Donna,
As facilitator of the Diversity and Literacy Discussion List, I thank you for posting this announcement. You are absolutely right, and we would be very grateful if people on this list, joined the discussion and brought up topics dealing specifically with women, work, and literacy. As a reminder (and you can scroll down for more details and on how to subscribe to the Diversity and Literacy List), from December 1-12,  on the Diversity and Literacy Discussion List we will have a guest speaker facilitate a discussion on creating networks to support women's
literacy. Networks at the workplace are essential for many people's success at work!
Please feel free to email me (dgreenberg at gsu.edu) if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Daphne Greenberg
Facilitator of Diversity and Literacy List



>>> "Brian, Dr Donna J G" <djgbrian at utk.edu> 11/08/08 7:32 PM >>>


Please see the message below from Daphne Greenberg, facilitator of the
Diversity and Literacy Discussion List.  I can't tell from this
announcement whether the plan for the discussion includes issues brought
up specifically dealing with women and work, but I'm sure such concerns
expressed could lead to that topic being included in the discussion.

Donna

Donna Brian
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I am very excited to announce that from Monday Dec. 1-  Friday December
12, Dr. Mev Miller will be facilitating the following guest discussion
on the Diversity and Literacy list: Creating networks to support women's
literacy.

Mev Miller, Ed.D is an educator and consultant on issues of women and
literacy. She is the founder and Director of WE LEARN (Women Expanding -
Literacy, Education, Action, Resource, Network)
http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html
WE LEARN also sponsors: Women Leading Through Reading
http://www.litwomen.org/wltr.html and Women's Perspectives
http://www.litwomen.org/perspectives.html

The focus of this discussion will be on further developing a women and
literacy hub/clearinghouse for the nation. The specific focus of this
discussion will be on  how can local and regional efforts gain
visibility and support  through such a network/clearinghouse?

In preparation for this discussion, please start thinking about the
following:

1) What are individuals and programs doing locally to address women's
literacy issues? For this discussion, locally means in your  classroom,
program, neighborhood, community, city, state. What you are doing might
be a curriculum, a specific type of program, or any kind of
organizing....and  more.

2) What do you need to support the work you are doing?

3) Would you find regional (state or area of country) events or
conferences useful? Be specific - how and what would you need or desire?
How might a national organization facilitate regional  supports?

4) How can a national clearinghouse of information specifically  focused
on women's literacy issues, curriculum, and research  support your work?
What do you need it to do?

Please join us for this discussion (from 12/1-12/12). To subscribe to
the Diversity and Literacy List, go to:
http://nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/discussions.html
in the middle, if you scroll down you will see:
Diversity and Literacy
click on that and fill in the information to subscribe.
This is the critical part:
you will get an email requesting confirmation of their
subscription. You MUST respond or else, you will not be subscribed.
At the end of the discussion you can unsubscribe, by going to the
same page as mentioned above ( http://nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/
discussions.html ) and if you scroll down you will see Unsubscribe and
you should complete the information that is requested.

Thanks, and Mev and I look forward to a great discussion on creating
networks to support women's literacy.

Daphne Greenberg
Facilitator of Diversity and Literacy List

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