Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1QLULP00795; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:30:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:30:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <007401c2dddd$594bb580$35881a0a@jlee2000> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Jon Lee" <jlee@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1424] Clips and Cross Posts X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1581 Lines: 50 Hello to all in Eworld! From: Barbara Garner Senior Program Officer World Education 44 Farnsworth Street Boston, MA 02210 email bgarner@worlded.org A new issue of Focus on Basics is available online at http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu Scroll down and click on the "newest issue of Focus on Basics" box The topic? "Isms": classism, racism, gender bias, and bias in all the other categories that can differentiate people from the majority in society. *Follow the eight year transformation of a New Orleans program into an antiracist program; * Refresh your knowledge of multicultural educational theory; * Read about how an ESOL program in Oklahoma created a new venue for classes in which traditional Muslim women could feel comfortable; * See how two basic education educators who thought they were non biased recognized and moved past their own limitations; * Share the self recognition a teacher trainer felt when she realized her practice was not as empowering as she thought it was; * View the field from inside out as an African American teacher and professional developer reflects on her growing awareness of the need to address issues of bias in her practice. From: ASCD Check out the "Research Brief" Translating education research into action http://www.ascd.org/cms/index.cfm?TheViewID=887 Take care, Jon Lee Training Specialist NIFL-Family list moderator National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main St, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40202-4237 Phone: 502.584.1133 x175 Fax: 502.584.0172 jlee@famlit.org http://www.famlit.org
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