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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.
March 10, 2006
Bulletin #211
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
- March 23rd at the Genesis Center, 620 Potters Avenue,
Providence, at 2:30 p.m.. Please join us; we’re bringing
activities that we like (and can think of adapting to various levels of
proficiency).
The 6th annual Adult Education fair was held on
Wednesday March 8th at the CCRI campus in Providence. Another one is
scheduled for Thursday March 16th from 9-12 at the CCRI Campus in
Newport. To register contact Yvette Kenner at yvette@lvari.org or call
861-0815. (Set-up time is 8:30-9:00)
NEW ROOTS PROVIDENCE Training Series
- training and technical assistance to help organizations strengthen
management structure, develop new sources of funds, and create vibrant,
healthy partnerships. http://www.provplan.org/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_109_A_PageName_E_nrtainings
ESL Teacher Share on Integrating Computers,
Tuesday, April 11th from 2:00 to 3:30
All teachers are invited to join this hands-on share of teaching ideas
that integrate computers into the curriculum. The share will be
held in the Technology Lab at the South Providence Branch of the
Providence Public Library, 441 Prairie Avenue, Providence,
RI. On-street parking is readily available. If you
plan on attending, please RSVP to Karisa Tashjian, Rhode Island Family
Literacy Initiative (RIFLI) at ktashjian@provlib.org. This share
is sponsored by a mini-grant from LR/RI and RIDE.
ESOL workshop, Victoria Richter April
14th, 12:30 - 4, Rochambeau Branch library, Hope St, Providence
20-lesson interactive curriculum for beginner level students taught by
a novice teacher. The curriculum includes minute-by-minute lesson
plans, activities, handouts, games, TPR sequences, etc. Victoria
will introduce and walk through rhe curriculum, and, a copy will be
given to each participant or program.
Admin share
Dear Colleague,
Welcome to the Admin Share Group! We are planning to hold our
first Share on March 22, 2006
from 3:00 -5:00 at the International Institute in Room 101. Most
of you indicated that an afternoon session would be the best, so we are
hoping you can make it. Based on your suggestions, we have
decided to discuss Professional Development (PD) as it currently exists
in our programs. For that purpose, we have developed a set of
questions to guide us:
What are we currently doing for PD in our programs?
What has worked well and what has been challenging?
How can we resolve some of the issues?
How can we collaborate and share what works
well?
What resources do we need in order to support PD?
What systems do we have in place to measure the effect of PD on the
delivery of classroom
instruction?
Our goal is to share new ideas, find a way to collaborate with each
other, and seek resources and expertise outside of the group to resolve
challenges. Nancy and Nazneen will also bring in some useful
reading material around best practices for PD. Since Professional
Development is one of our program quality measures, we think it will be
a worthwhile discussion. In addition, we would like to share some
of the information we gathered from our meetings with RIDE and the PD
work group. Please free feel to send us your comments or
concerns. Please RSVP to nancy@gencenter.com or nrahman@iiri.org.
Thanks, Nancy and Nazneen
p.s. Thank you for returning the surveys and for the great topics you
suggested. We will share them with you at the
meeting.
a resource of related interest:
Program Administrators’
Sourcebook: A Resource on NCSALL's Research for Adult
Education Program Administrators (December 2005) by Jackie
Taylor, Cristine Smith, and Beth Bingman
This sourcebook presents NCSALL’s research findings in short sections
related to key challenges that program administrators face in their
work as managers of adult education programs. It also presents the
implications of these research findings for program structure and
services, as well as some strategies for implementing change based on
these implications.
http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/teach/PASourcebook.pdf
health literacy resources:
Skills for Chronic Disease
Management by Rima Rudd, Lisa Soricone, Maricel Santos,
Charlotte Nath, and Janet Smith is now available from NCSALL.
The goal of this 15-hour study circle is to prepare participants to
help their students develop basic skills needed for chronic disease
management. These skills include reading medicine labels, following
directions, and measuring dosages correctly; using measurement tools to
monitor health; monitoring symptoms and talking to health care
professionals the observations; and making critical decisions about
health care.
To download the Health Literacy Study Circle+ Facilitator‚s
Guide: Skills for Chronic Disease Management, visit NCSALL's Web
site: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1058
To order the Health Literacy Study Circle+ Facilitator‚s Guide: Skills
for Chronic Disease Management at $33.00/copy, go to the NCSALL
Order Form: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=674
Summary of State Law
Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care http://www.healthlaw.org/link.cfm?5354
Prepared by: Jane Perkins, NHeLP NC Office Updated January 2006 $25.00
To order online, go to http://www.healthlaw.org/link.cfm?3413
and place a secure order using PayPal.
Contact NHeLP's Los Angeles Office to place an order by phone
(310-204-6010),
fax (310-204-0891) or email (nhelp@healthlaw.org).
State laws provide a source of potential protection for limited English
proficient (LEP) persons. In recent years, state legislatures and
administrative agencies have increasingly recognized the need for
linguistically-appropriate health care and have adopted measures that
require or encourage health and social service providers to overcome
language barriers.
Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health
Care offers citation to, and a short description of, each state's laws
regarding services to LEP persons in health care settings. It
updates and replaces the listing of state laws first published by the
National Health Law Program in August 2003 as part of its language
access manual, Ensuring Linguistic Access in Health Care
Settings: Legal Rights and Responsibilities (covering the time
period up to July 2003).
As shown in the chart, over the last two years, a number of provisions
have been enacted. Currently, 43 states have one or more laws
addressing language access in health care settings (up from 40 states
in July 2003). Some states' laws provide detailed guidance, while
others note the importance of language access but do not specify the
nature of the services that will be provided. California
continues to have more laws addressing language access in health
settings than any other state. Go to
http://www.healthlaw.org/link.cfm?5346 to see some of the
highlights.For more information about this and other publications, go
to the publications section of our
website (http://www.healthlaw.org/link.cfm?3413)
Practitioner
minigrant projects are underway – read about them at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/minigrant0506.html.
The fourth annual RI Adult Educators
Conference will be held on May 11, 2006. 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. 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.
ALE Wiki: Katrina - families,
literacy, access and community
learning
opportunities
Online Mini-Course - Reaching Adult
Learners through Multiple Intelligences and Differentiated Instruction
Expand your understanding of multiple intelligences theory and
differentiated instruction, and learn how to apply them at all levels
of Adult Basic Education and ESOL. Drawing on course readings and
discussion, participants will develop their own MI-based lesson units
with
guidance from the instructors. This six-module online course is
designed for educators who already have a rudimentary understanding of
MI theory.
Instructors: Silja Kallenbach, Co-Director and Wendy Quinones, Teacher
Researcher, Adult Multiple Intelligences Study The course will be
offered over six weeks, beginning in May 1, 2006. Fee: $149 per
person. For more information, contact Silja Kallenbach, New
England Literacy Resource Center/ World Education, tel.
617-482-9485 or email skallenbach@worlded.org
Other online courses: The Center for
Literacy Studies at the University
of Tennessee, and the Ohio Literacy Resource Center at Kent State
University announce spring 2006 distance learning courses.
Overviews
of each course, as well as start dates, are posted at http://www.aeprofessional.org.
Each course is a carefully-paced, facilitated training opportunity for
adult ed professionals, and has been piloted, reviewed, and offered
previously to excellent reviews. - Bill McNutt, Technology Coordinator,
AEProfessional Project
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.
Latino Dollars for Scholars invites
you to apply for our 2006-2007 scholarships Eighteen scholarships will
be awarded to Latino students who live in Rhode Island and will be
pursuing an undergraduate degree at an institution of higher education.
Visit http://www.ladori.org to apply Deadline April 15, 2006
More information online, email: info@ladori.org, or call (401)837-7152.
LATINO DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS Box 6764 Providence, RI 02940
Funding
opportunities from PEN Weekly
NewsBlast, (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
The Center for Adult English Language
Acquisition (CAELA) announces its latest on-line brief:
English Literacy and Civics Education . This brief, written by CAELA
staff members, explains the purpose and content of the U.S. Department
of Education's English Literacy and Civics (EL/Civics) Education
program. The brief also describes some ways that teachers can develop
EL/Civics classes appropriate for learners at beginning, intermediate,
and advanced levels of English proficiency. It can be found
on the CAELA Web site at: http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/briefs/elcivics.html
- Kirsten Schaetzel , Center for Adult English Language Acquisition ,
Center for Applied Linguistics , 4646 40th St. NW, Washington, DC 20016
OVAE Review - an update from the
Office of the Assistant Secretary at the Office of Vocational and Adult
Education, U.S. Department of Education. February 28, 2006 Office of
Vocational and Adult Education U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/ovaereview/2006/022506.html
full text available online; articles include:
Rural Education Task Force/Center for Rural Education, A Community
College Forms a Unique Partnership with Local Businesses
Support for States to
Implement Standards-based Reform in Adult Education - (OVAE) is
planning for future technical assistance to states. In January,
we conducted a state needs assessment and usability evaluation of the
content standards warehouse to determine the best ways to support
states‚ efforts to implement standards. Over 40 adult educators
from 24 states participated. The results of the assessment and
evaluation activities will help plan the next phase of OVAE‚s efforts
to support the needs of states already engaged in standards-based
education reform. The state needs assessment focused on
identifying the evolving needs of standards-based reform. The
discussions addressed: state efforts undertaken to date to develop and
implement standards, needs states face and anticipate as they move
forward, support and technical assistance the states have procured and
provided.The states, which volunteered to participate, represented an
array of approaches to the development process and varying years
of experience in the standards movement. Many states were part of
the state standards consortia project sponsored by OVAE last
year.
Building on these activities, this project will produce a plan for
delivering new services to states to promote standards-based
education. The plan will include recommendations for technical
assistance and capacity building strategies to meet the needs of
standards-based reform. The expected program of new technical
assistance will be announced in fall 2006.
Data Quality Institute
OVAE hosted a Perkins Data Quality Institute (DQI) in Washington, D.C.,
on February 8-10, 2006. More than 200 people attended,
representing 48 states. The agenda and institute materials can be
found on the PCRN Web site at http://www.edcountability.net
The major objective of the DQI was to reach consensus on standardizing
several measurement approaches
for Perkins III core indicators. States are required to collect
and report data on their Perkins core indicators as part of their state
accountability program. The institute featured federal and state
panelists who discussed strategies and methods for improving program
performance and data quality. In follow-up to the DQI, OVAE will
sponsor two regional conferences in June 2006, in Phoenix and Atlanta
to provide technical assistance to states in identifying and overcoming
obstacles in order to implement the definitions. Information
about these meetings will be posted to the PCRN Web site.
Other Department News Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World: The
American Competitiveness Initiative,New US Department of Education
Study Finds Strong Link Between Challenging Studies and Degree
Completion
from Kaye Beall,
Outreach Coordinator/NCSALL Dissemination Project - Visit the new Practitioner Research, Practitioner
Knowledge section of NCSALL‚s Web site at http://www.ncsall.net/?id=967. Find
out how practitioners learn about new research and then inquire
about how this research might be used in their own practice.
Teachers in the Northwest
Practitioner Knowledge Institute learned about ESL research,
made a change in their own practice, documented what happened when they
made the change, and shared this knowledge in final reports. They
developed and documented practitioner knowledge developed from learning
about others' research.
Teachers in the Minnesota
Practitioner Research in Reading Project and the Practitioner
Dissemination and Research Network learned about others'
research and also conducted research of their own. After learning about
new research findings in reading or learner persistence, these teachers
developed a research question on one of these topics, planned an
intervention or change in their own practice, collected data on what
happened as a result, analyzed these data and reported their findings.
Note as well: teachers in Rhode Island
have been engaged in inquiry work as well ˆ see
their reports at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/inquiry.html
-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 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.
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.
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.
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
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
March 16-17 Connecticut Association for
Adult and Continuing Education 2006 Conference at Water's Edge,
Westbrook, CT.
Register online at http://www.caace.org/conference.html;
contact LR/RI for schedule.
March 15- 19, The
40th Annual TESOL Convention and
Exhibit (TESOL 2006) Tampa, Florida
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=23&DID=3711
The Rhode Island Special Interest Group of
MATSOL invites you to attend Meeting the Challenge of Special ELL
Populations, Rhode Island College, Student Union (2nd Floor), Saturday,
March 25, 9:00-12:30
Registration Fee: $3.00 for RI SIG of MATSOL Members $5.00 for
Non-Members, sponsored by: Ellie Pinansky, Representative Pearson AGS
Globe Publishers Curriculum Materials and Assessment Tools for
Struggling Learners in Grades 6-12
Registration: RSVP by March 22 and state your breakout session to
jane_george@nksd.net or ncloud@ric.edu
9:00-9:30 Book Exhibit, Registration, Greeting and Networking
9:30-10:30 Opening Session: Accurately Identifying English Language
Learners with Special Needs - Andreia Ferreira, Veronika Komonczy and
Michael Miller, Providence Public Schools Specialists in ELL Special
Education Issues
10:50-12:10 Break Out Sessions Please choose one of the four
workshops listed below to attend; state your choice when you register.
- Understanding the Social and Academic Needs of Newly Resettled
African Refugee Students - Sandra Vines, Caseworker, Refugee
Resettlement Program, International Institute of Rhode Island
- Serving Students with Limited Formal Schooling: The Newcomer Program
Model- Murkje DeKoe and Leonarda Urena, ESL Teachers, Newcomer Academy,
Providence Public Schools
- How to Serve Small and Scattered Populations of ELLs- Christine
Byrne, ELL Coordinator, Westerly Public Schools; Elizabeth D‚Abbraccio,
ESL Coordinator/Specialist, East Greenwich and Jamestown Public
Schools, Maureen Logan, PD Coordinator, Westerly Public Schools, Patty
Kirwan, ESL Teacher, North Kingstown Kathy Mellor, ESL Teacher, North
Kingstown
- Techniques and Strategies for Teaching ESOL Literacy to Adults- Janet
Isserlis, Literacy Resources/RI
COABE
(the Commission on Adult Basic Education) 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
COABE offers 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; airfare to the annual COABE national conference; hotel
accommodations, and recognition at the annual COABE national
conference during the awards banquet Successful Award Nominators
receive: 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
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
From Erik Jacobson,
Chair, J. Michael Parker Award Committee - The National Reading Conference's
(NRC) 56th Annual Meeting will take place in Los Angeles, from
November 29 to December 2. The conference covers a range of
literacy related topics, including adult literacy. Information is
available at http://www.nrconline.org/.
I encourage adult literacy researchers to join the dialogue at
the meeting and to consider submitting proposals. In addition, to
encourage research on adult literacy, NRC has established the J.
Michael Parker Award, given to graduate students and
untenured professors who present research on adult learning or
education at the annual meeting. Information and submission
guidelines at http://www.nrconline.org/pdf/2006callforproposals.pdf
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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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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