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Janet Isserlis Haiti. The struggle continues. By now, it’s likely you know of many sites to learn more. Just in case, here are a few: http://swearercenter.brown.edu/new/news/haiti-earthquake-relief http://twitter.com/#/list/nytimes/haiti-earthquake http://doctorswithoutborders.tumblr.com/ - photo blog; please be aware there are some difficult images at this site. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/project-haiti-holding-a-teach-in/?src=twt&twt=nytimes (NY Times learning materials about Haiti)
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(including workforce development workshops, new practitioner Please save May 26, 2010 for the state's Adult Education Conference, to be held at Rhode Island College. Details coming early next year. Want to make better referrals for adult education students in Rhode Island? An interactive referral website for adult education services in the state has been created at http://groups.google.com/group/rhodeislandreferrals. Find profiles of adult education agencies, post class openings or request help with a student referral. Please update your agency's profile information, and if your agency is not listed, contact Karisa Tashjian at ktashjian@yahoo.com to have your agency added to the list. This site is open to all agencies who provide services (educational, social service, etc.) for adult education students in the state. You only need a Google account to access and post information. If you need help setting up an account, please contact Karisa Tashjian at the email above or Bernice Morris at BerniceM@pha-providence.com.  follow up to the Learner Persistence conference – February 11, at 1 pm - International Institute of RI 645 Elmwood Avenue, Providence. Even if you were unable to join us for the conference, please come learn about what people have been working on and share your own views and work with learner persistence. ESOL Share February 11th at 3:00 pm at IIRI – Materials. What's working? Do you make things up? What commercially prepared materials work well? What about childhood lead safety materials? We also plan to address the issue of transitions – continuing conversations that started about a year ago, and also to continue investigations into what materials are useful for adult English language learners. We are very happy to announce that our name change to OpenDoors (from the Rhode Island Family Life Center) is now official. Please join us on our new website: http://www.opendoorsri.org - Sol Rodriguez, Executive Director Practicing Shared Accountability Poster Available for Download This poster is an output of the action research project conducted by Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador, offering a 6-point process for practicing shared accountability and improve partnerships among funders and providers. Be sure to print it in color on legal-sized paper (8 and 1/2 by 14”). http://www.literacyandaccountability.ca/File/NL%20Practicing%20shared%20accountability_2009%20final.pdf - more resources on literacy and accountability: http://www.literacyandaccountability.ca/ Essential lessons for accountability in adult literacy are identified as well below: 1. It is important to recognize and accommodate the fact that every stakeholder has multiple accountabilities. 2. Accountability agreements must reflect the circumstances of both the funder and the funded. 3. Both parties must work to earn and maintain trust. 4. Effective accountability is based on open communication and shared knowledge. 5. Both human and financial resources must be adequate to the tasks of delivering on project outcomes and being held accountable for results. 6. Attention needs to be paid to both financial and performance accountability. 7. Policy consistency and policy coherence are essential for effective accountability. 8. The way providers are held accountable can compromise their ability to be accountable Join us in launching the 2010 Reading Across Rhode Island project at a conference designed for educators, librarian and book discussion leaders and readers from across the state. Kick-off Conference on January 30 at Bryant University 9 am – 2:30 pm $25 registration fee (includes a copy of the book, breakfast and lunch!) Designed to give book group leaders an introduction to the novel and the resources and materials to develop an interesting discussion, conference attendees will meet workshop presenters ready to link the themes of the book to Rhode Island-based activities. Presenters include Dr. Judy Litoff, author of Since You Went Away, letters from the homefront during WWII; Dr. Jim Brosnan, reflecting on the literary aspects of the novel and Mary Flynn, of Miriam Hospital, on Economical Eating. The cast of Living Literature, under the direction of Barry Press, will close the day with a Reader’s Theater adaptation of the novel. - more information and downloadable version of the conference brochure: http://www.readingacrossri.org Save the Date: The 8th Annual May Breakfast - May 1, Rhodes on the Pawtuxet 9 – 12 noon $25 Featuring Annie Barrows, co author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer, a librarian and editor, nurtured the tale about Guernsey for twenty years before committing pen to paper. Unfortunately, Ms. Shaffer passed away in February, 2008 before the final edits to the manuscript were complete. She asked her niece, Annie Barrows, to complete the revisions - and the story is now ours to share with all Rhode Islanders. Ms. Barrows is also the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean and The Magic Half. Look for more details and the registration form in February learning opportunities With the reminder and caveat that most of us are not immigration lawyers, a document on the rights of undocumented children: Legal Issues for School Districts Related to the Education of Undocumented Children http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/09undocumentedchildren.pdf  The Childhood Lead Action Project is a statewide organization working to eliminate childhood lead poisoning through education, parent support, and advocacy. With the support of a recent EPA grant, the Childhood Lead Action Project has developed a comprehensive lead poisoning prevention ESL curriculum to help ESL providers to supply their clients with important information to keep themselves and their families safe. The Childhood Lead Action Project is making this curriculum available to ESL providers throughout the state. Contact Emily Godfrey, at 401-785-1310(x207) or emily@leadsafekids.org to inquire about the curriculum. In addition to the ESL curriculum, the Childhood Lead Action Project also provides free trainings, seminars and workshops on lead poisoning prevention, and tenants' rights. These presentations can be tailored for ABE audiences, or for service providers. Please contact Emily Godfrey for more information. -Emily Godfrey, Community Educator, Immigrant and Refugee Lead Prevention Project, Childhood Lead Action Project, 1192 Westminster St., Providence, RI 02909 (401) 785-1310 ext. 207 emily@leadsafekids.org talk about it 1: From January 20th to February 3rd the NIFL Diversity list will be hosting a guest discussion called: Love and literacy: What happens in couples when the woman learns to read? The guest facilitator will be Rebecca Garland. For her recently completed dissertation she interviewed female literacy learners and their male partners to explore these couples' understandings of the stresses that occur when the woman returns to school. A focal point of the discussion will be on how programs can help learners to anticipate and negotiate the inevitable stresses placed on their partnerships when they decide to return to school. The conversation will focus on both heterosexual and homosexual couples, and can also include discussion on what happens when the man, rather than the woman, is returning to school. For more information, go to: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/diversity/10literacy.html talk about it 2: In July 2009, a World Education team that included John Strucker, Steve Quann, Sally Waldron, and consultant Ros Davidson completed extensive updates and revisions of Davidson's popular Website, Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles (ASRP) http://www.nifl.gov/readingprofiles/index.htm for the National Institute for Literacy. In addition to providing useful information and free resources on reading assessment and reading profiles, the site has a unique interactive feature that allows teachers to match their adult learners' test scores to research-based adult reading profiles and then to receive instructional suggestions based on the matches. To publicize the newly-updated Website, World Education will sponsor four special discussions (described below) on the Institute's LINCS Discussion Lists. Each discussion will be led by one or more prominent researchers in that topic area joined by in most cases by practitioners with expertise in that area. Below is the schedule for the four special ASRP discussions. To join any or all of the four special discussions, as well as the regular LINCS Discussion Lists, go to: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/discussions.html January 26 New Developments in both Individual and Large-Scale Adult Literacy Assessments Guest-discussant: John Sabatini (ETS). Moderator: Marie Cora March 22 Reading and Writing Skills of ABE Transition Learners Guest discussants: Cynthia Zafft (World Education), Lauren Capatosto (Harvard Graduate School of Education), and Sally Gabb (Bristol Community College) Moderator: Ellen Hewett April 12 The Literacy Development of ESL Beginners: Observations and Analyses from the NCSALL ESL Laboratory Classrooms Guest discussant: Kathy Harris, Portland (OR) State University Moderator: Miriam Burt June 21 Reading Patterns and Profiles of Adult Literacy Participants Guest discussants: Daryl Mellard (Kansas University) and Daphne Greenberg (Georgia State University) Moderator: Daphne Greenberg New Math & Numeracy Discussion List moderated by Brooke Denney from the Adult Education Program at Cowley College. The purpose of this list is to provide an on-going professional development forum where adult educators, advocates, researchers, policy makers, adult education providers, and others can discuss mathematics and numeracy issues in adult basic education and GED programs. This list promotes the sharing of information, research, expertise, and resources on topics such as motivation and math, math skills for GED completion and transitions to post-secondary and workplace settings; common math and numeracy instructional issues; technology in math education; and current on-line numeracy or math classes being piloted in ABE/GED settings. The list will share information and resources on these and other related topics so that participants can increase their breadth and depth of understanding of adult numeracy and mathematics issues. http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/discussions.html funding opportunities - large and less large - grants posted on the National Institute for Literacy website: http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/lincs/search/gsearch/dbsearch.cgi?action=Show%20Results - 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. NewRoots Providence: http://provplan.org/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_169_A_PageName_E_NewRootsJob Desktop IT Technician (Providence, RI) Dorcas Place seeks part time 20 hr/week Desktop IT Helpdesk Technician for a staff of over 50. General responsibilities include setup and support of desktop and laptop computers including the development and maintenance of computer images, performing operating system and program updates, troubleshooting and research hardware/software problems, install and maintain printers. Must have a high school diploma with A+ certification required. A solid understanding of current Windows Operating Systems as well as Desktop Imaging. Bilingual English/Spanish a definite plus. The candidate must maintain a high degree of customer service and possess good interpersonal and organizational skills, work well independently, be a team player and pay good attention to detail. The start date of this position is as soon as possible. Compensation: $14-16.00/hour commensurate with experience. Please send cover letter and resume to Donna Bailey, Dorcas Place, 220 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island 02907. The Genesis Center is looking for a Citizenship Instructor for a new class to begin in January. The position is part-time temporary. The Instructor will teach Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:30 pm for two 15- week sessions. The pay rate is $18 per hour for 5 hours of teaching and 2.5 of prep time per week. Qualifications for this position include experience teaching in Adult Education with experience teaching Citizenship classes preferred. Please send resume to Nancy Fritz at Nancy@gencenter.org. The deadline is Friday, December 11th. Jobs for Change "seeks to spark a nationwide movement toward careers in the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors" – online at http://jobs.change.org/ Substitute teaching: The Genesis Center is interested in adding to its substitute list. If you are an ESOL instructor who is interested in occasional work as a substitute, either day, evening or Saturday hours, please call Nancy Fritz or Pat Clarkin at 781-6110. Jobs in Literacy – nation wide postings on the National Institute for Literacy's LINCS site: http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/lincs/jobs/jobs.cgi Substitute list: if you would like your name added to the general list, please see contact LR/RI. The list needs to be updated so that it can function more usefully for teachers and programs hoping to work with them. (http://www.brown.edu/lrri/sub.html) Rhode Island Community Jobs (RICOMJOB) is a public e-mail announcement list that seeks to raise the profile of meaningful work in Rhode Island by helping non-profit and public interest employers publicize openings effectively. Anyone seeking a job that makes a difference in Rhode Island can join the list. Any non-profit, government or private sector employer advertising a paid position related to the public interest or community concerns can post a free job listing. Positions must be paid but may be part-time, full-time or temporary. To join the list as a job seeker or to post a job as an employer go to: http://www.ricommunityjobs.org Rhode Island Community Jobs is supported by
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Service at Brown University and the Rhode Island Campus Compact. RI DLT's Rhode Island Red job search feature draws job postings from ALL local jobs boards (except Monster.com). To access this resource visit RI RED http://www.dlt.ri.gov/rired/ -- under quick menu click job search; choose location search criteria, provide job title or other criteria. Source codes are listed at the bottom of the page
Unemployment
lifeline – from the AFL-CIO,
with locally-searchable links to resources http://www.unemploymentlifeline.com/
online / resources available from Thursday notes, January 14, 2010 Dann-Messier Meets With NRS Technical Working Group Assistant Secretary Dann-Messier met Jan. 12 with the National Reporting System Technical Working Group http://www.nrsweb.org/about/twg.aspx in Washington, D.C. The group is composed of adult education stakeholders, including state directors, a ProLiteracy representative, and a local provider, who advise on the development and implementation of the NRS. Dann-Messier engaged in discussions with the TWG about the challenges and successes the field has experienced in implementing the NRS over the last decade and sought recommendations on how to strengthen it during reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). These discussions will be continued with state directors during OVAE’s national meeting in February. House Passes new authorization to fund education jobs The House passed the Jobs for Main Street Act <http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Jobs_for_Main_Street_Act_of_2010_Summary.pdf> on Dec. 16 to redirect $75 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to create or save jobs in key sectors such as education that drive economic growth. The bill establishes a $23 billion Education Jobs Fund to help states support an estimated 250,000 education jobs over the next two years. The legislation <http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr2847hamndsamnd.pdf> allocates95 percent of this fund to states for school districts and public institutions of higher education to retain or create jobs that provide educational services and to modernize, renovate, and repair public education facilities. The remaining 5% of this fund is reserved for state education-related jobs and administration of the Education Jobs Fund. Senate action is pending. from Thursday notes, January 21, 2010 Senator Reed Joins Community Conversations Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed (D) joined Assistant Secretary Brenda Dann-Messier on Jan. 14, in Providence, for the afternoon session of a Community Conversation, which had a health care focus. Participants were stakeholders representing employers of the New England region, who shared their perspectives on reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Dann-Messier also held a conversation Jan. 11, in Houston, which focused on English language learners. Her third conversation was held on Jan. 15, in Boston, with a variety of adult education stakeholders, including adult students. The assistant secretary plans to present a comprehensive report on the feedback she received from the WIA Community Conversations and how it aligns with the administration’s reauthorization efforts. State Standards Newly Posted in OVAE’s Online Warehouse OVAE has added the following state adult education content standards to its online Standards Warehouse: http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp English language acquisition (ELA) standards: Florida., Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania; and Reading, mathematics and ELA: Georgia, Rhode Island Work is under way to post these state standards: Reading and math: Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma; and Listening: Kansas Any state can share content standards through the warehouse by contacting OVAE's Ronna Spacone ronna.spacone@ed.gov   a math resource: http://mathsnacks.org/baddate_flashSub.html - the right question project – have you been to this site recently? http://www.rightquestion.org/ – what sites do you visit? contribute to? want to share? let us know – janet_isserlis@brown.edu Free online resources that are very appropriate for adult learners are available at http://www.AskRI.org. They include online homework help for grades 3 to adult from 2-10 everyday at tutor.com. Includes career help (resume review, job search, interview help), GED prep, citizenship, review of a document by a live tutor. Also check out the Skills Center for thousands of worksheets, tutorials, study guides and more. Check out the online encyclopedia - World Book Discover - for adult learners and those with reading challenges includes translation capabilities into 14 languages along with employment, financial, health, and housing resources and more. AskRI is available not only in your public library, but also in schools, community centers and at home. With just an Internet connection, you have a whole world of authoritative information at your fingertips. And if you have a card from a public library, you have access to even more information tools. The service includes Spanish resources as well as English.  new brief from CAELA: Managing Programs for Adults Learning English http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/resources/managing.html er Points of many of the presentations, including the three excellent keynote speeches delivered at the 2009 LESLLA (Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition) for Adults conference are available at: http://www.leslla.org/workshops/2009.htm.  Many professionals in our field have expressed a concern about the difficulty of keeping up-to-date with the latest advances in technology for people with low vision. The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has received a gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to address this issue. Four 1-day workshops on Low Vision Technology presented by Ike Presley, National Project Manager, AFB, including this one in Boston next spring: April 22, 2010, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, 8:30-4:30; Applications due 3/12/10 Who should attend? Ophthalmologists, optometrists, low vision therapists/specialists, occupational therapists, rehabilitation teachers, teachers of the visually impaired, assistive technology specialists, allied health professionals working with people who have low vision Free! In fact, we will be able to offer a travel reimbursement stipend of up to $400 for each participant. These workshops have two broad objectives. Participants will acquire a general knowledge of the current types of technology available for people with low vision, and participants will provide input to AFB about the most effective strategies to keep professionals up-to-date on this topic. Please contact Shirley Landrum at slandrum@afb.net for an application. Selected participants will be notified within 5-days after the application due date. For additional information please visit http://www.afb.org and select Calendar of Events under AFB Community, or contact Ike Presley at presley@afb.net, 404-525-2303.  from Thursday notes, January 7, 2010: Frank Chong Named OVAE's Second Deputy Assistant Secretary OVAE Assistant Secretary Brenda Dann-Messier announced that Frank Chong has joined OVAE as its second deputy assistant secretary. President of Laney College in Oakland, Calif., since 2006, Chong also previously served as president and chief executive officer of California’s Mission Community College as well as the dean of student affairs at City College of San Francisco. Chong also was special assistant to Speaker of the California State Assembly Willie L. Brown, Jr., from 1987to 1991. Chong is a former elected public official, having been elected to the San Francisco Board of Education in 1998. He served as vice president of the Board of Education in 2000, and was an appointed member of the San Francisco Children and Families Commission and of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Chong joins Glenn Cummings, appointed in 2009, as a deputy assistant secretary to Dann-Messier. OVAE Receives Former NIFL Funding Amounts OVAE's national activities fund received more than $11 million, an increase of about 41% over FY 2009, when Congress approved overall increases for adult education on December 13 in the FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations conference agreement. These increases were achieved by reallocating funds from the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), which is no longer funded, to the Department of Education. Within the amount provided for the Department’s Institute of Education Sciences’ (IES) research, development, and dissemination, the conference agreement included $2,000,000 for a new research and development center for adult learning and literacy, as outlined in House Report 111-220. New Guide Helps Put Content Standards Into Action States can find professional development methods and materials to help them take their content standards off the shelf and put them into action for students. These Standards-in-Action Innovations for Standards-Based Reform were developed over three years with guidance from adult educators nationwide (including RI) and address four priority areas of standards-based reform: building instructors’ understanding of standards, translating standards into curriculum, aligning student assignments with standards and assessing the extent to which teachers are using effective instruction to teach to the standards. http://www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov/standardsInAction.asp interesting: an article in the UK Guardian weekly about ESOL provision in the US. http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1254&catID=18 Adult Learner Persistence - resources from the New England Literacy Resource Center's research into and learning about persistence A new Adult Learner Persistence website is now up at http://www.nelrc.org/persist. The site shares the resources collected for and generated by the New England Learner Persistence (NELP) Project. For each of six program areas (Program Design and Management, Intake and Orientation, Instruction, Counseling and Support, Student Involvement, and Seeing Progress), the site offers an inventory of promising practices that link to related research, program models, and tools. You can find, for example, research on the impact of shifting from open to managed enrolment, examples of how programs have built support networks to foster new students’ sense of belonging, or tools for helping adults recognize and document their learning progress. The site also highlights six Drivers of Persistence identified in the NELP Project, links to program self-assessment tools, and invites the field to contribute new examples of strategies that have impacted adult learner persistence. Please take a look and share your discoveries! - Andy Nash and Silja Kallenbach, New England Literacy Resource Center/World Educati Rhode Island Employment Disability E-News, newsletter from the Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, available at: http://www.ric.edu/sherlockcenter/onlinepublications.html The Migration Policy Institute's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy last year launched the E Pluribus Unum Prizes. The Prizes national awards program provides four $50,000 awards annually to exceptional initiatives that promote immigrant integration. The awards are intended to recognize exceptional immigrant integration initiatives that help immigrants and their children adapt, thrive, and contribute to the US or that bring immigrants and the native born together to build stronger, more cohesive communities. The application is open to everyone: individuals, nonprofit and community organizations, businesses, religious groups, and government entities, agencies, or officials operating in the United States. Additional information about the program, including profiles of the 2009 winners and finalists can be found at http://www.integrationawards.org/. The E Pluribus Unum Prizes are a national awards program that will provide four $50,000 prizes annually to exceptional initiatives that promote immigrant integration. EE Resources for multi-cultural education Teaching English as a Second Language Education on environmental issues is important for all Minnesotans. For increasing numbers of people in the state, English is not the native language. Development of these free resources using environmental issues as their integrating concept was funded, in part, by state grant programs. These workbooks are intended for students in English as a second language and limited English proficiency (LEP) classes.; (although developed for Minnesota programs, much of the material is useful in other settings). the Math Bulletin, developed by SABES http://www.sabes.org/resources/publications/mathbulletin/math-bulletin-june2009.pdf Good geography refresher...and good mouse skill practice as well. http://jimspages.com/States.htm from Kate Northcott, Director, Student Literacy Corps Webster University resources at FREE, the website that makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government: http://www.free.ed.gov/ Math - What's the Problem? examines the state of math education in the U.S. and the roles of culture, technology, and research on improving math learning and proficiency. Learn about the "miles per gallon illusion" and the train problem. Discover resources on fractals, matrices, human face recognition, biomimetic research, computational conformal mapping, and the "kissing number" of a sphere. (National Science Foundation) http://www.free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=2131 from NIFL's workplace literacy list (for more see http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/workplace/2009/002275.html ) Community Literacy Planning Guide - This planning guide will support communities as they: gather together to talk about literacy; decide to participate in the Literacy Now Communities program; submit an application for planning funds; mobilize local community energy and knowledge; assess the community’s literacy needs; build on existing literacy work and address important gaps; and prepare a community plan. http://www.2010legaciesnow.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Embrace_Learning/PDF/LiteracyNow_Guide.pdf Minnesota Literacy Council's online training site – for out of state users: The courses for adult learners and educators on the Minnesota Literacy Council (MLC) online training site are developed and maintained by MLC staff through supplemental service grants from the Minnesota Department of Education. They are provided free of charge to Minnesota’s adult learners, teachers, volunteers, and other Adult Basic Education practitioners. Out-of-state visitors are welcome to explore the site to access learning resources as well, but we cannot offer CEUs or course completion certificates to out-of-state users. If you are a not a Minnesota resident, you are welcome to browse the self-access online learning materials, but please do not submit course assignments as we will not be able to respond to your submissions. http://online.themlc.org/ Refugees From Iraq - in-depth information about refugee groups from Iraq, describing the various ethnic and religious communities of Iraqi Arabs (both Sunni and Shi’a), Iraqi Christians, and others. Topics include history, conditions in countries of asylum, characteristics of the refugee population, cultural features of each of the different communities, religion, language, education, and resettlement considerations. http://www.cal.org/topics/ri/backgrounders.html online: LessonWriter.com is a free website where teachers can copy, paste and submit any text (an article, essay, story, etc.) and create comprehensive, standards -based lesson plans and student materials in minutes. LessonWriter is a simple, fast and free way to use authentic, high-interest content to motivate students while delivering the explicit language instruction that ELL's need in both English and content-area classes. There are advanced features that can differentiate instruction for multilevel classes and class tracking features that will automatically scaffold lessons. http://www.lessonwriter.com Lots to do at the library Providence Public Library's calendar of events: http://www.provlib.org/calendar.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 google literacy site: http://www.google.com/literacy/ 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. 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/trainin Strategies for supporting Learners and Educators an interactive workshop exploring ways in which stress and anger in the lives of adult learners and practitioners impact adult education. Join us as we review approaches to support adult educators whose work encompasses ongoing contact with men and women experiencing various stresses and strains – some of which have a direct impact on learning and classroom interaction. Thursday, January 28, 10 to noon, Warwick Public Library, 600 Sandy Lane, Warwick. Please contact Jessica Ortiz at jortiz@ric.edu or (401) 456-2838 to register by January 14th Call for presenters: The 45th Annual PAACE Conference on Adult Education, the largest gathering of adult educators in Pennsylvania, will be held at the Penn Stater Conference Hotel, State College, June 1 - 3, 2010. Adult educators and those from related are invited to attend the premier professional development and networking opportunity for all aspects of adult education in Pennsylvania. Check back often for more updates. http://www.paacesite.org/web-data/Diagrams/PAACE%20Site/conference.html deadline: February 1, 2010  7th Annual WE LEARN (Net)Working Gathering on Women & Literacy http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html March 4-6, 2010 University of Rhode Island / Providence Campus / Providence, RI Special Forum: Thursday, March 4 / Annual Conference: Friday - Saturday, March 5-6 March 4, 2010 / PRE-Conference (Journeys to the Center: Spiritual Supports for Our Teaching and Learning) - watch for more details The call for proposals for the 2010 Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers conference has been posted here: http://aleronline.org/conference.html deadline, February 8, 2010 Sharing Skills – Building Connections, March 10 – Commonwealth Workforce Coalition. Registration materials will be available on line early in January. http://cwc.cedar.org National Community Literacy Conference in partnership with ProLiteracy and COABE 2010 Conference Registration Now Available Register before January 18th to lock in the lowest rate (Martin Luther King option) Registration is online through our conference partnership at http://coabeproliteracy2010.org Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 2009 Annual Convention – Re-Imagining TESOL http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/convention2010/ March 24 – 27, 2010, Boston  other events and conferences http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/Calendar/calendar_world.cgi TESOL worldwide
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