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OTAN Upcoming Activities – Week of 9/19

Posted on 09/16/2022

OTAN provides activities and resources to support our adult education colleagues. (All times below are PDT.)

  • September 19 to 23 is Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. Read our news item to learn more about the week and resources that you can use to highlight and share your adult learner successes as well as advocate for our field.

  • On Monday, September 19 at 1:00pm, CDE will present Eligible Training Provider List. Learn the ins and outs of the Eligible Training Provider List with Max Zepf, an Associate Governmental Program Analyst who is the Lead ETPL Coordinator for EDD Workforce Services Branch. For more information and to register: Eligible Training Provider List

  • On Monday, September 26 at 12:00 pm, OTAN will present High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), which serves as an alternative exam to earning a high school diploma. This special event will briefly discuss the HiSET program, its transition to PSI, and what it means for the future vision for HiSET. To register, HiSET's New Home

  • On Thursday, September 29 at 12:00pm, OTAN will present Q&A with a Canvas Expert for Teachers. This opportunity is being provided to all members of the California Distance Learning Cooperative (CDLC) where a Canvas Expert can be asked questions regarding generating reports, viewing teacher courses, and any other support questions you may have. For more information and to register: Q&A with a Canvas Expert for Teachers

  • The California Adult Education Digital Learning Guidance is now available! We are excited to share the Guidance and look forward to developing ways to support effective implementation of digital learning within adult education.

  • Read our news item to learn more about an OTAN course for adult educators coming up this fall: BEST Course

  • Interested in scheduling an OTAN training (online OR in-person) for your staff (including back-to-school)? Please reach out to us at support@otan.us to learn how we can help with your training needs.

  • Found or using a great tech tool that you'd like to share with other educators? OTAN is always looking for adult education folks to present online for us on a cool tech tool or tech-related topic. Reach out to us at support@otan.us - we'll be in touch!

  • Web “siting” of the week: Bilingual Glossaries provides a multilingual site for many global languages to scaffold English instruction in Algebra, Geometry, Language Arts, and Science to name a few. An indispensable resource for learning academic words in English.

Please contact us at support@otan.us or call our office at 916-228-2580 for more information! We are here to support you!

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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN220124 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.