Digital Learning Lab 2022-23 Midpoint Event
On February 24th, over 40 adult educators from across Illinois gathered for the Digital Learning Lab midpoint event hosted by Google. During the event, scaleLIT’s EdTech Director Michael Matos led cohort members and SMEs in reporting on their collaboration and findings through the first half of this year’s sprints.
scaleLIT’s Work in the COABE Journal
COABE Journal: Lessons From the Pandemic | Volume 11, Issue No. 2, Fall 2022| Published by the Coalition On Adult Basic Education | Article No. 20– “Instructional Practices and Learner Engagement and Program Development and Innovations: Lessons in Equity and Inclusion.” By Kelly Caldwell, Keay Crandall, Michael Matos, Becky Raymond, Renuka Sharma, and April Harrington.
Meet Our Navigators!
Our Career Pathways Navigators assist community residents in accessing job training and education, and employment through outreach events, orientations, and a regular presence in American Job Center high traffic areas. Check out our recent interviews to learn more about the Navigators and what they love about their jobs.
Building Community
There are a multitude of adult literacy organizations serving populations with many overlapping and diverse needs. While these programs may serve in different places among unique populations, we believe programs are strongest when working together. Building community among programs creates opportunities for sharing assets, creating networks of support, and collaborating toward a shared mission.
Assessing Gaps
Literacy gaps can show up in many areas of life, from digital literacy to healthcare to career navigation and beyond. Assessing gaps is crucial for organizations to effectively address the needs of individuals at any literacy level. To give individuals the best support possible, organizations need to know where that support is specifically needed.
AEFL Week 2022
We are grateful to everyone who worked with us to make AEFL Week 2022 a success. Uplifting adult education in each of these ways has been not only a testimony to the work we’ve achieved together, but also powerful motivation to continue advocating for the adult and family literacy initiatives that advance education, access, and equity in so many communities.
How To Scale Your Mission Through Literacy
Organizations, today more than ever, are seeing that the adult populations they serve have literacy gaps that can become major barriers to their mission. These barriers present themselves in a multitude of areas and can oftentimes prevent organizations from reaching their full potential.
Welcome to scaleLIT!
Most of you know that the Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition changed its name to scaleLIT in April. As our new name suggests, we are all in on helping organizations use adult literacy best practices to serve the community.