Entries by Jennifer Wigginton

Attitude of Gratitude

By Jenn Wigginton, IAACE Executive Director I’ve heard a lot of complaining about 2020; the pandemic has changed our lives, period. As I think about ‘Before COVID’ (BC), the virtual world looks completely different, but I think it is better.  In a Toastmasters meeting I had this week, we had a guest, and she was […]

LESSONS LEARNED

By: Darcey Mitschelen Indiana’s Region 2 represents the most Northern and central of counties in the state. Each county, (Saint Joseph, Marshall, Fulton, Kosciusko, and Elkhart are as unique as any five counties in the State. From orthopedics to RVs; from higher education to innovation; and from festivals to parks, there truly is something for […]

Things to Know

This time of year is one of my favorites. The cooler temperatures, the boots, and sweaters get to come out of the closet, and Halloween and Thanksgiving are two of my favorite holidays. My other favorite thing is the fall festival. It’s big here in Evansville. But no festival is happening this year, so I […]

Digital Reboot?

The COABE Webinar today, Digital Reboot (part 2) lead by Mary Gaston was full of awesome tools! Here is the Wakelet link to get access to all the tools she shared. Don’t forget that registering for the webinars even if you can’t attend will get you the link to view on your own time! Wakelet […]

Tips to Market Your Program

Marketing your program is more important than ever!  We market to 1. Inform, 2, Engage, 3. Build your reputation 4. To showcase success and 5. To Grow!  Rob is providing tips daily this week to market your program for Adult Education and Family Literacy Week but these tips can and should be used as a […]

What Happens When We Fail?

As a new school year begins, I tend to drift back to my experiences in school as a child. I hated school! During summer vacation, I roamed the woods and fields on my family farm and loved the feeling of escape from timelines, expectations and grades. I used to have nightmares of red pens scribbling […]

This is Genius!

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” – Peter Drucker I have learned a lot these past few months as we have been navigating this pandemic. One of the things I have learned about our membership is that our members need to hear what other members are doing and desire […]

Birthday, Birthday, Birthday

We hope writing it three times will help make it happen. Do you remember that we were going to have a big birthday party at the conference for everyone’s birthday? One of the things we were going to do at that event was to collect everyone’s birthday. We would love to have every member’s birthday […]

Happy Two Year Anniversary to Jenn

Howdy, Hi and Salutations! July marks my second anniversary of working as your IAACE Executive Director, and these two years have flown by fast. It’s that time that I remind you of past goals, the progress made, and show our plan on how to build upon them. The Conference goal, well, the pandemic had other […]

Short & Sweet Communications

Three things to Communicate 1. We have a few spots left for the Google Bootcamp via Zoom that is Wednesday, April 22, at 1:30 EDT -5:00 EDT. Register and complete acquiring the Digital Skills account by starting at https://iaace.com/google-bootcamp-2020/. 2. Jenn’s Open Zoom Chat is Friday, April 17, at 10:30 EDT. The guest for this […]