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LR/RI produces a bulletin roughly every two weeks in order to inform area practitioners of news, events, and calls for participation and also as a forum for posing questions, issues and discussion topics. The current bulletin is posted below. To read previous bulletins, go to Bulletin Archives.

July 8, 2005

Bulletin #199
 

Dear Colleagues, 

Calls for participation, employment, funding, and conference and workshop opportunities, online and other resources.  To post information,  and/or to receive the bulletin via email, please contact LR/RI or leave a message at (401-863-2839). 

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Janet Isserlis 
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NOTICES



Changes in the federal budget have been proposed.  Information is available at http://www.cbpp.org/2-9-05bud.htm, http://www.brown.edu/lrri/advocate.html, http://capwiz.com/tesol/home/  or contact janetisserlis@yahoo.com


ESOL  shareWednesday, July 13, at 2:00 pm at the Genesis Center,  620 Potters Avenue, Providence.  We’ve been talking about basic level literacy, native language literacy and goal setting..   Please join us.

Call for assistance for international educators: December 16-17, 2005, TESOL, Inc. will hold a
Symposium on English Language Teaching in Resource-Challenged Contexts in Dakar, Senegal. 
Many EFL teachers in W. Africa have their own personal resource challenges. The costs of traveling  to and participating in the symposium are prohibitive for many, so TESOL is waiving registration  fees for the event, providing hotel accommodations for up to 40 attendees and five meals for all  attendees.  For attendees beyond these 40, the room and board costs will be approximately $250  per participant. This cost is being met by various sorts of contributions, including individual  contributions.   Contributions should be made payable to TESOL, Inc. (with Dakar Symposium on  the For notation).  And can be sent to Brock Brady at Language and Foreign Studies. American  University, Washington, DC 20016-8045.  Please be sure to include your return address so that we  can acknowle your contribution (all contributions are tax deductible).  This is one of several  international symposia that TESOL has mounted in order to make conference participation more  accessible to members outside the US.  TESOL has already offered such symposia in Italy, in  Thailand, and will hold a symposium on dual language education in Istanbul, Turkey in September  23.  These symposia along with TESOL's new Global Membership rate, which provides a  discounted rate to teachers in countries where per capita income is not high, along with many other new global initiatives are finding ways to reach out to the average EFL teacher in ways that we have not been able to engage in before. It’s exciting to see this happen. For symposium details: http://tinyurl.com/9369p.

Rhode Island Adult Education Conference. http://www.brown.edu/lrri/conference05.html.  If you
attended and did not complete an evaluation form, please send it in – or contact LR/RI for an
electronic version to return via email.  Thanks to all who contributed time, energy and interest.

From the Fed: The Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation & Improvement announces that,
pursuant to legislation passed by Congress, educational institutions receiving Federal funding are
required to hold an educational program pertaining to the United States Constitution on
September 17 of each year.  This notice implements this provision as it applies to educational
institutions receiving Federal funding from the Department. Additional information is available
online at: http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/2005-2/052405b.html


Do you have a story to tell? Share your story in a community visual art contest to help celebrate
the 25h anniversary of The Peaceable Kingdom and its practice of collecting stories from around
the world.  Entries may be two or three dimensional.  There is no fee to enter.  We can’t wait to
hear your story!  Entries must be submitted by August 31, 2005 to The Peaceable Kingdom, 116
Ives Street, Providence, RI 02906
Prizes will be awarded in three categories (1) youth ages 14 and under; (2) adults; and (3) families  or groups!
First place winners in each category will receive cash prizes and their entries will be exhibited at
Providence City Hall.  Mayor David Cicilline will present awards at the opening reception for the
exhibit on September 29, 2005.  The exhibit will run until October 22, 2005. For more information  or to register for the contest please contact Joan or Siobhan at The Peaceable Kingdom (401-351 -3472) or email siobhan02906@yahoo.com

The National Even Start Association (NESA): call for papers for the spring 2006 issue of Family Literacy Forum, a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year by the NESA. 
Family Literacy Forum is committed to bringing the ideas and experiences of individuals in the field to the forefront of discussions about the literacy development of families in home, community, and school-based settings, and accepts manuscripts that focus on practice, theory and research in family literacy education.  We welcome manuscripts that discuss the following: 

Practical approaches related to working with families and literacy;  Personal essays, reflections or opinion pieces related to family literacy;  Research and evaluation related to family literacy program development; and, Issues of assessment and standards in the field. Manuscripts should be between 1,000 and 5,000 words.  Submissions should be typed in 12-point font double-spaced, including quotations and references. Include a cover sheet with the manuscript title, authors' names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. The names of the authors should not appear on the text as submissions are reviewed anonymously by peers.  Instead, type an identifying word on the top of each page. Follow the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, for reference style guidelines.  Present important
information in the text and do not use footnotes or extensive endnotes. Endmatter should be
ordered as: Author's Note (any general note about the manuscript such as acknowledgements,
grants, etc.); Children's Books Cited (when including a children's book list); and References.
Submit the manuscript electronically as an attachment to Claudia M. Ullman, Editor, Family
Literacy Forum at cullman2@nyc.rr.com.


Call  for Manuscripts:  Assessment  Practices in Adult  Basic Education  Grass Roots Press
Assessment Practices in Adult Basic Education is an edited book that  will be published by Grass
Roots Press in the fall of 2007. We conducted  a national survey on assessmentpractices with 400
practitioners in the  spring of 2005. The data from this survey wasused to determine the content.
The book will contain two main sections, with each section containing  4 chapters. The first
section will focus on the different types of assessment  tools while the second sectionwill deal with critical issues and topics  pertaining to assessment practices.
Submission  Guidelines We will accept proposals on one of the following topics: Diagnostic
assessment; Competency-based assessment; Performance assessment; Standardized assessment;
National  systems, standards, accountability frameworks, and assessment tools;Assessment  for
whom and for what?; Assessment: A balancing act.  Submit a one-page description of the chapter
you are proposing to write.  As well, include a 50 word biographical statement.  Submissions must
include contact information,including phone and e-mail  address.  Submissions can be sent  via e-
mail or mail to:  Pat Campbell Grass Roots Press,  6520 – 82 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta T6B 0E7 pcampbell@interbaun.com
Each writer will receive a $2000.00 Canadian honorarium upon submission  of the finaldraft of the chapter. The section II authors will be invited  to a one-day meeting to discuss critical issues in assessment of adult  basic education students. The discussion willcomprise the final chapter  for section II. The expenses for this one-day meeting will be covered, and will also include a $500.00 honorarium.
Deadlines Submission of chapter proposal: September 1, 2005. Successful applicants  will
becontacted by September 30, 2005. First drafts must be submitted  by February, 2006 and final
drafts are needed by June, 2006.  Download the complete  submission guidelines (PDF file – or
contact lrri@brown.edu for a word doc); details on this and other calls at
http://www.literacyjournal.ca/bbpages/jobsetc.htm


events at the Providence Public Library: http://www.provlib.org/branchout/current.html


learning opportunities

Summer programs?  - if your program is offering summer classes, and has space available,
please contact LR/RI so that this information can be shared with others needing to refer students.  Thank you.

TRANSITION TO COLLEGE, Project RIRAL's ABE-to-college transition project, in collaboration with the New England Literacy Resource Center is accepting applications for August 2005.  This free 16-week program assists non-traditional adult students to upgrade their academic skills, to receive support on their college and financial aid applications, and to receive academic counseling to transition more smoothly into college.  Students who enroll in TTC will also receive three academic credits from the Community College of Rhode Island.  Students are required to have a GED, EDP (External Diploma), or high school diploma and meet program criteria.  TTC meets three evenings during the week and on Saturday mornings at netWORKri 175 Main Street, Pawtucket and at CCRI in Providence. Anyone interested in attending should contact Marie Crecca-Romero at 722-9800, or email her (creccaromero@cox.net) to arrange for a placement test.  Space is limited.
Volunteer Mentors and/or Tutors needed.  If you are interested in mentoring and/or tutoring one of our adult students, please contact Marie.   For more information, visit our website at
http://www.transitiontocollege.org

Tutor available for English language learners (teaching one on one), and/or those wishing to learn
computer skills. $20/hour in the morning.  Call Tom Jones, 401-941-4389 .


Direct Action for Rights and Equality
(DARE) is offering a "Women at Work" workshop free of charge to labor and community organizations, and we're looking for groups to participate. Women at Work is a project of DARE's Jobs with Dignity Campaign, whose goal is to build women's leadership in the labor movement. In order to build connections between women workers and advance the issues that are important to women workers, this project conducts workshops which focus on efforts to preserve health care and to win community access to good, living wage jobs. If you'd like the DARE workshop team to come to a meeting, class, or other event and lead the 30-minute workshop, please contact Eric Larson at Eric_D_Larson@brown.edu.  

funding opportunities - large and less large


Toyota Family Literacy Louisville, KY (June 15, 2005) - The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) announces the expansion of its groundbreaking Toyota Family Literacy
Program. This expansion is made possible through Toyota Motor North America, long-time
partner of NCFL and supporter of family literacy.  Toyota Motor North America's $2.97 million
grant will fund the expansion of the successful Toyota Family Literacy Program into five new
communities across the nation. The Toyota Family Literacy Program provides Hispanic and other
immigrant families with quality family literacy programming, designed to increase basic language
and literacy skills, as well as provide parents with the specific skills they need to help their
children succeed. The program specifically serves children in kindergarten through third grade
and their parents.   Communities across the nation are eligible to apply for the opportunity to
develop the program in three elementary school sites per community. Through a competitive
application process,  five cities will be selected to receive grant funding, training and technical
assistance, materials and many other forms of support from NCFL.  Contact: Emily Kirkpatrick
National Center for Family Literacy Office: 502-584-1133 Cell: 502-649-7372 Email:
ekirkpatrick@famlit.org  Web site: www.famlit.or  or Mira Sleilati Toyota Motor North America
Office: 212-715-7435 Cell:  646-932-6128 Email: mira_sleilati@tma.toyota.com Web site:
www.toyota.com
For more information: http://www.famlit.org/ProgramsandInitiatives/tflp.cfm


Funding opportunities from  PEN Weekly NewsBlast,

Hasbro Children Foundation grants to support the development and/or expansion of programs for children. Maximum Award: $500-$35,000. Eligibility: Programs must provide direct services to children under age 13. They must serve children and families who are economically
disadvantaged. They must be innovative and provide a model from whichothers can learn.
Deadline: N/A.  http://www.hasbro.org

The Allen Foundation supports educational nutrition programs, with priority given to training
programs for children and young adults to improve their health and development. Maximum
Award: Past grants haveranged from $2,000 to $1 million. Eligibility: Schools and schooldistricts
should partner with local nonprofits to form nutrition education programs. Deadline: Ongoing.
http://www.allenfoundation.org/

The UPS Foundation funds volunteer management, hunger and literacy efforts.
http://www.community.ups.com/community/philanthropy/focus/main.html.

The federal government's new one stop grant site: http://www.grants.gov/


The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) announces another round of education reform grants in areas of social science research.  PRACC is particularly interested in issues such as high classroom turnover/mobility and its disproportionate impact on low-income, minority, and farm worker students.  However, other issues will be considered as well.  To apply, send PRRAC a proposal outlining the planned research and methodology, the advocacy work it is designed to support, a budget, timeline, and qualifications of the researchers.  Maximum grant: $10,000.  No application deadline. http://www.prrac.org/grants.htm


Funding Solutions for Small Nonprofit Organizations
A collection of resources to help small nonprofit organizations fundraise including ways to motivate your board, sample fundraising letters, phonathon advice, and tips to improve your direct mail solicitation. http://www.nonprofit-innovations.com/


employment opportunities
GRANT WRITER and PUBLICATIONS ASSOCIATE
Must have excellent writing and computer skills.  B.A. required.  Full time (3/4 time possible),
good benefits.  Entry to mid-level.   To apply:  Send resume and writing samples by August 7th to  Development, International Institute Rhode Island, 645 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907
(http:;//www.iiri.org).
Position Summary The Grant Writer & Publications Associate is primarily responsible for grant
writing and stewardship, drafting text for agency wide public relations materials (including the
agency’s website), editing of program specific materials, maintaining media contacts, and
assisting with various aspects of special events, and other special projects.  
Duties and 
Responsibilities
Grant Writing and Stewardship - Spearhead the production of grant proposals in conjunction with  the Director of Development and Communications as well as pertinent management and program  staff.  Maintain up to date monthly fundraising reports, grant production schedules, and tasks and  activities associated with pursuing them.  Work to cultivate and maintain positive relationships  with funders and partnering organizations.  Play a major team role in donor stewardship.  Public Information Materials and Website- Write and edit public information materials, including  newsletters, agency and program brochures, marketing materials, press releases, etc.  Edit flyers  and other public relations materials prepared by specific programs.  Provide editorial support for  agency website.
Special Events- Assist staff and volunteers in the office of Development and Communications with various aspects of planning and implementation for special events., and Special Projects as
Directed

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree (Masters preferred) with experience working/studying in a multi-cultural setting; Excellent writing and speaking skills and ability to work with a wide variety of constituencies.
Strong self-starter, capable of working independently; ability to organize and prioritize multiple
tasks and meet deadlines; dedicated to carefully proofing all materials prepared.; Excellent
working knowledge of:  Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Internet; email; high level of skill and  confidence with new programs.; Experience in development work and public relations a plus
Schedule 35 hours per week; willing to work some evenings and weekends. Supervisor Director of  Development and Communications


SABES Staff Development Specialist / Training and Development, World Education Boston, MA, full-time. SABES, the System for Adult Basic Education Support, funded by the Massachusetts Department of Education, provides professional development, technical assistance, and resources for Massachusetts Adult Basic Education programs and practitioners. The Staff Development Specialist/ Training and Development will work closely with the SABES Central Resource Center Director, regional SABES staff, and Massachusetts Department of Education staff to develop and coordinate several SABES initiatives. Full details available at : http://www.sabes.org/sabjob9.htm


Substitute list: if you would like your name added to the list, please see contact LR/RI.  The list needs to be updated so that it can function more usefully for teachers and programs hoping to work with them. (http://www.brown.edu/lrri/sub.html)

Rhode Island Community Jobs (RICOMJOB) is a public e-mail announcement list that seeks to raise the profile of meaningful work in Rhode Island by helping non-profit and public interest employers publicize openings effectively. Anyone seeking a job that makes a difference in Rhode Island can join the list.  Any non-profit, government or private sector employer advertising a paid position related to the public interest or community concerns can post a free job listing.  Positions must be paid but may be part-time, full-time or temporary.

To join the list as a job seeker or to post a job as an employer go to: http://www.ricommunityjobs.org

Rhode Island Community Jobs is supported by the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University and the Rhode Island Campus Compact.  If you have questions about this service, please contact us at ricomjob@brown.edu 


online / resources available

(from the NIFL women and Literacy and LD lists): The Center for Research on Women with
Disabilities at  (http://www.bcm.edu/crowd/)
site contains  news items, general  information about CROWD, and content on their main topics of   research (health behaviors, secondary conditions, health care, psychosocial  health, sexuality and  reproductive health, and violence).  CROWD has  compiled statistics about demographics and  health disparities for women  with disabilities of use to advocates, policy makers, and grant 
writers. The site also includes materials for students and researchers interested in the health of
women with disabilities and links to information  resources.  There is  also a page listing research
studies in progress for  which they are currently  recruiting participants.


The Massachusetts Worker Education Roundtable has designed a Workplace Health and
Safety ESOL Curriculum to help ESOL students learn about and exercise their workplace health and safety rights. The curriculum can be adapted for various ESOL levels or Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes.
The curriculum uses learner-centered activities that engage students in discussion, elicit and build
on their experiences as workers and encourage critical analysis and strategies. To view and
download this curriculum, go to http://www.umass.edu/roundtable.
The curriculum is based in part on the Workers Rights Pilot Curriculum by the University of
Massachusetts Labor Extension Program. The Workers Rights Pilot Curriculum is designed for
trainers and other staff of unions and community-based organizations who need to inform
workers of their basic rights under Massachusetts Law. The Roundtable has designed lessons that make the Pilot Curriculum's information more accessible to ESOL students. -  Jenny Lee Utech, Massachusetts Worker Education Roundtable

From EdInfoConstitution Resources tools for learning about the U.S. Constitution.  Meet the 55 delegates who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to rewrite the Articles of Confederation, read essays printed in  NYC papers urging ratification of their proposal.  Explore a 200-year timeline showing the impact  of the Constitution on our history.  Search the Constitution, see explanations of 300 topics.   http://www.ed.gov/free/constitution/index.html.  Also available at this URL:
United States Constitution - includes notes Washington wrote on his copy of the Constitution, his
diary at the Constitutional Convention, an essay on Madison's role in the Constitutional
Convention, Madison's notes on the debates, Jefferson's letter to Madison expressing his opinions  on the new Constitution & his belief that a Bill of Rights was needed, & more.     
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.html

Seeing Math
features a math curriculum, professional development for teachers, & software "interactives."  The interactives, available on the web, clarify key algebra concepts.  They help  students see connections between symbolic & graphic  representations of quadratic functions,  linear functions, piecewise linear functions, & morehttp://seeingmath.concord.org/resources.html

To subscribe to EDInfo, address an email message to:  listserv@listserv.ed.gov  Then write  SUBSCRIBE EDINFO YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the message,  (if you have a signature  block, please turn it off)  Then send it!        
Past messages: http://listserv.ed.gov/archives/edinfo.html
Other math resources at http://www.nwt.literacy.ca/northernedge/ - check Issue 3 (consumer math) and see other editions as well for interesting ideas on incorporating numeracy learning.

(for those working with young adult literacy learners: From the Knowledge Loom:
(http://knowledgeloom.org)
- a Web-based professional learning resource managed by the
Education Alliance at Brown University. It features collections of recommended practices for K-12  educators and draws on the work of nationally-recognized technical assistance organizations,  researchers, schools, and districts. In This Issue: The Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory announces participants selected for year-long online  learning opportunity for middle school and high school teachers. 
ADOLESCENT LITERACY COLLABORATORY  2005-2006,
a year-long online learning opportunity  for middle school and high school teachers of science, social studies, math, and English/language  arts, recently announced the names of school teams selected to participate during the 2005-2006  school year.  The Collaboratory, which draws on practices and resources from The Knowledge  Loom's Adolescent Literacy spotlight, will enter its third year with three different cohorts of  talented and committed teachers from the Virgin Islands, New York, Texas, Arizona, and Puerto  Rico. After a 5-day face-to-face literacy institute, Collaboratory participants spend the year  exploring literacy research,  exchanging strategies, and developing literacy-rich lessons in their  content areas, with the help of online coaches and an adolescent literacy expert. http://www.alliance.brown.edu/programs/lab/collab_info.shtml.


learning resources from EDInfo, a periodic email list, well worth pursuing http://www.ed.gov/free
While many of these resources are geared to K-12 audiences, many are easily adaptable , interesting toand useful for adults. To subscribe to EDInfo, address an email message to:  listserv@listserv.ed.gov  Then write SUBSCRIBE EDINFO YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the message Past messages: http://listserv.ed.gov/archives/edinfo.html

The Adult Literacy Education Wiki: "Wiki-wiki," a Hawaiian word meanimg very, very quickly, refers to a web site where you can immediately and easily add to or change text.  The best-known application is the Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia, created and modified daily by thousands of people across the world. We think a wiki can be a useful online environment for adult literacy practitioners, adult learner leaders, and researchers to have ongoing discussions in areas of mutual interest. 
The Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki is not a replacement for electronic lists.  It is a complement to, and we hope an enhancement of them.  Because a wiki is an easily edited document environment, current or past electronic list discussions can be selectively copied to the wiki, continued at any time, and referenced (and linked) in future e- list discussions. For each wiki discussion topic a summary, glossary, and list of research and other references can be created.  We hope the ALE Wiki will become a handy electronic reference shelf of definitions and resources for discussions which take place on adult literacy e-lists, and where one could easily find research citations, full-text studies, threaded discussions which have taken place on lists, and other materials organized around specific research topic areas and questions.  It could also be an environment where researchers describe their completed and ongoing work, see how practitioners are reacting to or using their research, and see what questions and issues practitioners and adult learner leaders think are important to study. 
A wiki, by design, is a participatory environment.  We invite you to work on the ALE wiki
with us. We are trying to organize this so that lots of people from the field are involved in adding/changing and editing text, but also so that in each of the areas there is a leader, a topic manager, to help keep things organized. The Adult Literacy Education Wiki, is online at 
http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page To set up an account, and add to the Wiki, go to: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Special:Userlogin Please e-mail David (djrosen1@comcast.net ) if you have technical  questions. 
We hope you  that you will join other researchers and practitioners who have begun to experiment with it.- David J. Rosen  Jackie Taylor  Marie Cora  Marian Thacher  Erik Jacobson

Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners  - provides support and resources to adult education and family literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning English and provides a variety of materials to help practitioners meet the language and literacy development needs of the ELL students they serve. These include responses to Frequently Asked Questions, a first-day orientation guide, lesson plans, research-to-practice papers on English language and literacy learning, and an annotated list of English and Spanish language assessments in use.  On the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition Web site, the Index page at http://www.cal.org/caela/elltoolkit allows you to select and download the entire document or to select and download topics of interest as needed.  The toolkit is made possible by a grant from the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education,
through DTI Associates, and is a collaborative effort between the National Center for Family Literacy and the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) http://www.cal.org. If you have comments or questions about the Practitioner Toolkit, please contact Lynda Terrill at lterrill@cal.org.

Google Scholar enables searches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as articles available across the web.  Google Scholar orders search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has
been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that
appear only in books or other offline publications. http://scholar.google.com/

Literacies, a Candian journal, is available by subscription and archived online.  Special sections of the website recently posted include: three oral history projects at http://www.literacyjournal.ca/oh.htm  and have added a practitioner knowledge page at http://www.literacyjournal.ca/cw.htm.

Living in Poverty slideshow does the math: what does it take to live at the poverty level.
http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm


RI Foundation online scholarship directory - searchable by city/town, intended field of study, current high school, and more. http://scholarship.rifoundation.org/


YouthBuild USA Learning Network has links to Web sites and full-text documents, and  includes a section on "Authentic Materials/Engaged Learning/Constructivism/Contextual Learning/Project-based Learning." http://www.youthbuild.org/learningnetwork/professionaldev.html

Providence Community Resource Network (PCRN) http://www.provplan.org/pcrn
Spanish language version of PCRN is up and running.  You can access the site from the PCRN home page, http://www.provplan.org/pcrn, or go to http://www.provplan.org/pcrnespa. The Web pages, online instructions, and the content of the database have all been translated.


Civics 101 -  website of the RI Secretary of State, at http://www.rules.state.ri.us/civics_101/; a high school curriculum that may be adaptable for adult learners and/or useful for initiating critical
reflection about citizenship and communities.
conferences and workshops - conferences and workshops are listed chronologically and are updated with each bulletin


Rhode Island - Training/events around employment issues for people with disabilities http://www.ric.edu/uap/training.html

CALL FOR PRESENTERS The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education requests
workshop proposals for SCALE's Read. Write. Act. Conference October 27-29, 2005 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Please join us for the only national conference created specifically for campus-based literacy programs, college student tutors, program coordinators, adult learners and community partners. We welcome you to submit a proposal that addresses one of our conference themes:
Tutoring Strategies and Techniques, Social Justice & Activism in Education, Civic Engagement & Reflection; Service Learning, Assessment & Evaluation, Policy Issues, Program Practice & Program Management (e.g. volunteer recruitment,, tutor training, sustaining your program), Diversity and Community Partnerships

SCALE's annual Read. Write. Act. Conference is a unique national networking opportunity and learning event. It offers the chance for campus programs, tutors, coordinators, new readers, administrators and community partners to share information, develop new skills, reflect
on experiences and generate ideas to build more effective campus-based literacy programs. Conference Participants will include:
Representatives from adult, youth and ESL campus-based literacy programs; undergraduate and graduate student leaders, tutors, mentors and volunteers; service-learning faculty; community service staff and America Reads administrators; adult learners; community partners;
AmeriCorps/ VISTA volunteers.  To submit a workshop proposal, please go to: http://www.readwriteact.org/conference.html. Deadline for
submitting a proposal is June 30.Kathy Sikes, Executive Director, Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education ph: 919.962.1542  fax: 919.962.6020


Institute By the Bay COABE Regional Institute, October 23 - 24, 2006, Portland, Maine -  Maine
Adult Education Association is hosting a Region 1 COABE Institute in 2006.  We are planning the  workshops and invite you to click on the link below and complete the needs survey.  It should only  take you 5 - 10 minutes to complete the short survey.  Thank you for your time to help plan this  exciting opportunity.  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=346701135288  More detailed  information will follow this fall  Evelyn Beaulieu, Director, Center for Adult Learning and Literacy,  5749 Merrill Hall, UM, Orono, ME  04469, (207) 581-2413, evelyn.beaulieu@umit.maine.edu

Teleconference: Utilizing Federal Financial Aid to Fund Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities Tuesday, July 19,  3-4pm EST
This teleconference will cover issues and resources related to financial aid for postsecondary
students, with an additional focus on students with disabilities. Included in the discussion will be
general student eligibility requirements, "Ability to Benefit", Title IV Programs, and web-based
resources.
Speakers:  Dan Klock, Program Specialist, Policy Liaison and Implementation Division of the
Federal Office of Student Financial Aid Megan A. Conway, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Coordinator, National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
http://www.ncset.hawaii.edu
Associate Editor, Review of Disability Studies (RDS) www.rds.hawaii.edu
- Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1776, University Avenue, UA 4-6, Honolulu, HI 96822, Tel: 808-956-6166 Fax: 808-956-7878  Email: mconway@hawaii.edu

other events and conferences http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/Calendar/calendar_world.cgi

TESOL worldwide calendar of events http://www.tesol.org/isaffil/calendar/index.html



from previous bulletins: REMINDERS, RESOURCES


SABES Resource Lists Available.  From Carey Reid [full message here]:
As you might know, Massachusetts now has a rigorous, stand-alone ABE teacher's license.  SABES, the System for Adult Basic Education Support, is a state-wide staff development system funded by MassDOE. 
Ö[S]months ago I asked if NLA subscribers were interested in helping SABES build resource lists, by standard, in support of teachers seeking the new license here in Massachusetts.  Many of you helped out, thank you, and we've also worked with small groups of people locally to build these 29 lists, now with over 150 resources--books, articles, websites, and videos.  The lists are now available on SABES's  license support website at http://www.sabes.org/license.  You can get quickly to the lists by clicking on the "new resources added" link under What's New, or at any time by using the resources link on the bottom of every webpage.  When you arrive at the chart listing the 29 standards, click on any standard to go to the resource list we've compiled for it.   The lists are annotated; with the annotations, teachers who wish to improve their knowledge and skills in respect to a particular standard can be more assured they're getting the resource they want or need.  If the resource can be viewed or downloaded on the Net, we've provided a link. 

Additionally, we want to improve these lists, so please email me if you'd like to suggest additions or changes.  BTW, the full list of resources is also collected in a ProCite bibliography file, so if you use that software and would like to have your own "instant" database, let me know and I'll email you the file. As stated earlier, SABES is funded by the Massachusetts Department of Education.  To avoid confusion, the website is not an official DOE site but rather one of SABES's means of supporting license-seeking teachers in our state.  Links to Massachusetts DOE webpages, however, are provided on the site.



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