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Picking Up the PD Challenge

Gail Spangenberg President, NCAL Professional Development is a long-standing need in the field of Adult Education and Workforce Skills. Some recent activities sparked a renewed public discussion of that reality. First, in August 2015, NCAL hosted Moving PD Closer to the Top, a blog in which several invited national leaders spoke in specific terms about highest priority needs in PD. (Link HERE.) A month later, in September 2015, Johan Uvin, Asst. Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education, and Gail Spangenberg, NCAL’s president, co-authored a follow-up OCTAE blog, Throwing Down the Gauntlet for Professional Development. (Link HERE.) Then, at COABE’s April 2016 conference in Dallas, Mary Ann Corley (Principal Associate … Continue reading

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