Workshops by Track

ESL, Employers, and Local Workforce Boards: Collaborations that Work

Leaders from a Texas workplace literacy program coprised of an oilfield manufacturer, a local workforce board, and a literacy provider will explain how close collaboration can benefit the language skills and employability of proficient workers with limited English. Curriculum activities will be demonstrated.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Presenters: Anson Green, Angela Hock

Each One Teach One Workplace Literacy: Tap the Resources in Continuing Care and Healthcare Facilities

This seminar presents a workplace program that recruits assisted-living facility residents to tutor their caregivers, and hospital employees to tutor fellow employees in ESOL. Includes "how-to" session with tips on marketing the idea, program management, and training.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Roberta Reiss

Build Literacy in Your Community with www.buildliteracy.org

Http://www.buildliteracy.org is a website for building and sustaining literacy coalitions. The project team will describe goals and objectives, demonstrate the site's features, and facilitate a dialogue. Participants will learn to navigate the site and develop strategies for building literacy.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Presenters: Dale Lipschultz, Tim Ponder

Strategic Alliances: An Overview

Partnerships among organizations can range from the informal to the formal. This workshop will present a rationale for strengthening relationships among agencies, as well as an introduction to the characteristics and benefits of diverse types of partnership opportunities.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenters: Marty Angelone, Margery Oppenheimer

Health Literacy Collaborations: Combining Literacy and Health Initiatives to Make Health Information Available to All

Through a brief lecture and group discussion, participants will explore strategies that bring together literacy and health providers to develop programs for understandable health information for all.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Presenter: Deborah Yoho

Collaborations for Literacy: The SDCOL

Participants will learn the history and functions of the San Diego Council on Literacy, a nonprofit organization, which has formed partnerships to enhance literacy fundraising, awareness, and support to programs. Various presentation formats are featured.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Jose Cruz, Dennis Smith, Ph.D.

P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Curriculum: Teaching Parenting with Children's Books

Participants will learn about the four components of family literacy with focus on the parent education component using the P.A.R.E.N.T.S. curriculum. Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of parent education through an overview of parenting topics and children's books used in the curriculum and how library literacy programs teach parent education.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Cindy Costales, Yolanda De La Cruz, Sandy Kirkpatrick, Terri Cook

Creating Community Partners Through Storytelling

Participants will learn how an adult education storytelling project involved a professional storyteller, a local library, several K-12 schools, and the early childhood education department to successfully reach out to families in their county's growing Hispanic population.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenters: Pat Coleman, Barbara Hardt

A Tour of a Mobile Literacy Unit

Tour a 32' mobile literacy unit designed to take literacy activities to children ages 0-5 and their caretakers. The unit, LAMBS - Literacy And Mobile Book Services was purchased with Prop 10 funds.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Presenters: Marjo Mello, Susan Manger

The Laubach/UPS Family Learning Project - A Look at Success and Challenges to Serving Families

The Laubach/ UPS Project recruits programs interested in a mentor/ prot�g� relationship. This brief seminar examines how mentor/prot�g� programs work together, how new programs meet challenges in providing family learning service, and trends in collecting and reporting data that spell success for programs.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Michele Perry

Family Reading - It's Not Just for Bed Anymore!

Learn how to use the family reading process as part of a PACT activity to teach vocabulary and reading strategies to parents and children while addressing literacy or ESL content standards. Highly interactive and fun!
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Robert Pinhero

Working with Spanish-speaking Families

In this interactive workshop, participants will enhance their cultural sensitivities, learn specific instructional strategies, and preview Motheread's innovative curriculum based on bilingual Latino children's literature.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. -11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Susan Poorman, Gloria Manriquez-Gonzalez

Fund-Raising Panel

Meet with representatives from philanthropical foundations with national, regional, and local funding priorities. The panelists will share insights with conference attendees about the current funding climate: how to best interest foundation funders in the issue of literacy and what grant makers are looking for in terms of collaboration, professionalism, and accountability.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Panelists include: Janine Mason Baron, Denine Torr, and others
Moderator: Kirk Shisler

Program Evaluations: Show Donors Why They Should Trust You With Their Money!

This lively discussion is for everyone! It will center around dispelling the myth that evaluations are evil. Participants must come armed with ideas on how to use program evaluations to earn more money for literacy.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Jim Aiello

Fund Your Literacy Organization's Future...Now!

Program administrators and directors will learn the "how-to's" of planned giving. Two approaches are discussed: a traditional development model as well as a fast track option. A Gift of Literacy Toolkit is provided.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45-11:00
Presenters: Paul Barrus, Kirk Shisler

How to Host a Scrabble Fund-raiser

Participants will get a step-by-step overview of how to use Scrabble as a fund-raising tool. The presentation includes affiliate testimonials, sample game play sessions, and a question/answer period.
Thursday, May 31, 2002 - 9:00-10:15
Presenters: Yvonne Gillispie, Cindy McCaffery

The Basics of Grant Writing

This workshop will explore where to find grants, the basic elements of proposals, what makes a good proposal, and how proposals are selected for funding. Participants will score a literacy grant proposal and determine if funds should be awarded.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. -11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Leslie Gelders, Robb Gentry

America Through New Eyes

For the past two years LVA Greater Rensselaer County has received a grant from its local Council of the Arts to develop a display that depicts how ESOL students from a variety of countries see America. Learn how to create this photo display and how to utilize it to tell the LVA story to potential volunteers and donors. Participants will see the portable display.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Barbara Wyman

Building Bridges- Bias Awareness and Prevention-Intergroup Understanding

This workshop will train staff, students, tutors and administrators from various literacy organizations in bias awareness and prevention methods. It will allow participants to teach or share the information and techniques with staff and program participants in order to develop skills that will lead them to becoming catalysts for change; breaking down barriers and stereotypes, encouraging positive intergroup tolerance and building understanding toward improving our lives and those we interact with. Activities include helping participants identify, recognize and accept person bias through video, exercises, discussions, interaction and tools for beginning an active program.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenters: Bisi Iderabudullah, Beverly Harris

National Institute for Literacy Programs and Services

This session will inform participants about resources that can help support their work in the literacy field. It will include an overview of Equipped for the Future, Bridges to Practice, LINCS, and much more.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenters: Alice Johnson, William Hawk

The Birth of Each One Teach One

Follow the early work of Frank C. Laubach and the evolution of Laubach Literacy.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Presenter: Dr. Bob Laubach

School Shame: How it Blocks Learning and Harms the Self

While it is well-documented that many adult learners who have suffered school failure have low self-esteem, little research exists to explain the cause or how to heal it. In this presentation, Leslie shares insights from her doctoral study of early school shame and its lifelong impact on learning, identity, and self-worth.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Leslie Shelton, Ph.D.

Literacy Policy Update

Join us for a lively discussion on the latest literacy-related policy issues being debated in Congress and how this debate may affect adult and family literacy programs and services in your state.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Christy Gullion, Alice Johnson

Reaching People Through Learning: Continuing the Discussion with Alexander Weir

Many adults and young people are lost or drifting through life because of family issues and because they lack basic skills, support groups, and coping skills. Life can sometimes force people to learn what was never previously revealed to them, and lead them to discover greater opportunities and possibilities in the midst of dealing with hard secrets, heavy issues, and reality. Bleak times can lead us to new information and to people who shine a light upon the darkness that sometimes falls upon the path of our personal journey. This presentation, "Reaching People Through Learning" will highlight how helplessness can bring us to learning experiences and to great inner changes that we often think can only happen in the movies.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Alexander Weir

Online Information Tools Just for You!

With support from Verizon Communications, Laubach Literacy and Literacy Volunteers of America are creating online literacy tools to help you be more effective in your work. Join us and learn how to get your literacy questions answered through Ask Verizon Reads. Be present for the unveiling of Verizon Literacy University, an online training site for volunteers and staff. Find out how to get and give ideas on the Verizon/LVA Promising Practices Exchange. Hear about the Program Manager�s Orientation, an online resource for individuals new to literacy program administration.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenters: Linda Church, Michele Diecuch, Margery Oppenheimer

Literacy for Social Change

Learn an exciting international literacy technique that can be used in literacy programs in the USA. Through decades of worldwide experience, Laubach Literacy has developed a unique tool that enables the learner to effectively combine literacy and cutting-edge strategies for human development This methodology integrates four components: fundamental skills, critical thinking, cultural expression and learner-initiated action. This highly motivational technique helps learners apply new skills to problems of everyday living.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenters: Lynn Curtis, Josie Lee

Money Management

This presentation will discuss aspects of personal money management: dealing with credit and debt problems, budgeting, and handling income taxes. Suggestions will be given for improving the individual�s financial situation, including a listing of resources for obtaining low-cost or no-cost assistance.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Carlye Nystrom

Using a Freirian, Participatory Approach that Incorporates Economic, Home Ownership, Social and Community Issues into Adult Literacy Education

El Paso Community College/Community Education Program and the Fannie Mae Foundation have collaborated to develop a Freirian, participatory instructional model that incorporates economic, social, home ownership, and community issues into adult education. Participants will discuss this model, and learn to develop and implement similar models.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Andres Muro, Laura Jaurrieta

Literacy and Race - The Dialogue Continues

More and more in the literacy field across America, the connection between literacy and race is being discussed. Join Lou Johnson and Peter Waite as they lead a dialogue that started in 1999 at the South Central Literacy Conference on the role and impact on literacy in the USA.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. -11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Lou Johnson, Peter Waite

Real World Goal Setting and Keeping

Participants in this workshop will learn to set reality-based short-term and long-term goals. They will learn to celebrate successes and adjust expected outcomes in the process of goal attainment.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Pat Habeck

Learning A Skill: Building Knowledge Base, Fluency, Range, and Independence

What does it mean to be good at the skills of reading, speaking or tutoring? As tutors and trainers, we often focus on building a learner's knowledge base. While this is important to "know" something, it is also vital to make sure learners can use a skill with ease (fluency), in different contexts (range), and on their own (independence). Come explore ways to help your learners (or yourself) master new skills and describe progress.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Presenters: Rob Podlasek

Writing Can Be Fun!

If you�ve had trouble getting students and yourself excited about writing, this workshop is for you. Participants will learn easy and practical techniques to get even the most reticent person to look forward to writing. Techniques are appropriate for ESL and literacy students at all levels.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Todd Evans

TV411

TV411 is a multimedia teaching tool. Come see how video, print, and the Web can be used to enhance the learning experience of adult literacy learners.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Presenters: Iliana Delgado, Nancy Shields

Teachers as Learners: Developing Teacher Study Groups for Professional Development

Staff developers will describe and model the study group method and demonstrate how teachers have used these techniques to question, examine, and improve classroom practice. Guidelines for using this process will be shared in written form.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Marguerite Lukes

An Empowering Approach to Employability: Recognizing Skills and Talents Though Language and Dialogue

In this workshop, participants will learn how to help learners develop a resume and talk and write about their employability skills through the use of skills analysis, vocabulary development, and writing practice.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenters: Joanie Cohen-Mitchell, Vickie Barber Flynn

Lesson Planning with EFF

Participants will learn and practice using EFF Standards for constructing lesson plans.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Chris McFadden, Tracy Block, Maria Gonzalez

Writing Easy-to-Read Materials

If you�ve had trouble getting students and yourself excited about writing, this workshop is for you. Participants will learn easy and practical techniques to get even the most reticent person to look forward to writing. Techniques are appropriate for ESL and literacy students at all levels.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Gail Rice

Using a Lower Reading Level Health Book to Teach Basic Reading Skills and ESL

This presentation first covers an overview of the healthcare literacy problem, its impact on patients, and the $73 billion cost to the healthcare system. Next, a brief review of current research in health literacy will be given. Finally, a demonstration of a unique model to teach basic reading/ESL using a healthcare book, What to do When Your Child Gets Sick, written at a third grade reading level, will be given. The model includes visual glossaries, word games, cognitive exercises, and progressive skill-building.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Gloria Mayer

Numeracy and the Adult Learner

This practical, interactive workshop will offer tips and techniques on how to work with learners on mathematics. The focus will be on problem-solving, word problems, prediction, estimation, and the move from the concrete to the abstract. The foal is to give participants information and skills they can apply with learners that very next week!
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Dr. Judy Cheatham, Ph.D.

Continuing the Discussion with Victoria Purcell-Gates

This session will be a question/answer; brainstorming /response to the content of Victoria Purcell-Gates' talk, which will be on the nature of authentic reading and writing activities for adult learners and the impact of that on the increase in the uses of print in their lives.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Victoria Purcell-Gates

"Learn about Me" - Building Support and Influencing Learning

This innovative 15-hour course helps new readers explore learning strategies, assess current attitudes and abilities, and develop confidence. This session introduces the participants to elements of this course and its impact on learners and tutoring.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Presenters: Deborah Young, Ed.D., Lawana Vlaanderen

Emotions! The Prerequisite to Learning

Lack of progress? Dropouts? Life situations getting in the way of learning? Fears of failure and success? Low self-esteem? All of these personal and program issues have their core in emotions because emotions are core to learning! This session will present a simple model to understand the role of emotions in learning. Using this model participants will build a list of dos and don'ts to work through the highly charged emotional issues of re-entering an educational setting. Cutting-edge research, practical strategies, best practices, and personal accounts will be presented to help programs, tutors, and students move beyond past learning traumas and on to creating positive, empowered futures that will expedite learning.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Laura Weisel, Ph. D.

Mastering Graphics on the GED Reading Tests

Using numerous handouts and practice exercises, participants at all skill levels will learn to interpret different kinds of graphics and analyze political cartoons to develop graphic and comprehension skills for the GED reading test.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Gail Rice

Using Poetry to Engage New Readers and Writers in Creative Writing

The mission of the seminar is to engage new readers and writers in writing poetry and to provide an opportunity for participants to creatively express themselves. Participants will discuss the art of poetry and its influence on society. Trainers will demonstrate the process of writing and developing a poem. Participants will write, edit, and perform their writing.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Ernest Lewis III

Which is Right for Me? Choosing Between Laubach Way to Reading, Challenger, and Voyager: Reading and Writing for Today's Adults

Participants will learn the strengths and differences between three effective New Readers Press reading and writing series: Laubach Way to Reading, Challenger, and Voyager: Reading and Writing for Today�s Adults. Participants will hear examples of effective use from the field, and will have an opportunity for questions and answers.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Jane Hugo

Help Your Student Become Their OWN Best Tutor: Using EFF Standards to Plan and Evaluate Meaningful Lessons

We will see how the standard works within the EFF framework. Then, we'll do some "hands-on" practice. You will walk away with experience planning and evaluating lessons using the EFF Standards. Join us and gather ideas you can use in your tutoring!
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Amy Prevedel, Tracy Block

Learning Disabilities as a Disability: The Implications for Federal Civil Rights Laws and New Rulings for Adult Literacy Programs

New Federal guidance and OCR rulings concerning rights of persons with disabilities in programs covered by Title II of the ADA have expanded our understanding of these rights and have strong implications for adult education.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Glenn Young

Teaching Adults with Learning Disabilities

This presentation will examine the definition of learning disabilities, its causes, legal issues, self-advocacy, and appropriate teaching accommodations and strategies. This workshop will include both simulation and hands-on activities, as well as lecture and discussion.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Patti White

Increasing Student Retention Utilizing Support Schedules and Individual Education Plans

The Literacy Center for the Midlands uses Individual Education Plans (IEPs) as part of a support schedule to increase both student and tutor retention. Participants will learn how the Literacy Center has implemented the support schedule and how it has positively affected retention rates. Participants will also receive copies of an IEP and support schedule.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenters: David Whitaker, Sally Knapp

Learning Disabilities in Non-English Speaking Populations - A New Federal Effort to Address the Issues

A new federal effort is underway concerning LD in Spanish-speakers in the U.S. NIFL is partnering with researchers around the world to develop the means to identify and address LD in non-English speaking populations.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Glenn Young

Screening for Auditory and Visual Perceptual Differences with Reading-Disadvantaged Students

The presenter will review and present preliminary results of his research into the role of visual, visual motor, and visual perceptual differences in the reading process. A brief overview of the role of auditory perceptual differences will be discussed and screening procedures, including the Linda Mood Auditory Conceptualization test, will be demonstrated.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Presenter: Dr. P. Frank McKane

Bridges to Practice for Tutors - Part I

Based on the National Bridges to Practice guides, participants will learn SMARTER PRINCIPLES and appropriate instructional strategies such as direct instruction and information processing. Characteristics of LD, appropriate instruction, and resources will be examined.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Amy Wilson, Michelle Joyce

LD Accommodations . . . What are They?

This workshop will demonstrate the use of easily obtainable resources that can make learning easier for students who have characteristics of learning disabilities and for students who just need extra reinforcement.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Arlene Nelson, Ellen Yates

Learning Disabilities Simulation-Part I

Experience the frustration of several specific learning disabilities. Expand your understanding of and empathy for students who have difficulties with one or more of the following: visual motor (writing), visual processing (reading), or auditory processing (listening).
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Diane Deutsch

Learning Disabilities Simulation-Part II

Learn accommodations for students who have difficulties with one or more of the following: visual motor (writing), visual processing (reading), or auditory processing (listening).
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Diane Deutsch

Learning Difficulties and Volunteer Training - A Module for Use in Volunteer Organizations

Participants will examine a module designed for inclusion in volunteer literacy training on awareness of LD. They will receive a copy of the module, including training scripts, handouts, and overhead masters.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Mary Dunn Siedow

Power Path to Adult Basic Learning: A Practical Intake, Diagnostic Screening, and Intervention System for LD Adults - A Discussion With Programs Using the System

Power Path is a practical intake, diagnostic screening, and intervention system for adults entering literacy programs. While other assessments focus on what an individual knows, Power Path screens for learning difficulties and defines how each person can most effectively learn. Then, based upon the individual's profile, Power Path software prescribes personalized pathways to successfully build needed skills. This session will walk through the Power Path process and discuss the variety of ways in which Power Path is being used in literacy programs throughout the country. Power Path's new Spanish version, ADD, and scotopic sensitivity screenings, along with other components, will be demonstrated to show how easy it is to screen for LD and help tutors use a process for learning that leads to greater successes with struggling readers.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Laura Weisel, Ph.D., Jeff Fantine, Cathleen McComas

Bridges to Practice for Tutors - Part II

Based on the National Bridges to Practice guides, participants will learn SMARTER PRINCIPLES and appropriate instructional strategies such as direct instruction and information processing. Characteristics of LD, appropriate instruction, and resources will be examined.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Amy Wilson, Michelle Joyce

The Road to Accreditation - One Program's Experience

Learn how one program worked through the accreditation process. Topics will include: LLA; Friend Not Foe!, Understanding the Standards, The Inherent Value and Benefits From the Process, and Organizational Tips and Strategies. Bring your questions for discussion.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Presenters: Chris Simmie, Mimi Tanner

The Three R's of Volunteer Literacy Programs: Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition

Presenters will share successful strategies in the three R's of volunteer tutors and adult learners. A short, locally produced video used to recruit tutors, solicit funding, and promote literacy awareness will be viewed. Group discussion will follow.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Kathy Cornell, Tori Rader

Solutions to Board Problems

Board and key staff members need to be prepared for all eventualities. This workshop on problem solving will give experienced board and staff members opportunities to solve problems together.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Patricia Johnston

Merger - A Leap of Faith

Participants will learn what aspects of the organization's mission structure and leadership made the merger process work smoothly and rather quickly. Suggestions and lessons learned will be offered from the executive directors of two recently merged organizations.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenters: Alice Ferrier, Doreen Marchione

Building Better Boards

The quality of your local board of directors can make or break your program. Discover basic board responsibilities; tips on how to get your board energized; how to draft action plans, and what resources are available for non profit boards.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Leslie Gelders

Successful Tutor Recruitment and Retention

Over the last few years, the Yuma Reading Council has developed a recruitment and retention plan that works at all levels within the agency. It focuses on getting tutors in and keeping them in the simplest, most effective way it can.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenters: Barbara Sutton, Sandra Pikula, Jenny Unterseh

Student Involvement - What is it?

Workshop participants will learn the wide variety of ways students are involved in literacy organizations. They will create a plan to incorporate these ideas and learn to use VALUE's Four R's: Recruitment, Retention, Resource Development, and Reform.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenter: Marty Finsterbusch

Risky Business? � Managing Your Organization�s Risks

Participants will learn how to incorporate an ongoing risk management program into their organizations. This interactive session will explore identifying and measuring risks, deciding ways to control or finance risk, and monitoring your risk management efforts.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Presenters: Mark Cass, Kaye Beall

Intro to the Newly Revised Maintaining the Balance: A Guide to 50/50 Management

Managing a literacy organization is no easy task in today's world of scarce resources. The 50/50 approach is a framework for achieving program objectives. Learn the importance of balanced intake and support systems if you are to manage your program well; how to create funding packages; and the stage of development of your program.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Anne DuPrey

Home Buying and Money Management as Content Based Instruction

This seminar will teach participants how to replicate a comprehensive money management and home-buying readiness project that has been successfully employed in both ABE and ESOL programs. It will present 1) how to plan, implement, and evaluate this project; 2) where to look for funding; and 3) what materials are already available. Teachers do not have to be experts in home buying or money management, but need to be willing to learn alongside students so that the classroom becomes a place of inquiry and investigation. Curricula and a sourcebook for the project will be free for all participants.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Deborah Schwartz, Vicky Frantz

Buying Your Home Computer

Through lecture, demonstration, and discussion, learners will 1) gain basic knowledge of computer terms that they need to know when buying a computer; and 2) learn about shopping for a computer, including specifications, brands, stores, prices, and support.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Presenter: Carrie Scott

The Journey to Wholeness: Healing the Harm of School Failures

Finding LINCS to Solutions

Participants will use the resources available on LINCS website, including the Assessment and Family Literacy Collections, to find useful information for their practice and to solve scenarios suggested by the presenters.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Dianna Baycich, Tim Ponder

The ESL Special Collection: Free, Online, and Easily Useful

How to be a Terrific Trainer

This workshop will address the finer points of preparing to train as well as necessary information needed to be an effective trainer. This is a hands-on workshop; participants will learn as they do.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Mary Miller

Exploring New Models for Literacy Tutor/Instructor Training

Conduct dynamic training by combining relevant research and theory with an effective instructional model. This workshop spotlights engaging realistic video lessons featuring "classic" beginning and intermediate students. (Videos and manual available from Literacy Solutions.)
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Meg Schofield

Shifting the Training Paradigm to Connect Literacy and Social Justice

A look at the challenging process of redesigning tutor training to reflect a student-centered approach of instruction, develop community among new tutors, and address issues of cultural competency.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Doug Anderson

Trainer Roundtable

Roundtable discussion: trainers will have an opportunity to meet with Laubach staff and board members to discuss issues relating to training in the new literacy organization. Topics will include workshop design, training skills, and trainer certification.
Thursday, May 31, 2002 -4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Todd Evans, Nancy Putnam

Designing Effective Workshops

Are you looking for ways to improve your workshop? Come hear what other programs have done. Learn to use a four-step design process and a variety of tools that will help you analyze your workshop, identify improvements, and put them into practice.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Todd Evans

Training Tutors to do Small Group Instruction

Participants will learn about the components of Laubach's new print-based training on teaching in small groups. Through demonstration and group discussion they will also learn how to train tutors to move from one-to-one to small group instruction.
Saturday, June 1, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenter: Tom Mueller

Finding Our Voice: Women Literacy Learners with Disabilities Speak Out

This session presents the recommendations a group of women with disabilities gives to adult education programs and to other women literacy learners through stories, quotes, photos, and video images. This is the result of a Women in Literacy grant.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Presenter: Heidi Silver-Pacuilla

Violence in Adult Education and its Impact on Women

This session will have a discussion of impact of violence on women, it will begin dialogue of violence, based on the book Too Scared to Learn by Dr. Jenny Horsman, examine individual definitions/experiences of violence, establish a good working definition of violence, develop tools for assessing students' learning styles, examine impact of violence on learning and women, and begin discussion of various methods to facilitate learning for women who have experienced violence.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Roanna Yangco, Char Carver, Katy Chafee

Nurturing the Seeds

This workshop will share and explore empowering marginalized women. Immigrant women come to the Learning and Loving Education Center in Morgan Hill, California to learn a second language, computer skills, and job readiness. Some start their own cooperative businesses. The workshop will help you foster ways to provide skills, hope, and direction. We encourage participants to share the challenges and blessings of their work.
Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Sister Pat Davis, Janet Leach

Women in Literacy/Women in Action, U.S., and International Panel

Leaders from women's literacy organizations in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the U.S. will participate in a panel discussion focused on issues that cut across borders in women's education. The discussion will explore women-focused solutions to shared challenges in areas such as student motivation and retention, curriculum design, advocacy, staff development, and collaboration. Panelists will share programmatic perspectives on how to address the global matters of women's education in locally significant ways.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Presenters: Jane Hugo, Joanie Cohen-Mitchell, Indira Koithara, Mulegwa Zihindula

Making Important Health Choices

How can classes set up on a basic reading level help women with literacy needs face and make choices about their health and their family�s health? A survey of medical needs developed with students and a curriculum designed with student input helped women at Literacy Chicago to make more informed choices. Hear how questions and support coming from discussion and class activities made the difference.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: June Porter

The Impact of Violence on Learning: Ideas for Teaching and Policy

How does naming the impact of violence on learning make it possible for women students to learn when they otherwise could not? How is it more than just "good practice"? Share in work of programs and researchers.
Friday, May 31, 2002 - 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Elizabeth Morrish, Jenny Horsman