NASDAE – for Adult Education

Message from NASDAE’s Executive Director

Dear NASDAE Members and Friends,

NASDAE wants to hear from you about how we can best assist the field of adult education to continue to provide excellent services to adult learners.

The adults who persist in learning while navigating family, employment, health, and financial demands are making a commitment to become better workers, parents, and community members. Many of our students enter or advance in employment during and after participation. Many earn a high school diploma, a vital key to employment and higher education opportunities. Many gain the skills to end intergenerational cycles of low literacy and low educational attainment.

NASDAE remains available to support all State Directors of Adult Education and continues to work with our partners in the broader system of adult foundational education with the goal of strengthening and enhancing the availability of services.

We thank our many colleagues who join us in supporting the work of adult education, including our partner associations and coalitions, our sponsors, state directors, local program providers, and we extend a special thank you to our colleagues at the Division of Adult Education and Literacy who have held programs to the high standards that have been achieved and provided support and resources for those achievements.

We look forward to hearing from you as we continue to work together on behalf of adult learners.

Best Regards,
Patricia Tyler
Executive Director

Message from NASDAE’s Assistant Director

Dear NASDAE Colleagues,

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to work with you, the dedicated colleagues in the field of adult education! Thank you for what you do for our students!

NASDAE is committed to providing support, resources, and networking opportunities for the State Directors of Adult Education and their staff. I look forward to continuing to do my part to make the work of NASDAE an important contributor to our national system and to help states/territories provide critical educational services to their adult learner population.

Please reach out to me directly at sohart@nasdae.org with any questions, comments or suggestions.

Sincerely,
Sheryl O. Hart
Assistant Director

The National Association of State Directors of Adult Education exists to provide support and resources to the lead administrators of adult education in 50 U.S. States and 7 Territories.

NASDAE is the re-named organization that has supported State Directors of Adult Education and their staff for almost three decades under the name of the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium (NAEPEDC), since its incorporation in 1990. While newly named to reflect the full body of our organizational work, the mission remains the same: to advance the leadership of state staff in adult education throughout the states and territories so that every program will be of quality and excellence as we together increase literacy and prepare adults for success as contributing members of our society through work, community and family; and, will be the leading voice in adult education for the nation.