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Traditional assessments don’t always capture the full picture of adult learners’ progress. With the rise of AI and web-based tools, educators now have powerful ways to document learning, track growth over time and celebrate success.  This IPDAE Tech Tuesday webinar highlights practical strategies for using AI and digital tools to monitor and support adult language and literacy development. Participants will explore best practices from educators across Florida aligned with the 2025–2026 Florida Adult Education Curriculum Frameworks. They will also learn how to use data and feedback strategies to identify learning needs, inform instruction and recognize progress at every stage.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore AI and web-based tools that support tracking and analysis of adult learner language and literacy growth.
• Apply best practices from the field for integrating educational technology tools that align with learners’ goals, needs and standards-based instruction.
• Implement alternative assessment strategies such as portfolios and progress journals to demonstrate learning over time.
• Use feedback and reflection techniques to highlight growth, address learning gaps and celebrate achievement.
• Align technology-enhanced tracking methods with standards to strengthen instructional planning and learner persistence.

Date: January 20, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)

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In this interactive session, we’ll break down common myths that hold teachers back from embracing IET and share bold, practical strategies to seamlessly integrate workforce preparation with literacy instruction. Whether you’re already leading an IET course or simply want to infuse real-world skills into your teaching, you’ll walk away with tools, activities, and confidence to make instruction more relevant, engaging, and impactful for learners.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn how IET aligns with WIOA goals, explore ways to incorporate workforce preparation into existing classes, and walk away with practical, creative lesson strategies that blend academic, career, and technical skills.

Date: January 21, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)

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English language learning is not a passive process. It thrives when learners actively seek, shape, and manage their learning experiences. This webinar introduces adult educators to the Proactive Language Learning Theory (PLLT) (Papi & Hiver, 2024), a cutting-edge framework that places learner agency at the center of language development. Participants will explore the four key proactive behaviors, input-seeking, interaction-seeking, information-seeking, and feedback-seeking, and learn how to foster these behaviors in adult ESOL learners. Backed by research in SLA, cognitive psychology, and educational theory, the session offers practical strategies and tools that educators can use to help learners become active agents of their own progress.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the foundational principles of Proactive Language Learning Theory (PLLT) and its relevance to adult second language learners.
• Identify the four proactive learning behaviors—input-seeking, interaction-seeking, information-seeking, and feedback-seeking—and explain how each supports language growth.
• Recognize the role of learner agency, self-regulation, and motivation in fostering proactive engagement with language.
• Analyze practical, classroom-ready strategies that encourage proactive behaviors among adult learners, both in and beyond instructional time.
• Reflect on how to adapt instruction to promote a learner-centered, behavior-driven model of language acquisition.

Date: January 28, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)

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