Stephanie Cronen

This project explores the rollout of the Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM) initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) and will develop and pilot test instructional resources for TSTM, delivered through an online platform called SkillBlox. The TSTM initiative seeks to align the skills teachers focus on in the classroom and students' needs and interests in part by providing the TSTM framework. This framework focuses on nine intra/...

The Adult Skills Network (ASN) lead serves two primary roles. First, the lead will provide ASN coordination and management to facilitate the work of all ASN grantees in meeting their shared goal to address the needs of adults with low basic skills or academic attainment. Second, the lead will provide national leadership in knowledge generation and translation and guides large-scale dissemination of research-based resources to practitioners and other stakeholders in a form they can effectivel...

New York State established "Literacy Zone" funding to improve the outcomes of adult education programs located in its poorest neighborhoods. These Literacy Zone grants help adult education programs to fund comprehensive case management services to help adult learners access and succeed in education and training programs by leveraging wraparound services intended to address health concerns, childcare needs, or other needs that may create a barrier to program participation. The IES partnership...