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Educator Spotlight for Teacher Appreciation Week: Jill Ashley-Grochowski and Steve Hunt’s Experiences Piloting the CILIA-T Curriculum
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CILIA-T, or “Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support”, is a full intermediate/advanced adult ELL curriculum that integrates U.S. history, civics and government content as well as digital skill-building. The curriculum, which is part of the CREATE Network, is completing its third year of development under a team including adult ELL and technology educators, literacy experts and content scholars. A draft of the CILIA-T curriculum is currently being piloted in four adult education classrooms by experienced teachers in Minnesota.…
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Mya Shaftel, CILIA-T research team member, interviewed by MPR News
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Check it out! Mya Shaftel, one of the adult educators developing content for the CILIA-T research team and a teacher at Literacy Minnesota, was recently interviewed by MPR News host Cathy Wurzer regarding upcoming changes to the US citizenship test.In the interview, Mya discusses the potential implications for both adult education providers and adult learners. The Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support (CILIA-T) team is proud to have Mya supporting the development of their curriculum.Read the article:…
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Announcement: Updates from CILIA-T
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The Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support (CILIA-T) Team recently released an update to their work, outlining their process for identification of digital tools for online learning. They have begun developing their digital skills roadmap and are providing an opportunity for practitioners to give feedback.
Check out this link for more information: https://atlasabe.org/news/cilia-t-curriculum-project-developing-our-digital-skills-roadmap/
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Civics/History Curriculum: An Introduction to the CILIA-T Curriculum Project
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CILIA-T stands for Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support. Funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, this five-year project will build and pilot a standards-aligned, 16-module curriculum designed for intermediate-level adult English learners to broaden their academic vocabulary, morphological skills, and critical thinking application while engaging U.S. history and civics content through a thematic lens. Read More