Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This website provides free contextualized video lessons and resources for adult educators and adult students.

This compendium describes five innovative practices in bridge and integrated education and training (IET) programs as selected by the  Advancing Innovation in Adult Education project.

The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library is a curated collection of resources to guide the integration of personal and workplace success skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design.

This compendium describes the four innovative practices in secondary
credentialing selected from the Round 1 Advancing Innovation in Adult
Education applications.

This resource provides an outline for how to implement technology tools that are standards-based and meet the instructional needs of adult educators and learners.

The Self-study Guide for Evidence-Based Practices in Adult Literacy Education helps adult literacy education providers collect, organize, and analyze evidence they can use to plan for and improve program implementation and performance.

This policy brief identifies common elements of developmental education policies at the system and state levels: college readiness assessments, assessment cut scores, multiple measures for course placement, innovative course models and reporting systems.

This module focuses on the task analysis process in relation to content demands, thinking skills, and language use.

This module digs deeper into the English Language Proficiency Standards using the last two steps in the four-step task analysis process that was introduced in Analyzing Student Tasks in Relation to Content Demands, Thinking Skills, and Language Use - Module Two.

This handbook is a practical guide that supports the delivery of quality distance education programming.

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.

Supplemental videos and materials for Advance Unit 3, designed to help adult educators implement the instructional advances required by CCR standards. 

Supplemental videos and materials for Advance Unit 3 - Math, designed to help adult educators implement the instructional advances required by CCR standards. 

This module introduces the English Language Proficiency Standards for Adult Education and provides an understanding of why and how the standards were selected and how they are organized.

Money Smart for Older Adults is an instructor-led training developed to teach older adults and caregivers of older adults about elder financial exploitation and why they may be at risk.

A resource for state and local program leaders looking to support the effective implementation of state academic content standards.

This report details the progress of all 50 states and the District of Columbia towards achieving the Workforce Data Quality Campaign’s (WDQC) 13-point State Blueprint for state data systems.

IMET is a tool for evaluating a comprehensive textbook or textbook series for alignment to the Shifts and major features of states’ challenging academic content standards.

Achieve the Core’s Aligned is a publication dedicated to the conversation about Common Core aligned instructional materials.

BetterLesson provides a well-organized collection of teacher-created mathematics lessons that address each of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics.

CCR Standards-based professional development (PD) English Language Arts/Literacy materials made for adult educators.

CCR Standards-based professional development (PD) Math materials made for adult educators.

The English Language Arts/Literacy Advanced Units contain three components: a facilitator’s guide, an annotated PowerPoint presentation, and participant materials.

The Math Advanced Units contain three components: a facilitator’s guide, an annotated PowerPoint presentation, and participant materials.