Webinar - Real Places, Real Voices: Transforming ESL through Outdoor Learning
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Real Places, Real Voices: Transforming ESL through Outdoor Learning shows how stepping outside the classroom can make language learning more engaging and practical. In this session, you’ll learn how to design ESL activities in real community settings that help students build confidence and real-life language skills. You’ll also explore easy-to-use assessment tools to track progress during these outdoor lessons.
Learning Objectives:
Design and implement outdoor ESL activities that incorporate real-life community settings to enhance student engagement and language acquisition. Using formative assessment tools to monitor learner progress during outdoor experiential lessons.
Workshop - From Reading to Reasoning: Strengthening Adult Literacy and Math Through Evidence-Based, Contextualized Instruction (Marion)
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This interactive workshop equips adult education instructors with practical, evidence-based strategies to strengthen reading and math instruction. Participants will explore the Essential Pillars of Reading and the Florida ABE Math Strands, learn how to reduce learner guessing and apply real-world contexts to enhance comprehension and problem-solving skills. Instructors will leave with classroom-ready strategies and lesson ideas they can use immediately.
Date: Friday, February 13, 2026 (9:00am - 3:00pm ET)
Location:
Marion Technical College
1014 SW 7th Road
Ocala, FL 34471 View Location Map
Webinar - Multilevel Lesson Planning with AI and Web-Based Tools
Event Details:
Join this interactive IPDAE Tech Tuesday session to explore how AI and web-based tools can transform multilevel lesson planning in adult education. Participants will learn how to craft effective prompts, apply iterative AI strategies and integrate results into real-world teaching contexts. Whether you’re an ed-tech beginner or already experimenting with digital tools, this session will help you elevate lesson design, differentiation and learner engagement across ESOL, ABE and GED classrooms.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the fundamentals of AI prompting and web-based tools to support instructional planning in adult education.
Apply iterative prompting strategies and web-based tools to improve the quality and relevance of AI-generated content.
Evaluate sample prompts tailored to adult ESOL, ABE and GED instruction.
Use prompt sentence frames to generate AI-supported lesson ideas, materials and feedback tools adaptable to multiple proficiency levels.
In this webinar, the first in a three part series of the most essential algebra skills, we'll discuss the concept of substitution and how applications of substitution can unlock dozens of GED style and college prep concepts.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to link the concept of algebraic substitution to arithmetic simplification, activating students prior knowledge
Participants will learn to use the skill of substitution to unlock a variety of GED math style examples
Workshop - From Reading to Reasoning: Strengthening Adult Literacy and Math Through Evidence-Based, Contextualized Instruction (Polk)
Event Details:
This interactive workshop equips adult education instructors with practical, evidence-based strategies to strengthen reading and math instruction. Participants will explore the Essential Pillars of Reading and the Florida ABE Math Strands, learn how to reduce learner guessing and apply real-world contexts to enhance comprehension and problem-solving skills. Instructors will leave with classroom-ready strategies and lesson ideas they can use immediately.
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 (3:00pm - 7:30pm ET)
Location:
Ridge Technical College
Health Science, Building #12
7700 State Road 544
Winter Haven, FL 33881
Workshop - From Reading to Reasoning: Strengthening Adult Literacy and Math Through Evidence-Based, Contextualized Instruction (Highlands)
Event Details:
This interactive workshop equips adult education instructors with practical, evidence-based strategies to strengthen reading and math instruction. Participants will explore the Essential Pillars of Reading and the Florida ABE Math Strands, learn how to reduce learner guessing and apply real-world contexts to enhance comprehension and problem-solving skills. Instructors will leave with classroom-ready strategies and lesson ideas they can use immediately.
Date: Friday, February 27, 2026 (9:00am - 3:00pm ET)
Location:
South Florida State College
600 West College Drive
Avon Park, Fl. 33825
G-101 View Location Map
Contact:
Carol Pinzon
Sandra.Pinzon@southflorida.edu
Workshop - From Reading to Reasoning: Strengthening Adult Literacy and Math Through Evidence-Based, Contextualized Instruction (Orange)
Event Details:
This interactive workshop equips adult education instructors with practical, evidence-based strategies to strengthen reading and math instruction. Participants will explore the Essential Pillars of Reading and the Florida ABE Math Strands, learn how to reduce learner guessing and apply real-world contexts to enhance comprehension and problem-solving skills. Instructors will leave with classroom-ready strategies and lesson ideas they can use immediately.
Date: Friday, February 27, 2026 (8:30am - 2:30pm ET)
Location:
Orange County Public Schools
Career and Technical Education
11550 Lokanotosa Trail (OTC East Campus)
Orlando, FL 32817
Room 102A View Location Directions
