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Last Chance for 2 Part PTSD and Trauma

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PTSD & Trauma Workshops Cost: $40.00November 20th & 21st 9 am – 1pm We all know the frustration of not being able to connect with a learner during a class or a tutor session due to emotional...
Tips and Tools for Successful Conversation Groups

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Tips and Tools for Successful Conversation Groups Conversation groups and classes can be a versatile and effective way to develop language skills for newcomers. Participants will learn about the benefits...
OER (Open Education Resource)

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In this workshop, you will be guided in how to use a free, online, interactive English language textbook in your ESL classes. You will gain an understanding of how the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB)...
New Resource from Shift Management - Multilingual Video Stack

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Shift Management is featuring a new resource called Multilingual Video Stack, a library of video resources for English language teachers, employment counsellors, and agencies working with newcomers, schools...
ESL Tutor Training

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ESL Tutor Training Participants will learn to design task-based lessons that address learner interests and needs while providing language input, opportunities to practice language skills, and feedback. Event...
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities

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June holds a number of in-person and online learning and connecting opportunities! Don't miss out! JUNE: June 10 CALP Tutor Training (Bellevue) Invite your tutors to come to Bellevue. This session will...
Case Study - Taber & District Learner Support Services Pilot Project

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Jane Brenner is the Executive Director of the Taber & District Community Adult Learning Association, and was the lead on a Learner Support Services pilot project. Follow Jane and the team of southern...
Plain Language Marketing Brochures from Maskwacis Cultural College

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Moving Forward Looking Back - Summer Library Initiatives This summer we had a team of five summer students and they worked on the Moving Forward Looking Back initiatives. With lots of conversations,...
Ways to use the Social Justice Approach

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The social justice approach does not always have to be confrontational. In fact, it is often difficult to see where social justice ends and transformative learning begins, as seen below. We can include...
Alberta Teacher's Association: First Nations, Metis and Inuit resources

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Long list of resources under the following headings: General Curriculum Resources Dictionaries and Language Resources Indigenous (World-Wide) Resources Journals Math Resources Metis Museums and...
Holding Safer Space ~ Gathering Stones

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I was gathering some items in my office for a project, and as I moved around my space I found an assortment of rocks. They were different sizes and shapes but all tied to a memory, a place, a time....
Holding Safer Spaces: Open Circles

https://calp.ca/newsletters/calp-connections-september-2022.htm#article-1343
“What does it mean to hold space for someone else? It means that we are willing to walk alongside another person in whatever journey they’re on without judging them, making them feel inadequate, trying...
Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Seeing the dark side of literacy

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We have had many statistical studies about adult literacy since the mid-1970s. Some have been national, some provincial, others have been international. Over the past almost 50 years these studies have...
Towards a Better Future

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Hannah Fingeret has eloquently captured the prevailing attitude we need to change in our society. As she stated: “For most of our society, it is difficult to conceptualize life without reading and writing...
The Community Association for Lasting Success

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strengthening families & building communities.
Writing Out Loud

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Through a collection of fun exercises and insightful chapters, Writing Out Loud makes even the most reluctant writers want to put pen to paper. Each idea and exercise is laid out with easy to follow steps,...
Examples of the Social Justice Approach

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One of the clearest examples of the Social Justice approach I have heard was an incident told to me by Hannah Fingeret. She was teaching an adult literacy class in one of the poorer sections of New York...
Plain Language CALP Websites: How does yours measure up?

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Help Please! This fall, a CALP staff member asked me: “We are in the process of revamping our website, and were wondering if you had any suggestions of some good ones that you have come across?” How...
Say Hello to Adult Learning Alberta!

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This week's guest blog post is by Cheryl Dezall. If you are not familiar with this little gem, let me introduce you to an innovative new website for adult learners (and us). In the spring of 2020 a group...
Psychological First Aid (Taber 2024)

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Registration for this training is now closed. This course will support CALP-funded staff, volunteers and system partners to develop a personal understanding of the effects of stress, loss, trauma...