This page provides links to videos relevant to adult educators in California. The goal of this video library is to increase individual adult educators? access to professional development on emerging priority topics.

Click on the categories below to access individual videos.

New Adult Education Administrators Orientation

This page features a series of 17 presentations from the New Adult Education Administrators Orientation, held in Sacramento, California, on Oct. 31–November 1, 2011. The goal of this one- and-a-half-day institute was to orient recently appointed adult education administrators on a variety of topics. Details

California College Transition Summit

This page features a series of eight presentations from the California College Transition Summit Meeting, held in Sacramento, California, on October 29, 2009. Presentations made by national and state adult education leaders (including U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Dr. Brenda Dann–Messier) addressed the compelling economic and social need to strengthen college transition services to adult basic education students and provided examples in practice of the approaches to developing those services.

WASC Guidelines and Quality Indicators

In collaboration with the California Department of Education, CALPRO presented a Webinar updating Western Association of Schools and Colleges ( WASC) policy and guidelines for adult education programs. Presenter Lee Duncan, Ed.D., Associate Executive Director of WASC, highlighted new policies and new guidelines for accrediting adult education programs.

Webinar Series

Instructors Forum

CALPRO launched the Instructors Forum in Fall 2010 as a new initiative for teachers. The purpose is to convene practitioners from across California in an online environment and highlight exemplary instructional practices.

Adult Education Research Webinars

As part of its Research-Based Practices Initiative, CALPRO launched the Adult Education Research Webinar Series in Fall 2010. The goal is to engage practitioners and researchers on topics relevant to adult educators in California.

Adult Education Administrators Forum

The Adult Education Administrators Forum provides a venue for adult education administrators to critically engage with their peers on topics that affect the development, management and sustainability of their adult education programs.

Best Practices in Action

Teaching ESL to Adults: Classroom Approaches in Action

This page features a link to the New American Horizons Foundation Web site, which produced a three–volume video series for adult ESL instructors, titled Classroom Approaches in Action. Each of the eight teacher–training videos in the series runs approximately 30 minutes, demonstrates effective teaching practices with classroom learners, and features interviews with instructors. Details

Evidence–Based Reading Instruction For ABE Learners

This page features a series of seven videos of evidence–based reading instruction (EBRI) for intermediate adult basic education learners. The videos include interviews with students, teachers, and administrators who speak about the benefits of EBRI and demonstrate the steps of direct, explicit instruction in ABE classes.