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ESOL share - Tuesday, Tuesday, August 21st at 3:00, Genesis Center, 620 Potters Avenue, Providence. topic: ESOL literacy – working with learners with little to no literacy in their own language or in English. This is an open discussion group – all are welcome to attend. Fundraiser September 8 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM at The Center for Hispanic Policy and Advocacy at 421 Elmwood Avenue in Providence The Comité de Solidaridad Latina (Latin Solidarity Committee), a group formed to aid those affected by disasters in Latino countries, has announced a fundraiser to assist the victims of the recent earthquake in Peru. The earthquake has killed approximately 400 and injured more than 1,500 across Peru. Representatives from over 11 organizations involved in the RI Latino community and the City of Providence are working together with a single goal: bringing relief to fellow Latinos devastated by the earth-quake in Peru. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to bring cash donations, non-perishable food, clothing, blankets and linen. Cash donations made prior to or after the event can be taken or mailed to CHisPA. Non-perishable food, clothing, blankets and linen donations made prior to or after the event can be taken to the Juan Pablo Duarte Club located at 100 Niagara Street in Providence (401.865.0906) or 374 Veazie Street in Providence (401.316.4428 and 401.383.6337). Participants are invited to enjoy hamburgers donated by Sodexho and live music by Afincao, Félix Almanzar – La Voz de la Dulzura, Johnny Batey y su Orquesta and Robertico y su Alebreke. The Learning Disabilities Work Group is in the process of collecting ideas for the successful teaching of adults who have low literacy skills. We welcome your ideas for strategies, materials, lesson plans and resources that have been useful to you in teaching adults who are reading in the EFL levels 1 and 2. Please send your ideas to Nancy Fritz at Nancy@gencenter.org and she will share them with the LD group. learning opportunities Practitioner Research Project The Adult Numeracy Network (ANN) will sponsor two practitioner research projects to begin this fall and conclude before our annual meeting next spring. We would like the practitioners to try something new in their classroom based on what the ANN Teaching and Learning Principles suggest for a high quality mathematics curriculum and learning environment. To apply for this project, the practitioner must provide information on the following four components of practitioner research. 1. Identify the question to be researched. What aspect of the ANN principles are you investigating? “What is going on …?” or “What happens when..?” or “How do I help students…?” 2. Discuss how you will collect data to answer the question. How will you gather information to answer your question? Will it be quantitative (numbers, i.e. math scores to show demonstration of learning) or qualitative (case study)? 3. Analyze and interpret the data. What will you do with the data that you gathered? What did you find out? What’s the answer to the question? What does this mean for your teaching practice? 4. Share the findings. Write an article for the newsletter based on your research project. Also, if possible, share your project at ANN annual conference in 2008. If this interests you, please submit your proposal identifying the four components above to electronically to Mdr151@aol.com (preferred) or mail to Pam Meader, 151 Summit Street, Portland, Me 04103 by September 15, 2007. Two practitioners will be selected and will receive a $500 stipend at the completion of their projects and sharing of their findings. Selected practitioners will be asked to join ANN if they are not already members. http://www.literacynet.org/ann/ Teachers Unite in the Classroom! We invite educators to join this unique peer-to-peer professional development forum. Post or answer questions about your lessons, curricula or other classroom matters that deal with issues of justice, equity, liberation, representation or grassroots activism. Use this moderated listserv to pose questions, share experiences and recommend resources that build social justice teaching. Sign up at: https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/teachersuniteclassroom Looking forward to the conversation. - Sally Lee, Executive Director, Teachers Unite have your say: NIFL PD Survey: The National Institute for Literacy is conducting a survey on the professional development needs of adult education practitioners across the country. We need your help to gather information that reflects your own needs in the area of professional development as well as how you think professional development should be offered. We are asking for only 10-15 minutes of your time. Follow this link to take the survey at http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/needssurvey/. Information collected from the professional development needs survey will be used by the Institute and the LINCS Regional Resource Centers to (1) give us insights on how Institute-produced materials and training can be disseminated and (2) identify areas where the Institute might want to develop additional materials and trainings. The Regional Resource Centers will use the data to develop a regional dissemination plan that will include how to best disseminate and present Institute-sponsored resources and training in partnership with the state organizations. The National Institute for Literacy, a federal agency, provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults. In consultation with the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services, the Institute serves as a national resource on current, comprehensive literacy research, practice, and policy. NIFL is committed to the dissemination of high-quality resources to help practitioners use evidence-based instructional practices that improve outcomes in adult learners' literacy skills. LINCS is the backbone of the Institute's dissemination system, providing information on a wide variety of literacy relevant topics, issues, and resources through regional resource centers, collections of resources, and discussion lists. For more information about the NIFL and LINCS visit http:// <http:///> www.nifl.gov. NOTE: The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 1800-0011 v. 86. The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List will host a guest discussion next week (September 4 – 11) on Project-Based Learning as Professional Development (http://tinyurl.com/2eum64). Please see below for details. http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Professionaldevelopment Guest: Heide Spruck Wrigley, Senior Researcher, LiteracyWork International Resources for Discussion: http://tinyurl.com/2eum64 To participate, subscribe: http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Professionaldevelopment To submit questions for discussion, email: jataylor@utk.edu Join the Adult Literacy Professional Development List to explore and share innovative practices in Project-Based Learning (PBL) as Professional Development. Guest participant Heide Spruck Wrigley will share her experiences with successful professional development models focused on PBL. A team of teachers who have facilitated student- projects in their classes will actively participate, share their professional development experiences, and offer practical advice on implementing projects. We hope you will join us and share your work. Discussion topics include: Essential elements of project-based learning, exploring the value added of project-based learning in ESOL and ABE, examples of successful professional development models focused on project-based learning, myths and realities: Is project-based learning time well-spent? Evidence from research and practice, assessments in project-based learning and student performance, and how to get started in project-based learning This discussion introduces the PD List’s Topic-of-the-Month: Keys to Communities of Practice. Heide Spruck Wrigley has been involved in all aspects of adult literacy, including family literacy, workplace literacy, adult ESL, EL civic and transition to higher education. Her work focuses on the intersection of policy, research, professional development, and classroom practice. She is currently a non-resident fellow with the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan Think Tank in Washington, D.C. and is finishing up a research and materials development project for Youth-at-Risk outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. Her staff development work around project-based learning includes a 3 year consultancy with Project IDEA, a Texas state wide Master Teacher project focused on PBL and a 5-year ongoing professional development project with teachers in Socorro, Texas. Her PBL work includes an emphasis on putting low and high end technology in the hands of learners (tape recorders, PowerPoint, digital cameras, video cameras) and creating learner showcases for the demonstration of these projects to a wider community of parents, teachers, and learners. Heide has been key in a number of U.S. national research studies focused on ESL literacy, but she has also been involved with ABE programs, youth literacy programs and with the Adult Literacy Media Alliance (TV 411). Her international work includes evaluations of teacher training programs in Poland and in Egypt, staff development in China, and presentations in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and in the UK. When she’s home, Heide lives in Mesilla, a small town in Southern New Mexico, an hour from the US Mexico border. Preparation for Discussion (a) Research in Action: Teachers, Projects, and Technology -- Project-Based Learning and Professional Development http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/newsletr/june04/june04a.htm (b) Knowledge in Action: The Promise of Project-Based Learning http://www.ncsall.net/?id=384 Focus on Basics, v.2 Issue D -- From Research to Practice (c) Border Program Develops Model for State Socorro Independent School District implements three-year demonstration project http://www.bordercivics.org/ -- Examples of lesson plans and projects from Socorro, TX (d) From Low-Tech to High-Tech: Promising Practices in Integrating New Media into Adult Literacy and ESL http://www.literacynewyork.org/publications/LNYPract_June04.pdf -- Examples of Projects that Integrate Technology (e) Teachers Writing about Their Experience with PBL Project-Based Learning: Don't Dictate, Collaborate! http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/newsletr/sum00/sum00a.htm Lights, Camera, Active Learning! Enhancing ESL Instruction Through Video Projects http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/newsletr/june04/june04b.htm (f) Less Teaching and More Learning: Turning from traditional methods to project- based instruction, the author found that her students learned more -- Susan Gaer’s article and the terrific website for both interactive computer-based learning and student web projects · Article http://www.ncsall.net/?id=385 · Website for E-Mail Projects http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/ email.htm (g) Problem-Based or Project-Based: Is there a big difference and what’s appropriate for my class? Project-Based and Problem-Based: The same or different? http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/PBL&PBL.htm Problem-based Learning and Adult English Language Learners http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/briefs/Problem-based.pdf (h) Project-Based Learning http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/ Project_Based_Learning -- A Compendium of Ideas and Reports on the Adult Literacy Education Wiki The Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative (RIFLI) is pleased to announce its 2007-08schedule of classes. An English version and a Spanish version of the schedules are available at http://www.rifli.org . Classes are offered in Cranston, East Providence, Pawtucket and Providence. In addition to our beginner and intermediate level ESL classes, we will be offering citizenship preparation, computer and workplace communications classes this year. Many of our classes offer childcare. All classes are free. A description of the workplace communications class - Workplace Communications for ESL Students, Providence's Smith Hill Library, 31 Candace Street Monday and Wednesday, 10am-12pm, FREE This employment-focused class is designed for high-beginner and intermediate level English language learners who wish to find a job or advance in their current work. The class will help students develop the practical skills that workers need to succeed in today's workforce. Learners will identify their goals for employment. These short and long term goals will form the basis for the class. Topics may include: identification of career interests and skills; effective communication with supervisors, co-workers and clients including conflict resolution, cultural issues, handling customer inquiries and complaints; job search, application and interview techniques and strategies including resume development and basic computer skills; rights regarding employment including wages, benefits, unemployment insurance, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and worker's compensation. Level: High Beginner* *Learners must be able to have a basic conversation in English. Registration: September 5, 5:30- 7:15pm, September 6, 10:00am- 12:00pm, September 7, 4:00 - 5:45pm, September 10, 4:00- 5:45pm. Sign-up for registration appointment at the Smith Hill Library or call 401-455-8016. Questions? Please contact Karisa Tashjian, Literacy Program Coordinator 401-455-8185 This fall, the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State University will offer an Adult Literacy course through Penn State's online World Campus. For more information: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/FamilyLiteracyCertificate.shtml. STAR Releases Teacher Resources The Student Achievement in Reading (STAR) project has released two issue papers useful to reading teachers - the Role of Instructional Leadership in Implementing Evidence-based Reading Instruction by Sandy Strunk and Managed Enrollment and Evidence-based Reading Instruction by John Strucker. (in PDF at http://www.startoolkit.org/) A new STAR outreach video of testimonials also has been posted. http://www.startoolkit.org/intro_video.html funding opportunities - large and less large The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy announces its 2008 national grant competition. The Foundation's grant-making program seeks to develop or expand projects that are designed to support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children. A total of approximately $650,000 will be awarded; no grant request should exceed $65,000. The application, is online at: http://www.barbarabushfoundation.com/wn.html deadine: Sept 7/07. The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, and the Workforce Strategy Center invite local adult basic education (ABE) programs across the country to apply for the ABE Career Connections project. Five sites will be selected to receive support in the development and implementation of new or improved approaches to build upon their current involvement in career pathways. The ABE Career Connections project will demonstrate how ABE programs can operate within career pathways to prepare students for postsecondary courses leading to a degree or occupational certificate targeted toward an industry important to a regional economy. Each winner will receive $75,000.00, technical assistance, and national recognition. To access the project overview and application, visit the Workforce Strategy Center Web site at <http://www.workforcestrategy.org/>. The applications are due September 5, 2007. Cheryl L. Keenan Director, Division of Adult Education and Literacy UPS Foundation Education Grants fund high impact philanthropic programs that raise the level of educational instruction, family learning opportunities, and school involvement projects. Maximum Award: varies. Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations. http://www.community.ups.com/philanthropy/grant.html - other grants from the Public Education Network: http://www.publiceducation.org/newsblast_grants.asp - The federal government's new one stop grant site:
http://www.grants.gov/
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) announces another round of education reform grants in areas of social science research. PRACC is particularly interested in issues such as high classroom turnover/mobility and its disproportionate impact on low-income, minority, and farm worker students. However, other issues will be considered as well. To apply, send PRRAC a proposal outlining the planned research and methodology, the advocacy work it is designed to support, a budget, timeline, and qualifications of the researchers. Maximum grant: $10,000. No application deadline. http://www.prrac.org/grants.php Funding Solutions for Small Nonprofit Organizations A collection of resources to help small nonprofit organizations fundraise including ways to motivate your board, sample fundraising letters, phonathon advice, and tips to improve your direct mail solicitation. http://www.nonprofit-innovations.com/ employment opportunities employment opportunities are generally sent as they arrive via email; if you would like to receive this bulletin, and those updates by email please contact janet_isserlis@brown.edu. Employment opportunity: English for Action seeks a passionate, energetic and creative full-time executive director to provide leadership to the organization as it seeks to increase sustainability and community impact. Full description: http://www.idealist.org/en/job/211090-138 Substitute teaching: The Genesis Center is interested in adding to its substitute list. If you are an ESOL instructor who is interested in occasional work as a substitute, either day, evening or Saturday hours, please call Nancy Fritz or Pat Clarkin at 781-6110. Jobs in Literacy – nation wide postings on the National Institute for Literacy’s LINCS site: http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/lincs/jobs/jobs.cgi Substitute list: if you would like your name added to the general list, please see contact LR/RI. The list needs to be updated so that it can function more usefully for teachers and programs hoping to work with them. (http://www.brown.edu/lrri/sub.html) Rhode Island Community Jobs (RICOMJOB) is a
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If you have questions about this service, please online / resources available JFF NEWSWIRE No. 46, August 2007 available online at: http://www.jff.org/JFF_Pages.php?WhichLevel=2&lv1_id=2&lv2_id=23&lv3_id=0i including, Good Things from Small Packages: Finding Common Ground for Workforce Development in Rhode Island, at http://www.jff.org/KnowledgeCenter/Good+Things+from+Small+Packages%3A+Finding+Common+Ground+for+Workforce+Development+in+Rhode+Island.html KidsCount data released: The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 18th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, a national and state-by-state effort to track the health, academic, and economic status of children throughout the nation, is available online. http://www.kidscount.org/sld/databook.jsp Each year, KIDS COUNT provides data and statistical trends on the conditions of America's children and families, including child death rate, teen birth rate, children in poverty, and children in single-parent families. This year, the report also looks at the 726,000 children in the US who spend time in foster care each year and what can be done to build and strengthen the family relationships that these children need. See national and state by state figures: http://www.kidscount.org/sld/compare.jsp Adult English Language Instruction in the United States: Determining Need and Investing Wisely, a new Migration Policy Institute report, finds that in order to reach a level of proficiency necessary for civic integration or to begin post-secondary education, approximately 5.8 million adult lawful permanent residents in the US will need about 277 million hours of English language instruction a year for 6 years. If only halfwere to participate in classroom English instruction and 10% of instruction could be done outside the classroom, the additional cost of meeting LPRs' English instruction needs would be about $200 million a year for six years, over and above the approximately $1 billion currently spent annually by the federal government and states. In order to remain in the US under the terms of the failed Senate immigration bill or to fully participate in civic life, approximately 6.4 million unauthorized immigrants will need about 319 million hours of English instruction a year for six years. In the event of a broad legalization program for today’s unauthorized population, total projected English instruction costs would increase $2.9 billion a year for six years. Developing the capacity to provide up to 660 hours of English instruction to immigrants would bring the United States in line with the language instruction provided to immigrants in a number of other developed countries. Authors Margie McHugh, Julia Gelatt, and Michael Fix use census-based estimates of the number, educational attainment and English skills of immigrants currently in the US, index immigrants’ needs to existing student performance levels, and provide direction on how to strategically expand instructional services to meet these needs. The authors note that investing in the human capital of immigrants leads to increased tax revenues, lower social welfare payments, and improved educational and workforce outcomes among immigrants and their child-ren. The report includes funding recommendations for meeting English instruction needs and maximizing this investment by setting benchmarks for success and deepening accountability. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/ttp://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/NCIIP_English_Instruction073107.pdf Scientific Evidence for Adult Literacy Educators The National Institute for Literacy is pleased to bring you QEd, a five-issue series for the adult education community-- literacy educators, paraprofessionals, program directors, and volunteers. QEd will bring ideas and information from the expanding scientific research base on how adults learn to read. This first issue tells the story of how researchers use the high quality, scientific standards that adult literacy deserves and demands. This issue also brings you news of Applying Research in Reading Instruction for Adults: First Steps for Teachers, which offers specific connections between the research and the classroom. In future issues, QEd will amplify the key literacy elements discussed in this book. We invite you to download a copy of the publication from the Institute's website. (PDF format (261KB), HTML (accessible format)) Other resources include our discussion lists, which continue to provide the adult education community with its most energetic, interactive resource. Adult educators have a cherished history of collaboration and camaraderie. Scientifically based research inspires and challenges us as we work together to understand its implications and the power of its findings. Please join us on this journey of reflection and renewal! Send your thoughts and ideas to us at info@nifl.gov. - Sandra L. Baxter, Ed.D., Director, National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/news_events/07-12-07.html Evidence-based Practice: A Workshop for Training Adult Basic Education, TANF and One Stop Practitioners and Program Administrators (May 2007) By Cristine Smith, Beth Bingman, Lennox McLendon, and John Comings The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) and the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium (NAEPDC), with funding from the National Institute for Literacy, created a one-day workshop to assist practitioners and administrators in adult basic education, TANF (Transitional Assistance for Needy Families) and One Stop programs to understand evidence-based practice and develop strategies for continuously accessing, understanding, judging and using research. For more information and to download, go to: http://www.ncsall.net/?id=769#ebp_train google literacy site: http://www.google.com/literacy/ outstanding resource: http://www.youthliteracy.ca/ - Youth Literacy work in Canada Shannon Gavin, a senior graduating from Brown this year, has developed a new website, as her capstone project in Middle East Studies, called Arab Perceptions of the United States: Video Interviews from Amman, Jordan and Damascus, Syria.You can view them, and supporting text at http://arabperceptions.wordpress.com Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications offers articles, learning modules, "mathlets" (single-purpose learning tools), reviews of online resources, and a developers' area. Search contents of the journal by type of resource (e.g., article), by subject (e.g., number concepts, data presentation, plane geometry), or both. The journal makes extensive use of graphics, animations, video clips, and other media. Articles and other materials are peer reviewed. (Mathematical Association of America, National ScienceFoundation) http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1875 The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announces that the The U.S. Civics and Citizenship Online: Resource Center for Instructors is available online at: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=b36e663784bcd010VgnVCM100000d1f1d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=b36e663784bcd010VgnVCM100000d1f1d6a1RCRD The Verizon Foundation recently announced a $31 million investment to provide free online educational resources to teachers, students and community organizations through Thinkfinity.org, Verizon's comprehensive online portal to 50,000 standards- based, K-12 lesson plans, resources for adult and family literacy providers, and other educational resources. Read more at http://www.pr-inside.com/verizon-foundation-announces-31-million-r77817.htm This resource, provided at no cost to the public, is written and produce by some of the nation's leading educational organizations, such as the National Center for Family Literacy, ProLiteracy Worldwide, National Geographic Xpeditions, ArtsEdge, EconEdLink, EdSitement, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Read-Write-Think, Science NetLinks, and more. The $31 million commitment, which will be distributed over three years, will allow leading educational organizations to continue to produce and expand the number of interactives and other educational resources available at http://www.thinkfinity.org/. Resources from EdChange family of Web sites: A new Classism and Poverty Awareness Quiz http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/quizzes.html ; Newly designed Social Justice News Service site http://mail.socialjusticenews.net/mailman/listinfo/news_socialjusticenews.net- email-based news service, periodic email digests of links to articles related to equity, social justice, and multiculturalism from sources all over the world. New essays and links to essays http://www.edchange.org/publications.html New essays in the Multicultural Education Research Room http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers.html CAELA's online resource collection,Working with Literacy-Level Adult English Language Learners. is now available at http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections/literacy.html The collection includes links and annotations to many resources related to working with adult English language learners, who have had limited access to formal education. - Lynda Terrill, Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, Center for Applied Linguistics, 4646 40th St, NW, Washington, DC 20016 lterrill@cal.org Radical Math is a resource for educators interested in integrating issues of social, political, and economic justice into math curriculum and classes… RadicalMath.org has the goals of raising mathematic literacy and simultaneously developing ways to address a range of community issues. The website supports educators to teach many different types of math within the context of studying social, political, and economic justice issues. RadicalMath.org also contains teaching materials on important financial topics for youth such as owning a credit card, paying for college, and avoiding subprime lenders, as well as materials on Ethnomathematics. Visit http://www.radicalmath.org/ for more or email info@radicalmath.org Google Scholar enables searches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as articles available across the web. Google Scholar orders search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications. http://scholar.google.com/ Living in Poverty slideshow does the math: what does it take to live at the poverty level. http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm RI Foundation online scholarship directory - searchable by city/town, intended field of study, current high school, and more. http://scholarship.rifoundation.org/ YouthBuild USA Learning Network has links to Web sites and full-text documents, and includes a section on "Authentic Materials/Engaged Learning/Constructivism/Contextual Learning/Project-based Learning." http://www.youthbuild.org/learningnetwork/professionaldev.html Providence Community Resource Network (PCRN) http://www.provplan.org/pcrn Spanish language version of PCRN is up and running. You can access the site from the PCRN home page, http://www.provplan.org/pcrn, or go to http://www.provplan.org/pcrnespa. The Web pages, online instructions, and the content of the database have all been translated. conferences and workshops - conferences and workshops are listed chronologically and are updated with each bulletin Rhode Island - Training/events around employment issues for people with disabilities http://www.ric.edu/uap/training.html Recipes for Success - Association for Fundraising Professionals-RI Annual Fundraising Day Conference Friday, September 7, Radisson Airport Hotel Providence, 2081 Post Road, Warwick (Directions: http://www.radisson.com/warwickri Conference Sessions: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Luncheon & Fundraising Executive of the Year Award: 12 Noon ~ Featuring ~ Career Corner -- speak to recruiters looking for your skills, Presentations by the area's top presenters, Tracks for beginning and veteran fundraising professionals. A special track on women's career issues, leadership and negotiation skills ~ Registration Fee ~ Conference Members -- $195 ~ Non-Members -- $225 http://www.altrue.net/site/afpri/content.php?type=2&id=6211 REGISTER FOR SCALE'S 2007 READ.WRITE.ACT. CONFERENCE! OCTOBER 26 - 27. http://readwriteact.org/rwa/rwaconference.html Vocabulary Strategies that Work - MATSOL's Rhode Island Special Interest Group will be having a one day event with Michael Graves from the University of Minnesota on Saturday, October 13th at Rhode Island College. Details forthcoming. 17th Annual National Conference on Family Literacy Call for Proposals Literacy Grows Families and Communities, March 30/April 1, 2008, Louisville, KY The National Center for Family Literacy invites proposals for presentation at the National Conference on Family Literacy. NCFL is interested in session presentations that share successful, specific outcomes and strategies that work well for the diverse populations family literacy serves. Proposals (accepted online only) hare welcome from literacy practitioners and are encouraged from professionals in administration, policy and research.. NCFL encourages presenters to carefully read the criteria and guidelines before submitting proposals. Deadline for submission of concurrent proposals is October 26,; deadline for submissions for literacy showcase poster session is December 7. information http://www.famlit.org/Conference COABE and the Missouri Association for Adult, Continuing and Community Education (MAACCE) invite you to submit a proposal for presentation at the 2008 COABE National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, April 28 - May 1, 2008 at the Adam's Mark Hotel. The conference committee is interested in outstanding and innovative practices in all aspects of adult education including basic literacy, basic numeracy, workforce development, family literacy, English as a Second Language, volunteer/community-based literacy, correctional education, and all other areas. The program committee is looking for presentations based on successful implementation, current research, and sound practice. Access further information and the Call for Presenters form online at http://www.coabeconference.org/call_for_presenters.html Proposals are due no later than October 31, 2007. Presentation Co-Chairs: Janet Geary - 816.413.5461 | jgeary@coabeconference.org Ramona George - 417.447.8861 | rgeorge@coabeconference.org Join us for two days of workshops on Effective Transitions in Adult Education, November 8-9, 2007 in Providence, RI. Our keynote speaker, Dr. JoAnn Crandall, will kick off the event with a discussion of transition for English language learners. For more details, http://www.collegetransition.org/novconference.html Cynthia Zafft, Director, National College Transition Network at World Education nctn@worlded.org other events and conferences http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/Calendar/calendar_world.cgi TESOL worldwide calendar of events http://www.tesol.org/isaffil/calendar/index.html
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