Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h9I3eGV29396; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:40:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:40:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000201c39529$5758eff0$635ef7a5@air.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1259] Re: Education Group Calls for Revised Law X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2234 Lines: 59 Thanks, Andrea. I appreciate your feedback! Allow me to ask for your help and that of all subscribers to this list: I think this list has potential for us to discuss changes to our literacy programs that would make them more culturally responsive to all learners, but I continue to struggle with how to get a really good discussion going on the list. I would love some help from subscribers! So let me pose some questions and invite subscribers either to comment on these or to pose your own questions. Here are some of mine: What are the issues related to poverty (or of classism) and racism and their connection to literacy that sparked your interest in subscribing to this list? What do you struggle with in your classrooms/programs related to issues of poverty and racism? How do you see institutional racism playing out in our literacy programs--or do you? What do you think of the usual textbooks that are used in literacy classes? What alternatives can you suggest or are you using successfully? How can we incorporate culturally responsive instructional strategies into our teaching to reach all learners? What have you tried and would recommend to others? There are other questions like the above that we could be discussing, but we don't quite get there--perhaps because, as list moderator, I'm not sure how to ask questions that will spark discussion. These are tough topics, and we aren't often provided with a forum for discussing issues of poverty and racism, so many of us may be uncomfortable speaking about these issues. But these issues represent (at least in my opinion) perhaps the most important challenges we face in our literacy work, so we must discuss them. Please jump in and help get the discussion moving! Many thanks! -Mary Ann ---- Original Message ----- From: <AWilder106@aol.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1258] Re: Education Group Calls for Revised Law > Dear Mary Ann, > > Thanks for your articles and news updates, I find them really useful in keeping alert to what is going on, what others are thinking, educational trends and critiques of public policy. > > Andrea
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