Good evening David:

So many people in the adult education field owe you, David, thanks for your multiple kinds of mentoring so many of us and for so many expressions of leadership in nudging the profession forward.  We met years ago in working for more funding for adult education, again in advocating for MassInc to recognize the importance of literacy in workforce education and in your Adult Literacy Resource Institute's mini-grants program. Each time and place we met, your kindness in introducing advocacy positions and making suggestions demonstrated your thoughtful concern for the field.  You always were receptive to the ideas and feelings of others. And always enthusaistic about the profession.  

Thanks for the opportunity to be on the panel of one of your SpecialTopics discussions. This SpecialTopics discussion too has been a wonderful leadership and mentoring device for many of us.  Best wishes in all your endeavors, Peg 


 
Margaret Van Duyne
One WITH One, Inc.
www.onewithone.org


 

-----Original Message-----
From: David J. Rosen <djrosen at theworld.com>
To: specialtopics at nifl.gov
Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 12:21 pm
Subject: [SpecialTopics 1446]  Close of the Special Topics Discussion List
















Colleagues,

As you may know from reading the 
announcement posted last Friday, and copied below, the Special Topics and the 
Family Literacy discussion lists are coming to a close at the end of this month. 
The National Institute for Literacy is redesigning some of0the current 
lists, and adding new lists, aligned to its Resource Collections. This 
discussion list (originally designed by former NIFL staff to cover a range of 
topics not covered by its other discussion lists) does not align to a resource 
collection, so it is being eliminated.

I want to thank the many guest 
experts and active participants who have contributed to the eighteen lively and 
informative discussions held here since 2006. I understand that the 
discussions will continue to be archived, at 
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/list_archives.html at least through next year, when the Institute itself will 
close.Some of the
discussions are also archived on the Adult Literacy 
Education Wiki http://wiki.literacytent.org . 
Here's a list of the Special Topics discussions for those who might care to 
visit/re-visit them:

2006
Adult Reading Components 
Study
Persistence Study
Formative Assessment
Corrections Education, 
Family Literacy and Transition to Community Education

2007
What 
Works Study for Adult ESOL/ESL Students?
Adult and Family Community 
Literacy
GED Outcomes and Earnings Study


Subscribers' Ideas for Special Topics
What 
International Literacy Programs Offer Programs in the U.S.
The Components of 
Numeracy Study

2008
Formative Assessment in Adult Literacy 
Education Study

>From Corrections Education to Community 

Education
Implementing State Adult Education Content Standards
New Designs 
in Online and Distance Learning

2009
Green Jobs and Basic 
Skills
World Literacy and Nonformal Education
Coun
seling and 
Advising
Adult Literacy Leadership

I also want to thank the current 
and past staff at the National Institute for Literacy for inviting me to host 
this discussion list and for their support for this and all the discussion 
lists. I especially want to thank past NIFL staff member Jaleh Behroozi Soroui, 
who created the discussion lists  (I think in 1995) as part of the NIFL 
Literacy Information and Communications System (LINCS), Jo Maralit, who provided 
able leadership to the discussion lists for several years after Jaleh, B. Denise 
Hawkins, who continued after Jo, and Connie Harich, who has for many years 
provided the discussion lists and the moderators with superb technical 
support.

Although you are subscribed to this list now, you will not need 
to unsubscribe, as everyone will be unsubscribed after September 30th.

It 
has been a pleasure to moderate the Special Topics discussion list. I have 
learned a great deal from guest panelists and from participants.  I hope 
that you have found the discussions worthwhile.

David J. Rosen
Special 
Topics Discussion Moderator (through September 30th when I virtually turn off 
the lights and close the door)
djrosen at theworld.com

----- 
Original Message ----- 
From: "Lopez, Noreen" <Noreen.Lopez at ed.gov>
To: 
<assessment at nifl.gov>; 
<englishlanguage at nifl.gov>;
<familyliteracy at nifl.gov>; <healthliteracy at nifl.gov>;
<learningdisabilities at nifl.gov>; 
<professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov>;
<diversity at nifl.gov>; 
<specialtopics at nifl.gov>; 
<technology at nifl.gov>;
<workplace at nifl.gov>
Se
nt: 
Friday, September 25, 2009 4:04 PM
Subject: [SpecialTopics 1395] Changes in 
the Discussion Lists



> Dear Discussion List Subscribers:

> 

As the Institute enters a new fiscal year October 1 and a new phase in 
its

> operation, it has decided to reorganize some of the work of LINCS, 

most

> noticeably, the Discussion Lists. The Institute decided to more 

closely

> align the Discussion Lists with the Resource Collections, needs 

of the

> field and priorities of the administration. The intent is to 

structure the

> Discussion Lists as communities of practice that can 

support teachers,

> administrators, and staff developers in critical 

literacy areas by sharing

> best practice and the best available 

research.

> To that end, the Institute has added three new Discussion 

Lists and

> expanded the titles and offerings of others. Starting in 

October, the

> following 11 Discussion Lists will launch and be affiliated 

with these

> Resource Collections:

> Program Management Resource 

Collection

>

> ·         

Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List

>

> 

·         Assessment Discussion 
List

>

> ·         Learning 

Disabilities Discussion List

>

> 

·         Transitions to Post Secondary 
Education Discussion List (NEW)!

> Workforce Competitiveness Resource 

Collection

>

> ·         

Adult English Language Acquisition Discu
ssion List

>

> 

·         Technology & Distance 
Learning Discussion List

>

> 

·         Workforce Competitiveness 
Discussion List

> Basic Skills Resource Collection

>

> 

·         Reading & Writing Skills 
Discussion List (NEW)!

>

> 

·         Math & Numeracy Discussion 
List (NEW)!

>

> ·         

Health Literacy Discussion List

>

> 

·         Diversity & Literacy 
Discussion List

> Other changes to the Discussion Lists include 

discontinuing Special Topics

> and Family Literacy as of September 30, 

2009. While they will no longer

> operate as separate Lists, special 

topics and family literacy will be

> among the issues addressed online by 

all of the Institute’s moderators.

> The Institute would like to thank 

David Rosen, Special Topics Discussion

> List moderator; and Gail Price, 

Family Literacy Discussion List Moderator,

> for their contributions and 

for sharing their expertise with the field.

> They have both worked hard 

to bring relevant issues to the forefront.

> Noreen S. Lopez

> 

Senior Program Officer

> National Institute for Literacy

> 

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