Hi Everyone,

I'm passing on this announcement from Gail Price about a discussion on the Family Literacy list next week. Please read on if you are interested!

Julie

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Don Seaman, Ph.D., will join the Family Literacy Discussion List as guest moderator next Tuesday and Wednesday, February 27 and 28. His topic will be evaluation—expected outcomes and intended audiences.

Dr. Seaman is a Professor Emeritus and former Research Scientist, College of Education, Texas A&M University. He and his wife, Anna, provide technical assistance and evaluation services to a number of Even Start family literacy programs in Texas.

His own professional research focuses on (1) the impact, both short-range and long-range, of family literacy programs upon the lives of families who participate in them, and (2) the return on investment from Even Start family literacy in Texas. He has collaborated with Texas LEARNS in two recent research studies that documented the positive impact of the Even Start family literacy program on participating parents and children in Texas.

 
Other of Dr. Seaman’s accomplishments include 

·        Served as a consultant/evaluator for projects involving family literacy, adult education, workforce literacy programs, and for the Barbara Bush-Texas initiative. 

·        Consulted with adult and family literacy projects in Australia, Canada, The Peoples’ Republic of China, Ecuador, England, Germany, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Scotland, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe.

·        Founded the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) at Texas A&M. TCALL is a self-supporting center for adult and family literacy that houses various externally-funded projects.

·        Elected the first sole president of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education in 1984. 

·        Completed a five-month professional internship at the National Center for Family Literacy during which he evaluated, through on-site research, the Kenan Model for Family Literacy in 1991. That model is utilized in many family literacy programs throughout the U.S. 

·        Taught, with his wife, what is believed to have been one of the first graduate courses in family literacy in the U.S. in spring 1992. 

·        Inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in 1998.

 

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Gail J. Price
Multimedia Specialist
National Center for Family Literacy
325 W. Main Street, Suite 300
Louisville, KY 40202
gprice at famlit.org
502 584-1133, ext. 112

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Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org