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ACLS Mailing with Summaries

The monthly mailing for October is now posted. Please review the information and share with your staff.

• REMINDER: The View Conference focuses on Literacy - Sharon Darling, National Center for Family Literacy is the keynote speaker! The View will take place on Monday, November 2, 2009 at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel in Marlborough, MA.

• The Money Conference: Rebounding from a Recession, Saturday, November 14, 2009 at The Sheraton Boston Hotel, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA 8:00AM - 3:30PM

• ACLS has purchased a KET statewide license for GED Connections, TV411 and Workplace Essential Skills. The license is effective from March 1, 2009 to December 31, 2011.

  To learn more about these products available to programs in Massachusetts please go to the KET website.

  

  TV411

  

  Pre-GED Connections

  

  GED Connections

  

  Workplace Essential Skills

  For more information on using and purchasing these products at discounted prices contact KET at (800) 354-9067. Refer to the Massachusetts state license.

  Programs may also obtain a digital master of GED Connection and Workplace Essential Skills for purposes of duplication by contacting KET at (800) 354-9067.

• SMARTT Update

  • Steps to Start the New Fiscal year
  • Update Work e-mails for Staff
  • GED Data Matching - Match Completed on 10/9/2009
  • Performance Standards Reports for FY09 are now available in Cognos
  • Smartt Training Schedule

• Workforce Development Update   

  • Hot News
  • ABE/ESOL Subcommittee of the MA Workforce Investment Board: Next meeting 9/14 from 9-11a.m. at Commonwealth Corporation
  • MA Workforce Board Association News
  • Upcoming Events
  • Local WIB News
  • Foundation News/Research Updates
  • Professional Development