Calendar of Events

Winter/Spring 2008

Date/ Facilitator	Time/Location	Description
February 29   Janet Isserlis Nancy Fritz	9:30 am – 4:00 pm Location TBD	New Practitioner Orientation. Workshop for all staff new to adult education or new to RI working more than 15 hours/week.
March 22 Janet Isserlis	9:30 am - 4 pm, Location TBD	New Practitioner Orientation. One day session for all staff new to adult education or new to RI working fewer than 15 hours/week
March 10th & 11th and April 24th and 25th Two 2-day sessions (24 hours) (Final day for all 3 Roll-out series will be June 5th)	9:00 am – 4:00pm Location TBD	Standards Roll-out, phase II - Read with Understanding This reading workshop series will explore how the “Read With Understanding” Standard and Benchmarks can guide the teaching and learning of adult learners.  The workshop will emphasize reading as a process which requires the flexible use of alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and strategy knowledge.  In each session, participants will experience how research-based instructional practices for teaching reading can be incorporated into a student-centered and contextualized approach to adult teaching and learning.
March 13th & 14th and May 15th & 16th Two 2-day sessions (24 hours) (Final day for all 3 Roll-out series will be June 5th) Donna Curry	9:00 am – 4:00pm Location TBD	Standards Roll-out, phase II - Using Math session – This numeracy training will use the RI “Using Math” Standard and Benchmarks to explore a new way to teach and learn math.  The focus will be on developing strong number sense, and then connecting number sense to geometry (and a bit of algebra and data).  In each session, participants will have opportunities to expand their own content knowledge as well as learn techniques for teaching with the RI Math Standard.  Participants will have opportunities to try out hands-on activities and will develop their own activities using authentic materials.
March 17 and April 22 Two 1-day sessions (12 hours) (Final day for all 3 Roll-out series will be June 5th)   Andy Nash	9:00 am – 4:00pm Location TBD	Standards Roll-out, phase II - Listening/Speaking session – This ESL workshop series will use the RI “Speak So Others Can Understand” and “Listen Actively” Standards and Benchmarks to explore ways to enhance the teaching of ESL.  Our focus will be on learning about the Standards, which reflect a purposeful, student-centered, and contextual approach to teaching and learning, and 2) evaluating how our current teaching practices can be enriched by using the Standards and Benchmarks to guide instruction. Participants will learn techniques and try out hands-on activities for addressing Benchmarks that may be less familiar to them. They will work with sample lessons and develop activities for testing the Standards in their own classrooms.
June 5 (6 hours)	9:00 am – 4:00pm Location TBD	Standards Roll-out, phase II- Culminating session All practitioners and their directors, who have participated in the three Standards roll-out series, will reconvene for a final consideration of their work with Standards, and contemplation of next steps.
May 6	3:00 - 5:00 pm, Alumni Lounge (RIC campus)	Council for Professional Development quarterly meeting
May 20		The US Citizenship and Immigration Services Office of Citizenship (USCIS) will be conducting a free regional training in preparation for the new Citizenship Test. Location will be at the International Institute of Rhode Island. http://www.brown.edu/lrri/conference08.html
May 23	Radisson, Warwick	Annual State Adult Ed Conference
Every month ESOL share	See http://www.brown.edu/lrri/bulletin.html

To register for any Center event, please contact Jessica Ortiz at jortiz@ric.edu,
456-2838.

To review other adult education PD opportunities not provided through the Center, please go to the LR/RI web stie: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/ Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/bulletin.html#conferences

To review the National Institute for Literacy calendar of events, please click here: www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/Calendar/calendar_world.cgi