Workshop Topics and Issues

Please Note: Workshop times and dates are tentative and subject to change. Please check this page often for updates and changes.

• Technology Issues
• ESOL Issues
• Family Literacy Issues
• Learning Disabilities Issues
• Quality Standards/Accountability Issues
• Student Issues

Technology Issues

• Computerized Recordkeeping
• Distance Learning and Technology
• Interpreting Data for Funders and Other Stakeholders
• Technology and EFF
• Using Data for Decision Making
• Using Data for Teaching and Tutoring
• Using Data to Improve Program
• Using Software
• Using Technology

ESOL Issues

• EFF and ESOL
• ESOL - Accreditation
• ESOL and Technology
• ESOL and Workforce
• ESOL Assessment
• ESOL - Beyond Scripted Dialogue
• ESOL Materials to Use
• ESOL - Techniques, Materials, Strategies, Assessment, Goal setting, Theme-based Instruction
• ESOL Techniques to Use
• ESOL - Training Volunteers
• Language Acquisition

Family Literacy Issues

• Adult Ed and Family Literacy Act
• Community Collaboration and Family Literacy - What Works
• English Literacy and Family Literacy
• ESOL and FL Together: Core Training in ESL and What to Add for FL/ESL Combined
• Family Literacy and EFF
• Family Literacy Collaborations with Headstart
• Family Literacy - Models Being Used by LVA
• Funding Sources
• How to Do Family Literacy
• Improving Literacy of Fathers, Children and Family Initiative
• Incorporating Job-related Readiness Instruction into Family Literacy Programs
• Library-based Family Literacy - Working with FL in Unusual Settings

Learning Disabilities Issues

• How to Discuss LD with Students
• LD - Recommended Strategies and Materials
• LD - Research, Materials, Methods, Screening, Legal Issues, Diagnosis, Training Volunteers
• Learning Disability, Gender Bias and Welfare Issues
• Legal Aspect of Dealing with LD
• Multiple Intelligences
• Screening Learners with LD

Quality Standards/Accountability Issues

• 50/50
• 50/50 Questions and Reporting
• Advisory Boards as an Asset: Their Function, Orientation, Training and Job Descriptions
• Assessment and Screening Instruments - How to Present Them to Students
• Authentic Assessment
• Board Development
• Board Self-evaluation
• Certification/recertification of Tutors and Trainers
• Community Assessment
• Continuous Improvement
• Dealing with Policy-driven Programming
• Equipped for the Future
• Evolving from a Steering Committee to an Advisory Board
• From Screening Instruments to Functional Instructional Plans
• Fund Raising
• Managing and Budgets for Nonprofits
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Performance Assessment
• Program Management
• Program Quality Standards
• Public Policy for Nonprofits
• Recruiting Volunteer Management Assistance
• Strategic Planning
• Tutors Lose Patience - What to Do
• Workforce Issues

Student Issues

• Come Meet the National Board
• Fundraising - How Students Can Help Affiliates Raise Money
• Getting Learners Involved
• LD in Plain English
• Learning Disability, Gender Bias and Welfare Issues
• Taking Leadership to the Next Level in Your Organization
  (for advanced students)
• The Wilson System

For general information call Peggy May at 843/671-2008 or E-mail to [email protected]

For exhibit information call Kathy Freeman at 803/794-5370 or E-mail to [email protected]