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| Title/Description | Price | |
| The Big Book of Team
Building Games Edward Scannell and John W. Newstrom | ||
| The fun way to lift morale in any work group! Games can be an effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together. Choose from 70 varied and imaginative games and activities that have been specifically designed for the manager who's looking to raise morale, liven up the boring staff meetings, improve communication, promote a culture of harmony and cooperation, and have fun with a work team. Each of these games is fast, creative, easy-to-lead, and will help program managers accomplish their team building goals. Learn valuable tips on how to present games and how to select activities for particular situations. Get essential advice on what not to do when leading games, and much more! | 50002 | $17.95 |
| Community Relations Guide | ||
| Guide to community relations and publicity topics such as writing news releases, PSAs, and special events. A must for any affiliate that wants to have a successful public relations program. | 12150 | $6.00 |
| Data Collection Forms: Form 1 - Learner Intake/Permanent Report | ||
| This form is used for recording learner information, starting points for goals, and matching information. Formatted according to the LVA Annual Statistical Reports. | 91111 | $1.00 |
| Data Collection Forms: Form 2 - Learner Update Report | ||
| This form is used by tutors to record changes and progress in the learner's work. Formatted according to the LVA Annual Statistical Reports. | 91112 | $1.00 |
| Data Collection Forms: Form 3 - Volunteer Permanent/Update Report | ||
| This form is for recording information about new volunteers: their skills, hours logged, matching information, and other background information. Formatted according to the LVA Annual Statistical Reports. | 91113 | $1.00 |
| Data Collection Forms: Form 4 - Learner Progress Report | ||
| This form is filled out periodically by tutors along with their learners. This evaluation aids in targeting lesson plans, setting new goals, and in improving the content and direction of future sessions. Formatted according to the LVA Annual Statistical Reports. | 91114 | $1.00 |
| From the Top Down Susan J. Ellis | ||
| The first and only book that addresses the top decision-maker's role in a volunteer program, From the Top Down clearly illuminates the issues necessary to facilitate volunteer program, success, including developing a vision for volunteer involvement, addressing questions of policy, budgeting funds and other resources, staffing the volunteer program, assessing the impact of volunteer contributions, and dealing with legal, risk management, and insurance issues. Also explains the revised FASB regulations on accounting practices regarding donated time. | 50018 | $24.95 |
| Games that Teach Teams | ||
| This classic resource for team-building includes 21 activities that trainers or managers can use to foster teamwork. The games are open-formatted, allowing you to insert your own content and adapt them to suite the needs of your teams. Contains sample exercises using game frames that allow you to create your own games, and is completely reproducible. | 50004 | $39.95 |
| Growing Together: Improving Your Literacy Program Through Student Participation Craig Riecke | ||
| Guidebook that presents a participatory, collaborative model for student involvement, along with nearly 40 pages of activities such as student newsletters, student advisory groups, and peer tutoring. | 91123 | $9.50 |
| Guide for Training Trainers | ||
| Guide for those trainers who will help to prepare prospective trainers to plan adult education experiences and to function effectively as facilitators of participatory learning. Contains an introduction to the principles of participatory education, a pre-workshop participant's packet, trainer's notes, learning task instructions, masters for overheads, handouts and charts, and lists of materials and supplies. | 91130 | $19.95 |
| Learning Styles Inventory CD-ROM | ||
| LSI software assesses your students' preferred methods of receiving and expressing information by asking them to respond to statements about learning and tabulating the data. Displays a graph of learning-style preferences, and can display composites for entire classes and for comparison purposes. | 72001 | $98.00 |
| Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach Jane Vella | ||
| Offers a practical, proven, universally applicable approach to adult education. Reveals the basic principles of adult learning that transcend cultural differences. | 50014 | $21.95 |
| Learning To Read with an LVA Tutor Video | ||
| This 13 minute video gives a student perspective on what's involved in learning to read, write, or speak English with an LVA tutor. The video clearly explains the tutor's and the student's responsibilities in the learning process. Actual LVA students speak on camera about their initial fears and how they moved beyond them to form productive, trusting relationships with their tutors. Useful as a student recruiting tool and as an orientation video. English and Spanish versions on one tape. | 91135 | $24.95 |
| Litstart: Strategies for Adult Literacy and ESL Tutors | ||
| This user-friendly resource provides literacy tutors and programs with 60 strategies for tutoring adults in the skills of reading, writing and speaking English. Provides guidelines on homework, grammar, and portfolio assessment, and useful appendices contain word lists, word families, sight words, contractions, common signs, and driving survival words. | 50135 | $16.95 |
| Maintaining the Balance: A Guide to 50/50 Management Anne DuPrey | ||
| LVA's management philosophy of maintaining a balance between the intake and support focuses of a volunteer program is presented in this useful guide. | 91120 | $19.95 |
| Outcome-based Evaluation for Literacy Programs Claudia B. Horn | ||
| Literacy programs have powerful stories to tell about the individual and collective accomplishments of their students. Outcome-based evaluation is an effective way for programs to tell these compelling stories and convince funders, communities, students, and other stakeholders that their program makes a difference. This manual defines outcome-based evaluation, identifies the elements of an evaluation logic model, provides examples of literacy outcomes and how they can be measured, and identifies the elements of reports commonly used to report outcome-based evaluation findings. It also includes sample forms to help new users of outcome-based evaluation develop a structure to measure their program's outcomes. | 94000 | $9.95 |
| Students Working for Literacy/ Practitioner Edition Philip Rose and Beth A. Broadway | ||
| Adult literacy programs that successfully involve students as volunteers or staff improve the quality of programming and seem to be more vibrant and productive. However, the process of involving students is often no easy and presents some real challenges. Published by LVA - New York State, Students Working for Literacy's purpose is to help programs involve students in many different ways: as helpers, as staff members, as policy makers, and as group leaders. The Practitioner Edition includes training handouts and exercises and a chapter on \"Overcoming Barriers to Student Involvement\". | 91137 | $15.00 |
| Students Working for Literacy/ Student Edition Philip Rose and Beth A. Broadway | ||
| Adult literacy programs that successfully involve students as volunteers or staff improve the quality of programming and seem to be more vibrant and productive. However, the process of involving students is often not easy and presents some real challenges. Published by LVA - New York State, Students Working for Literacy's purpose is to help programs involve students in many different ways: as helpers, as staff members, as policy makers, and as group leaders. The Student Edition, which is written at approximately the fifth grade level, will help students work with staff and programs. The two manuals are parallel in structure and content and include information on organizing student conferences and special events. | 91136 | $10.00 |
| The Power in You Wally Amos and Gregory Amos | ||
| LVA national spokesperson Wally Amos has had the opportunity to develop more than secret cookie recipes. In one of the most remarkable books on self-help to come along in years, Amos shares his 10 secret ingredients for inner strength and the events that have shaped his success. (Authors' Guild selection) | 91016 | $16.95 |
| Training Through Dialogue Jane Vella | ||
| Offers a lively, step-by-step approach to training those who train others to teach adults, showing trainers how to cultivate an entirely new set of skills for interacting with learners. Draws largely on the field of popular education, in which learners are essentially partners in the tasks of designing and implementing educational programs. | 50017 | $28.95 |
| Volunteer Recruitment Book Susan J. Ellis | ||
| Presents a recruitment strategy that breaks the process down into logical, manageable and successful steps. Helps you analyze what you want volunteers to do and emphasizes the importance of developing job assignments before actively beginning recruitment. Includes a wealth of suggestions on targeting sources for volunteers, analyzing the most effective techniques for recruiting, how to handle the media, how to handle one-to-one recruiting, and many other topics. | 50016 | $18.95 |
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