Greetings all,

Here is a news update on events and standards-based trainings from the 
Equipped for the Future (EFF) Center.

Aaron

Equipped for the Future First Monday
January February 2006

Happy New Year to all!

Report on the New Destinations to Literacy, Learning and Life: A National 
Conference on Adult Education
December 14-15, 2005, Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ

We are pleased to announce that this conference, coordinated with our 
partners the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission, was a 
great success. Both the number of proposals submitted, in response to the 
Request for Proposals, and the subsequent number of conference participants 
exceeded our original expectations for this event. The 507 participants 
registered for December 14th and the 284 registered for December 15th 
represented twenty-one states and two countries in addition to the United 
States Canada and India. Twenty- one EFF sessions were conducted over the 
course of the 2 days. The EFF plenary session, which provided an 
entertaining view of EFF's past, present and future, received a rave review.

New Jersey is posting the presenters' slides as they receive them. To view 
these materials on their website, www.njsetc.net, go to Current News/Events 
and then to Conference and Events.

Hope to see you there next year.

The EFF Leadership and Capacity Building Initiative

The programs involved in this EFF Leadership and Capacity Building 
Initiative, a project funded by The UPS Foundation, have completed their 
program improvement stories, which will be posted on the Program Leadership 
and Improvement Special Collection website beginning in early February. 
Shortly after the first story is posted, the PLI Discussion List will host 
two of the program team leaders as guest speakers. For more information and 
to read these stories, you can subscribe to the PLI Discussion List and 
receive the announcements and exact dates for the "airing" of the stories.

There are actually two ways that folks can subscribe to the Program 
Leadership and Improvement Discussion List.
1. Go to the PLI Special Collection web site at http://pli.cls.utk.edu and 
click the "Click Here to Join the PLI Discussion List" button in the middle 
of the page.
2.Go directly to the discussion list sign-up page at 
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Programleadership

Update on EFF Discussion List

The EFF Discussion List hosted by the National Institute for Literacy has 
been renamed the Adult Education Content Standards Discussion List.
(http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Contentstandards)

The intent is to broaden the discussion on Content Standards in the adult 
literacy field. We hope the list will provide opportunities for you to post 
questions, issues, concerns, and discoveries that you would like to share 
and get feedback about and will serve as a gateway for locating information 
and resources regarding adult education content standards.

Aaron Kohring, moderator for this list, encourages you to join the list if 
you are not already subscribed (see link above) and to continue to 
contribute your questions, comments, and concerns related to Adult 
Education Content Standards issues including adopting/adapting/developing 
Standards, using EFF Standards or other Standards for instruction and 
assessment, and other related topics.

If you have a particular burning question that you would like raised, feel 
free to post it to the list or contact Aaron directly at akohring at utk.edu.

EFF Professional Development/Training Update
January 11-12 New Jersey Math Training
January 17-19 Oregon, Teaching Adult Intermediate Readers
January 19 20 Oklahoma, Math Training, Session 2 of 3
January 27 Maine, Using Authentic Math Materials, Session 1
January 26 27 Rhode Island, Pawtucket Adult Education Program, Session 1
January 23 February 17Tennessee, Math Online Course
January 30 February 3Oklahoma, Site visits
February 3 Maine, Using Authentic Materials, Session 2
February 7 Rhode Island, Math Training, Session 2
February 8 9 District of Columbia, Site visit
February 17 District of Columbia, Math Training, Session 1
February 23 24 Rhode Island, Pawtucket Adult Education Program, Session 2
February 28 Rhode Island, ESL Training, Session 1



Diane P. Gardner
EFF Center
The University of Tennessee
Center for Literacy Studies
600 Henley Street, Suite 312
Knoxville, TN 37996-4135
865-974-9949
dgardner at utk.edu



Aaron Kohring
Coordinator, LINCS Literacy & Learning Disabilities Special Collection 
(http://ldlink.coe.utk.edu/)
Moderator, National Institute for Literacy's Content Standards Discussion 
List (http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Contentstandards)
Coordinator, Equipped for the Future Websites (http://eff.cls.utk.edu/)

Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee
EFF Center for Training and Technical Assistance
Phone:(865) 974-4109 main
           (865) 974-4258 direct
Fax:   (865) 974-3857
e-mail: akohring at utk.edu