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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.
January 20, 2006
Bulletin #208
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, January 24 at the Genesis Center,
620 Potters Avenue, Providence, at 2:30 p.m. We’re talking about
use of texts books, developing themes, lessons, curricula from a range
of perspectives. Please join us; bring a favorite (or
problematic?) text, idea, theme unit to share.
Practitioner
minigrant projects are underway – read about them at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/minigrant0506.html.
The CALL Interest
Section of the international TESOL professional association offers the
opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2006
season, a professional development project and virtual extension of the
TESOL 2006 Convention in Tampa Bay. The intended audience includes both
TESOL 2006 participants and those who can participate only virtually.
You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in a free,
six-week, wholly online session of the EVO, Jan-Feb, 2006. Please
visit our Announcement Web page to select topics/sessions: http://webpages.csus.edu/~hansonsm/announce.html
- The EVO Coordination Team
The fourth annual RI Adult Educators
Conference will be held on May 11, 2006. The following
call for proposals also posted on the LR.RI website at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/conference06.html
The conference aims to bring together a range of voices and knowledge
and to further opportunities for area adult educators to share ideas
and learn with one another. We look forward to your being part of
this process. We need people to present ideas, people to
participate in
sessions and people to help us, after the conference, to help plan for
an extended two-day conference next fall. Proposals are
encouraged in all areas of adult learning and teaching, including the
range of contexts and settings in which such learning occurs. Of
particular interest are sessions addressing and exploring best
practices centered on fostering civic participation and community
involvement, as one of the key purposes named by adult learners for
participating in adult education programs.
To submit a proposal, please complete and submit your information (see
below) by February 28th
(by email, fax – 8634-3094 – or snail mail).
To register for the conference, please contact Yvette Kenner at (401)
861-0815, or email janet_isserlis@brown.edu. The conference will
again be held at the Airport Radisson in Warwick. The
registration fee is $25 per person, and scholarships are available.
Deadline for registration is April 30th.
Rhode Island State Adult
Education Conference: call for proposals
We are seeking proposals for workshops (demonstrations of teaching, use
of materials, hands-on activities and discussions of particular
topics), roundtables (discussions of issues of concern and interest)
and/or panels (more formal discussions involving 3 or 4 people and a
moderator) for the conference to be held on May 11th.
Lead Presenter/Session Organizer
Name
Mailing address
Email
Phone: (w)________________ (h)_________________
[please also list names of others participating, if applicable]
Presentation type (see below for descriptions):
__ Workshop (1 hour 30 minutes or 2 one-hour slots) an activity
emphasizing participant involvement, carefully structured by the
facilitator, and containing little lecturing.
___ Roundtable (1 hour or 1.5 hours) facilitated discussion with
panelists that actively engages participants
___ Panel (1 hour 30 minutes or 2 one-hour slots) (more formal, brief
prepared remarks by panelists with time for questions and answers with
conference audience)
Title of presentation
Attach 2 copies of a one-page abstract of your presentation
double-spaced.
Attach bio of each presenter. (25-word MAXIMUM)
Attach program summary. (50-word MAXIMUM)
If my proposal is accepted, as the lead presenter/organizer I agree to
coordinate the above presenter/organizer responsibilities.
Signature of Lead Presenter
Please return this, by mail or email by February 28th to janet_isserlis@brown.edu
Janet Isserlis, LR/RI, PO Box 1974, Brown University, Providence, RI
02912 For a separate copy of this call (as an email attachment,
fax or via snail mail), please contact LR/RI.
ALE Wiki: Katrina - families,
literacy, access and community
The Literacy
Assistance Center announces a call for
papers for the 2006 issue of our peer-reviewed annual journal, Literacy
Harvest. The theme of this issue is Supporting Immigrants'
Success. Manuscripts are due March 1, 2006. Please see our website at
http://www.lacnyc.org/resources/publications/harvest/LitHarv06_call.htm
for a complete description and submission guidelines, including a PDF
you can download for posting in your organization or department. Please
feel free to contact me if you have any questions. - Jan Gallagher.
Director of Communication, Literacy Assistance Center, 32 Broadway,
10th floor, New York, NY 10004, 212-803-3332
The Broad Street Path to Health Programs
South Providence Neighborhood Ministries 747 Broad St, Providence Free
Winter Exercise Support Groups and Classes at South Providence
Neighborhood Ministries including Latin Dancercize, Mondays 5:30
– 6:30 PM with teacher Madeline Vidal,Healthy Lifestyle Support Group,
Wednesdays, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM with group meeting, nutrition or health
education and indoor walking exercise. Gentle pilates, Fridays, 11:30
–1:00 PM with YMCA instructor Jane McMaugh.
For more information, call Bobbi at 461-7509. All programs are free,
conducted in English and Spanish and funded through RI HEALTH Office of
Minority Health with support from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode
Island. Also, a free six week Stress Management class in Spanish,
starting Thursday, January 12, will be taught by Esperanza Gomez and
funded through a Healthy Neighborhood Award from Neighborhood Health
Plan of Rhode Island. For information, call Bobbi at
461-7509 Funded through RI HEALTH Office of Minority
Health with support from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.
The Rhode Island
Center for the Book announces the selection of Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson for Reading
Across Rhode Island 2006. RARI’s first nonfiction
selection, Shadow Divers is a gripping story of "regular guys"
transformed by adventure and history. This true story focuses on
It is the true story of two deep sea divers,John Chatterton and Richie
Kohler, two deep sea divers, and their obsessive investigation of a
mysterious wreck lying at the perilous depth of 230 feet off the coast
of New Jersey. The Conference on January 28th will feature Richie
Kohler as the keynote speaker.
Teachers, librarians and book group leaders (and any readers who would
like to join the fun) are invited to the fourth Annual Literacy
Conference kicking off the 2006 Reading Across Rhode Island project
based on Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers. Rhode Island College is
the venue for the conference to be held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00
p.m. The conference registration fee is $25 and the brochure is
available at http://www.readingacrossri/
in a downloadable pdf file. The conference will offer book discussion
leaders the support, ideas, and resources to bring Shadow Divers into
their classrooms, libraries, bookshops and reading groups to use as an
engaging vehicle for discussion and the basis for community events and
activities from January through May, 2006.
Workshops will cover historical and scientific aspects of the
book. Among the presenters are local divers, members of Save the
Bay and the Newport Naval War College, and other local experts on World
War II. Librarian Joyce May returns with Cynthia Trainer from Warwick
Public Library, offering a session on choosing nonfiction titles for
book groups; another session will look at the use of primary sources in
writing, teaching and even art! Nationally recognized musician, Craig
Edwards, the Coordinator of Historic Music Programs at Mystic Seaport,
has agreed to offer two sessions on the Songs of War at Sea: Sank Them
in the Lowlands Low. The day will culminate with the keynote speaker,
Richie Kohler, talking about his diving experiences and the discovery
of the U-869. Information regarding the conference and
other planned activities along with suggested reading lists, book
discussion guides, audio interviews with the author and other
supplementary material may be found at http://www.readingacrossri.org/.
This year’s project is presented by the RI Center for the Book and the
Providence Public Library and sponsored by Fidelity Investments,
Reading with Robin, a local radio talk show about books, the
Corporation for National and Community Services and Random House
Publishing. If you have any questions, call me at 455-8134.
Hope to see you on January 28th!
Dear Colleague:
This letter is a reminder to RSVP your attendance to the Latino Family
Literacy Forum scheduled for February 2, 2006 at the Culinary Archives
& Museum at the Johnson & Wales University to Tracy Robbins –
273-8866 X-102. Seating is limited!
We have been able to assemble an outstanding panel of experts for this
event who will be able to support and encourage the development of
Toyota programs in the Rhode Island area, but they will also bring to
the Forum the national perspective on working with our immigrant
families. Roberto Suro, Director of the Pew Hispanic Center in
Washington DC, will be the keynote speaker. Roberto serves on NCFL’s
Hispanic Family Learning Institute board and is an on-going advisor to
the work we do with immigrant families.
Paul Ruiz, a Principal Partner of the Education Trust, who has focused
much of his work on the achievement gap between minority populations
and others, will be a featured panelist. Both he and Roberto are
nationally-known figures, and we feel most fortunate to have secured
both of these gentlemen for this event. Other panel members are
our own President of NCFL Sharon Darling, RI State Director of Adult
Education Dr. Johan Uvin, and Assistant Superintendent of the Provident
Public Schools Tomas Ramirez. State Senator Juan Pichardo
will be a part of the Forum and both the Governor of Rhode Island and
the Mayor of Providence have been invited. All three gentlemen
attended and spoke at the event last year.
We look forward to seeing you and sharing the wonderful work of the
Toyota Family Literacy Programs. Sincerely, Brenda Dann-Messier,
Ed.D. President, Dorcas Place
and Donnie W. Evans, Ed.D., Superintendent Providence
Public Schools
learning
opportunities
Providence Public Library events
- http://www.provlib.org/branchout/current.html
funding
opportunities - large and less large
Technology Grant News: 2006 Opening New Territory with Technology
Cash Grant for Higher Ed Faculty (adult education educators in schools,
cbos, corrections, volunteer programs, etc. are also eligible to
apply). Deadline: May 30, 2006 http://www.technologygrantnews.com
The $500. cash grant
is to be used for computer software or equipment for a project or goal
that opens "new territory" for the applicant's field of study, school,
profession or community. In addition, 25 subscriptions to Technology
Grant News will be awarded to applicants. A 1-2 page description of the
project or goal is required, explaining how or what the computer
software or equipment will be used for. Projects and goals will
be
considered in all subject matters. The cash grant will be awarded based
on usefulness of the project or goal to the field of study, the school,
profession, or to the public. The 1-2 page description should be
sent
to newterritory@technologygrantnews.com by May 30, 2006. The winner
will be given the opportunity to write about the proposed project or
goal for an article to be featured in Technology Grant News. The award
will be announced in June 2006.
COABE (the Commission on Adult Basic
Education) is pleased to offer
awards, incentive grants, and scholarships to members to provide
financial support for small special projects or advanced study in
adult education. Award Recipients Receive: $1,000 financial
award;
Complimentary airfare to the annual COABE national conference;
Complimentary hotel accommodations, and recognition at the annual
COABE national conference during the awards banquet
Successful Award
Nominators receive: complimentary conference registration for the
annual COABE national conference where the award is presented
Incentive Grant Recipients Receive: 1,500 financial award and $750
travel stipend to present on project at conference Scholarship
Recipients Receive $2,000 financial award To nominate an individual, go
to http://www.COABE.org, click on
membership, and scroll down to the
Awards, Incentive Grants, and Scholarship section. All
applications
must be received by 2/17/06 for inclusion in this year's award process.
Please contact our administrative office if you have any questions.
COABE, 1320 Jamesville Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: 315-422-9121,
ext. 335; Fax: 315-422-6369; E-mail: coabe@literacyprogram.org
Funding
opportunities from PEN Weekly
NewsBlast,
The Coming Up Taller Awards
recognize and reward outstanding after-school and out-of-school arts
and humanities programs for underserved children and youth. Maximum
Award: $10,000. Eligibility: Programs initiated by museums, libraries,
performing arts organizations, universities, colleges, arts centers,
community service organizations, schools, businesses, and eligible
government entities. Deadline: January 30, 2006.
http://www.cominguptaller.org/F (from Pen Weekly Newsblast; To view
past issues of the PEN Weekly NewsBlast, visit: http://www.publiceducation.org/newsblast_past.asp
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
Substitute teaching: The
Genesis Center is interested in adding to its substitute list. If you
are an ESOL instructor who is interested in occasional work as a
substitute, either day, evening or Saturday hours, please call Nancy
Fritz or Pat Clarkin at 781-6110.
Jobs in Literacy –
nation wide postings on the National Institute for
Literacy’s LINCS site: http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/lincs/jobs/jobs.cgi
Substitute list:
if
you would like your name added to the general
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
I am pleased to announce that from January
30 - February 10th, the
Adult Literacy Professional Development List will be hosting a discussion of State
Professional Development Systems. Cassie Drennon
Bryant, President of Cassandra Drennon & Associates, Inc.
will be
our guest co-facilitator, and representatives from several states
will
be participating as guests on the list. (A list of featured state
professional development systems and guest participants from
those
states will be posted soon). We will be discussing how professional
professional development systems work, including (but not limited to)
key components, leadership, policy, and related issues surrounding
state PD systems. I hope you will join us for the discussion.
Subscribe to the list by visiting: http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Professionaldevelopment
- Jackie
Taylor, Adult Literacy Professional Development List Moderator,
National Institute for Literacy, jataylor@utk.edu
Call for
participation, from David Rosen:
Dear Colleague, Are you an adult literacy practitioner (a teacher,
tutor or program administrator) who, through teaching, managing,
reading, coursework, and/or dialogue, has gained professional wisdom –
in one area or in many – that you would like to share? Maybe you have
been thinking about your practice for some time, and are now ready to
write about it for the first time. Perhaps you have written about your
practice and published your thoughts already. Perhaps the
professional
wisdom you value is embodied in someone else’s writing, and this has so
influenced and benefited you in your practice that you want others to
know about this writing. Perhaps you don’t have answers but you
have
questions you would like to share. I invite you to join your colleagues
in contributing knowledge – professional wisdom and research – to
others who are working in the field of adult literacy education
(including English language learning.) I invite you to contribute
to –
and benefit from – an adult literacy education community of practice.
The Adult Literacy
Education (ALE) Wiki has
an odd name. For some, a community of practice with such a name
cannot
be taken seriously. For others, especially for those who may be
familiar with the world’s largest, and well-respected encyclopedia, the
Wikipedia, a wiki is an innovation, a presence, and a power in 21st
century world knowledge. The ALE Wiki is a serious and beneficial
undertaking to capture and make available our field’s knowledge
and
wisdom.
Like most wikis, the ALE Wiki is a collaborative volunteer
effort.
Nearly five hundred people in our field have registered so far in its
one year of existence. Over forty people have taken the time to
introduce themselves. Several people are now responsible
for
developing topic areas such as Assessment, Professional
Development,
Technology, Public Policy, Workforce Development, Family Literacy,
Numeracy and others. How can you learn more and get involved? You
could: Visit the ALE Wiki regularly at http://wiki.literacytent.org
• Register at http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page
• Introduce yourself at http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/WhosHere
• Pick one or more topic areas and add your professional wisdom
or
research: answer a question, amplify someone else’s answer, cite a good
reference, define a word in the glossary, add articles you have
written (or references to them) or add to or clarify something that you
– or someone else – has written in the ALE Wiki
• Become a Topic Area Leader – for an existing topic area that needs a
leader, or for a new area that you would like to add (See a
description of this role at: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/AleAreaLeader
) or
• Become An ALE Wikiteer – get on the mailing list and receive a
weekly Wiki update. There is no cost involved – only your
time. But
there is benefit – to you and to your colleagues. I hope
you will
accept this invitation. If you have questions, please feel free to
contact me. David J. Rosen, ALE Wiki organizer
and, also from David Rosen: For several years, as a volunteer service,
I have published the Literacy List, a large online collection of free
Adult Basic Education and English language (ELL/ESL/ESOL) Web sites,
electronic discussion lists ("listservs"), and other Internet
resources for adult basic skills learners, teachers and tutors. I have
just updated it, removing a few outdated links and adding new
ones.
Please have a look. If you know of a good free Web site resource
which
you think should be added, please let me know. The Literacy List
gets
better as a result of teachers sharing their favorite online
resources.You will find the Literacy List now in two locations: http://alri.org/literacylist.html
or http:newsomeassociates.com
(Select Publications at the Bottom of the Page)All the best in
2006. David J. Rosen djrosen@comcast.net
-
images from the Library of Congress: photography, history – America
between the Depression and World War II: discussion prompts, things to
learn and talk about http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/fsac/history.html
with a search engine at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsaquery.html
- the Library of Congress site is full of primary source
material and images. Have a look.
A new
teaching example, called Tension in Class, has been added to the
EFF Online Teaching and Learning Toolkit http://eff.cls.utk.edu/toolkit/example_tension_in_class.html.
It's about cross-generational tension that can result from the influx
of youth into GED classes, and illustrates instruction with the
Standard "Resolve Conflict and Negotiate." A new tool for helping
readers giv efeedback to authors is also linked to that example. - Andy
Nash, EFF PD staff (posted to the National Institute for Literacy
Adult Education Content Standards mailing list http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Contentstandards.
A web site for students who may need
accommodations in college, Post-ITT http://www.postitt.org
You may find the guidance activities helpful from
this site in assisting students through the process from high school to
post-secondary education. As well, information for students, including
those who may need accommodations in college, is available from the RI
Board of Governors for Higher Education in their College Guide at http://www.ribghe.org/col-prep.htm.
Using the
Web in Instruction – read
reports and view websites developed by New England area practitioners –
including three from Rhode Island at http://www.nelrc.org/expertise/comp2005.html
Online professional development resource:
The Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers created the
Professional Development Registry: an online resource for sharing PD
tools, obtaining feedback, or seeing the actual professional
development activities that others have created -- facilitator guides,
workshop agendas and outlines, and manuals that describe how
to conduct training for adult education practitioners. http://www.aalpd.org/ (Click on PD Registry in the left-hand toolbar)
The PD Registry evolved from an idea suggested by NIFL-AALPD
subscribers who were looking for a way to share files and obtain
feedback from colleagues. Materials posted to the PD
Registry can be as simple as an agenda or steps for facilitating a
short activity, or it can be fully-developed training guides and how to
manuals you have designed and written. The AALPD does not assess or
judge the quality of any resources that are registered, we only ask
that the resources posted meet the simple criteria listed below.
Best Regards, Executive Board, Association of Adult Literacy
Professional Developers
Acceptance Criteria:
AALPD provides the PD registry for access purposes only. AALPD will
post all professional development materials submitted to the PD
registry if they meet the following criteria:
- All submissions to the PD Registry must be "how to" manuals or guides
for facilitating professional development, not just descriptions of
resources about teaching or PD.
- Only professional development resources that are free for downloading
will be posted. Professional development activities that are
fee-based or dependent upon a particular facilitator will not be
accepted.
- All the resources must be available electronically, either on another
website or on the AALPD website. If you do not have the means to make
your resource available on a website but it is available
electronically, you can upload your file for submission to the PD
Registry using the online submissions form.
Among many updated pages and pieces of the LR/RI website, this overview of the work of the Professional
Development work group of the Governor's Task Force on Adult
Literacy -
http://www.brown.edu/lrri/RIPDModel.pdf . If you have
difficulties with the PDF format, please contact LR/RI.
Life Success For Students With Learning
Disabilities: - A Parent Guide
http://www.ldsuccess.org/parent_guide.html
- This guide is based on over 20 years of research
conducted by the Frostig Center in Pasadena, California. The research
traced the lives of individuals with learning disabilities in an
attempt to identify factors predicting successful life outcomes. The
guide was developed by Dr. Marshall H. Raskind, Dr. Roberta J.
Goldberg, with research associates Dr. Eleanor L. Higgins and Dr.
Kenneth L. Herman.
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 Technology, Reading &
Learning Difficulties (TRLD) annual conference January 26
- 28, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero
Center. http://www.trld.com/.
3rd
Annual (Net)Working
Conference on Women & Literacy - Moving to Power &
Participation
Sponsored by: WE LEARN / Women Expanding—Literacy Education
Action
Resource Network Co-Sponsored by Yale University Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies Program and literacytent.org Friday, March 10 – Saturday, March 11
| New Haven, Connecticut
- conference schedule and workshop descriptions are now posted at http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2006/main.html
The Program Schedule:
http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2006/program.htm
The Workshop Descriptions can be downloaded at: http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2006/workshops.pdf
Early registration deadline is Feb. 3. Conference Dates: For more
information contact: 401-383-4374 or welearn@litwomen.org
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, http://www.coabe06.org
The 12th Annual International
Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, May 18-21,
Chapel Hill, NC Join us for this unique gathering of people committed
to libratory education, community action, and interactive theatre for
social change. We invite you to submit a proposal to present at
the workshop; to register to attend, for guidelines, information and/or
to submit your proposal online: http://www.ptoweb.org
- deadline for submission: January 9. Augusto Boal will
conduct pre-conference workshops May 15-18, and Michael Rohd will
conduct a post conference workshop "Devising Performance:
Collaboration, Engagement and Dialogue" on May 21-22. Featured guests
include Augusto Boal, Lilia Bartolome, Geneva Gay, Linda Parris-Bailey
(with Marquez Rhyne) and Michael Rohd.. - Ellie Friedland, Board
president Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed
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
twice a month; more frequently when there's more to share. To
submit
information for the next bulletin, please contact LR/RI by phone
(401-863-2839),
mail (PO Box 1974, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912) or email.
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