 OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. All right, now I'm very happy to turn this over to Mary Ann Fadeli-McLeod, who is the... Mary Ann, I'm sorry, I can never remember your full title, but the director of our CalPro project. So take it away, Mary Ann. Thank you, Carolyn, and greetings all. I want to say thank you to CDE and our friends at OTAN for hosting the event and inviting CalPro once again to present at the event. My name is Mary Ann Fadeli-McLeod. I work for the American Institutes for Research, which runs CalPro on behalf of CDE and CalPro director is I think the most important part of my title at AIR and the work I do. I've been doing it since 2008 and believe passionately in the mission of CalPro. And Jim, is it okay if I share screen to go through my slide deck? I'm going to answer four. Yes. Okay, thanks, Melinda. Just a moment. And Melinda, since I know you're on, can we see my slide deck? Yes, we can. Okay, thank you very much. I'll just keep it in this mode as Carolyn did and go through some of what we're doing at CalPro and introduce those of you who are not familiar with the project to the project. CalPro stands for the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project. We're a state leadership project of the California Department of Adult Education Office. We have a mission, and that is to foster continuous program improvement through this through a comprehensive statewide system for professional development. And in short, I will say as, as you read through this slide, we're doing our job for you. We are here for you, we serve you. I very much take a servant mindset. I ask my staff to do so also. Our mission is to produce professional development, technical assistance, products and services that ultimately will help you do your job the way you want to do it and to your high quality standards and the high quality expectations of CDE. That is our sole purpose. And that's what we are obsessively focused on is understanding needs in the field in programs and consortia and offering PD that supports you in getting where you want to be. And our ultimate goal is the one that is we believe is shared by you and that's to enhance student learning gains and to help adult learners meet their goals as workers, family and community members and as lifelong learners. So we hope to be in that shared mission with you through all the work that we do. And we keep a very learner centered perspective at the heart of every of all of our PD. So now I'm going to take a few minutes to go through some of the highlights of the professional development we offer. Please reach out to us. A call we are have a Sacramento based office. And you can reach Cal Pro day at our org, you can reach me think my think my emails at the end if not I will put it right in the chat after my presentation. We want to hear from you we want to work with you. So let me go through what are some of the highlights of our work. This year we we do a lot and a few of the things we do are statewide institutes receive applications, and we conduct events that are usually high flex or hybrid based on our Sacramento office with online components. And the first that I think maybe most of most interest and most relevant is our administrative leadership Institute. So this year we seek new and inspiring administrators to participate in the Institute and California has had an investment in administrative leadership begin beginning in 1985 Cal Pro has been in existence since 2001 so 22 years. And we're proud to carry on that tradition and continually work to improve it. The Cal Pro adult administrative leadership we cover a range of topics and it's really about building skills for new admins to perform your jobs effectively. We have real bread and butter brass tack topics that we cover fiscal and personal management program marketing we owe implementation equity collaboration, which is the name of the game of we owe administration and instructional leadership to name but a few of the topics that we cover. The leadership Institute is a it takes place really over two years, the first year of the Institute and the application is out now this will go in the chat either Melinda will put it in or I'll put it in after. I will also work with our OTAN team to get this into your email inbox if you haven't already received it. We are right now accepting applications to this year's admin leadership Institute. It is your opportunity to go in depth in your own professional learning as a transformational leader and as a fiscal and management leader at your institution and in your consortium. You will be part of the Institute that is facilitated by seasoned administrators many who you know from professional organizations, other PD that maybe you've done, and it is a phenomenal opportunity to develop a peer group of new administrators and a network of really seasoned pros who've been doing this a long time and who have, I would say influence and really high profile in the field we're very grateful for them. After the first year of the Institute, which will be in part of it in our office part of it online. You'll receive up to a year of one on one coaching support. You'll begin to implement a number of the skills you'll learn along the way. So, it's usually a full house. We're going to assure that this application is open long enough so that you I believe it's due like November 2. Really encourage you to attend this as a new or aspiring administrator. A next, again, in terms of high interest the integrated education and training clinic. It will be a challenging program model to implement, but it is one that is about accelerating our learners transition into career credentialing and career credentialing programming and the workforce. There, it's a five month Institute, this one is all virtual, we wanted to really create a low threshold to participation. You can read the slide, it will be all virtual some of it is synchronous some of it is asynchronous. Oops. And the admin leadership Institute, you could do on your own. The it implementation clinic, you do with the team. So this would be ideal team includes us the program administrator. This is not one of your ABE ASC ESL staff and a CTE instructor, and it is obsessively focused on developing a plan for implementation of it programming and improvement of it programming. The topics we cover are listed here, and just like the admin leadership Institute, after you're you and your team go through the implementation clinic you'll receive up to another year of one on one coaching support from successful IET program administrators to help you put your IET program plan into an implementation phase with support. This is always a packed house. So if this is something you're receiving those EL healthcare funds, you're struggling and it is a struggle to implement IET it's not an easy, easy peasy program model. This is for you, we offer this clinic twice a year the fall application is live now we will also offer a spring implementation clinic I think we've been doing it for five years and to a year, and every year it's packed so please please. I'll make sure that that application some slide first slide of this is in this chat but it's also sent to your inbox. We want to see you there. Third implement third Institute we're conducting this year is our professional learning communities Institute we've been running this one for quite a long time. And we like you always seek continuous improvement. So it's always changing when we're trying to tweak it to be relevant. The Institute is multi day sessions so it's high flex, some face to face here in Sacramento, some virtual and coaching support throughout the year so in this institute you're going through the, going through it, making PLC plans, which are focused on in real time implementation during the year that you're in the Institute, and then you have a coach who's working with you throughout the year to implement those plans. I'll let you read the slide, we're expecting, you know, I think like, like anything in life, you will get as much out of it as as you put into it. So, we're, we look forward to our teams joining us again to be in the two day, two days, two or three days in December two or three days in May. So it's a hard time reading the slide without my glasses. But again, this is very much focused on a sort of brass tacks implementation making plans and putting them together. Here's the the run of show for the PLC Institute, a little bit of an office, little which will be high flex meaning you can participate virtually if you need to and we'll have tailored activities to make sure you're getting the most out of that. And then there's some virtual work application is here, I will make sure that this is a team effort again, and I'll make sure you get that in your inbox as well as this chat. Now, aside from the major institutes that we do, there is a range of PD that can be accomplished in shorter time horizon and is less intense. It's not just as high quality and is certainly as focused on implementation at the program or classroom level. As the big longitudinal institutes are. So, number one, we can come to you if you cannot for any number of good reasons you can't make it to the any of those institutes this year. We have a lot of plans in place to be able to serve you in your, your home home turf at your program or at your consortia. So we've been offering the Cal Cal pro workshops and institutes that you just email us or call us and we will find a facilitator and we will put them in your place. This is all the stuff will you call it is no cost to you, except some of your time. We will find a facilitator we will pay that facilitator, we will list the event on our event calendar so folks your folks consortia folks can register through us we will advertise it we will manage the registration. We'll make sure all the materials get there, including evaluation forms and then there's an email certificate of attendance for all participants. So that's the how now what can you expect. I'm going to go through a few of the topics that you can just again call us and please do call us please do email us we will get this in your shop. This year on Cal Pro we develop a new community of practice a PD Institute essentially done in a community of practice model on a select topic that is developed in conjunction with California Department of Ed, and Cal pros advised professional advisory board of 15. Seasoned administrators and practitioners in the state. So the big one this year new to us new to you is a community of practice on supporting student transitions to post secondary education and the workforce. We are really pleased with this Institute we're beginning to roll it out now to consortia and program, and it is about understanding where your learners are at developing plans in collaboration with the post secondary credentialing and workforce partners and creating very accelerated aligned pathways from your program to to our partner programs. Again, very learner centered approach. And we had so many phenomenal people who authored and advised on this so I hope you'll take us up and offer this at your consortium. And if this is not the one for you. Then we have this range of topics that, again, you can on kind of all the major color bread and butter and brass tacks of we owe a grant administration and required programming. This is most. There's a few, a few others that aren't in wide circulation but I hope that you would be slides will be available to you hope you go back to your program or consortia and say, what do we want to focus on our PD goals when you do your continuous improvement plan developing PD goals that there's something here that resonates with you and would be a just in time PD service to support you. And let's go on here. The institutes that I just pointed out our hybrid face to face and virtual. We also offer a range of strictly virtual online learning synchronous and asynchronous. As well as publications that you could download easy to download publicly available on the website and share them around. So the current publication, the one we produced last year is on culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and adult education. There are, there's about 30 research based briefs that are on the website. We also offer a set of virtual work rooms and what distinguishes these from say a facilitated online course or a self directed online course. It is self directed professional learning on a select topic that you can see in front of see before racial equity is our newest virtual work room and I would call it a sort of pick your own adventure. There is a curated set of resources that includes external links resources we didn't develop but maybe one of our state leadership project partners or an out of state partner produced or were nationally produced so high quality resources. And that you can then there's facilitated an online courses, and you can explore a topic in real time and go as deep or as cursory as, as you may want to go and please get these to your staff if there's something that resonates with you that you want to focus on in your program. So these are low barrier to participation. We also offer a set of self directed courses. Again, this is 24 seven. You do not have time during the day, something you could do at home and your computer on the couch. Our newest topics are teaching adult English learners principles and practices and effective writing instruction. This is a slide of all of our courses, a self directed courses, and they were designed to be, I think in large part I would call them introductory as you get new instructors who need to come up to speed and adult learning, to use the education practice. They can do this it'll take a few hours of their time and they'll get that one on one course in ESL ADE math instructional strategy so if you have part time instructors kind of new to the adult learning environment, this could be for them. We also offer facilitated online courses. This is the well summer and fall schedule. So these would be real time asynchronous. I'm sorry, synchronous so a facilitator who we've hired to go through a developed set of PD activities that are strictly offered online. So these would be relevant hopefully to you and to your staff. I've, I've introduced a lot of CalPro resources. We really really want to hear from you really want to work for you that is strictly what we are here to do. We develop our PD to be responsive. And so now I have a couple of questions for you if you would be so kind as to put into the chat. Any questions you have and I'm hoping Jim or Melinda if there is a question about CalPro would would let me know what it is. And we have two of them in the in the Q&A would you like to have those now. Absolutely. Okay first ones from Eric Crawford are CalPro's trainings offered on the local level is there a cost. Thank you Eric. No cost ever to you, the front from us so there would be no, here's how much this is. What is a cost is staff time if that's an issue for you so that would be the one piece we don't cover is the labor cost of actually participating but there is no cost in the service we provide ever for anything. And yes local, you can. Any one of the regional communities of practice that I pointed out and I think there's about 2530 topics I'll put them back on the screen. You can call us you can email us you could say here is our focus for the year. Can you get a facilitator here can you get materials here and the answer to that Eric is yes. So, work with your staff to determine PD goals, be doing that as part of your continuous improvement plan, I believe soon, and we can come to you. And Eric, if that's not a good answer you can follow up also Melinda will let me know. Next question is from Casey, I'm going to pronounce your name incorrectly last day this rights. Regarding the three sessions for the administrative leadership Institute are those identical sessions repeated multiple times unique independent sessions or consecutive comprehensive sessions where we must meet attend all three. I think that little rubric you just put together Casey. The third the continuous and comprehensive. We begin with the course of study that introduces a set of thematic and topical events for the facilitated and online portions, and they, they build and culminate specifically in your implementation work with your coach that follows the Institute. So, we would want you to attend all of the, believe as you said correctly, three face to face events, and also participate in the virtual work so it's not nothing's repeated. Okay, next up Dr. Latoya Brown. I'm not quite sure if this is a question or asking about a topic so she type topic, how to build effective and sustainable community partnership question mark. Yeah, I would say, Dr. Brown that for the administrative leadership Institute, that would be a major focus for the technical assistance. For you as fewer to participate. And if I under, can you repeat the question to make sure I'm sure how to build effective and sustainable community partnership question mark. Yeah, so that would be a feature of the administrative leadership Institute, it would certainly be a part of the integrated education and training clinic with a focus on those workforce side career credentialing side partners. And then, if I'm using partnership and collaboration and community broadly here and that might not be quite what you were intending for the new community of practice on successful student transitions, it would be about identifying those partner services in the consortium and in the community. And if that wasn't quite what you were aiming for please feel free Dr. Brown to to add follow up in the chat. Bradley's got a shout out for you. Shout out to Cal Pro we are finishing up a co-op this week here at Hemet Adult School for the Southwest, I'm sorry Southwest Riverside of Consortium. Thank you so much for this great training opportunity. We're happy that I'm. Thank you for that feedback. That means a lot and we're glad it's working out for you. And there are a few things in the chat I'm trying to scroll this is why we want you to kind of use the Q&A there folks, there's a Q&A button at the very bottom of your, your zoom screen. If you click on that another window will open up and then you can type in the Q&A I'm scrolling up and down on the chat because we've got a lot of things going here. Suzanne Webb having just completed the Leadership Institute I know the quality of your PD opportunities we plan to use as many as we can this year. Thank you. Hey, when you're doing this kind of session. I feel the love so thank you very much for that where that's what we aim to do. And we also accept criticism and critique and recommendations for doing our work better so always feel free to get in touch with me. If, if you think there's something we could do better, but I do appreciate that feedback. And again, we work hard to try and create relevant meaningful PD. And we listen so. Okay, next question from Elsa Magana. Mm hmm. I probably blew that one. If you already have completed the IET implementation. What is next. I would say if you have completed the IET implementation clinic, you should consider joining again. And I will say why, because it's hard to do it. And you could always be developing a new IET program with the new career credentialing partner on a new topic area. So maybe your focus before was HVAC, but your new topic will be healthcare. Great time there are if it's different partners, different considerations, different subject matter. It might be an ESL teacher, new ESL teacher. I'd say the implementation clinic is still for you. And the reason to consider doing it again is this coming year is the first year we're offering the coaching support by popular demand. So if you were to consider doing the IET and there's we have a lot of repeaters, we have some programs who have taken advantage of this a few times already so encourage you to do so and you would get that for the first time coaching support for a year after your experience in the clinic. It looks like it's all for the questions. There was a question regarding the presentation. And Marianne, if you don't mind, I'm going to answer that one. All of the presentations folks are going to be on the Canvas course, and they will also be eventually on the OAR site. So use that link that we gave you at the beginning of the presentation or the beginning of the session, the bit.ly. And I will post it in the chat here soon, but all of the presentations are going to be there you just click on the link when it gets there and boom, it'll open up for you. And you'll have everybody's current presentation. Oops, somebody's Melinda, it's me and I've just added it to the chat. There you go. Ask and you shall receive. Okay. Marianne, throwing it back to you. Thank you. I have a few minutes left. I will assure that this presentation will be available to you as Melinda said. The links for the applications will be available to you as well as the count. Visit us at www.calpro-online.org and you will see on the front page, the applications for each of the institutes and be able to quickly locate how to request a local community of practice at your program or at your consortia or how to register or have your staff register for any of our online stuff, the virtual work rooms, self-directed courses or facilitated online courses. If there's, if there's no more questions, then I just want to say thank you again to our fabulous colleagues at OTAN for always just doing a great job hosting. Thank you to our colleagues at California Department of Ed for, I would say, true leaders nationally in supporting professional development services for adult educators. In my role at American Institutes for Research, there's some other work I'm involved with, and I can say sincerely that there's no other state that has what California has and that is thanks to each of you. Your leadership and really a testament to, I would say, the cutting edge leadership of California Department of Ed in supporting professional development across the board.