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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. To learn more about professional development opportunities, please contact the RI AEPDC at (401) 456 -2838 or (401) 863-2839 April 10, 2008 Bulletin #266 Dear Colleagues, Calls for
participation, employment, funding,
and conference and workshop
opportunities, online
and other resources.
Janet Isserlis
ESOL share Wednesday, April 30th at 3:00 pm, Genesis Center, 620 Potters Avenue, Providence. What happened at TESOL? and thinking about ongoing and year-end assessment This is an open discussion group – practitioners with an interest in adult ESOL are all welcome. at 3:30 pm, Genesis Center, 620 Potters Avenue, Providence. This is an open discussion group – practitioners with an interest in adult ESOL are all welcome. practitioner share, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 20th at 3 pm, in the Knight Memorial Library auditorium (downstairs to right), Elmwood Avenue, Providence. Many practitioners struggle with helping adult learners stay engaged in learning. Family, work and other concerns can often make it difficult for learners to stay focused on educational programs. Join classroom teachers and administrators considering these issues and share both concerns and possibilities. We’ve begun to consider solution and practices to support learning for all. other RI Adult Education PDC events: http://www.ric.edu/aepdc/calendar.php Regional Workshops on State Budget and Impact of Proposed Cuts Learn more about the Impact of Proposed Budget Cuts on Rhode Island Children, Families, Seniors, and People with Disabilities. The state is facing a budget shortfall of $530 million. To close the gap, the Governor has proposed slashing tens of millions of dollars from programs that help Rhode Islanders meet their basic needs including: RIte Care/RIte Share Health Insurance ~ Family Independence Program ~ Child Care Assistance ~ Head Start ~ SSI State Payments ~ Affordable Housing Programs ~ Child Welfare Programs All agency directors and staff, boards of directors, clients, volunteers and concerned residents are encouraged to attend! http://www.oneri.org Aquidneck Island - April 16: 5:30-7:00pm ~ Middletown Public Library, 700 West Main Rd, Middletown Co-sponsored by the One RI Coalition and Children's Policy Coalition. For more information contact Heidi Collins at 456- 2751 or via email at hcollins@ric.edu. (401) 456-2751  RI Adult Education conference, May 23, 2008 On May 23, Rhode Island will host its sixth annual State Adult Education Conference, supported by the RIDE Office of Adult Education. http://www.brown.edu/lrri/conference08.html  workforce development learning opportunities: http://cwc.cedac.org/calendar.html The Commonwealth Workforce Coalition offers its Working With Employers Institute, a 4-session course designed for job developers, employment specialists and other staff working with employers. Learn how to use a business approach with employers, prospect for leads, research targeted industries, and engage employers in strong partnerships. Supervisor participation is a component of the course. March 25, April 8, April 22 and May 6. COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR ADULTS - RIRAL'S Transition to College now enrolling students for fall 2008. Is college your goal? Do you need help upgrading your academic skills? Do you need help with Financial Aid? RIRAL’S TRANSITION TO COLLEGE is an intensive college preparation program that provides success strategies and academic review in reading, writing, math, computer, and study skills. Career Seminars and Mentoring Sessions emphasize additional valuable skills. Students also receive assistance with Financial Aid and college applications, and academic advising. While attending TRANSITION TO COLLEGE students enroll in a class at the Community College of Rhode Island. This program will help guarantee your success in college! TRANSITION TO COLLEGE is holding Information Sessions for their fall Evening and Weekend programs on the following dates: Tuesday, April 15 - 5:00 pm; Saturday, April 19 - 9:00 am; Tuesday, May 6 - 5:00 pm; Saturday, May 10 - 9:00 am; Tuesday, June 17 - 5:00 pm; Saturday, June 21 - 9:00 am. ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED, SO CALL TODAY TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE! TRANSITION TO COLLEGE meets in downtown Pawtucket and at the Community College of Rhode Island in Providence. Funding is provided by the Rhode Island Department of Education in partnership with the Community College of Rhode Island. Contact: Marie Crecca-Romero, Program Director at 722.9800 or email MarieCrecca-Romero@riral.org . learning opportunity: Dorcas Place is offering a Fast Track GED program during the day and in the evening. Day classes are Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 2 PM and night classes are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6 PM to 9 PM. The class will attempt to have students pass GED exams within 12 weeks. Students must pass entrance tests demonstrating strong reading and math skills. Registration will be April 23 at 10 AM at Dorcas Place, 220 Elmwood Avenue, Providence. After April 23, people should call Steve Stycos at 273-8866 to register. RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE School of Social Work Case Management Certification Program Next class begins May 19; ends: December 19, 2008 (if full-time student) This program is designed specifically for adult students interested in preparing for entry level case management positions in the health & human services fields. Persons enrolled in the program can earn up to 17 college credits, in addition to the Case Management Certificate following successful completion of the program. A variety of agency setting and client populations that utilize case management services. We teach a generalist approach to case management that entails core foundation knowledge and skills in the areas of assessing, planning, linking, monitoring, recording and evaluating. Our graduates are prepared to work in a variety of settings as case coordinators, case managers, case workers, community organizers and others who understand the availability of services within the community. In addition, our graduates have been given the opportunity to enhance services for their clients, bringing together different systems and dealing with the gaps in services. For more information, http://www.ric.edu/socialWork/caseManagement.php or phone 401-456-8210 The RIC Case Management Certification Program is dedicated to student learning and highly regards hands-on experience. Agencies interested in student interns, please contact our office at 401-456-8210 or visit our website at http://www.ric.edu/socialWork/caseManagement.ph As spring approaches, the Case Management Certification Program students eagerly await graduation. Through traditional classroom learning and practical field experience, our program has prepared our graduates for entry level work in the human services field. If your agency has an employment opportunity available, please forward the information to Dr. Jayashree Nimmagadda at JNIMMAGADDA@RIC.EDU or call 401-456-8210 The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice: News, Issues, and Ideas – call for articles Theme: Climate Change Please submit illustrations, cartoons, and graphics on this theme too Most scientists agree that the planet is heating up due to carbon emissions and that we will be facing significant changes in how we live as a result. The next issue of The Change Agent will focus on the social, political, and ecological significance of climate change. We are interested in hearing from teachers and adult learners about their experiences, teaching, learning, and thinking related to climate change. Sample Questions to Consider: Who is responsible for carbon emissions? What changes need to be made in order to reduce carbon emissions? Have you organized with others to address global warming? If so, tell us about what you have done with others, and why. Have you changed your life in any way in order to reduce carbon emissions? If so, tell us about the steps you’ve taken and why. Have you experienced extreme weather conditions where you live? What happened? How did your community respond? Were you prepared? What should communities do to prepare for the changes in weather patterns that are likely to affect them? Who is responsible? Who should have input? Who should bear the costs? How can families or individuals prepare for severe weather event? What are some of the problems that could arise for you? How do you think the planet might be affected as it gets warmer? Have you observed anything that makes you think a change is really happening? Do you notice in yourself and/or others a sense of fatalism when it comes to climate change? If so, what strategies have you found for handling that? All articles must be received by May 5. All articles and emails MUST include contact information for the student and/or the teacher. All articles will be considered. Suggested length is 500-1,200 words. Final decisions are made by The Change Agent editorial board. A $50 stipend will be paid to each adult education student whose work (article or illustration) is accepted for publication. Please send material (preferably by email) to: Cynthia Peters, Editor, NELRC/World Education, 44 Farnsworth St., Boston, MA 02210, Phone: 617-482-9485 email: cpeters@worlded.org http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent Educational Workshop Opportunity - Rhode Island Parent Information Network, 175 Main Street Pawtucket, RI 02860 http://www.ripin.org To schedule RIPIN Workshops, call Suzanne Tobin 401-727-4144 x123 or 800-464-3399 x123 (toll free in RI) To view schedule of workshops: http://www.ripin.org/workshops.html Basic Rights in Special Education May 14, 2008 10:00 – 12:00 pm Pre-registration deadline: May 7, 2008 Workshops will be held at RI Parent Information Network, 175 Main Street, Pawtucket ~seating is limited pre-registration is requested to reserve seating- For more information or to pre-register Please contact Suzanne Tobin at 401-727-4144 x123 or tobin@ripin.org For a copy of a PDF flyer in Spanish or in English, please send email to janet_isserlis@brown.edu from Thursday notes, March 27, 2008 Ohio Plans New Stackable Certificates Ohios Board of Regents and Dept of Education are creating a uniform statewide system of stackable certificates to provide a clear and accessible pathway for adults to advance their education. OBR and ODE are setting standards for earning pre-college and college-level certificates and for transferring some certificates to college credit. Certificates will be available from an array of providers, including adult education programs, career centers, and postsecondary institutions. Content areas start with basic skills and move through college skills and work-readiness. Adult education providers will offer two initial certificates covering basic skills. Advanced skills certificates will cover skills through grade 12.9 or GED level competencies. A final certificate will close the gap between the GED exit and college entrance. Certificates will link to a career pathway, and contextualized instruction in an occupational area is planned. Officials hope to pilot test the stackable certificates program, still in its beginning stages, this summer. http://www.gwdc.org/shifting_gears_initiative/Conceptual_Framework/Ohio_Stackable_Certificates_Models_for_Success.pdf from Thursday notes, April 10, 2008 OVAE's 2008 National Meeting for State Directors of Adult Education is expected to draw state staff to New Orleans April 9–11. State participants will learn how to create a roadmap for success by managing federal programs more effectively. The conference agenda includes sessions on how states can create a state plan for adult education that achieves state policy goals while meeting federal requirements, create and implement distance education policies, and connect their plans to OVAE’s national activities. States will receive an update on postsecondary transitions and participate in specially designed mini-training institutes on topics including making standards work and developing an RFP to guide quality adult education services. NRS Test Submission Deadline April 14 Test publishers should be aware that new regulations for the National Reporting System (NRS) require OVAE approval of all tests they want to start using—or continue to use—in the NRS. The deadline for submitting those tests to OVAE for evaluation is April 14. More information is available online or from Mike Dean. Rhode Island Creates Transition Scholarships For Adult Ed Students The RI Higher Education Assistance Authority recently approved an Adult Education Grant Program for students transitioning from adult education programs to postsecondary education institutions, including community colleges. Successful applicants can use their grants to attend any postsecondary institution in RI eligible for federal financial aid. Recipients must be undergraduates enrolled less than half-time in courses of instruction leading to a diploma, certificate, or degree. A recipient must designate one postsecondary institution to which the scholarship will apply. More information is available from William Hurry, executive director of the state’s higher education assistance authority.  The U.S. Department of Education's ED Pubs (Education Publications) web site [http://edpubs.ed.gov] has undergone an extensive redesign. The shopping process has been improved and the capabilities of "your account" have been extended to realize a more user-friendly environment tailored to your preferences. If you had previously registered on the site, no need to re-register, your user name and password will work and your order history is still available! New features include: News - highlights one or two newsworthy items, such as information about new pub releases, announcements, etc. The items will have relevancy to publications and the ability to quickly find all publications related to a "news" item. Check back often because the information will be updated regularly. Featured Items highlights 3-6 publications that are orderable directly from the home page. Each item displays a thumbnail image and title. By clicking the title you can view the publication’s detailed information page. Featured items will be updated every 1-2 weeks. Hot Topics lists items in response to current events, key ED initiatives, and other timely information. By clicking on a hot topic the system will run a search and find all publications that relate to the topic. Find Publications By - links to audience, education level, language, publication type, and subject allow you to quickly find publications related to the groupings. For example, a principal could click on audience and then select "principals" to find all publications that are intended for him/her; a teacher searching for posters could click on publication type and then select "posters" from the list of terms. Students/Parents/Teachers/Administrators—these menu items listed near the top of the page allow you to quickly find publications that are intended for you. In order to make the search results more manageable you can further refine your group by education level (e.g., elementary, middle, high, college/university, etc.) and subject (e.g., English, math, science, and social studies). Español—this section links to publications that are written in Spanish and a Spanish version of the FAQs. Breadcrumbs—this tool aids you in navigating the site. It is listed below the header and before the main content. You can click on any item in the breadcrumb trail and return to that page. Zoom—this allows you to quickly view a larger publication cover image. Quantity—the ability to add the desired number of copies from any page. The system will validate the quantity entered and let you know if the number is above the maximum that is allowed. For more information, call 1-877-4ED-PUBS (433-7827) - Customer Service Representatives are available Monday – Friday, 9:00am to 6:00pm EST. If you aren’t able to call during this time, please feel free to leave voicemail or simply send email to edpubs@edpubs.ed.gov. You can expect a response within 1 business day. learning opportunities online learning opportunity: One semester each year Penn State’s World Campus offers the online course Early Literacy Development and Parental Involvement, ADTED 458. The semester runs May 19 – August 15. This course focuses on young children’s language and literacy development, including ways that parents and early childhood professionals support this development; research related to children's learning; and ways in which family literacy supports early literacy development. information http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/FamilyLiteracyCertificate.shtml ProLiteracy offers online courses: ProLiteracy offers online courses: Course descriptions and registration available at http://ProfessionalStudiesAE.org, look for the appropriate topic area, then click on a course title to review the description and registration process. These courses will be processed by ProLiteracy/New Readers Press. Young Adult Education: Program Design (May 5 - 23, registration now open) Managing the Multilevel ESL Classroom (May 12 - June 13, registration now open) Using Cultural Artifacts fo Teach ESL (June 9 - June 20, registration now open) Fundamentals of Assessment (June 2 - 16, registration opens Monday, April 14) Assessments Developed by Teachers and Students (June 16 - July 18 registration opens Monday, April 14) Questions? Please call 315-422-9121 ext. 283, or e-mail prodev@proliteracy.org ProLiteracy America members receive a 15% discount on all professional development courses! For more information, visit http://www.proliteracy.org/proliteracy_america/membership/  National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent. Numeracy, critical thinking and technology: have a look http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home funding opportunities - large and less large New England Transitions to College and Careers Pilot RFP to be released In early May, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, in partnership with the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC), will release a Request for Proposals (RFP) for The Transition to College and Careers Pilot Project. Notification will be sent via email when the RFP is released. The RFP will be posted on the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and New England Literacy Resource Center websites in May. The Project will focus on helping adult learners access and persist in postsecondary education through the identification of and support for pursuing specific high growth occupations in health care fields that have developed career pathways and pay family sustaining wages. Classroom-based instruction and face-to-face counseling will be supplemented by an online course developed by NELRC that will provide academic and career development information tailored towards the health careers. All students will receive preparation in core academic and college readiness skills. The cohort for the program may also include students who are not pursuing health careers. Programs will provide these students with career planning guidance. The NELRC will assist the Foundation in selecting grantees for the project and will provide them with technical assistance, training, and support for program implementation throughout the grant period. Planning grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to four to six partnerships for the period from August – December 2008. Partnerships that complete their proposed planning activities will be eligible for up to $80,000 to implement the pilot program from January – December 2009. The Foundation will seek organizations and institutions in the six New England states that provide Adult Basic Education, ESOL, GED or Diploma classes as a primary educational service and also currently offer program elements that support adult learners transitioning to college. These include public-purpose groups, such as schools and colleges, and nonprofit organizations that qualify under the Internal Revenue Service Code 501(c)(3). Strong proposals will reflect experience and success in providing services that support adult transitions to college and demonstrate collaboration with postsecondary education partners. The collaborating college should have a history of coordinating activities (e.g. curriculum alignment, career advising, and career placement) with key health care services employers. Additional criteria and guidelines will be detailed in the RFP. Please save your inquiries until the RFP is released in May. Thank you, -Jessica Spohn, Senior Program Officer The Nellie Mae Education Foundation is the largest philanthropy in New England that focuses exclusively on promoting access, quality, and effectiveness of education. The Foundation provides grants and other support to education programs and intermediary organizations in the region to dramatically improve underserved students' academic achievement and to investigate and promote high quality, varied approaches for students to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary in the 21st century. The Foundation also funds research that examines critical education policy issues and public understanding about education in order to better inform efforts to improve education. Since it was established in 1998, the Foundation has distributed nearly $83 million in grants. Currently, it primarily provides funding through five strategic initiatives: Early Learning, Pathways to Higher Education, Time for Learning, Adult Learning, and Systems Building. - 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 international education - online resource http://www.unforkids.com Providing flags, maps, and lesson plans to study the world. 1,967 downloadable files from 192 countries and the United Nations. great online resource: http://www.nrdc.org.uk/index.asp National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, dedicated to conducting research and development projects to improve literacy, numeracy, language and related skills and knowledge. On this site you will find information on all our activities, including: Research and development projects <http://www.nrdc.org.uk/projects.asp> Creative routes to specialist teacher qualifications <http://www.nrdc.org.uk/creativeroutes> The Voices on the Page storybank is now live! Read all of the 640 stories here <http://www.nrdc.org.uk/voicesonthepage.asp> Research reports and reviews <http://www.nrdc.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=329> Latest e- newsletter <http://www.nrdc.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=671> News and events <http://www.nrdc.org.uk/news.asp> While the work originates in the U.K., much of it has usefulness and validity for work in this country. online: STATE OF WORKING RI 2007 The Poverty Institute's biennial study documenting trends in wages, occupations, unemployment, and the state's workforce. The report points out that the state's labor force of 578,000 is more diverse, older and better educated than it was two decades ago but workers face a triple whammy – slowing job growth, eroding wages and benefits, and growing inequality. http://www.povertyinstitute.org/matriarch/documents/State%20of%20Working%20RI%202007.pdf The CAELA Network's latest newsletter provides information about Network activities and links to resources available for those working with adult English language learners both from the CAELA Network and from other organizations. Links are also provided to web sites containing information about upcoming conferences of interest to those working with adult English language learners. http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/newsmarch08.html 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 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 : 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 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 conferences and workshops - conferences and workshops are listed chronologically and are updated with each bulletin Rhode Island - Training/events around employment issues for people with disabilities http://www.ric.edu/uap/training.html COABE annual conference: April 28 - May 1, St. Louis, Missouri http://www.coabeconference.org/ 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 A Declaration of Numeracy: Empowering Adults through Mathematics Education, 15th International Conference 2008 June 30th - July 3rd Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia ALM is an international research forum that brings together those engaged and interested in research and developments in the field of adult mathematics/numeracy teaching and learning. The ALM conference has not met in the United States since 2000 and offers American educators a unique opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world who share their interest in adult mathematics education. http://www.alm-online.net/ The 14th Annual International Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference: May 22 -May 25, in Omaha, Nebraska--the original site of PTO. Inspired by the critical education work of Paulo Freire and theatre activism of Augusto Boal, PTO brings together those interested and engaged in critical pedagogies, theatre, and arts aimed towards progressive and revolutionary social change. The theme for this year's conference is What is Change? What is Substantial Change? And How? Augusto Boal, internationally renowned theatre artist and activist, is returning to provide Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) workshops prior to and after our conference. Pre and post conference workshops also scheduled; information and registration http://www.ptoweb.org. Second Annual Prepárate Conference May 22-23, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois Building on the success of the inaugural Prepárate conference, join us for a solutions-driven conference promoting academic accomplishment for Latino students. Get informed about the direct services available for Latino students in schools and communities across the country. Prepárate brings together members from higher education, secondary schools, middle schools, and community based organizations--with the common goal of increasing Latino student success at the post-secondary level. http://www.collegeboard.com/preparate/ ProLiteracyWorldwide's 2008 annual conference at the Peabody, Little Rock, AR October 2 - 4: http://www.proliteracy.org/conference/ 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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