Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e6OJ0cT27729; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:00:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:00:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s97c5966.061@jsi.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Barbara Garner" <Barbara_Garner@jsi.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:271] Summit Update X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Status: O Content-Length: 4288 Lines: 132 National Literacy Summit 2000 Update--July, 2000 Background We want to keep the literacy field and partners informed about the National Literacy Summit 2000 process as we move toward the creation of a Summit report and a launch event in September. This process is meant to improve the state of literacy in the U.S. as we enter the 21st century. To reach this goal, the national literacy field and hundreds of partners from the private and public sectors have gotten together across the country to identify the primary challenges in achieving a fully literate nation, and to recommend an action agenda for meeting the challenges over the next decade. For the first time, the literacy field will have adopted a common goal and action agenda as a blueprint to guide their efforts. The Summit report will be released on September 7, the eve of International Literacy Day 2000. Following the launch, literacy providers and their partners at the local, state, and national levels will select the action recommendations they can address, and make commitments toward fulfilling the national agenda. The hope and plan is that a new Summit report will be issued on September 8 of each subsequent year, to let the nation know the progress that is being made toward a more literate nation, and the action and resources still needed. For this to be achieved, we all will need to respond and act. The Summit Report The National Literacy Summit 2000 received on-line and mailed feedback by the June 30 deadline from hundreds of regional, state and local summit meeting groups, as well as from many individuals. The Summit steering committee is very pleased to have received such a response and thank all who commented on the draft action agenda priorities. The next stage of writing the Summit report has now begun, and the staff of NIFL has read through every response over the past weeks, and has been synthesizing the comments, organizing them around priorities, and looking for broad themes that may be emerging. The current thinking is that some of the priorities may be able to be combined, and that the final priority areas will be fewer and slightly reorganized. Following this process of synthesizing the comments, a group of writers from Reingold Associates, Inc. will begin to design and edit the final Summit report. Before it is printed, a draft of the report will be reviewed by a working group of the Summit steering committee representing the literacy field. On September 7, the Summit report will be launched at a national event in Washington, DC, and will be mailed to literacy organizations across the nation so that the commitment-making phase may begin. The Summit Report Launch Event An event to launch the Summit Report will be held on September 7. Current plans include an event to be held on Capital Hill, where the report will be released, followed by the convening of two panels whose members will respond to the report. A panel made up of policymakers at the federal and state levels, as well as representatives from other partner agencies and the private sector, will provide reactions to the report. Following lunch, another panel representing key stakeholders will discuss the importance of the agenda to the sectors they represent. The steering committee is exploring the possibility of a live webcast so that the launch could be "attended" by a national audience. Additionally, a request has been made to the White House for a special presentation of the Summit Report to the President and a brief report on the ways the federal government could continue to assist in increasing support and awareness for adult and family literacy. The Summit Steering Committee The Summit Steering Committee members include Sheila Murphy, Wallace Funds; John Comings, NCSALL; Robbin Sorensen and Marsha Tait, the National Coalition for Literacy; Ron Pugsley and Jim Parker, the Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education; Lennox McLendon, National Association of State Directors of Adult Education, and NIFL staff members including Andy Hartman, Carolyn Staley, Lynn Reddy, Susan Green, Christy Gullion, and Wil Hawk. The NIFL has provided staff and management support for the Summit.
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