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We are sending the same information to all State Directors, and welcome your
questions.
Basically, however, we ask that each State put together a team of people who
will be responsible for training others in your State, and we will then have
our contractor contact them to make all travel arrangements. The State
Director needs to sign their application and indicate that the State will
help support the training they do in the future, and will guarantee that at
least 30 additional people for each member of the training team will receive
training in Bridges to Practice over the next year.
For more information about Bridges, please check our website at www.nifl.gov
and then if you have questions, call me! 202-233-2064 or 716-860-1445 cell.
Thanks for your interest.
June Crawford
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From: nifl-ld@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-ld@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Lauren E
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My State Director is requesting more information about this. Do you have
anything else that I could pass on to her?
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Lauren Ellington
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Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Richmond, VA 23284-2020
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[NIFL-LD:4550] Bridges to Practice
Hi Everybody -
A couple of weeks ago, Jeff Fantine asked for an update on Bridges
information. It should be an exciting year for us in 2005! Here's the
scoop for all of you on the discussion list, and I'd be glad to provide
more
information if you have questions.
We are doing five major things in 2005 for Bridges to Practice and the
funding has already been allocated for each of these activities:
1) supporting four training sessions (two weeks each!) at four sites
around
the country and all expenses will be paid by NIFL;
2) collaborating with the Learning Disabilities Association to hold a
full-day symposium on LD, the brain, and reading instruction at their
conference on March 5 (more information soon!);
3) beginning a review of the entire Bridges program this year with an eye
to
improving the national collaboration with the States and with the
expectation that we will be updating the materials after a panel of
experts
reviews them for consistency with the current research knowledge;
4) beginning a new effort with the Department of Labor that will consider
learning disabilities and employment and develop new ways to help youth
and
young adults make the transitions needed for successful employment,
including a review of the latest NIH research on motor skills in adults
with
LD;
5) reviewing the research on reading and learning disabilities to develop
additional training that can help adults learn to read and that can
integrate all the adult reading activities at NIFL into the learning
disabilities area.
I am including the training information here so you will have all the
dates
and can contact your State Adult Education Director if you are interested
in
participating, or if you just wish to encourage your State to send a team.
We are delighted to have teams of trainers from the Bridges to Practice
Master Corps as the lead trainers for the sessions and we are featuring
some
of our Intermediate trainers on the teams so they can get national
exposure
in preparation for their promotion to Master Trainer.
The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) is pleased to offer you an
opportunity to develop a training team to lead the professional
development
of educators in the area of learning disabilities through the Bridges to
Practice Program. This all-expenses-paid training opportunity covers the
cost of each State to send a team of three (3) trainers to national
training
sessions. Please read all the information carefully and let us know by
December 31 if you wish to send a team. Names of team members must be
received by NIFL by the deadline date indicated for each session so we can
make travel and hotel reservations for the team members.
Bridges to Practice is a comprehensive training program that covers
disability law and the characteristics of learning disabilities (LD);
screening and diagnosis of LD, including discussions of validity and
reliability in instruments; choosing curriculum materials for instruction;
using appropriate teaching methods; adapting the information from Bridges
to
other programs that serve adults. The objectives are to increase
awareness
and professional ability to teach adults and to increase the ability of
communities to provide a seamless system of service that promotes the
acquisition of the GED and/or employment in the adult population. This
training promotes the development of policies and procedures about
learning
disabilities for State Adult Education programs that need to meet the
requirements of the Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult
Education. (To see more information, go to <http://www.nifl.gov> and
click
on Bridges.)
There are four training sessions planned. Each team attends one of the
sessions. The team attends for one week, returns home to plan and
carryout
an assignment about learning disabilities in adults, and then returns in
two-to-three months for an additional week of training in the same city.
The same team members must be available to attend both weeks of the
training. NIFL covers all transportation, hotel rooms, and meals, and
provides all books and materials for the training. There is no cost to
the
trainer or the State organization for the training. We ask only that you
and your team agree to give us your time and your cooperation in making
this
information available to at least 90 additional people in your State, and
we
hope you find the information so valuable that you continue to train
others
after the agreement is fulfilled. We also offer opportunities for
trainers
to join the national training team and receive updated training each year.
As a follow-up, we ask that you agree to 1) support the trainers as they
train an additional 30 persons each/90 persons as a team; 2) sign an
agreement with NIFL that the team will follow the Bridges to Practice
training materials; and 3) work with a State Coordinator for Bridges to
Practice to gather information about those who receive the training and
send
it to NIFL for our records.
Session Number Dates of Training Location Team
Deadline
Session 1A January 24-28, 2005 Phoenix,
Arizona
January 5
Session 1B April 4-8, 2005 Phoenix,
Arizona
Session 2A February 21-25, 2005 Kansas
City, MO
January 21
Session 2B May 16-20, 2005 Kansas
City, MO
Session 3A March 14-18, 2005 New
Orleans, LA
February 18
Session 3B June 13-17, 2005 New
Orleans, LA
Session 4A July 18-22, 2005 Mansfield, NH
June
24
Session 4B September 19-25, 2005 Mansfield,
NH
There is a limit of 30 persons for each session and slots will be filled
on
a first-come, first-served basis. Northerners who want to get out of the
cold will want to get on the list for Phoenix, and Southerners will want
to
opt for New Hampshire in the summer, so move quickly to make your choice!
To indicate your intent to send a team, send an e-mail NOW to June
Crawford,
National Bridges to Practice Program Director, jcrawford@nifl.gov
<mailto:jcrawford@nifl.gov> and indicate the following:
1. State Name
2. Your Name and Contact Information (phone
and e-mail)
3. Name of Person who will sign the agreement to support the follow-up
training
4. Number of team members (no fewer than
three; no more than 5)
5. First Choice of Session and City
6. Second Choice of Session and City
The 2005 training can be used to start a new program if your State does
not
currently use Bridges to Practice; to replace members on your current
training team who may be moving on to other professional challenges; to
add
more trainers to allow for a wider dissemination of the materials; or to
add
personnel from other service programs who can contribute to the systemic
approach to serving adults with learning disabilities by adding access to
the workforce development system, vocational rehabilitation services,
TANF,
local literacy programs, or your State Learning Disabilities Association
or
International Dyslexia Association office. The choice is yours, but you
must act quickly to take advantage of this offer!
We look forward to another exciting year of Bridges to Practice training
and
we welcome the opportunity to work with you in your professional
development
activities.
Thanks for your interest!
June Crawford
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