Kansas City, MO October 4-7, 2000 Hyatt Regency Crown Center 2345 McGee Street Kansas City, MO 64108 (816) 421-1234

LVA National Conference 2000: Show Me the Future! was presented in partnership with: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education American Library Association, Office for Literacy and Outreach Services Voice for Adult Literacy United for Education (VALUE) and was supported by sponsorships from: Time Warner PARADE Magazine The National Scrabble Association Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Conoco Inc. Hallmark Cards, Inc. The GED Testing Service of the American Council on Education H&R; Block Sprint Yellow Pages Illinois Secretary of State Literacy Office/Illinois State Library LiteracyPro Systems Visit our Conference Sponsorship section to find out more.

To see a list of workshops by date and time, click here. For PDF files with the featured speakers and workshop session listings, follow the links below:

• Pre-conference Sessions
• Thursday Featured Speakers
• Thursday Concurrent Speakers
• Friday Featured Speakers
• Friday Concurrent Sessions
• Student Program (General Information and Student Track Listings)

To see a list of conference workshops by date and time, click here.

For information on session handouts, click here.

The Opening General Session featured:

• Keynote address by Nora Roberts, author of 42 New York Times best-sellers.

Lynda Hyatt of the Landmark Communications Foundation delivered remarks at the Friday General Session on access to foundation funding for literacy programs. Click here to view a transcript of the speech, The Storytellers Are All Dying Out.

The 2000 Annual Banquet featured:

• Keynote address by Walter Anderson, Chairman, Publisher, and CEO of Parade Publications, which includes PARADE Magazine
• Presentation of the Literacy Leadership Award to Assistant Secretary of Education Patricia McNeil.

Featured speakers included:

• Wally Amos, LVA National Spokesperson
• Terry Axelrod, Raising More Money® Programs
• Dr. Michael Bloom, Principal Research Associate, The Conference Board of Canada
• Judy Cheatham, LVA Writing Consultant, Greensboro College
• Bill Cordes, author of Class It Up!
• Margery Freeman, Executive Director, YMCA Educational Services (YES!)
• Fran Kick, Instruction and Design Concepts
• Lester Laminack, LVA Reading Consultant, Western Carolina University
• Pat Wagner, Co-owner, Pattern Research
• Marlene Wilson, author of The Effective Management of Volunteer Programs
• Elaine Yarbrough, The Yarbrough Group

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]

For sponsorship information call Anu R. Ailawadhi at 845/838-4624 or E-mail to [email protected]