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Colleagues, Calls for participation, employment, funding, and conference and workshop opportunities, online and other resources. To post information, and/or to receive the bulletin via email, please contact the AEPDC or leave a message at (401-863-2839). 
Janet Isserlis Haiti. 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) (with thanks to Mary Kim Arnold) poem a day. It;s national poetry month. Stop and smell the poetry http://www.poets.org/poemADay.php or consider some excellent numbers: http://www.terc.edu/work/794.html - it's all language, of a sort.
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(including workforce development workshops, new practitioner May 26, 2010 Rhode Island Adult Education Conference, to be held at Rhode Island College. Program available soon. If you're a publisher wishing to exhibit, please contact lrri@brown.edu RIRAL/TRANSITION TO COLLEGE INFORMATION SESSIONS: comprehensive college preparation program including free college reading class (ENGL 0850) at CCRI, Providence; student success, career exploration, and mentoring workshops; academic writing, basic math, and pre-algebra; computer lab & tutorials; academic advising, support services, registration for college; college application and Financial Aid preparation. RIRAL TTC is a partner in the RI Statewide Transition to College initiative and a natural segue for GED, EDP, and Advanced ESL students prior to post-secondary education. Information Sessions: April 10; May 1; June 5 on Saturdays @ 10:00 am. Allow 2 -3 hours for assessment. Please do not bring children. 175 Main Street Pawtucket (above the Visitor's Center) Contact MarieCrecca-Romero@riral.org 722-9800. Saturday April 10th CCRI EDUCATION EXPO 2010 Community College of Rhode Island Knight Campus, 400 East Ave., Warwick, R.I. For more information http://www.ccri.edu/expo. The economy is challenging. Jobs are hard to find. From high school students to mature adults; whatever your point in life, you can get all the tools you need to move forward with your education to help change your life and achieve your dreams. At Expo, you can: • Take advantage of the easy enrollment process and pay no application fee. • Find out about CCRI’s 90-plus associate degree and certificate programs. • Learn about applying for financial aid, scholarships and payment plans. • Find out if you can apply previous college credit, military experience or work history toward a CCRI degree. • Attend a workshop about transferring into or out of CCRI. • Ask questions of CCRI faculty, staff, students and administrators. Participating partners include the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority, the Rhode Island Higher Education Assistance Authority, the Rhode Island Indian Council and more.  Governor Donald L. Carcieri, Speaker Gordon D. Fox and Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed cordially invite you to a press conference to release the final report of the CCRI 21st Century Workforce Commission Marshalling Rhode Island’s Strengths for Future Prosperity: Recommendations for Expanding Workforce Development Services at the Community College of Rhode Island Wednesday, April 14, 11:00 a.m. Room 4090 CCRI Knight Campus 400 East Street, Warwick, RI Please RSVP to 401-278-9119 or mchambers@riedc.com  BEYOND BORDERS CONFERENCE Recognizing the Contributions and Struggles of Immigrants and Refugees in RI April 24th, 29am – 4pm The International Institute of Rhode Island and the coalition Immigrants United announce the Beyond Borders Conference: Recognizing the Contributions and Struggles of Immigrants and Refugees in Rhode Island, to be held on Saturday, April 24 at IIRI, 645 Elmwood Avenue, Providence. Registration begins at 8:30AM. This event is open to the entire community, including elected officials, immigrant/social justice advocates, social service providers, policy-makers, the foreign born population, and students. The Beyond Borders Conference is a gathering of the local Rhode Island community to recognize the assets and struggles of immigrants and refugees, the local initiatives in place to assist immigrants and refugees, and the steps being taken towards the passage of pro-migrant legislation. The conference will be divided into 4 workshop sessions that explore the legal, economic, political and educational opportunities and challenges surrounding the immigrant and refugee community of Rhode Island. The goals of the conference are to educate the community, bring together individuals and organizations working with immigrants and refugees, and form solidarity and momentum for pro-migrant legislation in our state and country. Registration online at http://www.iiri.org is strongly recommended for a reduced rate of $15 before April 16. Registration at the door will be $20. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided as well as free parking. Sponsored by Working Rhode Island. For more information, or to make a food and/or monetary donation please contact Michelle DePlante at mdeplante@iiri.org or (401) 784-8644 New practitioner orientation: April 29th and 30th; please contact janet_isserlis@brown.edu  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 Save the date: Skills2Compete Day at the State House on May 20, 2010 2:30-4:30pm  learning opportunities Number Sense: Teaching About Parts and Wholes April 12 - May 21 Teaching students how to use estimation, mental math, benchmarking, and calculators will enhance their conceptual understanding of numbers and what numbers represent. This course focuses on helping adult students develop number sense by addressing two key questions: When is it necessary to have an exact answer, and when is an estimate sufficient? When calculation is necessary, which tool is appropriate to use? Facilitator: Jean Stephens Prerequisite: Foundations of Teaching Adult Numeracy or comparable experience http://www.newreaderspress.com/Items.aspx?hierId=6503 Creating Engaging ESOL Activities Using Computers April 12 - May 21, 2010; Course webinar: May 21, 1:00 - 2:00p.m. (EST) Instructor: Diana Satin Through this course, you will integrate computer software into your ESOL instruction. You'll identify the steps necessary to incorporate computer software applications into lesson plans, including analyzing specific language and computer skills. You will finish the course having developed, tested, and refined a learning activity for your own classroom. http://www.newreaderspress.com/Items.aspx?hierId=6590 Research-based Strategies and Models for Adult Transitions to Postsecondary Education April 22–June 16, 2010; one teleconference on April 27, 1 pm, or April 28, 1 pm Participants read and discuss the research on the changing workforce and examine the reasons why adult learners need to go beyond the GED and English language study to advance their earning potential. Participants also learn about the challenges facing adult students in postsecondary education and investigate strategies and program models that support adult transitions to postsecondary education. Throughout the course, participants gather local and regional data on the labor market, educational needs, and academic programs and support services offered by area colleges to guide future program development and planning. http://professionalstudiesae.worlded.org/pdf/CTOverApr10.pdf Instructor: Barbara Hofmeyer Complete and return the registration form, http://professionalstudiesae.worlded.org/pdf/CTRegApr10.pdf, or complete online at http://professionalstudiesae.worlded.org/registertransitions.html. Payment must be received prior to enrollment. World Education reserves the right to if the minimum number of registrants is not met by April 14.  The Change Agent Adult Education for Social Justice: News, Issues, and Ideas CALL FOR ARTICLES Theme: Do You Care What You Wear? For the next issue of issue of The Change Agent, we have decided to explore fashion! Why? Fashion is a topic that can be both fun and serious. What we wear communicates something about us as individuals and the groups to which we belong. What we wear can lead to cultural and generational conflicts. There is also an economic and environmental aspect to what we wear. This topic allows writers and illustrators to address the topic in all sorts of ways, including using narrative writing, memoir, poetry, illustrations, and cartoons. Please use the below questions as possible writing prompts. Sample Questions to Consider: • Is style a form of personal self-expression or do your clothes express something about your community, your background, or your religion? • Describe your fashion style. Why do you wear what you wear? What does it say about you? • How do style questions play out differently for boys and girls/men and women? • As a parent, how do you deal with differences you might have with your kids over clothes? Or, tell a story about a time your parents disapproved of what you were wearing. What was really going on? • What about when society or different institutions, like schools, dictate what people can and cannot wear? • What do you know about the fashion industry? What role does it play in determining “style”? Do you think you think the industry responds to people’s wants or creates people's wants? • Consider the hidden costs of cheap clothes. • Compare current attitudes towards clothes to previous generations’ attitudes about clothes. How do we treat clothes? Do we repair them? Expect them to last? Instead of long and general essays, we would like to see stories that are specific and detailed. Limit the scope of your story, but tell it fully. Suggested length is 200-1200 words. All articles must be received by May 3, 2010. Please include in all articles and emails the contact information for the student and/or the teacher. All articles will be considered. Final decisions are made by The Change Agent editorial board. A $50 stipend will be paid to each student whose work is accepted for publication. Please submit illustrations, cartoons, and graphics on this theme too! The mission of The Change Agent is to provide news, issues, ideas, and other teaching resources that inspire and enable adult educators and learners to make civic participation and social justice concerns part of their teaching and learning. It is published by the New England Literacy Resource Center. http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent 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 The New American Horizons Foundation is creating a series of short, accessible teacher training videos addressing aspects of adult ESOL instruction. Each video is about 30 minutes in length and uses classroom footage and instructor interview footage to illustrate topics in adult ESOL practice such as approaches to teaching each of the four skills, planning lessons, working with emergent literacy learners, and grammar and vocabulary development in context. All the videos will be available free of charge online, or DVDs can be purchased for a minimal cost-recovery fee. People can access and utilize the videos to suit their training needs: as self-access resources, incorporated in workshops or volunteer trainings, as part of online training or teacher education courses, etc. The first two videos are now ready for viewing at http://www.newamericanhorizons.org. Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Readers focuses on a whole-part-whole approach to working with emergent literacy learners and Lesson Planning for Life Skills provides an overview of general lesson planning principles. On the web site, you’ll also find information about the series overall as well as the New American Horizons Foundation. Additional videos are in process and will be posted as they are completed. - MaryAnn Florez, Washington, DC Promoting Learner Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Work: Developing Academic Readiness Skills From the Beginning, by Betsy Parrish and Kimberly Johnson, is available from the CAELA Network http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/resources/transitions.html The brief reviews the literature on the skills needed for adult English language learners to transition to academic study or work and offers examples of activities and strategies that can be used at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of ESL instruction to help learners develop these skills. (This brief and other information related to English language learners transitions are posted at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/tell.html)  http://www.cal.org/resources/pubs/haitians.html The Haitians: Their History and Culture Michele Burtoff Civan with Féquière Vilsaint and Gepsie Morisset-Métellus This booklet is a basic introduction to the people, history, and culture of Haiti. It is designed primarily for service providers and others assisting refugees in their new communities in the United States. English-Haitian Creole Phrasebook This phrasebook was designed to supply refugees with English phrases selected for their usefulness in daily life in the United States. CAL has posted this phrasebook in PDF format at the request of HRSA the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity of Operations (EPCO) division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to provide information to service providers being sent to Haiti to aid victims of the recent earthquake.  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. 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
the Swearer
Center
for Public
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  talk about it - a discussion will begin on Monday (April 12) on the adult English language acquisition (ELA) discussion list on the topic of The Literacy Development of ESL Beginners: Observations and Analyses from the NCSALL ESL Laboratory Classrooms. Here's what Kathy Harris and Dominique Brillanceau, guest discussion leaders, have to say about the discussion: At the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Lab School at Portland State University (http://www.ncsall.net/?id=987 we've have been studying students attending the lowest level ESOL classes. These are students who have little or no education in their first language. The Lab School's video recording technology and special analytical software programs have enabled us to watch teaching and learning as it takes place. Although the classroom video recordings were made from 2001 to 2006, the analysis of the videos and our research is ongoing. What have we observed in the videos? For example, it is well known that acquiring English literacy can be a challenge for low-education students, and we have seen that in our data as well. But, we have also seen that literacy isn't the only challenge faced by these low-education learners. They also face the task of learning how to "do school...how to start activities, how to ask for help, and how to be an expert or novice in a classroom interaction. " If you are not a member of the ELA list, but would like to join the list for this discussion, here's the link to join the discussion list: http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/englishlanguage For more information, visit the LINCS Web site at http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/englishlanguage/10ASRP - Miriam Burt, Moderator, discussion list for adult English language acquisition mburt@cal.org - and – discussion (beginning April 12) as an extension of our focus on transitions to work. Our guest will be Chris Warland from the National Transitional Jobs Network (NTJN). (see http://www.heartlandalliance.org/ntjn/about-the-network. Chris was one of our speakers at the COABE/ProLiteracy PreConference on Transitioning Adults to Post-secondary Opportunities and Work. The focus of the National Transitional Jobs Network is helping the hardest to employ get and keep jobs. NTJN works to support and expand the size, type, and number of Transitional Jobs programs nationwide and to support the quality of the service model. As Program & Policy Liaison, Chris manages the National Transitional Jobs Network's technical assistance activities, including consulting with Transitional Jobs programs to improve their outcomes, creating tools and resources for TJ programs, gathering and disseminating best practices, and assisting with the planning and implementation of new programs. Prior to his work in the field of workforce development, Chris was and adult education instructor for 6 years at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, where he taught ESL, literacy, ABE, and GED classes, as well as helping develop life skills and employability curricula and operating the lending library for detainee students. In his work with the NTJN he has had a particular interest in integrating adult learning opportunities with transitional employment as a means to improve employment outcomes and quality of life for people with barriers to employment. He is available to discuss and answer questions about: the TJ strategy, planning and funding new programs, emerging research on TJ, and how adult education providers and employment programs can effectively partner for the benefit of their participants. You can follow and/or join the list at http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/workplace - Donna Brian,Moderator, LINCS Workforce Competitiveness Discussion List djgbrian@utk.edu The Poverty Institute releases new report An Uneven Path: State Investments in Women's Economic Self Sufficiency This report, co-released with the Women's Fund of Rhode Island, documents how state investments in programs that help women and their families attain or maintain economic self-sufficiency have been severely eroded in recent years. Key report findings include: · Child Care: State investments in the Starting Right Child Care Assistance program fell by almost 90% since 2005. After rising to more than 13,000 children in 2003, enrollment has since declined by almost half and is now lower than it was when the program began in 1997. · Cash Assistance: State investments in the cash assistance program have been cut so dramatically that today, no state funds are being spent on benefits. A 2008 overhaul of the program that included new strict time limits has caused close to one-third of enrolled families (3,000) to lose their benefits during the economic downturn and removed access to education and training which limits opportunities to obtain jobs that pay family-sustaining wages. · Health Care: RIte Care/RIte Share health insurance enrollment dropped by 8,000 people between 2005 and 2009 as a result of spending cuts and programmatic changes. · Child Support: The Child Support Enforcement Office lost close to one-third of its staff between 2006 and 2008, resulting in very high caseloads per worker; the state lags considerably behind all other New England states and the nation when it comes to establishing child support orders. Visit http://www.povertyinstitute.org/matriarch/default.asp to read the full report, executive summary, press release and media coverage from the release. from Daphne Greenberg, moderator of the NIFL Diversity list: A report has just been released by the US Dept. of Labor, called: The Workforce Investment Act and Women's Progress: Does WIA Funded Training Reinforce Sex Segregation in the Labor Market and the Gender Wage Gap? It indicates that women who became employed after receiving WIA services earned less their male counterparts. http://biz570.com/economy/economy/report-wia-trained-women-earn-less-than-male-counterparts-1.720499 survey says? from Richard Sebastian, Instructional Technology Specialist,Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center : Hello adult education and ESOL professionals: If you are involved in any way in the literacy instruction of adults, then I'd like to invite you to participate in the pilot of the Adult Literacy Content Knowledge Survey. This survey was developed in part by Dr. Laurie Henry, assistant professor in early adolescent literacy at the University of Kentucky and lead curriculum developer of the PluggedIn VA career pathway curriculum here in Virginia. The survey consists of 76 questions related to professional development, reading instruction content knowledge, and technology self-efficacy. The survey will take about 30-45 minutes to complete. It targets anyone involved in adult basic education and/or ESOL instruction, especially those who teach reading instruction. Your participation in this pilot survey is entirely voluntary and will remain strictly confidential. The link to the Adult Literacy Content Knowledge Survey is http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AdultLiteracy The survey research project was developed through a partnership between KY Adult Education, the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development, and College of Education at the University of Kentucky. Thanks for your participation. Feel free to share this survey with any other discussion lists or professional literacy organizations that work with adult populations. Richard Sebastian Instructional Technology Specialist Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center Virginia Commonwealth University 3600 W. Broad St./ Suite 669 Richmond, VA 23230-4930 (804) 828-7537 CAAL policy brief, released on March 26, called Local Perspectives on WIA Reauthorization, is available at http://www.caalusa.org/LPP.pdf downloadable resources from The Popular Education News http://www.popednews.org/resources.html Parenting for Academic Success: A Curriculum for Families Learning English is a 12–unit curriculum designed for parents who speak a language other than English as a native language. Its goals are two–fold: To develop the English language skills of parents., and to increase the ability of parents to support the language and literacy development of their children in kindergarten through grade three. http://www.cal.org/resources/pubs/parenting_academic_success.html 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 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 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 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 STAND'S Adult Learner Statewide Leadership Conference Coming This Fall We are announcing our first adult learner statewide leadership conference coming this fall to Providence, and are looking for learners to come up with a name for the event. A flyer that explains the theme, and the contest rules for submissions can be found at http://www.brown.edu/lrri/nameconf.doc in English, and in Spanish http://www.brown.edu/lrri/nameconfsp.doc. We understand that many of our adult learners are not all familiar with what a conference is, or what they might get out of attending one. Therefore, we were hoping that you and your staff could use this opportunity talk to about what is involved in attending a conference (or even presenting at one!). We hope this will lead to more student interest in suggestions for workshops that they would like to attend and learn from. We are asking you to please print out the flyer and use them for class discussions, or at least pass them out to as many of your learners and alumni as possible. The contest ends March 22, 2010. If you have any question or concerns please contact me at wes@standri.org - Wes Garvin Director of STAND, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave. Bldg. #30 Providence, RI 02908 401 456 2838 401 527 4219 http://www.standri.org other events and conferences http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/Calendar/calendar_world.cgi TESOL worldwide
calendar of events http://www.tesol.org/isaffil/calendar/index.html
breathe - everyday yoga at your desk. http://www.mydailyyoga.com/yoga/everyday_yoga.html street yoga - Through the teaching of free yoga, meditation and wellness classes we seek to help homeless youth increase their physical, emotional and spiritual strength, stamina and flexibility so they can better meet their own core needs. We work closely with those service providers striving to help homeless youth secure safe housing, nutritious food, accessible health care, employment, clean clothing, educational choices and human dignity.
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