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LR/RI produces a bulletin roughly every
two
to three 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. To receive the bulletin via email, contact LR/RI.
August 31, 2005
Bulletin #201
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).
Janet Isserlis
____________________________________________________________
NOTICES
ESOL share - Tuesday,
September 20, at 2:30 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.
SHARING
IDEAS
FOR CONSTITUTION AND CITIZENSHIP DAY: As you may know (see just
below), Congress has passed legislation requiring that educational
institutions receiving federal funding must hold an educational program
for their students pertaining to the US Constitution on September 17th
of each year. Since September 17th falls on a Saturday this year,
Constitution Day can be held during the preceding or following
week. What does your organization have planned for Constitution
Day?
Please submit ideas for celebrating this day with adult education
students to Karisa Tashjian
(ktashjian@yahoo.com), Rhode
Island Family Literacy Initiative (RIFLI) by September 2nd. Karisa will compile a
list of ideas, to be posted on LR/RI’s website (and made available to
those without web access) in September. Any ideas or
resources are welcome.
The announcement of
the new
director for adult education and the grant award recipients has been
rescheduled for Wednesday, September 7 at 10:00. The staff
at Progreso Latino have graciously agreed to host the event and have
been extremely responsive
as we try to finalize a
date. Please mark your calendars. Thanks to everyone for their
help.
Upwardly
Global is a San Francisco based non-profit that helps
immigrant professionals rebuild their careers here in the United
States. Our mission is to increase economic opportunities for
unemployed and underemployed refugees, asylees, and immigrants
and to decrease the discrimination against immigrants in the labor
market. If you are part of a school or organization and would be
interested in hearing more about our program, please let me
know. If anyone has any ideas on how else I can reach Adult ESL
and other relevant training programs on a mass level, that would
also be great. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks for your time, Laura Villanueva - Summer Intern Upwardly Globala
road map to the American Constitution: http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/index.html
South Providence Neighborhood Ministries
(SPNM)
is sponsoring a community walk on the Broad Street Path to Health in Providence on Saturday,
September 17 from 9 am to 12 pm. This Southside
walking event is non-competitive and non-fundraising and a fun
opportunity for people of all ages and fitness levels to exercise
together! The Walk celebrates the 5th year of the Path created in
2001 to encourage walking as part of a healthy lifestyle. Colorful half
mile markers in four languages, English, Spanish, Haitian Creole
and Khmer, are permanently installed as guides for walkers on the
path. Broad Street Guides in English and Spanish will be available to
each walker along with water, lunch and raffle tickets. The first
150 registrants will receive T-shirts.
The Broad Street Path to Health Walk schedule is:
9 - 10 AM Registration, warm-up exercises and parking
[In-Town Providence Family YMCA, 164 Broad St. (1 mile)
Bank of America (1473 Broad St.) and Citizen’s Bank (14 77Broad St.)
(1.6 mile)]
10 AM Walk to SPNM begins from the two sites.
11 AM Celebration at SPNM - Wellness information,
activities, fun and light refreshments follow.
Agencies, businesses, religious institutions, ethnic, racial and
cultural groups are being invited to become Walk Community Co-sponsors
for the walk to encourage people of
all ages and physical capabilities to participate. Co-sponsors: May
attend the Path to Health
Coalition planning meetings August 4 and September 8; Will be mentioned
in major press
releases; Carry their banner during the September 17 walk; May bring a
table and chair for
information about their programs and participate in the Celebration.
Co-sponsoring community agencies bringing walkers include: Cambodian
Society of Rhode Island, Disciples of Christ Tabernacle Mission
Church, Elmwood Foundation, Genesis Center, Greater Elmwood
Neighborhood Services, Hispanic United Development Organization, Injury
Prevention Center, McAuley Village, Providence City Hall – Senior
Services, Providence In-Town Family YMCA, RI Free Clinic,
S.E.D.C., Southside Broad Street, Southside Community Land Trust,
Southside Merchants Association, Family Van of Women & Infants
Hospital, Urban League of RI. More are welcome.
Since its opening in May, 2001, the Broad Street Path to
Health has received national and local recognition. An article appeared
in the February 2004 Rails to Trails
Conservancy report, Creating Active Communities, Ten Case Studies
of Programs and Partnership. The Broad Street Guided Tour was
developed by Bobbi Houllahan as a mobile workshop for the International
Trails and Greenways Conference in 2003. An article in Vol. 2 of
The Christian Citizen, 2005, also highlighted the Broad Street
Path to Health, and in 2003 SPNM received a Meritorious Award
from the RI Public Health Association acknowledging SPNM efforts
to promote healthy lifestyles in the community.
Funding for the project is provided by the Rhode Island Department of
Health Office of Minority
Health with support from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
and the MetLife Foundation.
Groups interested in community co-sponsorship should call Bobbi
Houllahan or Sarah Zakowski at 461-7509.
events at the Providence Public Library: http://www.provlib.org/branchout/current.html
learning opportunities
Fall 2005 Literacy Class Schedule
East Providence Public Library
Weaver Library 41 Grove Avenue - 401-434-2453
English as a second language class for beginner to
intermediate students
Orientation / Placement Testing: September 8
Class: September 13 - December 15
Class meets: Tuesday & Thursday 6-8pm
Adult students and children 3yrs and older may attend English
classes.
Introduction to citizenship for intermediate to advanced students
Class: September 23 - December 9
Class meets: Friday 9:30-11:30am
Adult students only
English language drop-in tutoring for all adult students
Offered: September 12 - December 16
Time: Tuesday & Thursday 1-2pm
Riverside Branch Library 475 Bullocks Point Avenue -
401-433-4877
English as a second language class for intermediate to
advanced students
Starting in September
Class meets: Monday & Wednesday 4-6pm
Adult students and children 3yrs and older may attend English
classes.
For more information contact Literacy Coordinator,
Kevin McKay at 401-435-1988 or kmckay@eastprovidencelibrary.org
Major funding for these programs is from the City of
East
Providence, Bank of America, the City of Pawtucket
Community Block Grant Program, LSTA Funds through the RI Office of
Library & Information Services and the Institute of Museum
and Library Services, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and The
R.I. Department of Education
The Mobile Education Center Wheels to Work
Project will hold a Community Block Party for residents of
Central Falls at the Central Falls Public Library, 209 Central St on
September 7, 2005 from 4:00-7:00pm. The free event will invite
folks to learn about what is the Mobile Education Center is, and
how they can register to take one of the following classes: ESOL,
Citizenship, Computers or Work Readiness.
The Mayor of Central Falls, Charles Moreau and other city
officials will be on hand to welcome adults and their
families to this innovative classroom on wheels. The Mobile
Education Center is a US Department of Labor funded project of
The Institute for Labor Studies and Research, which is
aimed at helping adult learners develop the literacy and computer
skills necessary to get a job, promotion and ultimately succeed
in the workplace. The project will have a job and
life-skills counselor on site to assist people with their work
and educational goals.
Free classes will be offered for 15 weeks starting
September 8th. In person registration begins Sept 7th at
the event and will continue on Sept 8th, 9-1. Adult learners who
would like more info about literacy classes can call
the library after August 29th leave their name and number and someone
will call you back. The library number is 727-7440.
Refreshments and more will be served and all are welcomed to enjoy this
informative and fun-filled event. Please call Kristen McKenna, Project
Director at 463-9900
to participate or for more information.
funding
opportunities - large and less large
the Juanita
Sanchez Community Fund provides support for RI’s Latino
community by offering grant assistance to nonprofit organizations
working for the betterment of Latino people in Rhode Island.
http://www.rifoundation.org/matriarch/OnePiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_469_A_PageName_E_OtherFundingOpps
Application deadline: October 3.
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
Mobile Education Center Teachers
ILSR is accepting applications for the following teaching positions
tostart in Sept 2005
Part-time Adult ESOL and/or Pre GED and /or Citizenship
The position is 12.5 hours per week at $18.00 per hour for 40
weeks.
Teach two classes per week (3 days/mornings) and some Admin at our
Mobile Education Center at the Central Falls Library. Small classes,
Prep included. Position begins ASAP.
Part-time Computer Teacher- 1-2 years Experience
Beginner - Intermediate Computer Literacy
The position is 12.5 hours per week for 40 weeks @$20.00/hour
Teach 3 computer classes on Fridays and Saturday Morning, small
classes, prep included. Position begins ASAP.
Please send your resume and cover letter to
kmckenna@rilaborinstitute.org or
Attn: MEC Director
Institute for Labor Studies and Research
99 Bald Hill Rd.
Cranston, RI 02920
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 David Rosen and Susan Gaer
The International
Classroom
Virtual Visit project will begin again this September and
October, linking classrooms across the world to enable students to
meet each other virtually, share information about their
cultures, their classrooms, and their communities, and to build
cultural understanding. Classes can include English as a Second
or Other Language (ESOL/ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE,
GED), elementary or secondary education,
or family literacy. Students can be from age seven to adults.
As in past years, we hope classes will share
student-to-student questions and answers, and possibly
choose a film, book or current event to discuss.
This year we also hope some sites will use blogs, wikis, free Internet
telephony and m-learning (using mobile
phones to access Web pages). If you would like to participate in this
year's project, sign
up on the I.C.V.V. e-list by going to: http://lists.literacytent.org/mailman/listinfo/icvv
Scroll down the page to choose an ID and password. That's it,
easy and free. If you are already on the I.C.V.V. e-list, send an
e-mail to: icvv@lists.literacytent.org indicating your interest in
participating this year. Be sure to describe your
class, when it starts, and what age group or nationality, if any,
you would prefer to partner with.
To see classroom visit projects from previous years go to:
http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/school.htm
and then choose http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/school2003.htm.
We look forward to your joining the project. David J. Rosen
djrosen@comcast.net amd Susan Gaer sgaer@yahoo.com
The new issue of Focus on Basics is
available at http://www.ncsall.net/?id=818.
Corrections Education is the topic, but adult basic educators working
in every setting will find articles of relevance.
A writing workshop provides the glue for the Offender Re-Entry Program
that serves the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) House of Corrections,
writes Bob Flynn. Kathy Goebel describes why an emphasis on re-entry is
so important and the role that education plays in those efforts. John
Tyler finds among racial and ethnic minority offenders a 20% increase
in the earnings among GED holders relative to non-GED holders in the
first post-release year. That transition year is crucial, so this is
good news. However, these effects diminish over time and are not
found for white ex-offenders. Helsham uses Hawaiian cultural
references and literature in her classes in the Learning
Center in the Halawa Correctional Facility, teaches traditional hula
dancing and, in her class, members of rival gangs work together. If
you're doing it wrong, in hula, you have to change. Pauline Geraci
writes about using poetry in Minnesota. Dominique Chlup, Texas,
provides a chronology of corrections education from 1789 and an
in-depth discussion of this area over the past 65 years. Education's
role in corrections ebbs and flows as society's views of incarceration
shift from punishment-oriented to rehabilitative. Everyone has a right
to an education in Vermont, explains Tom Woods. Read about his school
and how it serves a transitory population with a huge range of
educational backgrounds and needs. While certain aspects of being a
teacher transcend place, some do not. For readers who are not
corrections educators, Dominique Chlup describes what it's like to
teach in a correctional facility. Recognizing that their learners
have a
high incidence of disabilities, low academic skills, and other related
challenges, Missouri and Ohio are using comprehensive screening systems
and putting into place a web of follow-up services, including
education. Laura Weisel, Alan Toops, and Robin Schwarz report on these
efforts. Bill Muth shares results of his research on assessing
offenders' literacy skills, beliefs, and practices and offers a model
of literacy assessment that can more meaningfully inform placement and
instruction. Just as services are learning to work together to maximize
their effectiveness, so are advisory boards. Marianna Ruprecht shares
how her advisory board used technology to do so. – from Barb
Garner Editor, Focus
on Basics
Professional development across the country
- what do you think?
The Professional Development discussion list (from the national
Institute for Literacy) has been synthesizing ideas offered by
practitioners around the country about professional development
policies. These policies, if adopted, could change how practitioners
are supported to access and benefit from professional development.
Introducing State Directors to policies that could improve their state
PD systems is our first step in this direction. We are asking you to
examine the draft PD Policies and the PD Matrix closely, and ask
questions. Post feedback to: jataylor@utk.edu. Provide examples from
your program or state that we can add to the PD Matrix.
http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/PDMethodsMatrix
Draft Executive Summary of
PD Policies July 29, 2005
PD Policy Matrix [Lists the policies, rationale (from research) and a
description of what the PD Policies could look like in practice (with
examples in some cases)]:
http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/PDPolicyMatrix After
September 14, we will make final revisions, then policies will go
to the AALPD membership for a vote this fall. After the vote, AALPD
will give the Policies to State Directors to use at the November State
Director's meeting in Denver; where State Directors have committed to
address how they would utilize these policy options as they develop
their multi-year state plans. From the Committee on Advocacy,
Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers - Cristine
Smith, Jackie Taylor and David J. Rosen
Reading: The U.S.
Department of Education, in response to requests made at the Even Start
State Coordinators annual business meeting in August 2004, is hosting a
series of three interactive webcasts addressing the adult education
component in Even Start programs. The goals of the series are to:
increase understanding of scientifically based reading research in the
field of adult education; expand knowledge of adult reading assessments
and connection to practice, and offer a variety of scientifically based
strategies that can be shared with your program staff members.
This webcast series is designed specifically for Even Start State
Coordinators. However, the information provided is helpful to anyone in
the field of family
literacy or adult education. Each webcast will be archived on this page
for a 6 month period to allow
time for viewers to share information broadly. http://www.famlit.org/ProgramsandInitiatives/EvenStart/Even-Start-Webcast.cfm
From EdInfo – Constitution 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
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.
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/
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
The Student
Coalition for Action in
Literacy
Education'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
The Student Coalition
for
Action in Literacy Education (SCALE)
- Read. Write. Act. Conference
October 27-29, UNC at Chapel Hill - created for campus-based literacy
programs, college student
tutors, program coordinators, adult learners and community partners.
The conference 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. Kathy Sikes,
Executive Director,
(SCALE) 919.962.1542
COABE and the Texas
Association
for Literacy and Adult Education invite proposals for
presentation at the 2006
COABE
National Conference, Houston April 26-29, 2006. While some of
website is under construction, [http://www.coabe06.org ] the Call for
Presentations is complete and can be downloaded. Proposals are
due Friday, November 18. The conference committee is interested
in outstanding and innovative practices in all aspects of adult
education including: basic literacy, workforce development,
family literacy, ESOL, volunteer/ community-based literacy, and
correctional education. Proposals in other areas of adult education
will also be considered.
The program committee seeks presentations based on successful
implementation, current research, and sound practice. In addition
to general adult education interest areas, this conference has
five special tracks. Improving Teaching and Learning
Outcomes, Integrating Technology and Instruction, Linking
Research to Practice, Promoting Adult Educators as Leaders, and
Advancing Change Through Education
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
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.
breathe - everyday yoga at your desk. http://www.mydailyyoga.com/yoga/everyday_yoga.html
what do you think? LR/RI has had an online survey
on its
site
forever. Previously, those who may have come across the survey
were
asked to copy and paste it into an email message, or to print it and
complete
it. Thanks to the brilliant technical support and inservice
learning
provided by Brown University, the survey can now be completed on
line.
I'd be grateful if you could please take the time to complete it.
While occasional word comes back about the work LR/RI has done, this
survey
attempts to be somewhat more systematic in considering the work that's
done and the work that needs to be accomplished. Please complete
the survey at http://www.brown.edu/lrri
- scroll
down and click on the link to the survey. If you lack web access
and wish to complete the survey, please contact LR/RI to receive one
via
snail mail or fax.
please
submit
Please contact LR/RI if you have information, questions or
announcements
to share with adult educators in Rhode Island. Bulletins go out at
least
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