Pre-Conference Seminars

Target Audience: LVA trainers   Location: Picuris

Target Audience: BM, new PM   Location: Cochiti

Target Audience: Experienced TR   Location: Taos

Participants will learn how to define family literacy, discover community assets and challenges, develop partnerships and teach and train staff and volunteers.

Target Audience: LS, PM, PS, TR   Location: Acoma/Zuni

This session will focus on how to build a collaborative environment for learners and tutors, specifically in addressing learning disabilities. It is important that learners and tutors together address learning disabilities - what it means to have them, how to identify them, and what to do about it. tutoring pairs are encouraged to attend this together, but all participants will benefit.

Target Audience: PS, STU, TR, TU   Location: Santo Domingo

Participants will examine the strategies that will enhance board member identification, recruitment, orientation, and board renewal as well as peer-driven approaches to board accountability and effectiveness.

Target Audience: BM, PM   Location: Aztec

Accreditation can be a powerful tool to help programs identify challenges, implement changes, and chart a path to organizational improvement. Learn how to manage change in this interactive session.

Target Audience: BM, PM, PS   Location: Pecos

Equipped for the Future (EFF) is the National Institute for Literacy's 10-year initiative to design an accountable adult literacy system. This session will update participants on the latest developments in EFF, including new training modules for tutors and staff and examples of how volunteer literacy programs are using EFF in goal setting, assessment, lesson planning, data collection, and reporting.

Target Audience: PM, TR, TU   Location: Cimarron

Participants will be guided through the process of building or growing a self-generating system for multiple-year, unrestricted individual giving and will learn how to identify potential donors.

Target Audience: BM, PM, PS   Location: La Cienega

As the role of computers and computing skills increases in many areas of today's literacy programs, questions, barriers, and doubts often arise. This session will demonstrate and offer hands-on time to explore the use of technology teaching and learning and methods for teaching computer skills.

Target Audience: GA, PM, TR   Location: Santa Ana

With the use of exercises and demonstrations, students will learn about the power of the voice to communicate in their own way and increase their impact on other learners, educators, policy makers, and the community.

Target Audience: STU   Location: Galisteo

Accurate, complete data is a valuable asset for any organization. This seminar will share materials developed by the What Works Literacy Partnership that help simplify the development of a data collection system and demonstrate how data can be used for decision making and program improvement.

Target Audience: PM, PS, TU (Limit 30)   Location: Mesilla

If you train volunteers, speak to community groups, give interviews, facilitate meetings, or design your organization's public relations material, you are a presenter. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn six types of presentations, practice techniques for organizing and delivering information, gain an understanding of good openings and closings, and have an opportunity to practice at least three presentations, including speaking to a group, giving an interview, and designing a direct mail campaign.

Target Audience: LS, PM, PS, STU, TR, TU   Location: Laguna

Volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofit organizations, but they can also expose the organization to risk. In this lively session, you'll get a better understanding of risk and liability issues, ways volunteers can expose you to risk, some common, and potentially costly, risk management mistakes, and much more!

Target Audience: BM, PM   Location: Ruidoso