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Harnessing your Community's Volunteer Base to Support Children's Literacy Skills with Debbie Schiller and Fiona Clare. Join the discussion about one-to-one literacy. Click here to enter the Dec. 02 event in Elluminate.
Plain Language Workshop with Greg Balicki, June Hughes, Rebecca Beuschel, Sandrina Harwoood and Zorya Plaskin. Join the Plain Language Group to participate in discussions about the global movement to change jargon-filled, long-winded official writing to easy-to-understand, readable documents. Click here to enter the Dec. 16 event in Elluminate.
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Debbie Schiller

Harnessing Your Community's Volunteer Base to Support Children's Reading Skills 2 Replies

Started by Debbie Schiller in Communities Working Together for Literacy. Last reply by Debbie Schiller 6 hours ago.

Deb Calderon

What are your best techniques for finding and recruiting learners?

Started by Deb Calderon in Communities Working Together for Literacy Nov 23.

Sandy Hirtz

Literacy Links

Started by Sandy Hirtz in Literacy Resources Nov 23.

Sandy Hirtz

Cross Community Initiatives 4 Replies

Started by Sandy Hirtz in Communities Working Together for Literacy. Last reply by Virginia Rego Nov 18.

Dr Maggie McPherson

Literature Road Map for E-learning in the Workplace 6 Replies

Started by Dr Maggie McPherson in Using Technology to Unleash Literacy. Last reply by Dr Maggie McPherson Oct 19.

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Juniper Ridington replied to Fiona Morrison's discussion 'Parents as Literacy Supporters (PALS) in Immigrant Communities' in the group Family Literacy
I'm wondering what the difference is between the regular PALS program and Immigrant PALS? We are in our second year of PALS, and it's been very successful, but since all our participant families are immigrants I'm wondering if there's something I ...
3 hours ago
Juniper Ridington and Josy Russell joined Sandy Hirtz's group
Family Literacy
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read. -- Heywood Broun
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Debbie Schiller replied to Debbie Schiller's discussion 'Harnessing Your Community's Volunteer Base to Support Children's Reading Skills'
What a terrific program you've established Daniel - thanks for sharing the framework with us. I absolutely agree that in order to keep volunteers inspired and involved, you need strong people who are excellent communicators, who will deal with the...
6 hours ago
Daniel Bassill replied to Debbie Schiller's discussion 'Harnessing Your Community's Volunteer Base to Support Children's Reading Skills'
I've led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago for more than 30 years. Thus, I am a believer in the power of volunteer-involvement in youth mentoring and learning. I created the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993, as a library of informat...
9 hours ago
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