Adult Education Matters

About: Martha

Full Name

Martha Rankin

Website

http://AdultEdMatters.wordpress.com

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I'm a teacher and administrator for Newport-Mesa USD. My passions are learning, thinking, writing, and singing. I want to continually see things in new ways. I find inspiration in Gandhi's words: "You must be the change you want to see in the world."

Posts by Martha:

• November 9, 2009 Adult Education in CA: Strategic Planning Process

• November 9, 2009 “It’s a Date” at NMUSD Adult School

• November 6, 2009 CASAS ~ Paired Scores & Average Gains are UP!

• November 6, 2009 Tending to Attendance ~ Week 18

• November 4, 2009 Evening Team Huddle & PLC ~ Nov. 4

• November 3, 2009 NMUSD Adult School Needs YOU!

• November 2, 2009 Team Huddle & PLC ~ Nov 2

• October 30, 2009 Fall 2009 Issue of CALPROgress

• October 30, 2009 Wiki on Adult Ed Budget Cuts

• October 27, 2009 Day ABE & ESL PLC Meets Nov 2

• October 23, 2009 CASAS Practice Tests

• October 23, 2009 Upcoming Intruder Drill

• October 22, 2009 Promoting CA Adult Schools

• October 22, 2009 NMUSD Adult School Site Council, 2009-10

• October 21, 2009 Fresh Thinking For the Future of Adult Education

• October 21, 2009 Tending to Attendance ~ Week 16

• October 20, 2009 Our NMUSD Adult School Attendance Policy

• October 20, 2009 CBET Pledge Drive ~ Oct. 20-30, 2009

• October 13, 2009 Registration Schedule for 2009-10

• October 12, 2009 Tending to Attendance ~ Week 14 & 15

• October 5, 2009 ESL PLC Meets October 8!

• October 2, 2009 Reflecting on Our Mission and Beliefs

• October 2, 2009 Discovery Streaming Now Available to YOU!

• October 2, 2009 “It’s a Date” at NMUSD Adult School

• October 1, 2009 The Great California ShakeOut

• October 1, 2009 Tending to Attendance ~ Week 13

• September 28, 2009 Individual Development Plan, 2009-2010

• September 28, 2009 STEP Forward (Sub Teacher Essentials Packet)

• September 28, 2009 “It’s a Date” at NMUSD Adult School

• September 28, 2009 Quote of the Week

• September 23, 2009 10 Easy Ways To Integrate SCANS Into Your Classroom

• September 23, 2009 Fall 2009 Online Professional Development Courses

• September 23, 2009 Opening Up to Managed Enrollment

• September 22, 2009 Emergency Preparedness, 2009

• September 21, 2009 Tending to Attendance – Week 12

• September 21, 2009 “It’s a Date” at NMUSD Adult School

• September 15, 2009 “It’s a Date” at NMUSD Adult School

• September 15, 2009 Office Assistant Certificate Program

• September 10, 2009 Things You Need ~ First Two Weeks of Class

• September 10, 2009 Top Post This Week – Remembering 9/11

• September 9, 2009 The Power (and Point) of Persistence!

• September 9, 2009 Revised ESL Pacing Plans and Testing Calendar

• September 9, 2009 New Managed Enrollment Plan for ESL Classes

• June 17, 2009 Tending to Attendance ~ Week 50

• June 15, 2009 NMUSD Adult School’s Upcoming Events

• June 11, 2009 National Spotlight on NMUSD Adult School

• June 11, 2009 NMUSD Adult School’s Upcoming Events

• June 10, 2009 Tending to Attendance

• May 28, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• May 28, 2009 End-of-Semester Essentials ~ June, 2009

• May 13, 2009 Site Council Mtg. ~ May 13, 2009

• May 11, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• May 1, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• April 23, 2009 CUE Tip ~ Open Source (free) Programs for Educators

• April 15, 2009 Exhibit Shows Off Students’ 21st Century Skills

• April 14, 2009 Presenting…PLC 2.0 on a Budget

• April 13, 2009 Words of Thanks from NMUSD Adult Learners

• April 13, 2009 Student Council Meeting ~ 04/16/09

• April 2, 2009 Tending to Attendance

• April 1, 2009 Site Council Meeting ~ 04/01/09

• March 30, 2009 Rules and Tools: Copyright and Copyleft

• March 27, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• March 23, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• March 23, 2009 Impact of the May 19 Ballot Propositions

• March 18, 2009 Facts, Trends, and Best Practice Discussion = Hope

• March 18, 2009 Adult Ed Budget Forum

• March 13, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• March 11, 2009 School Site Council Meeting Minutes ~ 03/04/09

• March 11, 2009 Update on the State Budget for Adult Ed

• March 9, 2009 Please Take Our Poll!

• March 9, 2009 More on the State Budget, Adult Ed, and Flexibility

• March 9, 2009 Tending to Attendance ~ Three-Year Comparison

• March 9, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• March 9, 2009 Parking Policy at the BESST Site

• March 4, 2009 Tending to Attendance – Week 35

• March 4, 2009 Today’s School Site Council – March 4

• March 4, 2009 New State Budget Information

• March 4, 2009 NPR’s All Tech Considered

• March 3, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• February 26, 2009 Tending to Attendance

• February 26, 2009 Student Council Mtg ~ February 26, 2009

• February 25, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• February 25, 2009 Martha and Mandi Go to CUE

• February 25, 2009 Site Council Meeting ~ March 4

• February 17, 2009 A Therapeutic Journey to the CASAS 2.0 World

• February 17, 2009 Hail Today in Laguna Hills

• February 12, 2009 HOPE Clinic Gives Free Flu Shots to our Adult Learners

• February 12, 2009 Free Computer Class at our Local College!

• February 11, 2009 Tech & Prof Growth Team Mtg ~ 02/11/09

• February 5, 2009 Tending to Attendance Trends – Adult vs. Concurrent

• February 2, 2009 Student Council ~ A Community of Learners and Leaders

• February 2, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• January 30, 2009 CASAS Sample Reading Test PowerPoints

• January 30, 2009 Promoting a Lifetime of Learning

• January 29, 2009 Site Council Meeting ~ 02/04/09

• January 28, 2009 Things You Need ~ 1st Week of 2nd Semester

• January 28, 2009 New English & Tech Class at Sonora

• January 28, 2009 Tending to Attendance – Black is Back!

• January 27, 2009 Wiki What?

• January 27, 2009 New English & Tech Class at Sonora

• January 26, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• January 21, 2009 The Value of CA Adult Schools

• January 20, 2009 Tending to Attendance

• January 16, 2009 Prepare for the Big One NOW

• January 16, 2009 Upcoming Events at N-MUSD Adult School

• January 15, 2009 Tending to Attendance

• January 14, 2009 Shift Happens

• January 14, 2009 Bite-Size Inspiration

• January 13, 2009 End-of-Semester Essentials

• January 9, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• January 9, 2009 Orientation PowerPoints Are Here!!!

• January 9, 2009 01-09-09 Fire Drill Recap

• January 8, 2009 Fire Drill at BESST Center – 01/09/09

• January 5, 2009 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• December 17, 2008 Persisting Through The Winter Months

• December 17, 2008 CALPRO’s Winter 2009 Online Professional Development

• December 15, 2008 Career Training Resources

• December 12, 2008 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• December 12, 2008 Upcoming Lockdown Drill

• December 10, 2008 Tending to Attendance

• December 10, 2008 Today’s Tech Training ~ 12-10-08

• December 9, 2008 CASAS Competencies for the 21st Century

• December 8, 2008 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• December 8, 2008 Strategic Planning to Support our School Goals

• December 3, 2008 Site Council Mtg. 12-03-08

• December 2, 2008 Dance the AttenDance! Celebrate Persistence!!

• December 2, 2008 Tending to Attendance

• December 1, 2008 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• December 1, 2008 USALearns- A Free Online English Portal

• November 21, 2008 Pay Attention

• November 21, 2008 Animation with PowerPoint

• November 20, 2008 Next Tech Training ~ Quick Tricks for Powerful PowerPoints

• November 20, 2008 Tech Team Approves Tech Plan

• November 19, 2008 Tech & Professional Growth Team Mtg

• November 14, 2008 Upcoming Events at NMUSD Adult School

• November 10, 2008 The Great ShakeOut this Thursday

• November 10, 2008 Miguel’s Tech Tip of the Week: http://classtools.net/

• November 6, 2008 NMUSD Adult School in the 21st Century

• November 6, 2008 Tending to Attendance ~ Celebrating Growth!

• November 5, 2008 Site Council Meeting ~ 11/05/08

• November 4, 2008 NMUSD Adult School Community Votes!

• November 4, 2008 Persistence Kit and Caboodle: Highlights & Hash Outs

• November 4, 2008 Tending to Attendance

• November 3, 2008 ESL Fun with Karaoke

• November 2, 2008 Adults + Blogs + CASAS = ABCs of 21st Century Learning

• October 31, 2008 Fall Back and Relax

• October 30, 2008 Tending to Attendance ~ Adult vs. Concurrent

• October 23, 2008 Tending to Attendance

• October 22, 2008 Technolution Plan 2008-10

• October 21, 2008 Blog to Blog Learning

• October 20, 2008 Talkin’ ’bout a Technolution, Verse III

• October 20, 2008 Tending to Attendance

• October 20, 2008 Verb Power! Simply Pointing It Out

• October 16, 2008 The Whole Persistence Kit and Caboodle

• October 15, 2008 Site Council Meeting ~ 10/15/08

• October 14, 2008 Our Professional Learning Community at Work

• October 13, 2008 Jugs, Drops, and Words that Matter

• October 13, 2008 Tending to Attendance ~ Week 14

• October 7, 2008 School Goals 2008-09

• October 7, 2008 Talkin’ ’bout a Technolution – Verse II

• October 6, 2008 Tending to Attendance and Insisting on Persistence

• October 3, 2008 Talkin’ ’bout a Technolution

• October 1, 2008 Tending to Attendance

• September 23, 2008 Sharing Our e-PLC Model at ACSA State Conference

• September 19, 2008 Learn English at Home…for FREE!

• September 18, 2008 Individual Development Plan (IDP)

• September 16, 2008 NMUSD Adult School’s PLC Earns Praise from WASC!

• September 15, 2008 NMUSD Adult School Marketing Packet

• September 15, 2008 Learners to Leaders 2008!

• September 12, 2008 ESL Team ~ Great Week 1! ~ Get Ready for Week 2!

• September 12, 2008 Our ESL Student Transfer Policy and Procedure

• September 11, 2008 New Office Assistant Certificate Program!

• September 10, 2008 Writing Lesson Plans

• September 10, 2008 Preparing for Paired Scores

• September 9, 2008 Get Your House in Order – CASAS is Coming!

• September 8, 2008 CASAS’ Sweet eHome

• September 4, 2008 Marketing our Adult School

• September 3, 2008 First Site Council Mtg of 2008-09

• September 2, 2008 Remembering 9/11 in the ESL Classroom

• August 26, 2008 Substitute Lesson Plans ~ Ready to Go!

• July 18, 2008 10 Education Commandments for Parents

• July 18, 2008 Strategies for Student Retention

• June 6, 2008 Student Council Meeting Materials ~ June 6

• June 4, 2008 Student Leadership Celebration

• June 3, 2008 Martha’s Year-End Madness Minimizer

• May 30, 2008 2008 Teacher PD Survey Results

• May 30, 2008 CA Adult Education and Professional Development

• May 28, 2008 Update on PD Plan & Budget for 2008-09

• May 23, 2008 Last Student Council Mtg. ~ Students Lead!

• May 22, 2008 SMART Board Tech Tip: Touch, Write and Save

• May 21, 2008 Linking CTE to our Adult Ed Program

• May 19, 2008 Free “On the Go” Family Literacy Activities

• May 14, 2008 Our Site-based PD Proposal for 2008-09

• May 9, 2008 Students as Leaders at NMUSD Adult School

• May 6, 2008 Essential End-of-Semester Materials

• May 6, 2008 Student Council Mtg. ~ May 9

• April 30, 2008 CCAE Presentation: Forming a PLC~Transforming our World

• April 24, 2008 Using Video in ESL Instruction

• April 24, 2008 Teacher-Made PPT for Teaching Time

• April 24, 2008 Tech Tip du Jour: Adding Screenshots

• April 24, 2008 Student Survey Results Are In!

• April 21, 2008 Our Blog as an e-Portfolio for WASC

• April 21, 2008 Movie Project ~ Starring Beg. Lit & Low ESL Students

• April 17, 2008 Did You Know? 2.0 Video

• April 16, 2008 ESL Tip ~ Online Radio Essays on NPR

• April 16, 2008 Student Connectedness

• April 16, 2008 WASC Community Council Meeting

• April 16, 2008 Site Council Meeting

• April 9, 2008 Student Council Meeting Minutes & PPT

• April 2, 2008 ESL Tip: Sponging with Verbs

• March 27, 2008 March 26 Tech Training ~ Post-Game Report

• March 24, 2008 Safe and Sound Blogging

• March 24, 2008 Building School Leaders with our Adult Learners

• March 24, 2008 Goal Setting and Self Reflection – A Daily Practice

• March 20, 2008 March 26th Tech Training – post your share-out here!

• March 19, 2008 PLC Team Meetings ~ post your minutes here

• March 19, 2008 CPT Meeting ~ March 19, 2008

• March 17, 2008 How Do We Use our PLC Time?

• March 17, 2008 Mis CASAS Son Sus CASAS

• March 13, 2008 PLC Meeting Minutes – March 12

• March 12, 2008 Designing Site-based, Job-embedded Staff Development

• March 11, 2008 March 5 Training: What Participants are Doing and Saying

• March 10, 2008 Tech-Tip Tuesday: March 11

• March 10, 2008 Tech-Tip-Tuesday Plan Revised ~ Based on Survey Results

• March 5, 2008 March 5 Tech Training Materials: Flyer, PPT and Evaluation

• March 4, 2008 Tech Tip Survey

• March 4, 2008 BESST-Evening Staff Holds First Team Huddle

• March 3, 2008 Nifty ESL Site: Breaking News English

• March 3, 2008 ESL/Citizenship: Fun online quiz

• March 3, 2008 Free Online GED Practice

• March 3, 2008 Family Literacy: A Helpful Resource

• March 3, 2008 Tech Tip: Building Basic Computer Skills w/Mouserobics

• March 3, 2008 PLC Meeting Minutes: Feb 27, 2008

• March 3, 2008 PLC at Work: 3 Crucial Questions that Drive our Work

• February 27, 2008 “Du-Four” Questions and Our Four Answers

• February 26, 2008 New Hands-On Tech Training – March 5, 2008

• February 25, 2008 Eating Well, Living Well: Nutrition Education for Adult ESL

• February 14, 2008 Fast-Acting Relief for the Computer-Lab Headache

• February 13, 2008 Learner Outcomes for ESL Beginning Literacy

• February 7, 2008 Building a PLC: One School’s Tips, Tools and Timeline

• February 7, 2008 A PLC at Work on Common Formative Assessments

• February 6, 2008 Pressing On with WordPress

• February 6, 2008 ESL Curriculum: Grammar Recommendation

• February 5, 2008 A Good-to-Great Professional Growth Plan

• February 4, 2008 Professional Growth Plan: Survey Results

• February 4, 2008 Happy 1st Week of 2nd Semester!

• February 1, 2008 Professional Learning Communities 2.0

• January 31, 2008 Sales Tax Calculator and Other Online Conversions

• January 30, 2008 More e-Surveys for Program Improvement

• January 29, 2008 Setting and Revisiting Adult Learner Goals

• January 28, 2008 Multiple Assessments for Next-Level ESL Placement

• January 25, 2008 A Popular “Persistence-Building” Strategy: Funny Money

• January 24, 2008 Persisting with Our Persistence-Building Strategies

• January 24, 2008 Listening Comprehension: Free Online Audio Resources for ESL Learners

• January 23, 2008 Tools and Templates for the Adult Educator

• January 22, 2008 Video Tutorials for the Virtual Learning Community

• January 16, 2008 Two Transformative Movements in Adult Education

• January 14, 2008 Free Online Surveys for Ongoing Program Improvement

• January 8, 2008 Reflecting on our IDP Progress on the Blog

• December 17, 2007 Technology + ESLRs = Results!

• December 13, 2007 A Spotlight on Top Tech Tips of 2007

• December 12, 2007 Time Management: A Trick with a Tick

• December 11, 2007 ESL Tech Tip from Taylor

• December 11, 2007 You Can Build a Teacher Web Page!

• December 10, 2007 Our Emergency Preparedness Team Equips Us to Respond

• December 6, 2007 Designing by Doing – A Dynamic Professional Growth Plan

• November 29, 2007 Paulo Freire and PLC

• November 29, 2007 Making Course Outlines Meaningful Tools for Learning Communities

• October 18, 2007 Adult Education in the 21st Century

• October 17, 2007 Two Thumbs Up for this ESL Site

• October 17, 2007 Online Tools for Teachers

• October 17, 2007 Have You Tried Google’s Web Page Translation?

• October 17, 2007 Have “Sum” Fun with Google’s Built-In Calculator

• October 9, 2007 Daily Oral English: Conversation Starters

• October 9, 2007 a4esl.org – Building Vocabulary using Smartboards

• October 8, 2007 A Professional Growth Plan for a PLC

• October 8, 2007 Persistence: A Key Focus for Success

• October 8, 2007 The Point Between Pretest and Post-Test

• October 7, 2007 Reply-All: A Virtual PLC

• October 6, 2007 The Matters of Adult Education