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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.
July 12, 2007
Bulletin #245
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, July 17th at
3:00, Genesis Center, 620 Potters Avenue, Providence. Open focus
– looking back, looking forward. Reflecting on learning,
resources and possibilities.
call
for articles: Call for Proposals for Chapters
2 010 Handbook of Adult
and Continuing Education -
Carol Kasworm, Amy D. Rose, and Jovita
Ross-Gordon, editors of the 2010 Handbook are soliciting letters
of interest from potential chapter authors.
This Handbook will present the contemporary
landscape of adult education. This handbook will be a foundational
volume, offering both an orientation to the field and an analytic
examination of current research and practice and delineating larger
contextual trends, and issues. Letters of interest due September
1, 2007
Respondents will identify specific chapter or chapters of
interest and provide contact information (including e-mail) and current
vitae for all proposed authors. While this letter is not obligatory, it
will greatly assist the handbook development process.
Chapter for outlines of specific book chapters – Due November 15,
2007
Proposals should include a narrative description of no more
then 300words detailing the author’s/ authors’ vision of the chapter,
along with a skeletal outline of chapter contents (one to two
pages). Current vitae and contact information should be included
if not previously sent. Chapter proposals will be reviewed for
evidence that completed chapters will include (as appropriate for each
chapter)
1) Key principles, theories, practices, and research
2) Forms, processes, and organizational structures
3) Reflective analysis and dialogue on issues and trends in research
and practice
4) Integration of issues of diversity
Send letters of intent and proposals to: Dr. Carol Kasworm,
acehandbook@gmail.com complete information: http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~rose/2010handbookproposal/index.html
New Literacy Journal
The first issue of the Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal,
co-published by the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) and
ProLiteracy America, was launched in March.
The journal’s predecessor, Adult Basic Education, was started by COABE
in 1977. The new journal will continue to carry research articles that
are peer reviewed using a double blind protocol that conceals reviewers’
identities from authors, and vice versa.
The journal will also include the following shorter features written
especially for practitioners:
• Practitioner Perspective offers first-person narratives
by people who’ve solved problems that instructors or program directors
often encounter. The emphasis is on learnings that can be used by other
practitioners.
• Web Scan, edited by David Rosen, offers a roundup of the
most useful instructional and management resources found on the
Internet.
• Research Digest, edited by Cristine Smith, offers a quick
recap of published and ongoing research projects around the country,
with contact information so interested readers can find out more.
• Resource Reviews, edited by Daphne Greenberg, help
practitioners and researchers stay abreast of the latest offerings from
educational publishers.
• Occasional essays, called Viewpoint, that analyze trends
and forces at work in the field. The March issue carries an essay on
health literacy by Rima Rudd. The July issue will carry an essay on the
national research agenda by John Comings.
The journal is published three times per year. To subscribe, or to view
author guidelines, visit http://www.coabe.org. For more information,
send an e-mail to journaleditor@literacyprogram.org.
Daphne Greenberg,
Georgia State University
ProLiteracy Seeks Model Programs for
Performance Accountability Initiative
Deadline - 5:00 PM EDT July 20, 2007.
With funding from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation,
ProLiteracy
America is leading a three-year project known as the
Dollar
General/ProLiteracy Performance Accountability Initiative.
ProLiteracy will choose up to eight model programs each year of the
initiative to help identify promising accountability practices in
adult
education and literacy programs. These programs will provide
expertise and
resources that will be used to design training sessions
focused on various
aspects of performance accountability.
ProLiteracy is currently seeking programs that can demonstrate success
in
the topic area of Data Analysis for Program Decision-Making.
Those selected as model programs will receive a small stipend,
increased
visibility, and an opportunity to extend their positive
impact to the
literacy and adult education field.
To view the application: http://www.proliteracy.org/external/dg_pai.asp.
Please feel free to
forward this information to other programs that
have successfully utilized
data to inform program decisions.
We
appreciate your help in this critical endeavor, and hope to hear from
you
by July 20.
Should you have any questions, please contact Melanie
Daniels, project
manager, via e-mail at mdaniels@proliteracy.org
learning
opportunities
FAST TRACK TO THE GED: The
Community College of Rhode Island, Providence Campus will be offering a
Fast Track GED class July 23, through August 10, 2007. This 3
week class will offer intense Math and Writing instruction as well as
the GED Test Battery. Eligible participants must pre-test on a 10th
grade Reading level and a 7th grade Math level. Any program in need of
a fast track class and/or closed for the summer may refer students.
Contact Angela Salvadore at 455-6140 or asalvadore@ccri.edu for
information.
Introducing: Teachers Unite in the Classroom! We
invite educators to join this unique peer-to-peer professional
development forum. Post or answer questions about your lessons,
curricula or other classroom matters that deal with issues of justice,
equity, liberation, representation or grassroots activism. Use this
moderated listserv to pose questions, share experiences and recommend
resources that build social justice teaching. Sign up at: https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/teachersuniteclassroom
Looking forward to the conversation. - Sally Lee, Executive Director,
Teachers Unite
The Power of Mindsets: Nurturing
Motivation and Resilience in Students - Robert Brooks, Ph.D.
Wednesday, August 22, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 pm, Woonsocket High School
Auditorium 777 Cass Avenue, Woonsocket
Registration is $20; 3PDCs offered
8:00 – 8:30 Registration, continental breakfast,
information tables
8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:45 Lecture by Dr. Robert Brooks
11:30 Book signing complete information: http://www.dunninstitute.org/uploaded_docs/RobertBrooksAugustLecture.pdf
or
contact Contact Cathy Sanford at 401‐831‐7323
x17 or sanfordcw@aol.com
Tutor
needed: My name is Dulce.
I am looking for a tutor to help my son improve his school grades and
study habits. He is going into the 7th grade.
We live in East Providence. Please call 401- 241-9433 or
241-2388. We need your help!
Professional mom seeks committed tutor for
three teens (2 middle
school, 1 high school) in math, reading, writing (and general study
habits, note-taking).
Would like to start immediately with regular part time schedule and
hourly wage. Meeting at my home (near Roger Williams Hospital) or
at a nearby library.
Please respond to LRRI (lrri@brown.edu)
with references.
funding
opportunities - large and less large
2007 Suave/Dollar General
Education Essay Contest
Dollar General and
Suave are sponsoring the 2007 Suave/Dollar General Education Essay
Contest for adult learners and school-age youth! The Grand Prize
winner will receive a $10,000 Educational Grant or Savings Bond and 3
First Prize winners will receive a $5,000 Educational Grant or Savings
Bond. All four winners will have the exciting opportunity to
travel to
New York City with a guest to see Fantasia star in The Color Purple on
Broadway and meet her after the show. In addition, 2,000 second-place
entrants will win a $50 Visa Gift Card. Adult learners and youth
should submit a 200-word essay about how their mother, teacher, or
other mentor helped them to improve their lives through
education. The
essay contest begins on June 18 and ends
on July 15.
Entry forms are
available at any Dollar General or online by visiting http://www.dollargeneral.com/
or http://www.suaveessaycontest.com
from PEN Weekly Newsblast, June 22: Grants to Address Students with
Special Needs & Engage Parents and Community - US Airways Education
Foundation is accepting applications for its 2007 Community Education
Grant Program. Grants will be awarded to educational programs that
respond to the special needs of disadvantaged or disabled individuals;
teach or enhance social responsibility; facilitate parental and/or
community involvement; and enhance academic achievement. Maximum Award:
$5,000. Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations located in the markets
served by the airline. Deadline:
August 1, 2007.
http://www.usairways.com/awa/content/aboutus/corporategiving/education.aspx
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
Helping Immigrants Learn English The
Ray Solem Foundation is offering one-time grants to non-profit
organizations that have found creative ways to help immigrants in the
United States further their verbal English language skills -- listening
comprehension and oral communications. Maximum Award: $10,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations. Deadline:
July 31, 2007. http://www.raysolemfund.org/grants.html
UPS Foundation Education Grants fund
high impact philanthropic programs
that raise the level of educational instruction, family learning
opportunities, and school involvement projects. Maximum Award: varies.
Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations. http://www.community.ups.com/philanthropy/grant.html
- other grants from the Public Education Network: http://www.publiceducation.org/newsblast_grants.asp
- 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
Director, System for Adult Basic Education
Support
http://www.sabes.org/sabjob1.htm
Employment
opportunity: English for Action seeks a passionate, energetic and
creative full-time executive director to provide leadership to the
organization as it seeks to increase sustainability and community
impact. Full description: http://www.idealist.org/en/job/211090-138
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
google
literacy site: http://www.google.com/literacy/
outstanding resource: http://www.youthliteracy.ca/
- Youth Literacy work in Canada
Shannon Gavin, a senior graduating from Brown this year, has developed
a new website, as her capstone project in Middle East Studies,
called Arab Perceptions of the United
States: Video Interviews from Amman, Jordan and Damascus,
Syria.You can view them, and supporting text at http://arabperceptions.wordpress.com
Adult Literacy Education in Immigrant
Communities: Identifying Policy and Program Priorities for Helping
Newcomers Learn English
T
his groundbreaking report offers an in-depth exploration of the
pressing language barriers facing the estimated 2.23 million adults in
this country who are Limited English Proficient (LEP) – and how best to
solve them. English language skills are a must when it comes to
increasing immigrants’ ability to participate in the economic and civic
life of their communities. But long waiting lists, overcrowded
classrooms, programs of uneven quality and a lack of a national
strategy to address these issues currently characterize immigrants’
access to high-quality adult literacy programs, even though English
programs are available in most localities. This report provides an
overview of issues discussed at the Adult Literacy Education in
Immigrant Communities summit held in Washington, D.C. Led by AAJC and
held in partnership with the National Immigration Forum and the
National Council of La Raza, along with more than 50 stakeholders, the
meeting and this study have brought to the fore new, innovative ways to
best help this underserved population.
http://www.advancingequality.org/?id=246
from the Asian American Justice Center.
from Educational Testing Service Adult
Education in America: A First Look at Results From the Adult Education
Program and Learner Surveys - report providing a comprehensive
picture of federally supported adult-education activities in the US,
and making a case for examining the survey data within today's economic
landscape, where those with below-average skills find it increasingly
difficult to earn above-average wages in a global economy. (Authors: I.
Kirsch, M. Lennon, K. Yamamoto & C. Tamassia)
http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.c988ba0e5dd572bada20bc47c3921509/?vgnextoid=5528c0c18d301110VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&vgnextchannel=73b2be3a864f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD
from EdINfo ( - archives and subscription
information: http://www.ed.gov/MailingLists/EDInfo/)
Everyday Mysteries helps us understand: Why are summers hot and
winters cold? What does "the universe is expanding" mean? How
does GPSwork? Why do boomerangs come back? How does
static electricity work? What causes the sound of
thunder? How does sunscreen work? Why does hair turn
gray? Why does chopping
an onion make you cry? How do cats purr? http://www.free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1911
Journal
of Online Mathematics and its
Applications offers
articles, learning modules, "mathlets" (single-purpose learning tools),
reviews of online resources, and a developers' area. Search
contents of the journal by type of
resource (e.g., article), by subject (e.g., number concepts, data
presentation, plane geometry), or both. The journal makes
extensive use of graphics, animations, video clips, and other
media. Articles and other materials are peer reviewed.
(Mathematical Association of America, National ScienceFoundation)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1875
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announces that
the The U.S. Civics and Citizenship Online: Resource Center for
Instructors is available online at: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=b36e663784bcd010VgnVCM100000d1f1d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=b36e663784bcd010VgnVCM100000d1f1d6a1RCRD
The Verizon Foundation recently announced a $31 million
investment to provide free online educational resources to teachers,
students and community organizations through Thinkfinity.org
<http://thinkfinity.org/> , Verizon's comprehensive online portal
to 50,000 standards- based, K-12 lesson plans, resources for adult and
family literacy providers, and other educational resources. Read more
at http://www.pr-inside.com/verizon-foundation-announces-31-million-r77817.htm
This resource, provided at no cost to the public, is written and
produce by some of the nation's leading educational organizations, such
as the National Center for Family Literacy, ProLiteracy Worldwide,
National Geographic Xpeditions, ArtsEdge, EconEdLink, EdSitement,
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Read-Write-Think, Science
NetLinks, and more. The $31 million commitment, which will be
distributed over three years, will allow leading educational
organizations to continue to produce and expand the number of
interactives and other educational resources available at http://www.thinkfinity.org/.
Resources from EdChange family of Web
sites:
A new Classism and Poverty Awareness Quiz http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/quizzes.html
;
Newly designed
Social Justice News Service site http://mail.socialjusticenews.net/mailman/listinfo/news_socialjusticenews.net-
email-based news service, periodic email digests of links to articles
related to equity, social justice, and multiculturalism from sources
all over the world.
New essays and links to essays http://www.edchange.org/publications.html
New essays in the Multicultural Education Research Room http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers.html
CAELA's online
resource collection,Working with
Literacy-Level Adult English
Language Learners. is now available at http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections/literacy.html
The collection includes links and annotations to many resources related
to working with adult English language learners, who have had limited
access to formal education. - Lynda Terrill, Center for Adult English
Language Acquisition, Center for Applied Linguistics, 4646 40th St, NW,
Washington, DC 20016 lterrill@cal.org
from Thursday notes, June 28:
AEFLA Grants Slated for July 2 OVAE officials are
finalizing preparations for state grants expected to be awarded July 2,
and made available under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act
(AEFLA). Total funding available for these grants is
$553,945,534, of which $67,896,180 is reserved for English literacy-
civics instruction. Also, $9,968,489 more are provided for
incentive grants for states that, on average, exceed their performance
targets for Title I of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and AEFLA.
State Planning Tool for Jobs With a Future New information on
jobs that can help you assess your state’s need for adult education
services to prepare students for jobs that provide family-supporting
wages. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) classifies
occupations into five job zones based on the preparation required along
three dimensions—education, experience, and training. Education
Week offers BLS’ state-by-state analysis of the number of jobs in each
zone, location in each state, and median years of education
required to qualify for them. http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.c988ba0e5dd572bada20bc47c3921509/?vgnextoid=5528c0c18d301110VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&vgnextchannel=73b2be3a864f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD
Do Adults With GEDs Have High School-Level Literacy Skills? A
new study from the GED Testing Service, Examinee and High School Senior
Performance on the GED Tests, provides evidence of the academic value
of the GED. According to the study, adults with GEDs have
literacy scores about equal to those of adults with high school
diplomas who did not go on to postsecondary education. GED
holders displayed significantly better scores on prose, document, and
quantitative literacy tasks than did adults with less than a high
school education, or just some high school.
http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=GEDTS&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=22696
From Thursday notes, July 5:
DAS Pat Stanley Hosts Community College Virtual Summit
Deputy Assistant Secretary Pat Stanley moderated a
panel of experts at OVAE’s Community College Virtual Summit in
Washington last week, following up on the report A Test of Leadership:
Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education issued by the Secretary’s
Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The summit
generated a dynamic discussion of challenges facing community colleges,
including adult and nontraditional student transitions. The
remote sites participating in the summit were Monroe Community College
in New York, Coastline Community College in California, Central
Piedmont Community College in North Carolina, and the Community College
Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin. The
summit and its proceedings will be available at http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/index.html
soon.
Washington State Finds Transition "Tipping Point"
The Washington State Board of Community and
Technical Colleges, responsible for both adult education and the
college system, has identified a “tipping point,” which they
characterize as students earning a year’s worth of college credits and
a credential, resulting in a significant difference in students’ wage
gains. For example, a student who started in English as a second
language classes (ESL), obtained a year of college credit and received
a credential earned about $7,000 more than an ESL student who did
not. A student starting in adult basic education (ABE) or GED
programs who got to the “tipping point” earned $8,500 more each year
than a similar student who did not get the same amount of
education. http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/research_reports/resh_06-2_tipping_point.pdf
Community College Grants High School Diplomas
Ivy Tech Community College, with 23 campuses throughout Indiana,
received authority from the state legislature to grant high school
diplomas. The college’s fast-track high school-to-college program
offers qualified students the chance to earn a high school diploma
while earning credits for a certificate program or an associate
degree. Students must be 19 or older and not enrolled in high
school, or at least 17 and have consent to be in the program from the
high school they attended most recently. Participants must
transfer high school credits to the college, complete coursework and
pass examinations to get their diplomas.
from Thursday Notes, July 12t:
Computers Replacing Workers in Some Jobs
Adult education programs provide literacy skills that help students
with employment—but some jobs are disappearing rapidly, according to
researchers from the National Research Council at a recent Washington
workshop hosted by the National Academies. By 2030, about 60
percent of jobs currently available will be done by computers,
researchers said, putting soft skills such as interpersonal skills and
written communication that computers cannot do at a premium.
Unprecedented investments in education for both children and adults are
needed, they said, to keep workers ahead of what computers can
do.
Rhode Island Boosts Adult Ed Investment
A new
analysis of revenue that Rhode Island would lose because adults lacked
a GED or high school diploma helped convince state legislators to
increase adult education funds by 41.03 percent ($2.1 million) for
program year 2007–08. The Center for Labor Market Studies at
North-eastern University conducted the revenue analysis. The
increase will help address a budget shortfall of $150 million.
Adult education is the only program in the state that gained resources
over the previous year’s budget.
http://www.ridoe.net/adulteducation/Documents/Fiscal_Consequences_of_Dropping_Out_of_High_School_in_RI.pdf
Financial Aid Key
To Success in
College Transition An
adult education student who gets financial aid for college is three
times more likely to succeed or complete a program than an adult
education student receiving no financial assistance, according to a
recent study conducted by the Washington State Board for Community and
Technical Colleges. Researchers said 70 percent of the students
studied who had a high school diploma were eligible to apply for
financial aid. The study found that less than one-fourth of these
students knew about financial aid on their own, were told about it by
their programs, or accessed it. (see Tipping Point, above)
Users Help Redesign Standards Warehouse Now it's easier to find
the wide variety of adult education standards in OVAE's virtual Adult
Education Content Standards Warehouse. We redesigned the site
based on a recent usability evaluation and input from the field.
You can find content standards from states and organizations, national
and international standards, professional development materials, and A
Process Guide for Developing Adult Education Content Standards.
English Language Learner
Data Sources for State Plans Working on needs assessments for
your state plan? You can use the Migration Policy Institute’s
data tool to generate Census-based fact sheets on your state’s
foreign-born population with one click. The institute’s language
and education fact sheet includes each state’s rate of limited English
proficiency and levels of educational attainment in 1990, 2000 and
2005. The workforce fact sheet prepared by the institute provides
information on top jobs and industries employing the foreign-born
individuals in your state. http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/acscensus.cfm
Radical Math is a resource for
educators interested in integrating issues of social, political, and
economic justice into math curriculum and classes… RadicalMath.org has
the goals of raising mathematic literacy and simultaneously developing
ways to address a range of community issues. The website supports
educators to teach many different types of math within the context of
studying social, political, and economic justice issues.
RadicalMath.org also contains teaching materials on important financial
topics for youth such as owning a credit card, paying for college, and
avoiding subprime lenders, as well as materials on Ethnomathematics.
Visit http://www.radicalmath.org/
for more or email info@radicalmath.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
REGISTER FOR SCALE'S 2007 READ.WRITE.ACT.
CONFERENCE! OCTOBER 26 - 27.
SCALE seeks proposals for workshop sessions at the 2007 Conference.
Conference attendees are college students, faculty, adult learners,
administrators, and community partners; please think about this diverse
audience as you plan your workshop. Proposals due by 5pm on June 29. http://readwriteact.org/rwa/rwaconference.html
Join us for two days
of workshops on Effective Transitions
in Adult Education, November 8-9, 2007 in Providence, RI.
Our keynote speaker, Dr. JoAnn Crandall, will kick off the event with a
discussion of transition for English language learners. For more
details, http://www.collegetransition.org/novconference.html
Cynthia Zafft, Director, National College Transition Network at World
Education nctn@worlded.org
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
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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