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| The Rhode Island Adult Education Professional Development
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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. To learn more about professional development opportunities, please contact the RI AEPDC at (401) 456 -2838 or (401) 863-2839 December 3, 2007 Bulletin #256 Dear Colleagues, Calls for
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reminder: FRIDAY, December 14th from 3-5pm to all adult education practitioners, stakeholders, and friends - the RI Adult Education Professional Development Center invites you to our open house RI College Campus 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Building 30 (near Fruit Hill Avenue and physical plant. Use physical plant parking lot) Providence, RI 02908 Please call (401) 456-2838 by December 7th, 2007 to rsvp (campus map: http://www.ric.edu/campusmap/) We hope you can join us. ESOL share Monday, December 17, at 3:45 pm, Genesis Center, 620 Potters Avenue, Providence. Please bring ideas and questions. This is an open discussion group – practitioners with an interest in adult ESOL are all welcome to attend. The focus of this session will be on vocabulary and on pursuing our own professional development. Resources that may be useful: Professional Development for Adult ESL Practitioners: Building Capacity, a CAELA brief, http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/briefs/profdev.html (as well as this bibliography: http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/bibliographies/profdev.html). upcoming events: The New Practitioner Orientation (NPO) is designed to provide an overview to the adult education system, its policies and priorities, to practitioners new to the field and/or new to Rhode Island. Two-day sessions are offered for staff working 15 hours or more in adult education programs, and one-day sessions are offered for part-time (up to 15 hours) staff. Topics include accountability, assessment, characteristics of adult learners and practitioners, systems and structures and policies relevant to adult education. 2008 two-day sessions: Saturdays: February 2 and 9, 2008 9:30 am – 4 pm Fridays: February 29 and March 14, 9:30 am – 4 pm one day sessions: Friday, January 18 9:30 am – 4 pm and Saturday, March 22 9:30 am – 4 pm Spaces are still available for the standards rollout session for January 19th (9-1). To attend an NPO session or the standards rollout, please contact janet_isserlis@brown.edu. Transition to College is designed to serve non-traditional adults returning to academic life. This comprehensive program prepares students for college success with career exploration, instruction in reading, writing, math, and computer skills, and mentoring workshops. In addition, the program provides academic advising and counseling and assistance with financial aid and college application preparation. Students experience the college environment by taking a class together at the Community College of Rhode Island; as needed, to ensure success, they receive support and tutoring from TTC instructors. During success workshops, students learn to better understand themselves through the Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment and other activities designed to build confidence in their ability to succeed in college. Finally, they develop a personal, academic, and career life-plan. Upon completion of TTC, students who apply are matched with an individual mentor who guides them through their first semester of college, and often beyond. Two evening sessions and a new weekend program are offered in the spring and fall. This college preparation initiative is funded through the Nellie Mae Educational Foundation and the Rhode Island Department of Education. The program meets at 175 Main Street Pawtucket, RI. For more information, Anyone interested in attending the Transition to College January Evening session should call 722-9800 or contact Sharon Pontarelli by email at pontarellis@aol.com. The Literacy President campaign http://www.litpresident.org/ has been raising the issue of adult education with all candidates for President in both parties. The primary goal of the campaign is to make adult education and literacy one of the top three education priorities for the next President. Listed below are the links to two great resources that have been developed by the Literacy President folks. The link to the Literacy President Website connects to information about each campaign. The link to the candidate’s web page will allow you and your students to connect to the Web Pages for any and all of the candidates. You can use this link to communicate with a candidate’s campaign with questions related to the candidate’s position on adult education. - Art Ellison, Co-chair, Policy Committee, National Council of State Directors of Adult Education As a partner in the Literacy President campaign, VALUE is sponsoring a petition urging all of the presidential candidates to respond to five questions about adult literacy policy under the next Administration. Add your name to the petition by going to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/litpresident. The purpose of the campaign is to make adult education and literacy one of the top three education priorities for the next President. The web site also includes training materials for involving adult learners and literacy practitioners in Literacy President activities. Let's show candidates how important adult literacy is to voters across the US by getting as many people as possible to sign this online petition before December 17. 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. Call for Writings by Adult Basic/Literacy Education Students -- Writers must be adult literacy/basic education students attending classes or working with a tutor. Women's Perspectives #3 (2008) / Women & Money : http://www.litwomen.org/perspectives.html Women's Perspectives #3: Women and Money will showcase writings by adult literacy/basic education students across all levels. Student writers are encouraged to reflect and to write on the theme of women and their experiences with finances, class, security, income, and other everyday issues related to women’s lives as affected by money. Criteria for Selection: Originality, Creativity, Clarity, and Relevance to the theme. All forms of writings accepted. Original artwork about this theme will also be accepted. Lesson Planning Ideas & Worksheet also available: http://www.litwomen.org/perspectives.html Why participate? * Students have an opportunity to share their creativity, opinions, insights, and courage with a national audience. * Student writings make a significant contribution to supporting student leadership and peer role modeling. * Students whose writings are selected for publication, and their teachers, will receive a printed copy of Women's Perspectives. * Some writings will be selected to receive Honors or Honorable Mention Awards. (Awards will include partial scholarships to attend the WE LEARN Conference and/or cash award.) All students who send writing will receive a certificate of participation. Deadline: January 18, 2008 from Thursday notes, November 15: Justesen Convenes Interagency Adult Education Group Assistant Secretary Justesen, as Secretary Spellings' designee, this week convened the first meeting of the Interagency Adult Education Working Group established by President Bush under Executive Order 13445 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070927-11.html . Under Secretary Sara Martinez Tucker discussed the importance of postsecondary pathways for adults entering the 21st-century workforce with senior officers from seven other departments and federal agencies that make up the work group. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070927-11.html SABES Offers Guidance on Counseling Adults Massachusetts' System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES) has posted its fall 2007 Field Notes <http://www.sabes.org/resources/publications/fieldnotes/vol16/fn164.pdf> offering guidance for educators who counsel adult learners either informally while teaching or as professionally trained counselors in adult education or English language learning programs. Field Notes covers culture variables in counseling immigrants, setting boundaries, handling ethical questions, and avoiding legal issues. http://www.sabes.org/resources/publications/fieldnotes/index.htm from Thursday notes, November 29: NEA Study: American Adults’ Reading Declining The amount Americans read and their proficiency are rapidly declining, and these declines have civic, social, and economic implications, according to a new study just released by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). To Read or Not to Read <http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html> looks at all kinds of reading, including reading online, by youths and adults of various education levels. The study found that Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours daily watching TV but only seven minutes of leisure time reading. Americans also are reading less well, the study shows. Reading scores for American adults appear to have deteriorated, even among adults with graduate school experience. Nearly two-thirds of employers ranked reading comprehension “very important,” and readers were likely to engage in more positive civic activities, such as volunteering, than non-readers, the study says. http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html Florida Creates Intensive English Academies Florida has created seven Intensive English Academies <http://www.floridaadultesol.org/> , managed enrollment pilot projects, in Miami-Dade County. These pilot projects use English language learning standards designed specifically for managed enrollment classes. Class enrollment closes after one week, and classes run for a total of eight weeks. Schools report that learners are passing from one level to the next at significantly higher rates than from open-entry open exit programs. Students must sign a contract stipulating that they will attend classes regularly for the entire session. http://www.floridaadultesol.org/ ANNOUNCING -- A new issue of The Change Agent -- Taking Action to Stay in School How do students support each other to stay in school? How do they work together to find personal and collective solutions to the problems that make it hard for them to stay in school? How do they inspire, motivate, and encourage each other to balance a multitude of demands so that they can stay in school? In this issue, you'll find powerful writings by students and teachers, ready-to-use lesson plans, poetry, math, policy analysis, hands-on activities, and more. There are several cartoons that are great to use at any level but are especially helpful in the ESOL classroom. SUBSCRIBE NOW by visiting our web site (http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent) or calling 617-482-9485 ext. 491. SUPPORT THE ONGOING WORK of The Change Agent to make social justice part of the adult education classroom. - Thank you. Cynthia Peters, cpeters@worlded.org 617-482-9485 learning opportunities talk about it: There will be a special discussion on the Adult English Language Learners discussion list on Practical Strategies for Working with Literacy-Level Adult English Language Learners, December 10-14, 2007 with guest facilitators MaryAnn Cunningham Florez and Betsy Lindeman Wong. To subscribe to this list, please go to http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Englishlanguage and click on subscribe. Urban League of Rhode Island is offering free GED Classes Seating is limited Call now to reserve your place 351-5000, ext. 110 Registration Deadline December 11, 2007 Classes Begin Monday, January 7, 2008, 246 Prairie Avenue, Providence, RI 02905 Subsidized Child Care Available On-Site for qualifying participants The Ed.D. in adult education, delivered primarily online (along with one-week summer residencies) and designed to combine a strong theoretical base and practical applications to promote effective practice in the field. Our students come from various backgrounds including, K-12, Higher Education, corporate, the military, and other settings where understanding adult learners, and designing, facilitating, and administering effective programs for adults is an essential part of their current or future responsibilities. http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/academics/edd/adult_ed/ Introduction to Family Literacy, ADTED 456 and Interactive Literacy: Parents and Children, ADTED 458. Courses reflect the latest research on early literacy and parent involvement, adult learning and family literacy. January 23 - April 23. http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/FamilyLiteracyCertificate.shtml. The Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) Providence teaches parents who wish to improve the lifelong health, safety and learning of children, how to become practiced change agents for the next generation. This 20-week long course reinforces parent involvement in the civic arena with an emphasis on leadership and understanding how to impact change in Providence. We are accepting applications until approx. December 14th. Please encourage people to submit applications ASAP so that we can schedule interviews. The class runs from Jan-June 2008, every Weds. evening from 5:00-8:30pm and is FREE, with dinner and childcare provided. For more information go to http://www.ripolicy.org/plti/ or e-mail PLTI Providence Coordinator Ina Anderson inalouiseanderson@gmail.com. or call 521-3120 ext. 105. PLTI is being launched in Providence thanks to the work of the PLTI Design Team made up of volunteers who work with parents, children, government and in neighborhoods, and with the staff support from the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council and the Prairie Avenue Revitalization Committee. If you are interested in serving on the design team to help organize PLTI, please let me know. - Ina Anderson PLTI Providence Coordinator Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative (RIFLI) 2007-08 schedule of classes. An English version and a Spanish version of the schedules are available at http://www.rifli.org . Classes are offered in Cranston, East Providence, Pawtucket and Providence. Questions? Please contact Karisa Tashjian, Literacy Program Coordinator 401-455-8185 funding opportunities - large and less large Building More Literate Communities - Verizon Foundation Literacy grants are available to organizations committed to basic literary skills in the United States. Verizon has invested in a network of collaborative literacy partners, offering programs with a focus on e-learning. Verizon's leadership in technology and communications provides the distribution network. Maximum Award: varies. Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations. Deadline: November 30. http://foundation.verizon.com/02008.shtml - 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. 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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If you have questions about this service, please online / resources available online training website, http://GCFLearnFree.org - a free program, funded by Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC, designed to provide learning opportunities for people so they can acquire the skills they need to be succeed. This training includes topics such as Open Office, Computer Basics, Internet Basics, and Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Publisher. We’re currently in the process of revitalizing our computer training curriculum to include video lessons along with our text-based lessons. Just this week we launched a new project, which we call Everyday Life, geared toward adult basic education, ESL students, and learners that need to acquire functional literacy skills. Some initial lessons include how to use an ATM, complete a bank deposit slip, use bus maps, and complete a job application. Our interactive lessons are not intended to teach vocabulary and reading skills, but rather to provide learners with a safe environment where they can practice new skills without real-world consequences and the fear of failure. Our goal with these lessons was to create a realistic environment that learners would relate to. Some of the lessons are intentionally easy, and we will be adding lessons in the future to increase the difficulty level. So far, we’ve used local literacy centers as a resource and as a source of user testing. If you have a moment, please take a look at our Everyday Life curriculum and let me know what you think. You do have to create an account on our website to view the lessons; however, it is free and the only personal information we ask is your email address. We don’t share your information with others and only send information about the site if you opt-in for the newsletter. I’m interested in any feedback you have about our Everyday Life project and hope that it will be a resource you can use with your learners. - Kelly Potter at kelly@gcflearnfree.org The Charlottesville City Schools Adult Learning Center invites you to check out the latest issue of the Multi-Cultural Brief, an ESL newsletter created by students who want to improve their English. http://www.charlottesville-esl.org/ or http://www.ccs.k12.va.us/programs/adult_education/ Produced as part of a newspaper writing class, the purpose of the Multi-Cultural Brief is to provide students with an opportunity to share their experiences of being from another country, offer multi-cultural perspectives on life in Charlottesville and the US, help inform people who are new to Charlottesville/US of issues and opportunities , snf build a bridge of communication between the ESL population and Americans living in the Charlottesville community. While some of the articles are specific to the Charlottesville local area, many are relevant regardless of where one lives in the US. In addition to the current issue, view archived issues, study guides for some articles, and a searchable subject index - Debra Tuler ESL Specialist, Festival of Cultures Co-coordinator, CCS Adult Learning Center, 935-A Second St. SE, Charlottesville, VA 22902 The CAELA Guide for Adult ESL Trainers was prepared for professional developers and training staff to use in training novice and experienced teachers of adult English language learners. This guide contains resources for preparing and implementing professional development activities such as coaching, peer mentoring, study circles and workshop for local program staff. It also provides information on using the CAELA Web site as a resource for professional development activities; and references for additional training materials. Topics selected for inclusion in the CAELA Guide are based on the needs articulated by the 24 states that participated in the CAELA initiative – funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education - to increase state capacity for providing professional development to local adult ESL program staff. The materials were developed, piloted, and revised over a 3-year period (2004–2007). To access the complete guide in pdf format, go to http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/CAELAGuide.pdf To access sections of the guide in pdf format, go to http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/guide.html Finally, the focus of the guide is on providing technical assistance on the content and strategies practitioners need when teaching adult English language learners, rather than all adult learners. - Miriam Burt Center for Adult English Language Acquisition The California Adult Education Learner Persistence Project - produced by CALPRO, under funding from the California Department of Education (CDE), presents the outcomes of a multi-year initiative on enhancing adult learner persistence. It addresses three distinct but related efforts on learner persistence: (1) the adult learner persistence Web site developed by the CDE, (2) a field-based research initiative (FBRI) on learner persistence, and (3) site-based study circles on learner persistence. The purpose of each of these efforts was the same: to make available to California adult educators information about current research findings on learner persistence and to invite them to use the findings to design and implement interventions to enhance the persistence of their adult learners. Together, the three efforts make up the Adult Learner Persistence Project, which is part of a larger effort—the California Research-to-Practice Initiative.An announcement of the publication is on the CALPRO Web site at http://www.calpro-online.org. To access the full document on the CALPRO Web site, click on Resources, then Publications, or to access the document directly, go to http://www.calpro-online.org/documents/PersistencePub10012007.pdf - Amy Park, CA Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO), American Institutes for Research New Online Resources For EL/Civics English Literacy/Civics education (EL/C) teachers have an online opportunity that helps them use U.S. history to teach English language literacy to adults. The course was created with funding from OVAE and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Office of Citizenship, and features tutorials on lesson planning and adapting materials. Online courses in U.S. government, naturalization, and rights and responsibilities of citizens are expected this spring. http://www.elcivicsonline.org/ from Thursday notes, November 8: Lumina Foundation – Latino students: Only 25% of college-age Latinos actually enroll in college, according to the Lumina Foundation's summary of research <http://edexcelencia.org/pdf/Latinos-Undergraduate-2007.pdf> . (http://edexcelencia.org/pdf/Latinos-Undergraduate-2007.pdf) Lumina's new report, Camino de la Universidad: The Road to College for Latino Students <http://www.CaminodelaUniversidad.org.> , features user interaction and animation (http://www.luminafoundation.org/latinos/). Also: a report on college readiness of Latino students <http://www.act.org/path/policy/pdf/CollegeReadinessLatino.pdf> , (http://www.luminafoundation.org/latinos/) links to fast facts on financial aid, and the top 25 institutions awarding degrees to Latinos. http://www.edexcelencia.org/research/top_25_institutions.asp Colleges Help Military Families Tidewater Community College in Hampton Roads, Va., has teamed up with Freedom Calls Foundation to provide videoconference service to Camps Taji, Fallujah, Victory, and Taqaddum as well as Al Asad Air Base in Iraq (https://www.tcc.edu/secure/forms/freedomcalls.php <file://localhost/secure/forms/freedomcalls.php> ). Local families separated by war can communicate via free “video call” from the college's campus. Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley, CA, expanded its Military Outreach Program <http://military.coastline.edu> to include dependent military spouses by offering them reduced tuition, free textbooks, accelerated eight-week online courses, and a reduced residency requirement. http://military.coastline.edu/ No matter where deployments take them, spouses can continue their education. Research Utilization in the Field of Adult Learning and Literacy: Lessons Learned by NCSALL About Connecting Practice, Policy, and Research By Cristine Smith, Beth Bingman, and Kaye Beall This occasional paper is a summary of what the staff of the NCSALL Dissemination Initiative learned about how to connect research, policy and practice in ways that promote evidence-based practice in the field of adult learning and literacy. Go to http://www.ncsall.net/?id=26#utilization to download the paper. 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) - 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 U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), Assisting Refugees with Disabilities Program has produced a Resource Guide for Serving Refugees with Disabilities - available at http://www.refugees.org/DisabilityGuide The guide, written for refugee case managers and those serving refugees with disabilities, includes 139 pages of information about resources for serving adults and children with disabilities, housing for refugees with disabilities, assistive technology, medical resources, citizenship and disability, benefits for refugees with disabilities and more. If you have any questions or technical assistance needs, please contact Xuan Nguyen, Director of USCRI Health and Human Services at xnguyen@uscridc.org or at 202-347-3507 ext 3056. 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 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 Lexia Learning Systems is hosting an education event entitled Best Practices in Reading Improvement on December 6 in Seekonk, MA. Speakers and topics will include theory and practice of reading acquisition including software designed to supplement instruction. Lexia will demonstrate their new web-enabled software and a panel of local educators will discuss how they have successfully integrated Lexia into their daily classroom activity. There is no charge for the event, but registration is required. Please call 800-435-3942 (x228) or register online at http://www.lexialearning.com/go/ugsk Learning Disabilities Association of America's 45th Annual International Conference, Hilton Chicago February 27 – March 1, focusing on research and findings in learning disabilities including workshops on Adults, Adult Education/GED, Transition, ESL, Corrections, Medical, Mental Health, Professional Preparation, Public Policy, and much more. Featured speakers include Dale Brown, Andy Imparato, Nancie Payne, Anne Ford and Harry Sylvester. Please log on http://www.ldaamerica.org/ for additional information and to view the entire program. Or contact us via email (info@LDAAmerica.org) or phone (888-300-6710) to receive the advance registration book. Multiple copies of the book are also available for distribution. WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women & Literacy Building Alliances / Construyendo Alianzas http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html March 7- 8, Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center, New York, NY Co-Sponsored with WE LEARN by Fordham Graduate School of Education WE LEARN seeks presentation proposals from students (at all levels), teachers, researchers, and community activists addressing related theme issues & topics. Women continue to be separated by culture, language, literacy, geography; our differences are profound. The daily lives of women in adult basic/literacy education remain especially complex due to inequities based on race, class, gender, and other diversities. This year’s conference will explore the differences that divide women and look to ways of building alliances across those differences. DEADLINE: Nov. 30 Please apply using the Internet form. http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/props08.html Sponsorship, advertiser, and exhibitor information also available: http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/sponsors.pdf Registration and hotel information will be available by the end of November. Thanks. We look forward to your participation. - Mev Miller, Ed.D., Director On March 26 Bristol Community College will hold an event to recognize the power of community-based efforts. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Dollars for Scholars, the College is planning a conference entitled From Dream to Reality: Grassroots Empowerment for Student Success. The focus of the conference is on community efforts that are attempting to make a difference in student success and persistence in education from kindergarten through higher education. A recent report by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation concluded that: "High dropout rates are a silent epidemic afflicting our nation’s high schools;" a recent article in Community College Journal referred to the over 1.5 million students who failed to graduate high school in 2006 as the 'lost generation.' We know also that this problem exists on all levels of education. We invite you to consider making a presentation showcasing your own best practices of grassroots efforts. We hope to feature a number of workshops from individuals and community groups who are working in a variety of ways to combat student attrition and encourage persistence on all levels of education. We would also welcome workshops dealing with research on this matter as well as ideas for classroom practice related to this topic. The conference will also include guest speakers and performance artist Brooke Haycock from the Education Trust. For the workshop presentation form or for more information, contact Denise DiMarzio at Bristol Community College at ddimarzi@bristol.mass.edu Worlds of TESOL: Building Communities of Practice, Inquiry, and Creativity New York City, April 2-5, http://www.tesol.org/2008convention Registration opens December 3; $265 members (advanced registration) $460 non-member (advanced registration). Read, Rattle and Roll: National Community literacy Leadership Conference, Memphis, March 12-14. Conference goals: to build on the national community literacy discourse that is uniting communities and promoting the vision of 100% literacy through 100% community engagement; to demonstrate strategies that business, local government, funders and educational stakeholders can use to support the creation of highly literate communities; to share models, resources and success stories from a diverse group of coalitions, and to inspire community leaders and coalition board members through a process of enquiry nd education to build the capacity of collaborative community efforts through literacy infusion. http://www.literacypowerline.com/details2008.html A Declaration of Numeracy: Empowering Adults through Mathematics Education, 15th International Conference 2008 June 30th - July 3rd Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia CALL FOR PAPERS for ALM15 - PROPOSAL FORM is at the Adults Learning Mathematics Website http://www.alm-online.net/ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION 22 FEBRUARY Another great conference and website is Radical Mathematics, Creating Balance in an Unjust World 2008 Conference on Math Education and Social Justice http://www.radicalmath.org/conference Long Island University . Brooklyn, NY, April 4th - April 6th 2008 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
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