National Webinar Series | Building Digital Skills and Creating Connections: Mini-Projects in Family Learning

Want fresh ideas for helping adult English learners build real-world language and digital skills? This webinar will explore simple, engaging mini-projects that build foundational digital literacy skills. Inspired by learner input, these projects help students connect with their families, workplaces, and communities using everyday digital tools. The presentation will focus on activities that work especially well for learners with limited digital experience. Project materials can be scaffolded, adapted, and reused across a wide range of adult English classrooms. Participants will take away practical, ready-to-use ideas that connect classroom learning to real life.

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Speaker:

Cassandra Kramer is an ESL instructor with the English Empowerment Center in northern Virginia. For close to four years, she taught in the Destination Workforce® Intensive English Program and in the Family Learning Program. A former coordinator of K-12 and adult education English language programs, she has a master’s degree in TESL and more than 10 years of teaching experience with children and adults. Cassandra has taught overseas in Israel, Nepal, and Ecuador. She is the recipient of the 2023 Joan E.D. Kushnir Teacher of the Year award from the Virginia Association for Adult and Continuing Education. She was also a “Top 5” Finalist for the 2024 Toyota Family Teacher of the Year national award from the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL). Cassandra is currently a Virtual Educator within the U.S. Department of State’s English Language Programs.