The Massachusetts System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES) is a staff and program development initiative that serves adult basic education, English for speakers of other languages, and adult secondary education programs and practitioners. SABES is composed of six institutional partners: Bristol Community College, Holyoke Community College, Northern Essex Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and World Education. Many of the following publications as well as other literacy resources are available at our web site, www.sabes.org.

System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES)

The following publications were funded by the Department of Education, Adult and Community Learning Services (ACLS).

Field Notes
Field Notes is a quarterly theme-based newsletter written by adult basic education practitioners in Massachusetts. Field Notes is a place for teachers, administrators, counselors, and other staff in adult education to write about their work and to share innovative and reliable practices, resources, and information. In Field Notes you will find new ideas, discussion of current issues, policies and practices, and reviews of books and other materials. Field Notes incorporates a wide range of voices representing the full range of diversity of learners and practitioners in the field. Edited by Lenore Balliro. Field Notes is free to ABE practitioners in Massachusetts; annual hardcopy subscription outside Massachusetts is $15.00. Back issues are currently available free of charge.

Vol. 15, No. 4: Curriculum Frameworks, Summer 2006. 28 pages.
Vol. 15, No. 3: Staff and Program Development, Spring 2006. 28 pages.
Vol. 15, No. 2: Classroom Management, Winter 2005. 16 pages.
Vol. 15, No. 1: Workforce Education, Fall 2005. 31 pages.
Vol. 14, No. 4: Open Issue, Summer 2005. 20 pages.
Vol. 14, No. 3: Teaching Without Textbooks, Winter/Spring 2005. 28 pages.
Vol. 13, No. 4: Adult Secondary Education, Spring 2004. 20 pages.
Vol. 13, No. 2: Counseling, Fall 2003. 20 pages.
Vol. 13, No. 1: Open Issue, Summer 2003. 20 pages.
Vol. 12, No. 4: Licensure, Spring 2003. 20 pages.
Vol. 12, No. 3: Prison, Winter 2003. 24 pages.
Vol. 12, No. 2: Science, Fall 2002. 24 pages.
Vol. 12, No. 1: How I Got Into the Field of ABE and Why I Stay There, Summer 2002. 20 pages.
Vol. 11, No. 4: Youth in ABE Programs, Spring 2002. 16 pages.
Vol. 11, No. 3: September 11: What is our Role? Winter 2002. 24 pages.
Vol. 11, No. 1: Summer Reading, Summer 2001. 16 pages.
Vol. 10, No. 1: What’s in a name? Summer 2000. 28 pages.

The Simultaneous Model of Education and Training, A Replication Model
This manual describes a highly effective, cost and time efficient approach to integrating basic education and vocational training. It has been credited with changing the way some of its readers think about providing training to adults. 34 pages. By Barbara Garner, 1994. Funded by the Massachusetts DOE and DPW. $5.00.

Talking Together: Training for Community Interpreters
This training is designed to improve the skills of interpreters who work in medical, social service, and legal settings. It includes all the information necessary to run the 15-hour training. The Interpreter's Handbook should be used as a text for training participants. Trainer's manual, 60 pages. Interpreter's Handbook, 32 pages. By Barbara Garner, 1994. Interpreter's Handbooks (sets of five) $15.00; Trainer's Manual $22.00.

1999 Workplace Education Guide
This guide is a product of the 1994-1997 collaborative effort, initiated by MassDOE, between local employers, educational providers, and labor unions. Divided into chapters with titles ranging from Labor/Management Partnerships to Workplace Education Classes & Curriculum Development, it presents the major issues and challenges faced by most workplace programs and offers practical solutions from the field. Whether you’re evaluating a program or developing a curriculum, the accounts of the diverse approaches to a variety of challenges will prove a valuable resource to guide your work. 88 pages. Published by the Massachusetts Workplace Literacy Consortium, 1999. $2.00.

Adventures in Assessment: Learner-centered approaches to assessment and evaluation in adult literacy
Massachusetts' and other adult literacy practitioners share their experiences developing and implementing learner-centered assessment. All volumes are $2.00 each.

Volume 16: Bringing Standardized Assessment Practices Into the Classroom, Spring 2004. 42 pages.
Volume 15: Assessment in Motion, Spring 2003. 32 pages.
Volume 14: Examining Performance, Spring 2002. 72 pages.
Volume 13: Meeting the Accountability Challenge, Spring 2001. 57 pages.
Volume 12: Experiences with Standards-Based Reform, Winter 2000. 66 pages.
Volume 11: Aspects, Levels, and Perspectives, Winter 1998. 84 pages.
Volume 10: Time to Reflect, December 1997. 85 pages.
Volume 9: Rethinking Assessment, December 1996. 55 pages.
Volume 8: Meeting the Challenge of Authentic Assessment, December 1995. 67 pages.
Volume 7: The Partnership Project, December 1994. 97 pages.
Volume 6: Responding to the Dream Conference, April 1994. 76 pages.
Volume 5: The Tale of the Tools, October 1993. 96 pages.
Volume 4: Goal-Setting, Tape, Journals and Other Projects, April 1993. 52 pages.
Volume 3: Looking Back, Starting Again, November 1992. 82 pages.
Volume 2: Ongoing, May 1992. 84 pages.
Volume 1: Getting Started, November 1991. 80 pages.

Technology and Literacy

Under Construction: Building Web Sites as a Project-based Learning Activity for ABE/ESOL Classes: Tips for Teachers
This short guidebook is designed to provide adult literacy and ESOL staff developers and teachers with some simple, user-friendly advice on building web sites as a project-based learning activity. Based on what we have learned over the years while training teachers and their students to build their own sites, each chapter discusses the major steps in the process, from planning and building a site to reviewing and testing it. 52 pages. By Jeff Carter with Steve Quann, 2003. $12.50.

Technology in Today's ABE Classroom: A Look at the Technology Practices and Preferences of Adult Basic Education Teachers
A public report based on data from two interrelated surveys of adult literacy programs conducted throughout the northeast U.S. during the winter of 2003. These surveys were designed, tabulated, and analyzed by World Education staff. 12 pages. By Jeff Carter and Judy Titzel, 2003. $7.00.