July, 2002
A
Must-Have Document
The New Americans Mini Series - PBS 2003
National
Workforce Policy Newsletter
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 23, 2002
NRS Resources
During the last month, Pelavin (AIR) conducted a number of DAEL-sponsored NRS
training sessions around the country, and I think you will agree that they were
well done. As a follow up to those training sessions, the Consortium has
offered to collect examples of state resources for our colleagues. They will be
housed on an NRS Resource page on our web site at
www.naepdc.org/resources/nrs.
Please send any of the following URLs or electronic documents you might like to
share:
·
Student Goal
Setting Policy Statements
·
Student Goal
Setting Procedures
·
Student Goal
Setting Training
·
Assessment
Policy Statements
·
Assessment
Procedures
·
Assessment Training
·
Other NRS
Training Components
·
Other NRS
Resources
We
will add resources to the web site as they come in.
Keep up the good work. Let me know when we can help.
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 24, 2002
BUILDING STATE SUPPORT
FOR ADULT ED IN YOUR STATE
With state budget pressures, adult education programs have to fight for their
funds, if not their lives. The Professional Development Committee, Linda Warner
(IN) Chair, is building a session for our National Training Institute (November
6-9, San Francisco) around strategies states have used to build support from
state decisions makers including:
·
State Legislators in general
·
State Legislator Education and Finance Committee Chairs and Members
·
Inside your own agency
·
Other Agency Heads
·
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
·
Business and Labor
Have you developed successful materials or strategies for any or
all of these key audiences?
If so, please send electronic copies, URLs, or brief descriptions of materials
and strategies to me with the SUBJECT “STATE SUPPORT,” and I will compile them
for the Professional Development Committee.
We may all need new strategies if the state budget crunch
continues. Thank you for sharing your work.
Keep up the good work. Let me know when we can help.
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 25, 2002
TESTIMONY: REAUTHORIZING WIA
To: State Directors of Adult Education
From: Garrett Murphy
Subject: Consortium/Council Testimony to the U.S. Department of Education on WIA
Re-authorization as requested in the May 28 Federal Register
In the May 28 Federal Register, the U. S. Department of Education
issued a request for testimony regarding the reauthorization of WIA. The State
Directors’ Consortium and Council are submitting testimony. That testimony will
be in three parts.
1. A
set of bottom line principles similar to the set we provided for the
authorization of WIA.
2. A
report on the results of the WIA cross-title survey that 50 of you responded to.
3.
Replies to the several questions posed by the U.S. Department of Education in
the May 28 Federal Register announcement of the June public hearings.
The first two documents are attached to this message. I should have #3 done by
close of business today.
I
encourage you to submit written testimony also. The deadline for submission of
comments is July 30. Feel free to use the information in the attached
documents, but speak to any issues that you feel need to be addressed in
reauthorization also.
Please let me know of any concerns that you may have by e-mail (Murphy@naepdc.org)
as soon as possible.
Keep up the good work. Let me know when we can help.
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 11, 2002
Reading Research—Thank You NIFL
As you are well aware, a part of our challenge under WIA is to
consider “whether or not the program uses instructional practices . . . that
research has proven to be effective in teaching individuals to read.” As you
are also well aware, research on adult reading is rare.
The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), with Partnership for
Reading funds, will be publishing a compilation of the existing research in a
booklet entitled Adult Education Reading Instruction. The web version can be
found now at
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/adult_reading/adult_reading.html
“The Adult Reading Instruction area on this Website presents evidenced-based
practices for teaching reading to adults in
adult basic education and family literacy programs. These practices are
divided into the
categories of reading assessment profiles, alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary,
comprehension, and computer technology. First-time users are encouraged to
browse the
Using the Adult Collection link. In addition to presenting suggestions for
teaching reading to adults that derive from research with adult readers,
suggestions are also presented from research with readers at the elementary and
secondary level in order to augment and support the adult research.”
The Partnership for Reading from Reading First (a part of No Child Left Behind)
instructs NIFL to disseminate information on children, youth and adults. Thus,
even though it is primarily a children’s bill, it does have this important adult
component.
Keep up the good work. Let me know when we can help.
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 23, 2002
NRS Resources
During the last month, Pelavin (AIR) conducted a
number of DAEL-sponsored NRS training sessions around the country, and I think
you will agree that they were well done. As a follow up to those training
sessions, the Consortium has offered to collect examples of state resources for
our colleagues. They will be housed on an NRS Resource page on our web site at
www.naepdc.org/resources/nrs.
Please send any of the following URLs or
electronic documents you might like
to share:
·
Student Goal Setting Policy
Statements
·
Student Goal Setting Procedures
·
Student Goal Setting Training
·
Assessment Policy Statements
·
Assessment Procedures
·
Assessment Training
·
Other NRS Training Components
·
Other NRS Resources
We will add resources to the web site as they
come in.
Keep up the good work. Let me know when we can
help.
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 9, 2002
A
Must-Have Document
If
you print out no other document this year, print out this one.
Attached
on legal paper is a Core Indicator Crosswalk for 13 Federal Job Training,
Vocational, and Employment Programs for 12 performance indicators, courtesy of
Jon Weintrab, recently retired Policy Analyst for OVAE.
(To request that a copy of the Core Indicator be sent to you via email, please
contact brjames@naepdc.org.)
Many
of the performance indicator definitions include “numerator” and
“denominator” definitions as well.
In
our discussions in February regarding “Coordinated Funding Streams” we
emphasized the importance of understanding our partner’s language.
This Crosswalk will help you in that regard.
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 9, 2002
The
New Americans Mini Series—PBS 2003
The
Independent Television Service (ITVS), is developing a mini series for PBS for
2003 that traces five families (Nigeria, India, the Dominican Republic, the West
Bank, Mexico and Vietnam) as they make the trek from their homelands to America.
The series is intended to foster awareness and appreciation of the
immigration and transition of these families including examples of their early
education experiences in community colleges and vocational institutions.
In
the attached email and announcement you will see that ITVS is looking for
outreach suggestions for the series.
“I'd
also welcome feedback from some key individuals about how local public
television stations might collaborate with adult educators in their communities
and states. Is there an interest in
holding immigrant fairs for instance, that would help introduce newcomers to
various community and state resources? Because we plan to offer small grants to
local public television stations to conduct outreach activities, we're looking
for recommendations for model programs and collaborative activities.”
The
series with its support and outreach materials provides an opportunity to plan
community discussion groups and other community involvement activities to
promote understanding among the various members of a community.
Please
pass this information on to your ESL programs and your public television
stations.
Keep
up the good work. Let me know when
we can help.
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
July 9, 2002
National
Workforce Policy Newsletter
Attached
is information on a free national workforce policy newsletter from the Annie E.
Casey Foundation. This monthly newsletter provides updates on policy action
surrounding workforce access, retention, and advancement.
Your
state and local workplace education practitioners might find the newsletter and
the related resources helpful in planning workplace education services.
The
URL for the “Job Initiative” is http://www.aecf.org/jobsinitiative/
and click on the “Workforce
Policy Newsletters.”
