PAST TWEED SESSIONS
Planning to Thrive in 2025
Discover the importance of setting targeted goals and gain practical tools to succeed in the year ahead.
Addressing Adult Learning Needs
Discover strategies that target measurable skill gains and program retention from the Essential Education Adult Learning Needs Professional Learning Community findings.
Taking on Tech
Discover how to effectively incorporate technology skills into instruction and learn tangible strategies to boost students' digital literacy skill gains.
Cultivating Confidence
Discover how to facilitate self-directed learning and leadership roles in the classroom to boost student success, attendance, and outcomes.
Individualizing Instruction
Discover how differentiation strategies respect adult learners’ diverse backgrounds and goals, leading to effective skill acquisition and ultimately facilitating both personal and professional growth.
Correctional Education
Discover insights, best practices, and engaging tools to address the evolving needs and challenges of correctional education.
Overcoming Challenges
Discover strategies to support specific learning differences, improve measurable skills gains, and keep students on track for success.
No More Fake News
Discover why media literacy is invaluable for the workforce and becoming informed citizens, voters, parents, and change-makers.
Get a Job!
Discover how contextualizing instruction and infusing job skills into your curriculum can fast-track learning and keep students motivated and on track toward program completion.
Understanding Adult Literacy
Discover strategies to address learning gaps and enable your students to progress toward measurable gains and skill development.
Tackling Test Prep
Discover tips to empower students to gain confidence and move closer to completing their HSE goals.
Best Practices
Discover effective strategies for improving student progress, facilitating growth, and completing programs.
Go for the Goal
Discover how setting clear, measurable goals enables adult students to move from where they are today to where they want to be tomorrow.
Great Expectations
Discover practical strategies for building a solid foundation for student success, motivation, and skill mastery.
Communication Connections
Discover how to integrate communication-building strategies into a standard adult academic curriculum.
Now I Get It!
Discover how tapping into adult students' personal experiences and learning needs “sets the stage” for important moments of clarity and mastery of content.
What’s the Big Idea?
Discover how to help students build a broad background knowledge base that supports reading comprehension, fluency, and application of new or unfamiliar material.
Summer Reading List
Discover a wealth of proven and inspiring resource recommendations with real-world applications to include on your summer reading list.
A Conversation about #AIforAdultEd
Discover how AI is impacting adult education and innovations that have emerged from Rachel Rigg’s work at World Education.
The New Superpower
Learn tools to impact and improve problem-solving success in and out of the classroom.
Mind Matters
Learn practical tools and activities to help adult students boost academic gains and overall health and well-being.
Retaining Teachers
Learn how to help your instructors feel supported, encouraged, and appreciated to promote teacher well-being for instructional longevity.
Empathetic Andragogy
Learn how to use trauma-informed teaching solutions to promote student success, attendance, and program completion.
Engaging Gen Z
Learn responsive strategies to meet the learning differences of your Generation Z students.
Classroom Connections
Learn the impact of peer relationships between adult students and how to deepen classroom connections.
SEL Solutions
Learn about current SEL research and how to help students build important life skills.
Bridging Education & Employability
Learn to tap into students' interests and career goals so they stay engaged and motivated in class.
Empowering Adult Learners
Learn to help students develop a positive mindset to overcome present obstacles and achieve their goals.
No More Empty Seats
Learn to create an emotionally safe environment to encourage your students to keep coming back to class.
Retention Anchors:
Growing Professionally
Explore how continuing education impacts student retention initiatives.
Retention Anchors:
Measuring Progress
Learn to measure students’ skills gains and celebrate wins to support student retention.
Retention Anchors:
Getting Connected
Learn how to create and leverage classroom relationships to support student retention.
Retention Anchors:
Creating Culture
Learn about classroom culture and strategies to shift it to improve student retention.
Retention Anchors: Capitalizing on the Now
Learn to apply Just-in-Time learning in your classroom to improve student motivation and retention.
Retention Anchors: Knowing Your Audience
Learn the characteristics of each adult student demographic and how they affect student retention.
5 Ways to Move From Examples to Exemplary
Learn to make examples exemplary to meet adult learners' needs and improve classroom engagement.
Differentiation for Adult Learners
Learn research, strategies, and assessments to provide effective differentiation for adult learners.
How to Spot and Support
Student Learning Differences
Learn to identify and accommodate common learning differences in your adult students.
9 Instructional Needs
of Adult Learners
Learn educational research and strategies
to meet the key needs of adult students.
Building Successful
Student Relationships
Learn to create solid classroom relationships that enhance student outcomes.
Digital Toolbox
Learn tech tools and resources to strengthen your digital literacy skills for classroom instruction, assessment, and communication.
Relax, Refresh, Recharge!
Teaching is fulfilling but it can be tough. Check out our tips and resources to renew your teaching mind and recharge your spirit.
10 Qualities of a Great Adult Educator
Adult educators come from a variety of backgrounds. We've identified 10 qualities that make a great educator.
Talk Less, Say More
Learn how to sharpen your listening skills in order to inspire and motivate student success in and out of the classroom.
Overcoming Job Search Challenges
Help your students master the skills necessary to find and keep a job that is a good fit for them.
Teaching Civil Discourse
Help your students learn the art of good dialogue by creating a plan and modeling civil discourse in your classroom.
So, You Want to Argue?
Help your students analyze, research, and think critically before developing their own view on complex issues.
Checking for Understanding
Review different assessment types, ideas, and strategies that will help you make important instructional decisions.
Brain Games
Learn to increase student engagement, motivation, and effort in your classroom by implementing games into your instruction.
Keeping Students Engaged
See how to turn existing content into engaging lessons that still target the skills to keep students learning and moving forward.
Setting Boundaries
Learn how to maintain professional relationships with your adult ed students by creating appropriate boundaries up front.
Accelerate Student Learning
Find out what to teach and when to teach it so students can move through Educational Functional Levels (EFL) quickly.
Getting Students Unstuck
Learn to use strategies that help confused students get unstuck and give them the chance to show what they know.
First Impressions
Learn about the key elements of making a powerful first impression and using that to capitalize on long-term success.
Developing Perseverance
Learn how you can help build the perseverance muscle students need to achieve their goals
Developing Confidence
Learn what teaching strategies are successful when trying to build up student confidence.
Developing Responsibility
Learn what teaching strategies are successful when trying to create responsible students.
The Inquisitive Classroom
Learn strategies and techniques for managing curiosity and exploration in your adult learners.
Laughing for Learning
Learn why humor is such an effective tool in engaging adult learners and how to integrate it into your classroom.
Unpacking Part-Whole Relationships
Learn how to integrate learning opportunities to help students build a solid foundation in unpacking part-whole relationships.
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