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SUMMARY:Low Tech Foundational Learning
DESCRIPTION:Date: April 8\, 2021 \nTime: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nLocation: Online \nFacilitator: Terri Peters\, tlp Training \n Low Tech Foundational Learning \nFacilitate adult literacy by phone or email. Use the tech learners know! Not all learners feel confident learning online or by videoconference. \nYou will learn how to deliver the same lesson\, whether by phone or email. Both concentrate on using plain language instructions for completing literacy tasks. \nWe’ll also cover instructional strategies for remote learning: \n·        Timing and flow of lessons \n·        Checking for understanding \n·        Encouraging learning \n·        Providing practice options between sessions \nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/low-tech-foundational-learning/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20210310T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20210310T120000
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SUMMARY:Clear Writing for Promotional Materials
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, March 10\, 2021 \nTime: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nWhere: Online \nFacilitator: Terri Peters\, tlp Training \nAttract learners to your programs and services with clear design and marketing content. Let your organization’s mission and mandate shine. Learners will take notice. \nIn this session\, you’ll learn: \n\nDesign tips for posters\, brochures\, and website pages\nImage choice and placement\nKey messages that tell your story\nContent testing tips\n\nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/clear-writing-for-promotional-materials/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20210113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20210113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
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SUMMARY:Introduction to the Rural Routes ESL Tutor Handbook
DESCRIPTION:Date: January 13\, 2021\nTime: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm\nWhere: Online Zoom\nFacilitator: Dorte Weber\, Team Lead Rural Routes \nAre you a tutor working with adult learners or do you support your agency’s tutors? Did you know that Rural Routes has developed a handbook designed to help tutors working with adult learners? Join us as we explore various sections of the handbook and take a closer look at suggested lesson plans\, tutor tips and additional resources that are practical and relevant to the work you do. There will also be some hands-on activities. Click here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/introduction-to-the-rural-routes-esl-tutor-handbook/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20201104T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20201104T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200902T223148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200903T191654Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Together about Skills for Learning
DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Thinking Together about Skills for Learning \nFacilitator: Nada Jerkovic\, CanLearn Society \nOnline: Wednesday\, November 4th\, between 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm \nSkills for Learning is a new category in CALP Guidelines that includes “learning opportunities that support the development of the fundamental skills and habits of learning that support foundational learners to build confidence\, develop an identity as a learner\, advocate for themselves and engage in foundational and other learning.” \nThe purpose of this session is to offer and share information\, insights\, and suggestions relevant to designing and implementing programs that align with the new category. The session will cover the following “propellers for learning”: \n\nMotivation to learn\nConfidence\nMemory\nAttention\nMindset for learning\n\nClick here to register. If you have any questions\, email Wendy. \nPlease note: This is a repeat of the August 19th\, 2020 session
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/3388/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20201008T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20201008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Intercultural Communications
DESCRIPTION:Date:  Thursday\, October 8th\, 2020 \nTime: 1:00 – 3:00 pm \nLocation: Online \nPresenter: Dorte Weber\, Rural Routes \nThis workshop provides an overview of intercultural communications and introduces the role of a “cultural bridge“. You will also learn key terms related to intercultural education. We recommend that you take this workshop before taking the Intercultural Practitioners Series Level One that is being offered by Rural Routes in October. \nYou will receive a confirmation email once registered and additional information a week prior to the event. \n\n\n\nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/introduction-to-intercultural-communications-2/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20201007T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20201007T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200902T223741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200930T221126Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Connections
DESCRIPTION:Reading Connections \nFacilitator: Nada Jerkovic\, CanLearn Society \nOnline: Wednesday\, October 7\, 2020\, between 10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nAudience: Open \nHelping learners who struggle with basic reading and writing skills – those below and at PIAAC Level 1- is important. Unless these learners can learn to “crack the code”\, they will forever remain silently excluded from other foundational learning opportunities and at risk of disengagement and failure. \nThe purpose of this session is to support practitioners in understanding the foundations of the reading process and core elements of appropriate adult reading instruction. Participants  session will: \n\nDevelop a deeper understanding of what the reading process entails\nIdentify what makes adult reading instruction work\nLearn strategies and techniques they can apply in their daily work with adults who struggle with basic reading skills\n\nClick here to register. If you have any questions\, email pd@ecala.org. \nPlease note: this is a repeat of the July 22\, 2020 session.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/reading-connections-2/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200916T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200916T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
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SUMMARY:Facilitating in a Zoom Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, September 16\, 2020 \nTime: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm \nWhere: Online Zoom \nFacilitator: Leanne Rempel\, ECALA\, grants@ecala.org \nThis 2-hour session combines Zoom facilitation tools tutorials with teaching activity ideas (sharing some content with the two previous Zoom workshops that ECALA has offered). Instructors\, facilitators\, staff\, and volunteers in ECALA Grant Recipient Organizations will have priority\, but this session is open to other CALPs if space allows. \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/facilitating-in-a-zoom-classroom/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200909T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200909T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200721T190237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200721T224640Z
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SUMMARY:Advanced Facilitation Skills
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, September 9\, 2020 \nTime: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nWhere: Online Zoom \nFacilitator: Terri Peters\, TLP Training \nYou feel comfortable leading groups\, but you’re looking for new ways to engage your participants. And you notice that not everyone likes to learn in exactly the same way. Mix it up and keep learning active! \nYou’ll experience these strategies as you learn them: \n·        Incorporate multiple learning styles \n·        Develop different learning stations for the same learning objective \n·        Use Zoom to create fun learning activities \nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/advanced-facilitation-skills/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210701
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
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SUMMARY:Kistehitah kimeskanam (Honour your Journey)  -  Indigenous
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to learn more about your Indigenous culture and language?  Do you want to meet with Elders and Knowledge Keepers and learn Indigenous ways of knowing and learning?  Would you like to make a pair of moccasins for a new baby to help welcome the baby into the community?  Come join our learning circles to learn teachings about \n\nCommon cultural practices like prayers\, smudging etc.\nNehiyawewin language\nCultural resources for healing\nFamily relationships\nTraditional cultural crafting skills like beading and moccasin making\nImpacts of intergenerational trauma\nAnd more\n\nThis course is offered in partnership with Indigenous Birth of Alberta (Kihew awasis wakamik).
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/kistehiah-kimeskanam-honour-your-journey/
CATEGORIES:Adult Literacy,Indigenous,North East Edmonton
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200827T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200827T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200714T202040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200714T212353Z
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SUMMARY:Using Clear Writing for Promotional Materials
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday\, August 27th \nTime: 10:0 am – 12:00 pm \nWhere: Online \nBrochures\, advertising posters and website pages are some of the key tools you use when promoting your program or recruiting learners. Are you developing these tools with your audience in mind? \nIn this second session\, facilitated by Terri Peters\, TLP Training\, we will explore more strategies to improve your content’s readability and make your audience take notice\, look at how images and their placement is important and how to test your content to make sure it will reach the right audience. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/using-clear-writing-for-promotional-materials/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200821T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200821T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200703T212711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200805T201045Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Wellness Session 2
DESCRIPTION:Date: August 21\, 2020 \nTime: 1:00 – 3:00 pm \nLocation: Meet outside of Greystone Building IV\, Office #103\, 4207 98 st NW\, Edmonton\, AB \nJoin us for a special in-person Wellness Session with Leona Carter\, a respected Elder in the community and a member of our Indigenous Working group. She will be Smudging and sharing with us some of the traditional medicines used during a Smudge. Please click here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/summer-wellness-session-2-2020-08-21/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200819T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200819T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200629T220309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200629T220309Z
UID:2941-1597831200-1597836600@www.ecala.org
SUMMARY:Thinking Together about Skills for Learning
DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Thinking Together about Skills for Learning \nFacilitator: Nada Jerkovic\, CanLearn Society \nOnline: Wednesday\, August 19\, 2020\, between 10:00 am – 11:30 am \nSkills for Learning is a new category in CALP Guidelines that includes “learning opportunities that support the development of the fundamental skills and habits of learning that support foundational learners to build confidence\, develop an identity as a learner\, advocate for themselves and engage in foundational and other learning.” \nThe purpose of this session is to offer and share information\, insights\, and suggestions relevant to designing and implementing programs that align with the new category. The session will cover the following “propellers for learning”: \n\nMotivation to learn\nConfidence\nMemory\nAttention\nMindset for learning\n\nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/thinking-together-about-skills-for-learning/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200812T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200812T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200714T185745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200721T230005Z
UID:3046-1597226400-1597233600@www.ecala.org
SUMMARY:Clear Writing for Adult Learning Programs
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, August 12th\, 2020 \nTime: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nWhere: Online \nFacilitator: Terri Peters\, TLP Training \nAdult learners benefit most from clear writing. It helps them improve their reading skills and learn more quickly. \nIn this session\, you’ll learn the basic principles of clear writing: \n· Write for your audience \n· Identify key messages \n· Choose the best vocabulary \n· Organize for clarity \nThis session is open for ECALA grant recipients. Click here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/importance-of-clear-writing/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200722T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200722T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120926
CREATED:20200629T215601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T232241Z
UID:2939-1595412000-1595417400@www.ecala.org
SUMMARY:Reading Connections
DESCRIPTION:Reading Connections \nFacilitator: Nada Jerkovi\, CanLearn Society \nOnline: Wednesday\, July 22nd\, 2020 between 10:00 am – 11:30 am \nAudience: ECALA grant recipients. Space is limited to people per organization. We will keep a waitlist and notify you if space opens up. \nHelping learners who struggle with basic reading and writing skills – those below and at PIAAC Level 1- is important. Unless these learners can learn to “crack the code”\, they will forever remain silently excluded from other foundational learning opportunities and at risk of disengagement and failure. \nThe purpose of this session is to support practitioners in understanding the foundations of the reading process and core elements of appropriate adult reading instruction. Participants  session will: \n\nDevelop a deeper understanding of what the reading process entails\nIdentify what makes adult reading instruction work\nLearn strategies and techniques they can apply in their daily work with adults who struggle with basic reading skills\n\nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/reading-connections/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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