Please see the announcement below from Mary Ann Corley regarding an 
upcoming adult education practitioner-researcher symposium.

Aaron

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SAVE the DATES: November 30-December 2, 2006!

ANNOUNCING: A MEETING OF THE MINDS II SYMPOSIUM!
The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 
the California Department of Education (CDE) Adult Education Office, and 
the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO) of 
the American Institutes for Research are pleased to announce a Meeting of 
the Minds II: A National Adult Education Practitioner-Researcher Symposium.

Scheduled for November 30-December 2, 2006, at the Sheraton Grand hotel in 
Sacramento, California, the symposium is designed to provide opportunities 
for adult education practitioners and researchers to share and discuss the 
most current research findings and practitioner wisdom. It will engage 
practitioners and researchers with questions related to goals, 
accountability, and efficacy and efficiency in policy, practice, and 
research. The ultimate goals of the symposium are to highlight systemic 
changes that can enhance literacy practice and increase student learning 
gains. The theme of this year's symposium is Systemic Change and Student 
Success: What Does Research Tell Us?

As in the first Meeting of the Minds Symposium that was held in 2004, each 
session of the 2006 Symposium will be structured so that the research 
presentation is followed by a panel of practitioners who will discuss 
implications for practice or policy. In addition, conference attendees will 
have opportunities for small group interaction and networking with 
researcher-presenters to discuss not only how research can inform practice 
and policy, but also how practice and policy can inform and suggest a 
research agenda.

More information about the Meeting of the Minds II symposium will be 
available soon on the symposium Web site, www.researchtopractice.org. (This 
Web site currently lists presenters' PowerPoints and abstracts of sessions 
held at the 2004 Meeting of the Minds symposium as well as thoughts 
generated by attendees regarding implications of the research findings.) We 
are in the process of updating this Web site to house information about 
online registration for the 2006 symposium as well as information about 
hotel registration. We will send out another notice after the Web site has 
been updated. In the meantime, please save the dates and plan to join us in 
November in Sacramento!

Thank you.
-Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D.
Symposium Coordinator and
CALPRO Director, American Institutes for Research



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