 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Good morning everyone and happy Friday. My name is Leith Williams and I'm here together with my D-LAC team member, Susan Roush. Next. So Susan and I are both ESL teachers. We might say seasoned ESL teachers. I'm also the ESL program coordinator. And besides Susan and myself, we also have on our team our MAE director, Susan Murphy, who has been very supportive of us with our journey with D-LAC. Martinez Adult Education is located in Martinez, California, about 20 or so miles as the crow flies from San Francisco. Martinez Adult Education is a small but mighty school. We have in 2019-2020 we had a student enrollment of about 1,300 students and 200 ESL students approximately. We have besides ESL, we have ABE program, the high school diploma program and the CTE program. Go ahead. So speaking of CTE, our CTE coordinator Bruno Sablan is also part of our onsite D-LAC team. He's one of our Canvas administrators at our school and he's also teaching our IET intro to financial services entrepreneurship class. Co-teaching with Susan as our ESL instructor. Also we have Amy Wallace who is our ESL program assistant and as I say there she really is the glue that holds our department together. She's a great support for both our students and also our ESL staff. So about a month ago we opened our school up to in-person classes and we also have, as you see on the right slide there, we have a food pantry. We've partnered with our local food bank and we've been supporting our students and families and community members since September with a drive through food pantry pickup. So in these slides on the left you can see some an ESL class with some of our in-person students studying in the classroom. And we also on the left right, excuse me, is our WIOA computer lab and we've been fortunate to have gotten permission from our local health officials and the school district to have opened up our testing lab since last fall. So we've had students come in to do their CASIS testing and we're also a high set test center. So we've had students taking the high set as well with, you know, the proper safety protocols. Next. So many of our classes are on Zoom but we are having our students come in one day a week for in-person classes and some of the teachers are experimenting with simultaneously having students on Zoom and in the class at the same time. So on the on the right, you can see some of the technology that we have in our classrooms with the wall display screen and the mobile webcam and all connected to the teacher's desktop along with the docus camera. So it's, we're piloting it, it's a work in progress, but yeah, some teachers are doing very well with that. Go on. Next. So we survey our ESL students every term just to check in with them to see how they're doing with their online classes and their Canvas LMS. So this survey actually we just did this week. So as you can see the devices that our students have, majority of them have laptops and some, you know, as we know, use their smartphones along with other devices. So that helps inform us about their technology at home. Next. And in this survey, we also want to find out their needs as far as their technology and tech skills. So as you can see in this survey, it's cut off, but the one that has five students is about accessing and using Canvas. And then no surprise number, the second one with nine students, they need help with submitting their homework on Canvas. So those help us understand how we can best support our students with technology help. Next. So this is our DLAC goal. So we started with the title blended ESL for all. So we're hoping by the end of this year that to have 75% of our ESL students enrolled in blended classes. And we believe that, you know, tightly integrating the online LMS Canvas with the in person face to face, be it zoom or in person classes. And we believe that will help with their persistence and increasing their speaking and reading and writing skills, which will consequently increase their costs as test scores and yield civics results. So go on. Susan, I think you're next. Hi. We want to say a great shout out and thanks to destiny and the ideal one to one course. We have with with the help of the course stayed within our framework to develop our site plan and stayed focused. We've discovered various ways to do new things and helpful tools and strategies as well as we've been able to collaborate with other DLAC members to make this happen. Accomplishment so far, as Leif had mentioned earlier, Amy is our glue and she has gone to town and providing us great, wonderful tools for online registration and orientation, both in Canvas and for Canvas and for Google. She's made technology, digital skills survey and I made a teacher share desk, which I'm going to show with you just briefly. Hi, real quickly. I want to show you the teacher share desk that we have created or I have created for our teachers. So basically, it's just a through or announcements through zoom and I'll just scroll through it. You can kind of see the different things that we have. I created this. I got the idea from Lauren Anton who was in the previous DLAC cohort and I work with her at Mount Diablo Adult Education. This is a place where I can put things and find them like a library, as well as easy retrieval. All the teachers in our ESL department are added as teachers so they can add things to this as well as take things and put in their own class. So this is basically what we have done to keep our things in order and accessible online. I interviewed a student of mine and I'm not going to be able to show you the whole interview, but I wanted to show part of that. So this is Susan Roush and I skip ahead to start right here. Tell her I want to take this class and they gave me this class. Awesome. And how was learning the canvas or learning management system? Yeah, Canvas is it was difficult for me, but now I enjoyed a lot and yeah, it was convenient for me. Convenient. Okay. And speaking about convenience in the future, if you had a choice to go to class in the face-to-face learning in the classroom on campus or taking a class on Zoom, in both cases we would probably use the learning management system canvas. But which would you prefer and why, either to come to school or to learn on Zoom? Although I enjoyed a face-to-face a lot because I take a previous class with Miss Susan, but I can't try you and I have a more responsibility at my home. I want to go for Canvas and for Zoom session, I enjoy the Zoom session a lot. Okay. So that's very convenient for you because you can't drive, right? Yeah. Okay. Well, I want to say thank you so much for letting me interview you and we appreciate having you at our school. And thank you. Thank you, teachers, for giving us this opportunity and thank you, Martina Zedart Education Center, to support us like that. Hi, this is Susan Rausch and I'm from Martina. Okay. Next slide. Okay. So Payal in the previous part, she had mentioned that she was in four of her classes. So this is one of the classes, the basic computer skills for ESL learners. It's actually taught by a CTE instructor. And we've had this year two sessions, I believe, of eight students each time on campus. In addition, this is just a picture of the module that we have for the Intro to the Financial Services and Entrepreneurship course that Bruno and I are teaching. Payal is also in this course. We have a natural collaboration. As I mentioned, I also work at Mount Diablo Adult Education and Marin, who is a previous D-Lacker, is working over there. So she has shared with us the community resources for Contra Costa County newsletters that she has created. And I have shared with her information that we have gleaned from our search community emergency response training lunch and learn series sessions that our communication skills class attended this spring. Here are some links that we will share further about, you know, that you can get to to see more about what we've done. And how have we used the D-Lack virtual skill training sessions? Well, we want to say, first of all, thanks so much to Blair Roy for coaching us and helping us with team building and communication skills. And we also want to put a shout out to our director, Suzanne Murphy. Thank you for setting the culture for change and learning. Knowing that, especially this year, we're in a big, huge building program in terms of rebuilding the way we teach. And we're making adjustments and trying new ideas as we pilot Canvas or our learning new teaching methods. And we have great support in knowing that we are learning and we can always do better next time. So we appreciate that. Also, we want to have a shout out to Dr. Porter. Thank you for encouraging us and finding out what our strengths and our weaknesses are. So Susan, Leith and Blair are all working together within our strengths that we've learned from Dr. Porter. We, like everybody else, have had challenges and time is one of the big ones. Also, technology challenges. Most of the time when Leith and I are meeting with Blair, it's always, how do you do this or how do we, you know, get over this challenge? And not only are we having challenges, but our students and then us, of course, instructing our students in that piece. Because we've spent a lot of time on technology challenges, we have lost a lot of students and haven't been able to reach out to them because we're dealing with the technology issues. So that has been a challenge. We have also spent a lot of time with our students encouraging them to return to school for testing and on face-to-face learning. We have made several changes in the past year. Transitioning at the first, we, with the pandemic, most of our teachers went to Google Classroom. And then in June, we started with the Canvas LMS and implementing the CASIS and the remote testing. That's been a big, huge challenge that Amy has continually worked and improved upon. We have also purchased new technology for our classrooms and Leith, I believe, is on. So in our next steps, as part of our action plan, we plan to develop a, you know, start small and develop a model of a blended ESL class and what it looks like. We're also going to work on some teacher-student, you know, templates for an interview assessment for one-on-one to check in with our students and also a teacher-student agreement of the expectations of being in the blended class. And also, of course, professional development for ESL staff with implementing a blended learning class and, of course, developing an in-person student digital literacy training and, of course, all of us are trying to, you know, market to the community and recruit to students lost during the pandemic. Next. To help us understand what our students, our teachers, excuse me, our ESL teachers' strengths and weaknesses are with our technology skills, we had a look at our SIPP, our community, I'm sorry, Continuous Improvement Plan teacher assessments. And, you know, this graph shows blue is weakness over here and adequate is green. So, you know, looking at this, we can kind of have an idea where we can focus our efforts to help train our staff with integrating technology into their classes. Next. So, in summary, we feel good about where we are with our site plan and where we're going. We have a good idea of the next steps, and we look forward to learning more from DLAC next year. And we know it will help us with the implementation of our site plan. So, thank you, everyone.