LIFT eNews Bulletin: August 30, 2005

LIFT eNews Bulletin
August 30, 2005

Thank you for reading this LIFT eNews Bulletin. Look for your next issue of LIFT eNews soon.

Event dates are subject to change. Please refer to our workshop registration page for the most up-to-date listing of LIFT events.

LIFT eNews is a free, subscription-based email publication. You are receiving this email because you subscribed and requested news and information from us. This is a recurring mailing. To unsubscribe from future mailings, click the link below.

LIFT serves as Missouri's Literacy Resource Center, with offices in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Jefferson City. LIFT provides training, technical assistance, and materials for educators and family literacy programs. More information about LIFT can be found online at www.lift-missouri.org.

Family Literacy Alliance Regional Forum to be held in St. Louis
What Happens When Parents Get Involved in Their Child's Education?

Helping parents maximize learning opportunities with their children is the focus of an upcoming regional forum presented by the Family Literacy Alliance (FLA) in St. Louis on September 23.

Parent Involvement in Children's Learning, the fifth annual FLA Regional Forum, offers a valuable opportunity for literacy supporters to gather and explore the latest family literacy program ideas, strategies and research-based techniques.

In addition to peer interaction, participants will have access to leading experts in education and literacy including:

Susan Stepleton, President and CEO, Parents as Teachers National Center
Tim O'Dea, Executive Director, LIFT-Missouri
Jose Velazquez, Director, Hispanic Family Learning Institute

The FLA is a membership program sponsored by the National Center for Family Literacy that provides a unified voice for practitioners and supporters of family literacy. The FLA seeks to promote, strengthen, and connect the family literacy community.

The Forum will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel and Suites Downtown St. Louis. Forum registration is $75 for FLA members and $95 for non-members, which includes an annual FLA membership. The registration fee also includes breakfast, lunch and all session and networking activities at the Forum.

For further information on forum registration, click on www.famlit.org/ProgramsandInitiatives/FLA/FLA-Forum-September-23.cfm
MIDTESOL Fall 2005 Conference
"Ways With Words"
October 21-22, 2005
CMSU's Lee's Summit Center

Pre-conference morning workshop:
Strategies for Sanity and Success in the ESL Classroom

This special pre-conference presentation will be a hands-on event for teachers from K through Adult. The presenter is Jayme Adelson- Goldstein, author of The Oxford Picture Dictionary, Listen First, and Read and Reflect: Academic Strategies and Cultural Awareness - all under the imprint of the Oxford University Press. Jayme Adelson-Goldstein has been a member of the ESL teaching community for the past 24 years. During the last fifteen years, she has focused on teacher education and curriculum development, providing teacher-training throughout the U.S. on subjects including focused listening, vocabulary acquisition, and multi-level lesson planning.

A student-centered, communicative framework enables instructors to seize the teachable moment whenever and wherever it occurs. The presenter will lead participants through instructional strategies, techniques and activities that are the basis for this framework and provide opportunities to develop activities for their own classes. Strategies for coping with inflexible environments and multi-level classes are included. Handouts.

Plenary Information:
Ways with Words...More or Less

The plenary will address critical topics that impact the complex skill of second language reading and discuss ways we can help our learners become more successful readers of English. Currently the coordinator for Adult ESOL for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, David Red's special interest in reading in a second language began with his work at the American English Language Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. He received his doctorate in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Other notable experience in the field includes teaching English in an adult education program, serving as a Language Training Supervisor for the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC; serving as a volunteer tutor of ESOL at the local literacy council and training other tutors there; serving as the president of the Greater Washington Reading Council, and chairing the Publications Committee of the International Reading Association.

For more information or to register, go to www.midtesol.org/2005Fall/index.html.

Copyright © 2005 LIFT-Missouri
Subscribe | Unsubscribe

Helping parents maximize learning opportunities with their children is the focus of an upcoming regional forum presented by the Family Literacy Alliance (FLA) in St. Louis on September 23.

Parent Involvement in Children's Learning, the fifth annual FLA Regional Forum, offers a valuable opportunity for literacy supporters to gather and explore the latest family literacy program ideas, strategies and research-based techniques.

In addition to peer interaction, participants will have access to leading experts in education and literacy including:

The FLA is a membership program sponsored by the National Center for Family Literacy that provides a unified voice for practitioners and supporters of family literacy. The FLA seeks to promote, strengthen, and connect the family literacy community.

The Forum will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel and Suites Downtown St. Louis. Forum registration is $75 for FLA members and $95 for non-members, which includes an annual FLA membership. The registration fee also includes breakfast, lunch and all session and networking activities at the Forum.

Pre-conference morning workshop:
Strategies for Sanity and Success in the ESL Classroom

This special pre-conference presentation will be a hands-on event for teachers from K through Adult. The presenter is Jayme Adelson- Goldstein, author of The Oxford Picture Dictionary, Listen First, and Read and Reflect: Academic Strategies and Cultural Awareness - all under the imprint of the Oxford University Press. Jayme Adelson-Goldstein has been a member of the ESL teaching community for the past 24 years. During the last fifteen years, she has focused on teacher education and curriculum development, providing teacher-training throughout the U.S. on subjects including focused listening, vocabulary acquisition, and multi-level lesson planning.

A student-centered, communicative framework enables instructors to seize the teachable moment whenever and wherever it occurs. The presenter will lead participants through instructional strategies, techniques and activities that are the basis for this framework and provide opportunities to develop activities for their own classes. Strategies for coping with inflexible environments and multi-level classes are included. Handouts.

Plenary Information:
Ways with Words...More or Less

The plenary will address critical topics that impact the complex skill of second language reading and discuss ways we can help our learners become more successful readers of English. Currently the coordinator for Adult ESOL for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, David Red's special interest in reading in a second language began with his work at the American English Language Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. He received his doctorate in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Other notable experience in the field includes teaching English in an adult education program, serving as a Language Training Supervisor for the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC; serving as a volunteer tutor of ESOL at the local literacy council and training other tutors there; serving as the president of the Greater Washington Reading Council, and chairing the Publications Committee of the International Reading Association.

For more information or to register, go to www.midtesol.org/2005Fall/index.html.