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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.
April 19, 2006
Bulletin #213
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
- April 26 at the Genesis Center, 620 Potters
Avenue, Providence, at 2:30 p.m.. Please join us; we're talking
about books we're using, and resources and activities focused on social
justice.
Call for Articles for The Change Agent:
Theme: Immigration
Immigration reform has become a big political and
social issue that many political leaders connect to securing our
borders from terrorists. Many members of Congress support laws
that would strip immigrants of many rights, make it a felony to be an
undocumented immigrant, keep immigrant families separated, and deny
many immigrants a path to residency or citizenship in the United
States. This issue of The Change Agent aims to help readers to
understand and sort out what's at stake.
Questions for students and teachers to think about: How would your life
be different if the US had closed its borders to immigrants 100 (or so)
years ago? What should the US do to deal with the growing numbers of
immigrants who want to make this country their home? What are your
experiences and opinions related to people immigrating to the US? Have
they changed since September 11, 2001? What do you think about treating
undocumented immigrants as criminals, as proposed by some members of
Congress? What do you think of plans for a guest worker program
in which immigrants could work for up to six years legally and pay
taxes but never be eligible for citizenship and have almost no worker
protections? What connections do you see between the current
immigration debate and racism and discrimination? What connections do
you see between economic policies, such as NAFTA, and immigration
patterns where many people endure great hardship to come to the United
States in hopes of a better life for themselves and their families? All
articles must be received by May 12, 2006.
All articles will be considered. Suggested length is 500-1,200 words.
Final decisions are made by The Change Agent editorial board. A stipend
of $50 will be paid to each adult education student whose work is
accepted for publication in this issue. Please send material (by email
or PC disk) to: Angela Orlando, Editor New England Literacy Resource
Center/World Education 44 Farnsworth St., Boston, MA 02210 Phone:
617-482-9485 fax: 617-482-0617 : aorlando@worlded.org
CHisPA, Progreso Latino, AIDS Project RI,
and Planned Parenthood invite you to participate in a collaborative
event hosted in recognition of Minority Health Month. We
are hosting two panel discussions and one health fair addressing health
issues in Rhode Island’s Latino community. Latino Health: Access
in Action will take place on April 19 and April 25. Panel
discussions will cover leading health topics, barriers to care, and
propose strategies to increase access to health services. Please join
us at one of the following locations.
Panel on Latino Health Wednesday,
April 19, 2006 2:00-4:00pm CHisPA 421 Elmwood Avenue Providence,
Panel on Latino Health and Health Fair Tuesday,
April 25, 2006 10:00am-12:00pm Progreso Latino, 626 Broad Street
Central Falls
H. Elsa Larson, Director of Prevention, AIDS Project Rhode Island, 232
West Exchange Street
Providence, RI 02903-1024 401.831.5522 ext. 120 FAX: 401.454.0299
elsa@aidsprojectri.org
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
Now Available - Women's
Perspectives Series, Issue 1, 2006 / Women's
Health & Wellness published by WE LEARN /Women Expanding
Literacy Education Action Resource Network
http://
www.litwomen.org/welearn.html
Women's Perspectives Student Writing Initiative showcases writings by
adult literacy/basic education students across all levels. In the call
for writings, student writers were encouraged to reflect and to
write on the theme of women's health/well-being. The forms could
be personal stories, poems, opinion essays, advice, or other forms of
writing. Students were invited to cover the broad spectrum of
issues related to women's health and well-being: education/literacy,
healthcare systems, social issues, specific illnesses, media images,
gender-specificissues such as reproductive health, as well as many
other topics. A pre-writing activity was made available for both
teachers and students. These writings highlight and personalize the
struggles women face with health and wellness issues.
This collection will continue to empower women to consider and further
their knowledge about the important health issues that continue to
impact their lives. We hope they will provide a catalyst for change in
support of women's literacy for health and well-being.
WE LEARN received 75 writings from students across the US and Canada.
They represented a range of topics and writing proficiency. The full
collection showcases 55 of those writings. The selection committee
chose writings that best represented the theme. They also considered
voice, clarity, heart, and writing technique. To read writings chosen
for Honors or Honorable Mention, go to: http://www.litwomen.org/perspectives.html
To receive complete copies of Issue 1, Women's Health & Wellness,
please send a $5.00 donation for each copy + shipping to WE LEARN.
Order form: http://www.litwomen.org/06orderform.pdf Purchase Orders
accepted from organizations. Discounts available to WE LEARN
members. -Mev Miller, Ed.D., WE LEARN Director
WE LEARN, 182 Riverside Ave., Cranston, RI 02910 401-383-4374
welearn@litwomen.org
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
Donate Books to the New
Orleans Public Library
In an effort to restock their shelves after hurricane Katrina, the New
Orleans Public Library is asking for any and all hardcover and
paperback books for people of all ages. The staff will assess which
titles will be designated for its collections. The rest will be
distributed to destitute families or sold for library fundraising.
Please send your books to: Rica A. Trigs, Public Relations,
New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112
If you tell the post office that they are for the library in New
Orleans, they will give you the library rate, which is slightly less
than the book rate.
learning
opportunities
TRANSITION TO COLLEGE FOR NON-TRADITIONAL
ADULTS
Project RIRAL's TRANSITION TO COLLEGE is accepting students for the
fall 2006 session. Registration and Placement Testing will
be held on Saturday, April 29 at 10:00 AM, 175 Main Street Pawtucket,
RI (Pawtucket Visitor's Center bldg. - 2nd floor, across from Slater
Mill). Detailed directions and information about the program are on
their website: http://www.transitiontocollege.org/.
Please contact Marie if you know someone who may be interested in
enrolling in the fall 2006 session, which starts mid August.
Mentor Non-traditional
Adults Returning to College - TRANSITION TO COLLEGE is seeking
volunteer mentors and/or tutors to support their non-traditional adult
students as they prepare for the rigors of college. Over three dozen
TTC graduates have been mentored during their post-secondary
educational journey, which has demonstrably impacted our students
retention and persistence. As one student proclaimed about his mentor,
My mentor knows which buttons to push to have me challenge myself to
become more pro-active and self-confident . . . She is a friend, a
teacher, a cheerleader, and a role-model. If you are interested in
becoming a
Mentor and/or Tutor, please contact Marie@transitiontocollege.org or
call 722-9800.
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
- Pennsylvania State University's
online Certificate in Family Literacy Program is a partnership
between the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn
State and the National Center for Family Literacy. The program is
offered through Penn's World Campus and brings experts in family
literacy together with specialists in early childhood and adult
education to offer a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to
professional development that focuses on literacy instruction. The
Goodling Institute's Family Literacy Certificate Program offers these
two three-credit online courses, from May 24, through August 23.
ADTED 456: Introduction to Family
Literacy
This course provides opportunities for students to discover and analyze
comprehensive family literacy within a model centered on how services
evolved out of a need to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty
and under-education.
ADTED 459: Interactive Literacy:
Parents and Children
This course prepares family literacy and early childhood educators for
understanding, preparing for and practicing interactive literacy
lessons. It emphasizes teaching in a planned and intentional mode that
encourages language and literacy development by integrating language,
reading, and writing/drawing processes.
For more information, contact: Donna Bell (dbell@famlit.org) or Sheila
Sherow (sms20@psu.edu)
The Virginia Adult
Learning Resource Center (VALRC) announces an online publication, Teaching Reading to Adult English Language
Learners: A Reading Instruction Staff Development Program
The development of the trainings and subsequent document was funded
with a federal English Literacy and Civics grant from the Office of
Adult Education and Literacy, Virginia Department of Education. This
document was prepared by the Center for Applied Linguistics for the
Adult ESOL Program, Office of Adult and Community Education, Fairfax
(VA) County Public Schools. According to VALRC: This15-hour training
will acquaint participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills
required to teach reading effectively to adult, nonnative speakers of
English. The content is based on research on the reading process in
general, on the process of learning to read as an adult, and learning
to read in another language. The training is designed to be delivered
by ESL instructional specialists at the local level or by trainers from
the VALRC, most typically in workshop settings with a practicum
component. That is, between workshop sessions, participants apply what
they have learned in the previous sessions to their own classroom
instruction. The document is available for download at
http://www.valrc.org/publications/pdf/teachingreading.pdf
For more information, contact: Nancy R. Faux, ESOL Specialist,Virginia
Adult Learning Resource Center. Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA nfaux@vcu.edu http://www.valrc.org
1-800-237-0178
I Open Up: Exploring Learners' Perspectives
on Progress Our one year research project, "Learners'
Perspectives on Progress" is now complete and available at http://www.nald.ca/ppr/researchproject.htm
Special thanks to the National Literacy Secretariat, Human Resources
and Skills Development Canada and the Ministry of Training, Colleges
and Universities, Skills Investment Branch for their support of this
project. The staff at Parkdale Project Read, Toronto, Ontario http://www.nald.ca/ppr
Providence Public
Library events
- http://www.provlib.org/branchout/current.html
funding
opportunities - large and less large
Training
funds available
The Governor's Workforce Board - RI is
pleased to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Round 2 of the 2006
Workforce Improvement Grant Program.
Grant fund assistance is available for organizations to provide
training of their existing workers to increase productivity and skills
and to improve the organization's systemic and/or operational
capacities. Below is a listing of pertinent dates:
April 4, 2006 RFP available
April 11, 2006 Pre-proposal conference (registration
required)
May 16, 2006 Proposals due
July 1, 2006 Training can begin
More detailed information as well as the RFP can be downloaded at http://www.rihric.com
Healthy Neighborhoods Awards 2006
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island is offering mini-
grants to schools, non-profit community agencies, and organizations to
promote health initiatives
contributing to healthier life styles in their neighborhoods.
Successful proposals must address all of the
following:
1.Name of organization/school, including its mission and services
provided.
2.Description of the ethnicity, income levels, language, and cultural
diversity of the population
served.
3.Description of the project for which you are requesting the funding.
4.Who will be served by this project?
5.What health need or service is the organization trying to address or
expand?
6.Provide detailed information on how the funds will be used to impact
the health of the
participants.
7.Project timeline. When will the project start? End?
8.Where will the project take place?
Please submit proposals by May 15th, 2006
Proposals should not be any longer than two typewritten pages in
length. These health grants will range from $150 - $500 dollars. A
community panel of judges will judge the proposals. Mini grants will be
awarded based on need and health initiatives fostering healthy
lifestyles. Incomplete proposals will be disqualified. Please submit
proposals to:
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island Healthy Neighborhoods Awards
Ingry L. Lenderman
299 Promenade Street Providence, RI 02908 Or fax: 401- 459-6175 or
Email: ilenderman@nhpri.org
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.
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
Donald George, an adult learner
with the Swearer Language and Literacy program has written a piece
about his life and learning journey – online at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/donald.html.
If you or others you know would like to share their stories – of
learning, teaching, adult ed generally, please contact lrri@brown.edu.
At the recent convention in Tampa, the
TESOL Board of Directors approved and released two new position
statements: Position Statement on Adolescent English Language Learners
in Adult ESL Programs in the United States Position Statement Against
Discrimination of Nonnative Speakers of English in the Field of TESOL
Copies of are available to the TESOL web site
at http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=32&DID=37.
MaryAnn Florez, Adult Education Interest Section Chair
The multitude of jobs immigrants do: hear
· Commentator Richard Rodriguez details the many, many
industries where immigrants work. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325714
All Things Considered, April 5, 2006
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
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
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
14th Annual LD Conference Thursday,
May 25
Marriott Hotel in Farmington - full details at http://www.crec.org/cetes/atdn/programs/disabilities/ld_conf/
or call (860) 247-2732
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
SAVE the DATES: November 30-December
2, 2006 A MEETING OF THE MINDS II SYMPOSIUM
The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, the
California Department of Education Adult Education Office, and the
California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project of the
American Institutes for Research announce a Meeting of the Minds II: A
National Adult Education Practitioner-Researcher Symposium.
Scheduled for November 30-December 2, at the Sheraton Grand hotel in
Sacramento, California, the symposium is designed to provide
opportunities for adult education practitioners and researchers to
share and discuss current research findings and practitioner wisdom. It
will engage practitioners and researchers with questions related to
goals, accountability, and efficacy and efficiency in policy, practice,
and research. The ultimate goals of the symposium are to highlight
systemic changes that can enhance literacy practice and increase
student learning gains. The theme of this symposium is Systemic Change
and Student Success: What Does Research Tell Us? As in the first
Meeting of the Minds Symposium that was held in 2004, each session of
the 2006 Symposium will be structured so that the research presentation
is followed by a panel of practitioners who will discuss implications
for practice or policy. In addition, conference attendees will have
opportunities for small group interaction and networking with
researcher-presenters to discuss not only how research can inform
practice and policy, but also how practice and policy can inform and
suggest a research agenda.
More information will be available soon at http://www.researchtopractice.org.
(This Web site currently lists presenters' PowerPoints and abstracts of
sessions held at the 2004 Meeting of the Minds symposium as well as
thoughts generated by attendees regarding implications of the research
findings.) We are updating this site to house information about online
registration for the 2006 symposium as well as information about hotel
registration. We will send out another notice after the Web site has
been updated.
-Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D., Symposium Coordinator and CALPRO Director,
American Institutes for Research
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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