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| The Rhode Island Adult Education Professional Development
Center 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. August 17, 2007 Bulletin #247 Dear Colleagues, Calls for
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Welcome to programs joining RIDE-funded adult education providers. This bulletin is sent electronically every two weeks or so – with more timely announcements sent as they arrive. Bulletins are also available online at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/bulletin.html In addition to this state-specific bulletin, there are a number of electronic discussion groups (list servs) covering adult education information and topics available at http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/discussions.html and http://lists.literacytent.org/mailman/listinfo/aaace-nla To learn more about professional development opportunities, please contact the RI AEPDC at (401) 863-2839 or (401)456 -2838 ESOL share - Tuesday, Tuesday, August 21st at 3:00, Genesis Center, 620 Potters Avenue, Providence. topic: ESOL literacy – working with learners with little to no literacy in their own language or in English. This is an open discussion group – all are welcome to attend. The Central Falls Public Library Literacy Program invites adult education and service agencies to conduct outreach and student registration at a Community Fair on the Library's grounds on August 24, from 4:00-8:00pm. The purpose of the fair is to: provide a fun summer evening for patrons, students and community members; offer centralized access to social service and educational opportunities for the fall, and raise funds for our Literacy Program which currently provides ESOL classes to 125 students. We invite adult education agencies interesting in recruiting students from Central Falls and surrounding areas to table at this event, recruit students, distribute information and network with others. We request a $25 contribution to the Literacy Program to cover overhead. A flyer for the event is available to distribute to students or anyone else you think might like to attend the fair, or other wise participate. (please contact lrri@brown.edu for the flyer via email) We are also in the process of facilitating an ESOL student-produced museum exhibit in the Flagg Museum (the building adjacent to the Library) called Our Central Falls, which we hope to open the evening of the fair. The exhibit is a collaborative effort on the part of our students and teachers to build a representation of CF’s recent history and its connection to students’ native countries, languages and cultures. If you wish to register for a table, please contact Literacy Coordinator Brady Dunklee at brady@cflibrary.org, or our director Laura Marlane at laura@cflibrary.org or 727-7440. We hope that this will be an excellent outreach opportunity for your agency, and that the Library can continue to facilitate resource-sharing and networking efforts in the adult education community. Thank you, and we wish you good luck as you gear up for your fall classes. Citizenship classes at CHISPA: The Center for Hispanic Policy and Advocacy (CHisPA) has expanded its immigration services. Marta Isaza, CHisPA’s immigration case manager will be completing immigration benefit applications and petitions at reduced fees, under the guidance and oversight of our immigration lawyers. CHisPA will also offer citizenship classes, and will continue offering legal immigration consultations. Marta Isaza is bilingual in Spanish and English, and multicultural, and comes with 5 years of experience as an immigration services case worker/program supervisor at Catholic Community Services in New Jersey. Ms Isaza may be reached at CHisPA by calling 401.467.0111 extension 119; email misaza@chispari.org Please join me in welcoming Ms. Isaza to the CHisPA family! According to a National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund analysis of estimates produced by the Urban Institute demographer Dr. Jeffrey Pastel one out of two of the nation’s legal permanent residents eligible for US citizenship are Latino – 4.2 million. These Latino legal permanent residents eligible for US citizenship represent 4.2 million potential new participants in the nation’s electoral process. According to NALEO Educational Fund Executive Director Arturo Vargas “if we want our democracy to remain truly representative, promoting naturalization and eliminating barriers in the process must become a national priority.” Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics estimated the legal permanent resident population eligible to naturalize as of 9/2003 at 7.9 million. It was estimated that RI had 29,000 legal permanent residents eligible to naturalize in 2003. Below is text from CHisPA flyers re: citizenship classes and immigration benefit applications and petitions. Thank you for working with us - Miguel E. Sanchez-Hartwein, MBA, Executive Director, CHISPA, 421 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, 02907; 401. 467.0111 For electronic copies of the flyer: lrri@brown.edu Inscribase para las clases de Ciudadaniaque CHisPA ofrece martesy juevesde 6:00 pm –8:00 pm Las clases comienzan el 2 de octubrede 2007 y terminan el6 de diciembre de 2007 Costo: $150.00 Para más información: 401.467. 0111Ext. 119 Marta Isaza Con la ayuda de nuestros expertos abogados en inmigracion, CHisPA tiene el gusto de ofrecerles nuestros nuevos servicios tales como: Ciudadania Residencia Permanente Cambio de apellidoa Permiso de trabajo Peticiones Reunificacion familiar Extenciones de visa - tambien tendremos clases de ciudadania. Si usted desea llenar un documento de inmigracion, tiene un caso pendiente o quiere orientacion o acercade inmigacion por favor llame para una cita: (401) 467. 0111 ext. 119 The Learning Disabilities Work Group is in the process of collecting ideas for the successful teaching of adults who have low literacy skills. We welcome your ideas for strategies, materials, lesson plans and resources that have been useful to you in teaching adults who are reading in the EFL levels 1 and 2. Please send your ideas to Nancy Fritz at Nancy@gencenter.org and she will share them with the LD group. learning opportunities Practitioner Research Project The Adult Numeracy Network (ANN) will sponsor two practitioner research projects to begin this fall and conclude before our annual meeting next spring. We would like the practitioners to try something new in their classroom based on what the ANN Teaching and Learning Principles suggest for a high quality mathematics curriculum and learning environment. To apply for this project, the practitioner must provide information on the following four components of practitioner research. 1. Identify the question to be researched. What aspect of the ANN principles are you investigating? “What is going on …?” or “What happens when..?” or “How do I help students…?” 2. Discuss how you will collect data to answer the question. How will you gather information to answer your question? Will it be quantitative (numbers, i.e. math scores to show demonstration of learning) or qualitative (case study)? 3. Analyze and interpret the data. What will you do with the data that you gathered? What did you find out? What’s the answer to the question? What does this mean for your teaching practice? 4. Share the findings. Write an article for the newsletter based on your research project. Also, if possible, share your project at ANN annual conference in 2008. If this interests you, please submit your proposal identifying the four components above to electronically to Mdr151@aol.com (preferred) or mail to Pam Meader, 151 Summit Street, Portland, Me 04103 by September 15, 2007. Two practitioners will be selected and will receive a $500 stipend at the completion of their projects and sharing of their findings. Selected practitioners will be asked to join ANN if they are not already members. http://www.literacynet.org/ann/ 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 Webcast, August 29th: Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM. Registration information will be posted at http://www.nifl.gov. The webcast will focus on the Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) 2003., and will feature Dr. Sheida White, director. National Assessment of Adult Literacy at the National Center for Education Statistics (or NCES). Her doctoral degree is in linguistics from Georgetown University. After working as a full-time reading researcher for 6 years, she joined NCES in 1991. During the first 8 years at NCES, she monitored the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Since 1999, she has been directing the NAAL project. Dr. White has taught non-native English speaking adults. She created a guided reading program to address the reading comprehension needs of slow readers. Her articles have appeared in journals such as "Language in Society" and "Reading Research Quarterly" The webcast will be moderated by Dr. Sandra L. Baxter, Director of the National Institute for Literacy. this fall, the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State University will offer an Adult Literacy course through Penn State's online World Campus. For more information: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/FamilyLiteracyCertificate.shtml. STAR Releases Teacher Resources The Student Achievement in Reading (STAR) project has released two issue papers useful to reading teachers - the Role of Instructional Leadership in Implementing Evidence-based Reading Instruction by Sandy Strunk and Managed Enrollment and Evidence-based Reading Instruction by John Strucker. (in PDF at http://www.startoolkit.org/) A new STAR outreach video of testimonials also has been posted. http://www.startoolkit.org/intro_video.html funding opportunities - large and less large OVAE Seeks Applicants For EL Technical Assistance Network OVAE has released a solicitation for proposals to implement an Adult English Language Education Technical Assistance Network (AELETAN). The entity awarded the contract will establish and operate a national technical assistance network to support English language (EL) teachers and improve EL services to adults. The closing date for the submission of proposals is Aug. 27, 2007, at 2:00 pm. http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ED/OCFO/CPO/Reference%2DNumber%2DED%2D07%2DR%2D0053/listing.html The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy announces its 2008 national grant competition. The Foundation's grant-making program seeks to develop or expand projects that are designed to support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children. A total of approximately $650,000 will be awarded; no grant request should exceed $65,000. The application, is online at: http://www.barbarabushfoundation.com/wn.html deadine: Sept 7/07. The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, and the Workforce Strategy Center invite local adult basic education (ABE) programs across the country to apply for the ABE Career Connections project. Five sites will be selected to receive support in the development and implementation of new or improved approaches to build upon their current involvement in career pathways. The ABE Career Connections project will demonstrate how ABE programs can operate within career pathways to prepare students for postsecondary courses leading to a degree or occupational certificate targeted toward an industry important to a regional economy. Each winner will receive $75,000.00, technical assistance, and national recognition. To access the project overview and application, visit the Workforce Strategy Center Web site at <http://www.workforcestrategy.org/>. The applications are due September 5, 2007. Cheryl L. Keenan Director, Division of Adult Education and Literacy 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 employment opportunities are generally sent as they arrive via email; if you would like to receive this bulletin, and those updates by email please contact janet_isserlis@brown.edu. Project RIRAL has the following openings for adult education instructors: Central Falls: Adult Basic Education Instructor in evening program at Central Falls High School Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening from 6pm-8pm Subject Areas: Reading, writing and/or math Woonsocket: ESOL instructor for Even Start Family Literacy Program Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9am-2pm. ABE/ASE instructor for Pregnant and Parenting Teen program Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9am-1pm ESOL instructor for evening program Monday and Wednesday from 6pm-8pm Providence: ABE/ASE Instructor for young adults aged 16-21 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Resumes can be submitted by e-mail or mail: RIRAL 191 Social Street, Box 11, 5th Floor, Woonsocket, RI 02895 e-mail to Cidalia Duarte (cduarte@riral.org) 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
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by helping non-profit and public interest 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
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If you have questions about this service, please online / resources available New DOL Grants Help At-Risk Youths Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao recently announced six sets of youth-related grants investing in the education and career skills of troubled youths nationwide. The $41 million in grant awards respond to the 30 percent dropout rate among high school students and are aimed at providing them alternative educational opportunities and improved employment pathways. The 46 grant awards were made for the following six programs: Shared Youth Vision Pilot Projects, Multiple Education Pathway Blueprints, Beneficiary-Choice Contracting Program, High Growth Youth Offender Initiative (HGYOI), Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS), and Public School District Strategies for Reducing Youth Involvement in Gangs. Grantee representatives met in Kansas City, Mo., recently to kick off their projects. http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/eta20070976.htm KidsCount data released: The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 18th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, a national and state-by-state effort to track the health, academic, and economic status of children throughout the nation, is available online. http://www.kidscount.org/sld/databook.jsp Each year, KIDS COUNT provides data and statistical trends on the conditions of America's children and families, including child death rate, teen birth rate, children in poverty, and children in single-parent families. This year, the report also looks at the 726,000 children in the US who spend time in foster care each year and what can be done to build and strengthen the family relationships that these children need. See national and state by state figures: http://www.kidscount.org/sld/compare.jsp Adult English Language Instruction in the United States: Determining Need and Investing Wisely, a new Migration Policy Institute report, finds that in order to reach a level of proficiency necessary for civic integration or to begin post-secondary education, approximately 5.8 million adult lawful permanent residents in the US will need about 277 million hours of English language instruction a year for 6 years. If only halfwere to participate in classroom English instruction and 10% of instruction could be done outside the classroom, the additional cost of meeting LPRs' English instruction needs would be about $200 million a year for six years, over and above the approximately $1 billion currently spent annually by the federal government and states. In order to remain in the US under the terms of the failed Senate immigration bill or to fully participate in civic life, approximately 6.4 million unauthorized immigrants will need about 319 million hours of English instruction a year for six years. In the event of a broad legalization program for today’s unauthorized population, total projected English instruction costs would increase $2.9 billion a year for six years. Developing the capacity to provide up to 660 hours of English instruction to immigrants would bring the United States in line with the language instruction provided to immigrants in a number of other developed countries. Authors Margie McHugh, Julia Gelatt, and Michael Fix use census-based estimates of the number, educational attainment and English skills of immigrants currently in the US, index immigrants’ needs to existing student performance levels, and provide direction on how to strategically expand instructional services to meet these needs. The authors note that investing in the human capital of immigrants leads to increased tax revenues, lower social welfare payments, and improved educational and workforce outcomes among immigrants and their child-ren. The report includes funding recommendations for meeting English instruction needs and maximizing this investment by setting benchmarks for success and deepening accountability. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/ttp://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/NCIIP_English_Instruction073107.pdf Scientific Evidence for Adult Literacy Educators The National Institute for Literacy is pleased to bring you QEd, a five-issue series for the adult education community-- literacy educators, paraprofessionals, program directors, and volunteers. QEd will bring ideas and information from the expanding scientific research base on how adults learn to read. This first issue tells the story of how researchers use the high quality, scientific standards that adult literacy deserves and demands. This issue also brings you news of Applying Research in Reading Instruction for Adults: First Steps for Teachers, which offers specific connections between the research and the classroom. In future issues, QEd will amplify the key literacy elements discussed in this book. We invite you to download a copy of the publication from the Institute's website. (PDF format (261KB), HTML (accessible format)) Other resources include our discussion lists, which continue to provide the adult education community with its most energetic, interactive resource. Adult educators have a cherished history of collaboration and camaraderie. Scientifically based research inspires and challenges us as we work together to understand its implications and the power of its findings. Please join us on this journey of reflection and renewal! Send your thoughts and ideas to us at info@nifl.gov. - Sandra L. Baxter, Ed.D., Director, National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/news_events/07-12-07.html Evidence-based Practice: A Workshop for Training Adult Basic Education, TANF and One Stop Practitioners and Program Administrators (May 2007) By Cristine Smith, Beth Bingman, Lennox McLendon, and John Comings The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) and the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium (NAEPDC), with funding from the National Institute for Literacy, created a one-day workshop to assist practitioners and administrators in adult basic education, TANF (Transitional Assistance for Needy Families) and One Stop programs to understand evidence-based practice and develop strategies for continuously accessing, understanding, judging and using research. For more information and to download, go to: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=769#ebp_train 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 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, 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 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 Recipes for Success - Association for Fundraising Professionals-RI Annual Fundraising Day Conference Friday, September 7, Radisson Airport Hotel Providence, 2081 Post Road, Warwick (Directions: http://www.radisson.com/warwickri Conference Sessions: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Luncheon & Fundraising Executive of the Year Award: 12 Noon ~ Featuring ~ Career Corner -- speak to recruiters looking for your skills, Presentations by the area's top presenters, Tracks for beginning and veteran fundraising professionals. A special track on women's career issues, leadership and negotiation skills ~ Registration Fee ~ Conference Members -- $195 ~ Non-Members -- $225 http://www.altrue.net/site/afpri/content.php?type=2&id=6211 REGISTER FOR SCALE'S 2007 READ.WRITE.ACT. CONFERENCE! OCTOBER 26 - 27. http://readwriteact.org/rwa/rwaconference.html Vocabulary Strategies that Work - MATSOL's Rhode Island Special Interest Group will be having a one day event with Michael Graves from the University of Minnesota on Saturday, October 13th at Rhode Island College. Details forthcoming. 17th Annual National Conference on Family Literacy Call for Proposals Literacy Grows Families and Communities, March 30/April 1, 2008, Louisville, KY The National Center for Family Literacy invites proposals for presentation at the National Conference on Family Literacy. NCFL is interested in session presentations that share successful, specific outcomes and strategies that work well for the diverse populations family literacy serves. Proposals (accepted online only) hare welcome from literacy practitioners and are encouraged from professionals in administration, policy and research.. NCFL encourages presenters to carefully read the criteria and guidelines before submitting proposals. Deadline for submission of concurrent proposals is October 26,; deadline for submissions for literacy showcase poster session is December 7. information http://www.famlit.org/Conference COABE and the Missouri Association for Adult, Continuing and Community Education (MAACCE) invite you to submit a proposal for presentation at the 2008 COABE National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, April 28 - May 1, 2008 at the Adam's Mark Hotel. The conference committee is interested in outstanding and innovative practices in all aspects of adult education including basic literacy, basic numeracy, workforce development, family literacy, English as a Second Language, volunteer/community-based literacy, correctional education, and all other areas. The program committee is looking for presentations based on successful implementation, current research, and sound practice. Access further information and the Call for Presenters form online at http://www.coabeconference.org/call_for_presenters.html Proposals are due no later than October 31, 2007. Presentation Co-Chairs: Janet Geary - 816.413.5461 | jgeary@coabeconference.org Ramona George - 417.447.8861 | rgeorge@coabeconference.org 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
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