Colleagues,

The following post is from Tom Sticht - some of you may be interested in
attending one of Tom's speaking engagements.

Marie Cora
Assessment Discussion List Moderator
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Update on speaking engagements for 2006-2007.

Tom Sticht
International Consultant in Adult Education

For those who have contacted me to find out if, when, and where I might
be speaking in their region the following shows dates, locations, and
contacts where I will be giving invited presentations at special
meetings
or conferences during the remainder of 2006 and first half of 2007.

1. November 9, 2006. Atlanta, Georgia. Contact: Daphne Greenberg,
(dgreenberg at gsu.edu).

Topic: Celebrating 40 Years of the Adult Education & Literacy System
(AELS)
of the United States: A Vision of the Future Through a Prism of the Past
This presentation looks at the past and reviews the lives of pioneer
adult
literacy educators whose work influenced the policies and practices of
the
AELS. It considers the current state of the AELS and presents evidence
for
multiplier effects that adult literacy educators can achieve using
Functional Context Education working in collaboration with other
agencies
and organizations. It them presents a vision of a future in which
national
education policy is changed from a focus on one life span  or life cycle
to
a Multiple Life Cycles education policy that explicitly recognizes and
fosters one multiplier effect of adult literacy education, the
intergenerational transfer of literacy from parents to children.

2. November 17, 2006. Merrillville, Indiana. Contact: Mary Corder
(mcorder@
thediscoveryalliance.com)

Topic: Literacy Frees the World.
This presentation focuses on the present United Nations Literacy Decade
with
 its theme of Literacy as Freedom. Within the past contexts of President
Franklin  D. Roosevelt's 1941 World War II message of the Four Freedoms,
contemporary  issues of the functionality of literacy, globalization,
sustained development, multiple literacies, and the intergenerational
transmission of literacy are explored for their implications in future
adult literacy education policy, practice, and research.

3. March 4, 2007. Orlando, Florida. National Family Literacy Conference.
Contact: Shannon Baete (sbaete at famlit.org)

Topic: The "Hard Data" for Increasing Investments in Adult Literacy
Education:
Moving From a one life cycle to a Multiple Life Cycles education policy.
In this presentation I review with numerous graphics eight lines of
research
that establish the value of adult literacy education in preschool
programs
and adult literacy programs for improving the literacy of children
across
life cycles and providing multiple returns to investments in adult
literacy
education.

4. March 8 2007 Springfield, Illinois. IACEA annual conference. Contact:
Laura Bercovitz (lbercovitz at thecenterweb.org)

Topic: The Shoulders on Which we Stand.
This keynote is a survey of over two hundred years of the professional
wisdom and accomplishments of outstanding teachers of adult literacy and
the remarkable changes they have wrought in our nation. This is a
motivational presentation for volunteers, teachers, students, and others
who are dedicated to adult literacy education. I will present two
additional breakout sessions following the keynote address.

5. . June 11 2007 Fayetteville, Arkansas - Keynote for the South Central
Literacy Action Conference. Contact: Kerri Miles Email:
kerri-woklearn at sbcglobal.net.
Topic: To be announced. I will present a keynote and a breakout session.

I always enjoy meeting folks from various discussion lists at these
presentations and have a chance to put faces with names. I look forward
to
seeing many of you at one or more of these sessions.

Tom Sticht


Thomas G. Sticht
International Consultant in Adult Education
2062 Valley View Blvd.
El Cajon, CA 92019-2059
Tel/fax: (619) 444-9133
Email: tsticht at aznet.net