What We Do &
Why We Do It
Why We Do It
This center provides statewide technical support to adult educators and learners.
What is the Distance Education Call Center?
This breakfast item is considered a statewide love language.
What is the breakfast taco?
The number one thing our AEL students forget when using digital platforms during class.
What is their passwords?
This learning platform is the new location of the PD Portal.
What is Canvas?
4.8 million Texas adults are in need of this.
What is adult education programs?
This initiative helps adult learners and job seekers connect learning to real careers.
What is Career Pathways?
The Texas town best known for the River Walk.
What is San Antonio?
The biggest obstacles that prevent AEL students from achieving their educational goals.
What is work, family, or transportation challenges?
This free tool allows learners to create and edit documents together in real time.
What is Google Workspace?
4.8 million Texas adults are in need of adult education programs. Federal funds serve about what percent of that need?
What is about 3%?
This statewide professional development initiative provides training, coaching, and support for adult education programs across Texas.
What is TRAIN PD?
This is the official state sport of Texas.
What is the rodeo?
Career Pathways focus on aligning instruction to these systems.
What are workforce and employment goals?
This accessibility-friendly tool allows learners and instructors to create interactive, multimedia books.
What is Book Creator?
Texas ranks this number out of 50 among states in the percentage of adults over 25 without a high school diploma.
What is 49th?
Three conferences held by the AEL Centers in Texas.
What is the Fall (AEL) Institute, the Distance Learning and Technology Integration Symposium, and the Career Pathways Symposium?
The Caddo word “tejas” means this friendly term that inspired the name “Texas.”
What is “friends” or “allies”?
If an adult student has a difficult schedule that prevents them from attending classes, this might be a good option for them to achieve their education goals.
What is distance learning?
This platform, which was featured during one of our Lunchtime Byte sessions during Tech-tober, allows instructors to turn videos into interactive lessons with embedded questions.
What is Edpuzzle?
The approximate number of children who live in poverty — a factor closely tied to adult-literacy challenges.
What is 1.7 million?
TCALL conducts and supports this to inform and improve adult education practice.
What are jobs and daily life?
The Texas city most likely to start the “Mexico or Texas?” vacation debate.
What is South Padre or Brownsville?
This instructional challenge requires balancing different skills, backgrounds, goals, and pacing needs within the same classroom.
What is teaching a multi-level class?
This teaching strategy breaks learning into small, manageable steps with frequent checks for understanding — not just at the end.
What is scaffolding? or What is formative assessment?
The number or percentage of Texas residents that speak a language other than English at home.
What is ~6.5 million Texans (≈40%)?