Gentle Readers,
It must be a slow week for Workplace educators.  I have only two
resources to share with you this week.

I hope you did read the information from one of our newest subscribers,
Chris Tombari. Chris mentioned a conference I also attended last week in
NYC at LaGuardia Community College, "Bridges to Opportunity: Workforce
Development for English Language Learners".  We have over 20 or the
people who attended that conference now on our discussion list, and I
think some of the reports of the sessions there may be posted to the
list by the conference organizers as they would be of interest to many
of the rest of you as well.  In the meantime, I want to encourage any of
the conference attendees to share their insights from that conference
with the list.  English Language Learners are a growing percentage of
Workplace Learners, and we need to pay attention to this trend and what
it means for the field.

I hope you are having an enjoyable fall.  It's one of the most colorful
falls I can remember in Knoxville!
Donna

Donna Brian, Moderator
Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee
djgbrian at utk.edu




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Webcast announcement from NDCCTE   http://www.nccte.org
'Implementing Career Pathways' Will Be Webcast Focus
http://www.nccte.org/webcasts/description.aspx?cl=1&wc=218

The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education
will present the webcast "Career Pathways: Critical Components of
Implementation" on Monday, November 13, 2006, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (EST).
This interactive event and previous webcasts can be viewed on any
computer with Internet access at http://www.nccte.org.

How do you implement career pathways at the state and local levels? This
webcast will provide insights on how state agencies, community colleges,
and K-12 school systems can implement career pathways. In particular,
the presenters will share information and resources for using effective
partnerships and advisory councils to ensure success in establishing
career pathways.

The presenters for this webcast include moderator Kimberly Green,
National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education
Consortium (NASDCTEc), and the following panel members: Ron Kindell,
Sinclair Community College; Carole Stacy, The National Consortium on
Health Science and Technology Education (NCHSTE); and Nancy Headrick,
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. 

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>From Jobs for the Future Newswire http://www.jff.org/

	ACHIEVING SUCCESS: The State Policy Newsletter of Achieving the
Dream: Community Colleges Count
Jobs for the Future invites you to subscribe, at no charge, to ACHIEVING
SUCCESS, a new electronic newsletter from Achieving the Dream: Community
Colleges Count. This quarterly newsletter, published by JFF for
Achieving the Dream, is designed to help community colleges, their
partners, state-level stakeholders, and other interested individuals
stay abreast of and learn from the initiative. Each issue contains
updates from the Achieving the Dream states, resources on student
success in community colleges, and a focus on a single policy topic.
Achieving the Dream is particularly concerned about student groups that
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	SUBSCRIBE TO ACHIEVING SUCCESS. If you would like to receive
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