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These presentations represent workshops and sessions that have been created and shared by various members of the #IamABE team. They are shared here for your reference. Please contact IamABEmn@gmail.com with question or to invite us to present.
Teaching for Justice: Building Knowledge, Voice, and Agency
Teaching for Justice: Building Knowledge, Voice, and Agency
What a year it has been—and it’s only August. Adult learners are asking urgent questions about their rights and conflicts unfolding around them. This session introduces Teaching for Justice, a collection of adaptable, leveled lessons created by Minnesota adult educators. Topics include the right to assemble, disability rights, civic participation, and more! Grounded in Gholdy Muhammad’s five pursuits, especially joy, participants explore classroom-ready materials that support meaningful discussion, critical thinking, and learner agency in real-world contexts. See more about the call for stories of Resistance and Community.
TfJ Handout of Resources SI 2026Culture of Respect: A Proactive Approach for Addressing Difficult Topics in Learning Spaces
Culture of Respect: A Proactive Approach for Addressing Difficult Topics in Learning Spaces
The diversity of ABE classrooms creates a need for teachers to facilitate complex and essential conversations. This session will provide ABE teachers with recommendations and tools for establishing a culture of respect in their learning spaces so that when difficult conversations do arise, intentionally or unintentionally, they can be addressed proactively and from a place of trust. Suggestions for responding in the moment will also be provided.
Recognizing and Reporting Discrimination: What does it look like in ABE contexts?
Recognizing and Reporting Discrimination: What does it look like in ABE contexts?
When and how should we report discrimination in our ABE systems? In this session, we will provide an overview of how to recognize discrimination in ABE contexts: in our professional working conditions; in how we serve learners; and as a topic of instruction. We will also share processes and build confidence around reporting discrimination at a broader, system-wide level, including ABE-specific advice from the MN Department of Human Rights, and share ideas for additional actions and support. We will look together at instructional resources to address learners’ experiences with systemic discrimination, and gather further questions and needs that ABE professionals have on this topic.
This is Your School, Too: Creating Welcoming Spaces for LGBTQIA+ Learners, Staff and Volunteers
In this session, participants (program leadership, staff, and instructors) will identify actions they can take to be allies to LGBTQIA+ people (and other people traditionally marginalized by our institutions). Participants will be able to set up inclusive, welcoming spaces at their program sites and foster relationships of co-learning and mutual understanding with LGBTQIA+ newcomers. They will roleplay how to gracefully repair miscommunications around gender and sexuality, and prepare ways to speak up when they witness incidents of misgendering and other microaggressions.
Evaluating Curriculum for Racial Justice
Evaluating Curriculum for Racial Justice
In this session, we will use a culture tree and critical analysis tool to examine curriculum with a racial justice focus. This presentation assumes that participants acknowledge white supremacy and systemic racism are leading problems in our education system. We recognize that these systems are especially harmful to people of color and the English language learners we serve. We also assume that teachers are willing to examine their own implicit bias in the classroom.
Benefits of Language and Accent Diversity among ABE Teachers and Volunteers
Benefits of Language and Accent Diversity among ABE Teachers and Volunteers
Non-Native English Speaking Teachers and Volunteers (NNEST&Vs) bring a wealth of benefits and value to ABE learning environments, including an often highly nuanced understanding of the English language and a grasp of the cultural challenges faced by newcomers. This session will outline the value that NNEST&Vs bring to programs, making it easier for teachers and administrators to advocate for their recruitment and retention, and will also address barriers and challenges to prepare individuals to support their NNES colleagues
Culturally Responsive Practices
Culturally Responsive Practices
This presentation is a two-part presentation. The first session will provide an overview of culturally responsive practices in the classroom, its history in adult education, as well as examine ways that culture, identity and bias affect the field of ABE. The second, subsequent, 45-minute session will explore how to use the Participatory ABE Curriculum Unit Toolkit, developed by Erin Cary, as a form of culturally responsive teaching with adult learners. Participants will gain a basic understanding of strategies to build learning partnerships with adult learners as well as how to become a culturally responsive practitioner.
LGBTQIA+ Topics 2.0: Queering Math and ELA Curriculum
LGBTQIA+ Topics 2.0: Queering Math and ELA Curriculum
Building on IamABE’s popular session on LGBTQIA+ topics in ABE, this session puts theory into practice! What does equitable LGBTQIA+ inclusion look like in our classroom instruction and curriculum? Join us as we demonstrate 3 guiding principles for queering both Math and ELA instruction with concrete examples from the presenters’ instruction and come away with ideas for how to make LGBTQIA+ students feel seen and represented in your teaching.
Solidarity not Charity: Challenging White Saviorism with Learning Partnerships
Solidarity not Charity: Challenging White Saviorism with Learning Partnerships
What is “white saviorism” and how does it show up in adult education? During this session, participants will explore a shared definition of the term “white savior complex.” We will strategize ways to address this concept both as educators and on a personal level. Through the use of educational anecdotes, scenarios, and personal introspection, participants will consider how their perspectives in the field have evolved in recent years.
Putting the 'Fun' in ABE Funding
Putting the 'Fun' in ABE Funding
We want to talk to you about money. Who is paying you? Where does that money come from? What is the MN ABE funding formula? Who made it and why should you care? Come learn the answers to these questions, and what you can do to advocate for yourself, your program, and your students.
Fun in ABE funding summer instittue.docxReppin' the Rainbow: LGBTQIA+ Topics in ABE
Reppin' the Rainbow: LGBTQIA+ Topics in ABE
My Liberation is Bound Up in Yours
My Liberation is Bound Up in Yours
Moving Beyond the Basics: Integrating ABE Standards for Self Advocacy in Low Beginning ESL
Moving Beyond the Basics: Integrating ABE Standards for Self Advocacy in Low Beginning ESL
In this session, participants will consider self-advocacy goals that ESL students may have. Using backwards design, participants will explore how other low-beginning curricula do or do not address these goals, and how integrating content standards (CCRS and TIF) can support these goals.
Handout for LaLAmplifying Student Voices
Amplifying Student Voices
The recent political climate has been a call to action for many and for others, especially our students, it can feel downright threatening. In this session, we will introduce a new curriculum with flexible lesson plans at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced/GED levels designed to launch a social media campaign which elevates student voices and shares the great work that we do in ABE.
#IamABE handoutIncorporating Mental Health Topics in ESL Instruction
Incorporating Mental Health Topics in ESL Instruction
Mental health is an important topic in adult education, but cultural views and language barriers combines with the stigma around mental health instructors' own cultures can present barriers to talking about it in the classroom. Join us as we share some materials we've developed to teach about mental health at the High Beginning ESL level, and the considerations that helped us navigate these conversations in our own classrooms.
Incorporating Mental Health Topics in ELL - HandoutBecoming an ABE Advocate
Becoming an ABE Advocate
As a teacher working directly with participants, you are best suited to knowing your classroom's needs and how to improve your program. Join us to learn how you can harness that knowledge to advocate for our profession and participants This is a session for everyone who wants to be a force for change in our field. Learn who represents you at all levels of programming, and how you can best connect with them to achieve your goals. Become an ABE advocate!
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