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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.
May 23, 2006
Bulletin #216
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, May 23rd at 2:00 (not 2:30) pm at the Genesis Center,
620 Potters Avenue, Providence. Please join us; we'll be discussing the
Teacher Knowledge Project, an approach to teacher inquiry developed at
the School for International Training http://www.sit.edu/tkp/index.html;
http://www.sit.edu/tkp/cycle.html
civic
engagement learning opportunity: On Sunday, May 21 at noon, a
dedicated group of marchers began a march from Westerly to the State
House, to insist that the state government act decisively and act now.
They will be coming into Providenceon Thursday, May 25 and need
everyone who is able to come to join them at the State House 3:30 Rally
State House, Smith Street Side
2:15 Join the walkers to March through downtown Providenc estarts from
Crossroads Rhode Island, 160 Broad Street; March Route: Weybosset
Street to Roger Wiliams Park North Main St towards Smith St and State
House
The Journey Home: Housing = Hope is a week-long march across our state,
modeled on the 1960s civil rights marches. It is intended to move Rhode
Islanders to take action to end homelessness and to end the broader
housing crisis. Thursday is the last day of the marchand we need as
many people as possible to show the state legislators that Rhode
Islanders demand action to provide housing for those who need it most.
Come out and show your support! Everyone who can is encouraged to come
to the State House at 3:30 pm. There will also be petitions available
sign a petition to Governor Carcieri, Senate President Montalbano, and
House Speaker Murphy to endorse the bond and the HousingWorks RI 2006
platform.
For more information visit http://www.thejourneyhomeri.org.
Teachers.... There
will be a first meeting of the Teaching
Leadership work group for the Office of Adult Education on
Thursday, June 1 at 3:00. The meeting will be held at the Economic
Policy Council, 3 Davol Square (corner of Eddy and Point Streets).
The purpose of the various work groups is to develop ideas and possible
implementation plans for components of an effective adult basic
education delivery system for review by the Office of Adult Education
and for use.
This work group is charged with recommending a set of competencies that
effective adult ed teachers have, how to enable teachers (new and old)
to work toward those competencies, and a system for ensuring better
working conditions (including pay scales) for teachers.
If you have questions or would like to join the group but are not able
to meet on June 1, please contact either Elizabeth Jardine at
elizabeth.jardine@ride.ri.gov or Judy Titzel at judy@ripolicy.org
Please join us on June 1!
Call for Participation to the Interim
Council for Professional Development
To adhere to the Program Model requirements we need to have
practitioner expertise in the following areas or regions: Corrections,
Even Start m more ABE, low literacyl Case Management or counselorsl
Newport County, East Bay and workplace teachers. The meetings will be
1.5 hours, once a month and there is a stipend for participation in
work groups if your employer does not pay you for your time.
The amount may be up to $450/ year and the paper work has to be
submitted to Elizabeth at RIDE. We will iron out the details in
June but a participant needs to provide Name and e-mail to get the
forms. This council is an Interim council and will help to get the PDC
established. Please come top the June 5th meeting.3:30 at EPC in Davol
Square if you are interested in participating. - Kristen McKenna
On Friday, June 16,
from 10 am to noon, Tony Santaniello will demonstrate a reading program that he has
developed over the past 40 years, encompassing a complete sight word
vocabulary, which promises to help new readers learn to read more
quickly and comprehensively than previously imagined.
Registration isn't required, but it would be helpful if you could
contact LR/RI so we'll have a sense of how many people to expect.
The demonstration will take place in the conference room adjacent to
the Literacy Volunteers of RI office, at 260 West Exchange Street,
Suite 106.
Practitioner
minigrant projects are underway – read about them at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/minigrant0506.html.
The fourth annual RI Adult Educators
Conference was held on May 11. http://www.brown.edu/lrri/conference06.html
Thanks to all for your participation in the May 11th conference.
If you have an evaluation to submit, or would like to share ideas from
your own action plan, please contact lrri@brown.edu or call 863-2839.
ALE Wiki: Katrina - families,
literacy, access and community
learning
opportunities
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.
The Center for Literacy Studies at the
University of Tennessee and the Ohio Literacy Resource Center at Kent
state announce spring Professional Development courses
for the AEProfessional project. All AEPro on-line workshops have been
piloted and reviewed by adult educators and administrators to excellent
reviews. Most last about six weeks and require a time commitment of
roughly 2 hours a week. Spaces are filling up quickly so you will need
to act soon to meet the registration deadline. For further information,
please visit the project web site at:
http://www.aeprofessional.org/ All courses begin on 6/5/06. Registration Deadline 6/29/06
To register: http://utk-cls.ra.utk.edu/register/AEPro/event2.asp
Bill McNutt, CTO, AEProfessional Project
Comprehensive Reading and
Strategies Help CEUs: 1 (optional) Facilitator: Jan
Lichten
This web-based training will provide you with information and resources
that will help you help your students be better readers. If you want to
be effective in helping your students achieve their goals, it is
important that you know about a variety of aspects regarding the adult
student and strategies to enhance reading skills.
Topics within this training include:
The Adult Learner and Brain Compatible Classrooms, Essentials of
Reading, Adult Learners and Comprehension Strategies, Helping ESOL
Students and Students with Learning Disabilities, Helping the Adult to
Help the Child
Adult Education - Teaching
Tools CEUs: 1 (optional) Facilitator: Deb
Hargrove
Delivered via the Internet, this six-week course focuses on
familiarizing instructors with teaching tools that will enhance
teaching practices leading to greater learning, retention, and success
for adult students. It offers a wealth of resources and teaching
strategies on topics such as reflective teaching,
cooperative/collaborative learning, multiple intelligences, and
contextual instruction. The course will help participants draw their
own connections between current research and teacher practice; it
provides opportunities for practical classroom
application, online collaboration, and sharing best practices with
other adult educators-and much more!
All participants must have their own e-mail address to participate in
the course. ALL online course participants will complete a "Tech Check"
one week before course start date to ensure their computer equipment
and Internet connection are sufficient for effective course
participation.
ESOL Basics
CEUs: 1 (optional)
Do you need to know the basics of ESOL instruction? Through this online
course, you will learn how to identify characteristics of adult ESOL
learners, effective methods of teaching languages, the four language
skills, and how adults learn another language. Online activities,
discussion boards and assessments will keep you engaged.
Integration of Technology
into the Adult Education Classroom CEUs: 1 (optional)
Facilitator: Linda Eckert, AE Pro Developer
Have you ever tried to blindly put a puzzle together without knowing
what the final picture will look like? This may be what is happening to
you when you are trying to integrate computer technology into your
classroom. This course will provide quick access to educational
resources, lesson plans, activities, tools for evaluating educational
software, information about purchasing educational software, and
knowledge to help you utilize a variety of software applications and
web-based activities in the classroom. Online activities, discussion
boards and assessments will keep you engaged.
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.
- 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
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.php
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
From the Public Education Network Weekly NewsBlast, May 12, 2006:
Education: The path out of poverty
An essential tool for child advocates for
more than two decades, the annual "The State of America’s Children,"
from the Children’s Defense Fund takes a close look at 37 million
people living in America who are poor (including 13 million children)
and the growing numbers of families struggling to survive. The
2005 edition includes most recent (September/05) US poverty data
throughout; personal stories and photographs; in-depth analyses of the
current status of family income, child health, child care and early
childhood development, education, child welfare, and youth development;
and personal and policy success stories and recommendations for just
treatment for children and poor families. Chapter Four, which can be
downloaded for free, contains analysis of pressing education issues and
powerful statistics. http://www.childrensdefense.org/publications/greenbook/
Of US children under 5, nearly half are minorities: Nearly half of the
nation's children under 5 are racial or ethnic minorities, and the
percentage is increasing mainly because the Hispanic population is
growing so rapidly, according to a new census report. In
some suburban communities, government officials face a cultural
generation gap as they weigh demands from older white residents for
senior-citizen centers, transportation and other aid against requests
from younger,
mainly minority residents for translation assistance, preschools and
other services. Experts say immigrant families are concerned with the
quality of their children's early education, aware that it can affect
their future academic success. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002983832_census10.html
New
Special Topics Discussion List - On May 23rd we
begin a week-long discussion on the new National Institute for Literacy
Special Topics electronic list. The topic is the Adult
Reading Components Study (ARCS). Dr. Rosalind Davidson
and Dr. John Strucker, the co-researchers, will join us to answer your
questions.
Special Topics will be an intermittent discussion list. The topics will
open and close throughout the year, so there will be periods where
there will be no discussion or postings. You can subscribe to the
e-list for a particular topic of interest, and then unsubscribe, or you
can stay subscribed throughout the year.
To participate in this first topic, the Adult Reading Components Study,
and to learn more about the ARCS interactive Web site - which has lots
of reading help for teachers - please subscribe to the Special Topics
list now by going to:
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/specialtopics
Before the discussion begins on May 23rd please look at a 30-minute
streaming video introduction to the discussion with researcher
panelists Rosalind Davidson and John Strucker, and practitioners Kay
Vaccaro and Jane Meyer. (or end a request for the Adult Readiing
Components Study (ARCS) Panel (free) DVD to: info@nifl.gov
Be sure to include your mailing address); online view it at
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/20040204/webcast02-04a.html (Note:
Macintosh users will need Real Player installed; performance may not be
optimal.) After you subscribe, send questions to the discussion list.
(but) messages will not be posted until May 22.
- David J. Rosen, Special Topics Discussion List Moderator
djrosen@comcast.net
teaching resource: No Human is Illegal: An
Educator’s Guide for Addressing Immigration In the Classroom; available
for free at http://www.nycore.org
In the recent weeks HR4437 advocates have sought to
introduce
legislation that will radically change the legal, social, and economic
status of immigrant communities in the US. The debate rages on and we
have heard
opinions ranging from the conservatives to the democrats to the
left—and a powerful constituency has emerged stronger than ever before
in the 21st century—students. How will educators encourage these acts
of critical thinking, civic responsibility, agency, and above all—
student leadership in advocating for all human rights? How can
educators engage their students in these critical issues in the
classroom? How can we serve as the liaison between students andthe
mixed messages the media and politicians are sending?
This guide is for educators to take on the important
issues that
teachers and students alike have been tackling in
their activism from INSIDE the classroom. This resource can be
best used online as a web resource. – from Sally Lee, Founder, Teachers
Unite sally@teachersunite.net 646-206-4160, http://www.teachersunite.net
Literacy President is a
non-partisan, collaborative initiative among individual advocates, The
Change Agent, and Voice for Adult Literacy United for Education (VALUE)
to increase national awareness of adult literacy regardless of which
candidate is elected. Members of the adult education community can be
active participants in the 2008 Presidential election by: Identifying
and voting on the top questions, Attending caucuses or house parties in
early primary states, Hosting program visits for candidates in early
primary states, Raising the issues through the media, Sponsoring voter
registration drives. By asking Presidential candidates questions
early, we have the opportunity to reach the candidates themselves,
engage them in dialogue about the issues, and show them that adult
literacy and language learning IS on Americans’ minds.
To learn more, go to http://www.litpresident.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
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
Call for participation: TESOL 2007
TESOL invites proposals for the 2007 annual convention in Seattle,
Washington. The 41st Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit, themed
“Spanning the Globe: Tides of Change,” will be held March 21–24, at the
Seattle Convention Center. All proposals for concurrent sessions are
due by 1 pm, EST, on June 1, 2006.
To submit a proposal, please follow the guidelines on TESOL’s Web site:
https://www.eshow2000.com/tesol/2007/proposal_form.cfm
Proposals are adjudicated by the TESOL interest sections. If you have
any questions, please contact TESOL Convention Services,
conventionservices@tesol.org
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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