Hi everybody.
The following is posted on behalf of David Rosen. It may be of special interest to any of you who provide leadership, and seek quality improvement, in provision of professional development opportunities for literacy/ABE/ESOL practitioners in your programs. Enjoy! 
 
Peggy McGuire, M.A., 
Senior Research Associate, National Consultant, and
NIFL-Program Leadership and Improvement List Moderator
Center for Literacy Studies
The University of Tennessee
111 5th Street, PO Box 16
Mount Gretna, PA  17064
717-964-1341 (landline/fax)
215-888-6507 (cell)
mmcguire at utk.edu
 
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Colleagues,

The Adult Literacy Education Wiki (now with over 750 pages and nearly 
700 registered users) is becoming a very useful resource for teachers 
and other practitioners in adult literacy education.  It includes 30 
topics linking research, professional wisdom, and practice.  It 
offers easy-to-read archived discussions that were held on this and 
other discussion lists, links to research and other resources, 
questions (and sometimes answers) from teachers and other 
practitioners and researchers, a comprehensive adult literacy 
glossary, and more.  It's free, and it's designed for you.  Best of 
all, it's not only a set of informative web pages.  It's a community 
of practice.  You -- and your colleagues -- can easily add to and 
improve it. It's a wiki!

To check out the ALE wiki, go to:

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page

You will see that some ALE topics need to be nurtured, and to grow. 
They need a Topic Leader.  Perhaps you would be the right person to 
be a Topic Leader. To see a list of topics and leaders, go to

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Topic_Leaders

If you are interested in being a (volunteer) Topic Leader for an 
existing topic, or if you would like to help develop a new topic, e-
mail me and tell me about yourself and your interest.

David J. Rosen
ALE Wiki Organizer and Wikiteer
djrosen at comcast.net
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