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2014 Adult Education Summer Conference at a Glance
Sunday, June 15
3:00 pm 7:30 pm Registration Kensington F, Embassy Suites
Monday, June 16
8:30 am 10:00 am General Session Palisades Ballroom
10:00 am 11:00 am Visit Exhibits Palisades South
11:00 am 12:15 pm Breakout Sessions
12:15 pm 1:15 pm Lunch on Your Own and Visit Exhibits
1:15 pm 2:30 pm Breakout Sessions
2:45 pm 4:00 pm Breakout Sessions
4:30 pm 6:30 pm SCAACE Awards & Silent Auction Palmetto Dunes, Hilton
Tuesday, June 17
8:30 am 10:00 am General Session Palisades Ballroom
10:00 am 11:00 am Focus on Exhibits Palisades South
11:00 am 1:00 pm Vendor Showcase & Lunch Palisades ABC
1:15 pm 2:30 pm Breakout Sessions
2:45 pm 4:00 pm Breakout Sessions
Wednesday, June 18
8:30 am 9:45 am Adult Ed Directors Breakfast Atlantic View II
10:15 am 11:45 am General Session Palisades Ballroom
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Adult Education Sessions
Hilton Palisades
Monday, June 16
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Room: Palisades D
Using Twitter for Adult Ed PD
Brett Taylor, RAETAC 5/Rock Hill Adult Education
Twitter, a tool to keep up with #adulted . As innovation
and educational tech tools accelerate, how can a busy
teacher or administrator keep up and evaluate the
usefulness of various new technologies, hardware,
software and connection platforms, as well as news
and trends from across the world that impact adult
education? I do not have any hard and fast answers
but will share my experiences and challenges. Included
will be my testimonial (and how-tos) related to Twitter.
A couple of excellent experts (Nell Ekersly, Barry
Burkett, Shelly Terrell) and their weekly updates info
will also be shared and possibly brought in as remote
guests.
Room: Palisades E
Making it Work
Karen Joyner, Richland One Adult Education
This session breaks down the math and science
standards that are covered on the GED 2014 test
using powerpoints, examples, and a writing task.
Room: Palisades F
Get Your Head in the Cloud
Mary Gaston, Pickens Adult Education
Learn how to use the "Cloud" to enhance your adult
education program. Participants will be shown how to
use SkyDrive/OneDrive (or Google Drive) to simplify
tasks such as managing student attendance, employee
payroll, or housing program documents. All
participants will be given access to templates they can
customize for their own program. Bring your own
device for a hands-on experience.
Room: Palisades G
Algebra Tiles in the Classroom
Christa Brumfield, Pickens Adult Education
Learn how to use algebra tiles in the classroom for
hands-on math instruction. Participants will be led
through activities that demonstrate how to use tiles to
teach integers, like terms, and simplifying binomials
and trinomials. Resources that can be used for
classroom instruction will also be shared.
12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.
Lunch on Your Own/Visit Exhibits
1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Deep Dive Session
Room: Palisades D
Adult Education Learning System for TABE and
2014 GED
Kammie McDougald, Kershaw County Adult Education
and Weyland Burns, Kershaw County Adult Education
Sharpen your adult education teaching skills through
an interactive lesson building process. Learn to
connect the dots between new GED standards and
what students need in classroom for content and
assessment on a daily basis. The process of precision
linkage of lesson plan objectives to College and Career
Ready standards and to TABE standards will be
thoroughly examined. Build lessons as you go. Bring
lap top or iPad for valuable resources. Leave with
helpful lessons to prepare students for new GED and
more precise lessons for TABE and with confidence in
this adult education alignment process of new GED
standards to daily teaching plans. Session facilitators
are 24/7 adult education practitioners: one adult
education teacher of young adults and one adult
education director of a local program.
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1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Room: Palisades E
Overview of Science 2014 Educational
Resources
Eric Childers, Union County Learning Center
During this session we will examine the science
practice resources developed by Adult Education
teachers throughout the state. A few of the
demonstrations will be performed. There will also be
time in the session for programs to share other ideas
that they have developed to meet the standards for
the science GED section.
Room: Palisades F
PLC: Professional Learning Communities
Christy Henderson, Lexington 2 & 4 Adult Education
Transform your adult education program into a
community of continuous improvement by shifting
your focus. Five key elements will be explored: every
student will learn, collaboration, emphasis on learning
instead of teaching, assessment for learning and
failure is not an option mind set.
Room: Palisades G
What Do I Teach? How to Optimize Your
WorkKeys Resources
Jennifer Spears, Spartanburg County Adult Education
This seminar will be for WorkKeys teachers and
Program Directors who need ideas on how to teach a
fast-paced WorkKeys class with maximum increases in
WorkKeys and TABE scores. Daily routines, Career
Ready 101/Keytrain, and favorite resources will be
discussed.
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Room: Palisades E
Want to Know More about the WorkKeys
Talent Assessment?
Kathy Woodson, RAETAC Region 1
One of the criteria for counties to become a Certified
Work Ready Community is to have 25% of test takers
take the WorkKeys soft skills assessment called Talent.
This session will take a look at the personality
characteristics measured by the Talent Assessment.
Participants will examine the reports generated by this
test and discuss ways that students or those looking
for employment could use this information in their job
searches. Although you cannot prepare for personality
assessments, the Career Ready 101 software does offer
some preparation material for the measured areas of
Work Discipline, Teamwork, Customer Service and
Managerial Potential. Participants will have the
opportunity to explore some of the resources available
in the Career Ready 101 software.
Room: Palisades F
Free Websites to Take Your AE Classroom to
New Heights
Erin Miller, RAETAC Region 3
Come and explore my LiveBinder of free GED, ABE
and ESL websites. In this session you will get the
opportunity to explore tons of free educational sites
and discuss, as a group, ideas on how to integrate
them into your AE classrooms. Participants will learn
to use a website critique form that allows both the
teacher and students to take a critical look at websites
and evaluate them for usability and classroom
application. Bring your own device for a more
hands-on experience.
Room: Palisades G
The New Funding Formula and Its Impact on
the Budget
David Stout and Mike King, SC Department of Education
This session will cover implementation of the 2014-15
South Carolina Adult Education budget, including the
new Federal and State funding formulas. Because the
Federal funding formula is now performance-based,
adult educators will need a good understanding of
how it is calculated and the impact these performance-
based formulas will have in the coming years. Join Dr.
Stout in this informative session to understand more
about the budgeting process and how to make it work
for your program.
4:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
SCAACE Awards & Silent Auction
Location: Dunes Ballroom, Hilton
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Tuesday, June 16
Vendor Showcase & Lunch
Room: Palisades ABC
11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Redefining the 2014 Adult Education
Classroom
Wendy Tyler, McGraw-Hill Education (Contemporary
Group)
This presentation will focus on the new Common Core
State Standards and College and Career Readiness
Skills and how they have evolved into the new 2014
Adult Education Classroom.
11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
GED 2014 Test Preparation Solutions from
Edmentum
Mike Widra, Edmentum
As you begin to prepare for the new GED assessment,
it is important to make sure you continue to support all
of the areas that learners need to succeed.
Edmentum's new suite of GED test solutions can help
you and your students make the transition. We offer
GED test solutions that provide instruction, practice,
formative assessment, and real-time reporting. Our
software helps educators pinpoint academic strengths
and weaknesses, differentiate their instruction, and
target individual student needs through rigorous
standards-based content. Edmentum is the premier
provider of online education products designed to
enhance student retention, progression, and success,
and an approved partner of the GED testing service.
11:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HMH Steck-Vaughn 2014 GED Test Preparation
Program
Marc Callahan, Geni McKee and Deanna Crosson,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Steck-Vaughn has created a brand new test
preparation program to prepare students for the 2014
GED test. Participants will find out what changes have
been made in the program to address the changes in
the new test. We will look at both the new books and
the new online editions of the program.
12:00 p.m. 12:20 p.m.
Lunch
Pick up your box lunch in Palisades South and return
to the room for the remainder of the presentations.
12:20 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.
ETS High School Equivalency Testing (HiSET)
Program
Deborah Shine, Educational Testing Service
Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the University of
Iowa (ITP) have collaborated and developed a high
school equivalency testing (HiSET) program that
launched January 2014 at the request of more than 30
states. The assessment is an alternative to the GED.
This session will provide information about the ETS
HiSET Program.
12:40 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Be TASC Test Ready
Chriss Cazayoux, CTB/McGraw-Hill
This session explores CTB/McGraw-Hill's New TASC
Test, High School Equivalency Assessment. You will
discover the role TASC Test plays in ensuring Adult
Education and College and Career Readiness outcomes
are achieved.
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Deep Dive Session
1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Room: Palisades E
Creating Digital Stories
LaVerne Stewart, Beaufort County Adult Education
An innovative approach to teaching writing skills to all
ages!! Using Windows Live Movie Maker and
Storybird.com teachers can creatively teach the
elements of writing a story or essay in chronological
order. This workshop will give teachers the tools
needed to use these two programs in their classrooms
to instruct students in creating digital photo books,
novel trailers, etc. BYOD - Teachers will need a
laptop.
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Room: Palisades D
FastTrack Roadmap to GED 2014
Susan Gibson, Christa Brumfield and Mary Gaston,
Pickens Adult Education
Presenters will share one example of a "Roadmap" for
Fast-Track students to earn a GED. The roadmap serves
as guide for both students and instructors,
highlighting milestones that must be achieved in order
to be "ready" for the high school equivalency exam.
Resources used to help students achieve success will
be shared.
Room: Palisades F
Roundtable Discussion about the 2014 GED
Math Test
Beth Martin, Cherokee County Adult Education
This discussion will focus on topics assessed on the
GED Mathematical Reasoning Exam, and the books,
materials, websites, and manipulatives used to teach
these assessed targets. Participants are encouraged to
bring information, samples, books, etc. to share in
order to provide others with useful and insightful
information.
Room: Palisades G
Financial Monitoring Process
Mike King and David Stout, SC Department of Education
Mike King and Dr. David Stout will introduce the new
position of Lead Financial Monitor at the State
Department of Education and explain the changes and
revisions that lead to the creation of this position.
Mike will cover the desk top monitoring process and
the impact that financial monitoring will have on the
Local Program Review (LPR) process.
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Room: Palisades D
Social Studies on the New 2014 GED
Stacie Sprouse, Cherokee County Adult Education
This session will provide resources that will help
students to pass the new social studies part of the
GED. Participants will engage in hands-on, exciting
activities to explore the new test, and will learn ways to
improve student performance.
Room: Palisades F
Rehab Your Vocab: Vocabulary Across the
Curriculum
Paula Aull, Betty Gilbert, and Janet Russ, Lexington Two &
Four Adult Education
Vocabulary is "crucial for getting meaning from text"
(Kruidenier 2002). How is vocabulary implemented in
your subject area? Learn strategies to incorporate
vocabulary words into your lessons for Reasoning
through Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and
Mathematical Reasoning. This session will provide
"quick fixes" for creatively teaching vocabulary to your
students. Quick fixes include strategies, resources,
sample lessons and much more.
Room: Palisades G
Knowing Your Community and Utilizing the
Resources
Elyse Miller and Wendy Griffin, Spartanburg County Adult
Education
Come learn about various statewide community
resources that can help Adult Ed students break
through obstacles, gain employment, and/or further
their education.
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Presenter Directory
*Directory lists lead presenters only
Paula Aull
paull@lex2.org
Christa Brumfield
christabrumfield@pickens.k12.sc.us
Chriss Cazayoux
chriss.Cazayoux@ctb.com
Eric Childers
echilders@union.k12.sc.us
Deanna Crosson
deanna.crosson@hmhco.com
Mary Gaston
marygaston@pickens.k12.sc.us
Susan Gibson
susangibson@pickens.k12.sc.us
Christy Henderson
christyh@lex2.org
Karen Joyner
kjoyner@richlandone.org
Mike King
MRKing@ed.sc.gov
Beth Martin
beth.martin@cherokee1.org
Kammie McDougald
katherine.mcdougald@kcsdschools.net
Erin Miller
emiller@dorchester2.k12.sc.us
Elyse Miller
emmiller@spart7.org
Deborah Shine
dshine@ets.org
Jennifer Spears
jsspears@spart7.org
Stacie Sprouse
stacie.sprouse@cherokee1.org
LaVerne Stewart
laverne.stewart@beaufort.k12.sc.us
David Stout
dstout@ed.sc.gov
Brett Taylor
btaylor@rhmail.org
Wendy Tyler
wendy.tyler@mheducation.com
Mike Widra
mike.widra@edmentum.com
Kathy Woodson
kwoodson@greenville.k12.sc.us
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Adult Education Exhibitor Directory
Edmentum
Mike Widra
(800) 447-5286
Mike.widra@edmentum.com
F.E. Braswell Company, Inc.
Bobby Watkins
(919) 971-8936
brwkhw@mindspring.com
ETS HiSET
Deborah Shine
(855) 694-4738
dshine@ets.org
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Deanna Crosson
(800) 225-5425
Deanna.crosson@hmhco.com
McGraw-Hill Education (Contemporary Group)
Wendy Tyler
(706) 333-5351
Wendy.tyler@mheducation.com
New Readers Press
Karen Welch
(404) 580-1563
Kwelch1799@gmail.com
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