessments.

The Toolkit helps policymakers at the state and local level implement practical evidence-based solutions that increase the number of graduates who earn high-quality degrees and certificates required to compete for good jobs in the 21st century global economy.

The Policy to Performance Toolkit is designed to provide state adult education staff and key stakeholders with guidance and tools to use in developing, implementing, and monitoring state policies and their associated practices that support effective state ABE to postsecondary transition systems.

This toolkit, a companion piece to the Breaking Through Practice Guide, provides educators with resources and strategies to help low-skilled adults through the use of contextualized learning. 

This guidebook of best practices in California green jobs consists of four well defined sections. 

This toolkit is intended to help guidance and career counselors to better assist high school students with disabilities to transition into postsecondary education and employment.