2025 Iowa Adult Education and Literacy Summer Conference

Refreshment Break

Welcome & Review o...

Keynote - Learning Together: Unlocking Potential Through Literac... 9:15am - 10:15am

Lunch, Awards & Door Prizes 12:35pm - 1:50pm

Building A Reading Life for Adult Learners and Families 10:25am - 11:25am

Enhancing Family Literacy Instruction: Collaboration Breakout 11:35am - 12:35pm

Empowering Incarcerated Learners: Corrections Collaboration Sess... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Bridging Education and Employment: Workforce/IET Collaboration 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Networking Reception Sponsored by HiSET 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Coordinator's Meeting 7:30am - 8:30am

Math Strategies for Struggling Learners 10:25am - 11:25am

Let's Study! Study Skills for Adult Learners 11:35am - 12:35pm

Vocabulary Strategies to Strengthen Literacy 11:35am - 12:35pm

The 6 Anchors to Student Retention 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The Silent Epidemic: How Self-Esteem Affects Academic Performanc... 3:15pm - 4:15pm

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Adult Learning: The Learning Pa... 10:25am - 11:25am

Teaching With CASAS and Employability Skills in Mind 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Using Corpora and Corpora-Derived Materials to Enhance Vocabular... 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Unlocking Language Learning: Harnessing ChatGPT for Adult ELL Su... 10:25am - 11:25am

Beyond the Mute Button: Expanding Access with Online ELL Program... 11:35am - 12:35pm

Helping Learners Cross the Starting Line: Creating a Foundation... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Belonging First: Enhancing Retention Through Community in Beginn... 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Idea to Implementation: Building and Onboarding Effective Workfo... 10:25am - 11:25am

Contextualized Pre-Apprenticeship with NCCER 11:35am - 12:35pm

Flourishing in a Multilevel Classroom 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Trending Content to Spark Meaningful Conversations 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Addressing Reading Challenges with HSE Students 10:25am - 11:25am

Developing Strategic Thinking Skills in HSED Math Students 11:35am - 12:35pm

How to Help Your Students Pass the HiSET Math Test 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Mastering Math: Instructor Collaboration Session 3:15pm - 4:15pm

A Year in Review: Using Lessons Learned from the New CASAS Asses... 10:25am - 11:25am

Tools for Estimating Reading Text Difficulty and Tracking Litera... 11:35am - 12:35pm

Navigating Challenges - Part 1 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Navigating Challenges - Part 2 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Breakfast 7:30am - 8:30am

Welcome & Review o...

Keynote: Positive Power of Servant Leadership 8:45am - 9:45am

Lunch, Awards & Door Prizes 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Enhancing ELL Instruction: Instructor Collaboration Session 9:45am - 10:45am

Integrating Literacy and Content: WRSS Instructor Collaboration... 10:55am - 11:55am

Cultivating Positive Mindsets With Adult Learners 9:45am - 10:45am

Navigating Learning Disabilities and Self Advocacy for Students 10:55am - 11:55am

Clearing the Hurdles 9:45am - 10:45am

Using Gemma HiLo Books and Other Easy Texts for Adult Learner Re... 10:55am - 11:55am

Community Based English Language Learning 9:45am - 10:45am

Reaching and Teaching English Learners with Limited Literacy 10:55am - 11:55am

Planning with Purpose: IELCE Success through Logic Models 9:45am - 10:45am

The Power of Partnerships: Strengthening Adult Ed through Core P... 10:55am - 11:55am

HiSET Insights: What Educators & Test Centers Need to Know 9:45am - 10:45am

Demystifying the CASAS STEPS and GOALS 2 Assessments: Interpreti... 10:55am - 11:55am

Positive Power of Servant Leadership - Breakout Session 9:45am - 10:45am

Time Management is a Fallacy: Using Al-Powered Eisenhower Matrix... 10:55am - 11:55am