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Blog Author: Esther Chase

Blog Author: Esther Chase

Powerful Words from a Kind Man

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." --Mahatma Gandhi
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Community Engagement: the process of building relationships with community members who will work side-by-side with you as an ongoing partner, in any and every way imaginable, building an army of support for your mission, with the end goal of making the community a better place to live.

Outreach: a systematic attempt to provide services beyond conventional limits, as to particular segments of a community: an educational outreach to illiterate adults.

Literacy: the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential.

Recommended Reading

  • Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress
  • Myles Horton, The Long Haul (Bio)
  • Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking
  • Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Resources for Libraries

  • 8 Principles of Public Outreach
  • Adult Literacy through Libraries: an Action Agenda, Online Course
  • ALA's American Dream Grants
  • ALA's American Dream Literacy Initiative
  • ALA's Literacy for All: Adult Literacy @ your library
  • ALA's How to Serve the World: Serving Non-English Speakers in U.S. Public Libraries
  • America's Literacy Directory
  • National Literacy Directory
  • IL Adult Learning Hotline
  • Libraries' English and Reading Network
  • How to Start an Adult Volunteer Literacy Program (ILSOS)
  • How to Apply for IL State Library Literacy Grants (ILSOS)
  • GCF Learn Free - Technology Tutorials Online
  • Joe's Web Tools - Readability Calculator
  • Pearson Fastback Series for Intermediate Book Groups
  • YALSA's List of Recommended Reads - Great for ESL Book Groups

Resources for Volunteer Training

  • ProLiteracy EdNet Tutor Training
  • Literacy Works Training in Chicago
  • IL Secretary of State Online Training
  • Adult Learning Resource Center (ALRC)
  • TESOL Accredited ESL/EFL Programs

Resources for Tutors

  • Teaching Adult ESL: A Practical Introduction, Betsy Parrish
  • Teaching Adults, Literacy Works
  • AzarGrammar.com
  • ESL Podcasts
  • Marshall Adult Education - Leveled Reading Skills Passages
  • Marshall Adult Education Resource Links
  • Merriam-Webster's Learner's Online Dictionary
  • Outreach and Technical Assistance Network
  • PBS Literacy Link
  • S.O.S. for Information Literacy
  • The Times in Plain English

Membership Organizations

  • American Library Association
  • Proliteracy Worldwide, Inc.
  • International Literacy Association
  • COABE: Commission on Adult Basic Education
  • IACEA: Illinois Adult and Continuing Education Association
  • IATEFL: International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
  • REFORMA: Latino Literacy Advocates
  • TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

Professional Associations

  • CAELA: Center for Adult English Language Acquisition
  • CAL: Center for Applied Linguistics
  • LINCS Literacy Information and Communication System
  • National Forum on Information Literacy

Publications

  • Education Articles on ERICDIGESTS
  • Language Magazine
  • Learn Hot English
  • TESL-EJ Online Journal
  • ProLiteracy Worldwide: Publications

Special Interest

  • American Library Association's Outreach Resources
  • Civic Participation and Citizenship Collection
  • Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education
  • US Citizenship and Immigration Services

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