Thanks, everyone. It was a great discussion and I learned alot that will inform our continuing work on community partnerships. Best to all. Kathy

On Friday, June 29, 2007 11:17 PM, David J. Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:

>Community Literacy Discussion Colleagues,

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>You are welcome to post more comments through Monday, if you wish.   

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>I want to thank Margaret Doughty, Kathy Chernus, Darlene Kostrub,  

>Carl Guerierre, and Jeff Carter for sharing their experience with us.  

>I am not sure what happened to Petrice Sams-Abiodun, but I hope that  

>she will be able to join us in a future discussion. This discussion  

>attracted more new subscribers than any previous Special Topics  

>discussion -- over 200 people --  and as you are aware, it was lively  

>and informative.  We have not addressed all the questions in the  

>depth that some of us would have liked, so perhaps this is a topic  

>that we should re-visit soon, but we have certainly covered a lot a  

>ground, have a better handle on what community literacy means, have  

>several concrete examples of community literacy coalitions, and have  

>some tantalizing ideas about how to measure its outcomes and

>impact.

>

>In case you want to re-read parts or all of the community literacy  

>discussion, it is archived at

>http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/specialtopics/2007/date.html

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>The next scheduled Special Topics discussion will begin Monday, July  

>23rd.  Dr. John  Tyler will join us then to discuss his research on  

>GED outcomes.  In August and September we will have discussions on  

>the NCSALL numeracy study with Dr. Mary Jane Schmitt, Dr. Lynda  

>Ginsburg, and Myrna Manley; and Dr. John Comings and I will discuss  

>-- and I hope define -- professional wisdom -- and how our field can  

>identify and make good use of it. I hope you will stay subscribed to  

>join us for those discussions.

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