Workplace List Subscribers,

Those of you who are working today to submit a proposal tomorrow for the 
Workplace Peer Conference can relax!  Because of impacts of Katrina 
throughout the South, the Orlando Conference has been cancelled...with hope 
that it can be revived in November 2007.

I don't have any official announcement of the cancellation at this time, 
but when an official announcement comes out, I will forward it to the list.

We do have an opportunity to get together later in the year, though.  It 
looks as though there will be a pre-COABE workplace conference on April 26, 
2006, though I don't have final information about that either.  The 
following information about the 2006 COABE Conference (scheduled for April 
27-29, 2006) came out earlier, and I repeat it here, since there may be 
even more interest in it because of the cancellation of the peer 
conference.  Again, I'll pass on to you any additional information I receive.

Donna

Repeated from July 13, 2005 post to the Workplace list:

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Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE] COABE 2006 website and Call for Presentations now 
available To: nifl-workplace at literacy.nifl.gov
COABE and the Texas Association for Literacy and Adult Education
(TALAE) invite you to submit a proposal for presentation at the
2006 COABE National Conference
to be held in Houston April 26-29, 2006.
The COABE 06 Conference website is now available:
http://www.coabe06.org
Many aspects of the website are still under construction, but the
Call for Presentations page is complete and the CFP can be downloaded.
Proposals are due no later than Friday, November 18, 2005.
The conference committee is interested in outstanding and innovative
practices in all aspects of adult education including:
* basic literacy
* workforce development
* family literacy
* English as a Second Language
* volunteer/community-based literacy
* correctional education
Proposals in other areas of adult education will be considered as well.
The program committee is looking for presentations based on successful
implementation, current research, and sound practice. In addition to
general adult education interest areas, this year's conference will have
five special tracks. Those tracks are:
* Improving Teaching and Learning Outcomes
* Integrating Technology and Instruction
* Linking Research to Practice
* Promoting Adult Educators as Leaders
* Advancing Change Through Education

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Harriet Vardiman Smith
Clearinghouse Director
Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning
State Partner in the National LINCS System
Texas A&M University
800-441-READ
website: www-tcall.tamu.edu
main office email: tcall at coe.tamu.edu


Donna JG Brian
Moderator, NIFL Workplace Literacy Discussion List, and
Coordinator/Developer LINCS Workforce Education Special Collection at 
http://worklink.coe.utk.edu/
Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee
600 Henley Street, Suite 312
Knoxville, TN 37996-4135

865-974-3420 (desk phone) FAX 865-974-3857
djgbrian at utk.edu