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On October 25, Sylvia Wiebe Mason and Joan Macdonald, co-chairs of the Manitoba Reads Calendar fundraising project drew the names of the three winners of the contest held to encourage you to get your membership renewals in. The three winning literacy programs will receive cheques from the funds raised by the sale of the calendars to cover the cost of the purchase of books for their programs. |
Movement for Canadian Literacy Board Meeting, October 27 - 30
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Don Fournier, adult learner rep to LPM's Board of Directors is attending the Learner Advisory Network (LAN) Meetings with his peers from across Canada in Ottawa. Don is representing LPM at MCL's Annual General Meeting (AGM) and dinner and is sitting in on the Board meeting with some of his collegues to support the LAN reps on MCL's Board of Directors. Joining Don at the AGM and Board Meeting is LPM's executive director, Lorri Apps. While Don attends LAN meetings, Lorri is attending Coalition Meetings. Lorri is attending a presentation by Scott Murray of DataAngel, Understanding the Implications of the International Survey of Reading Skills. Scott is the International Study Director for the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL). He was with Statistics Canada and UNESCO prior to developing DataAngel. For the past two years Lorri has been secretary of the MCL Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She also sat on the selection committee when MCL's Executive Director, Melody Parbuoczy, was hired in the spring of 2008. |
The transformative power of adult education
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The recent ASEC conference held at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg highlighted the power of education to change people’s lives. Keynote speaker, Dr. Kathleen King’s dynamic presentation gave the conference a great launch into two days of thinking about how to make teaching more transformative for learners. Small group sessions elaborated on the theme and brought forward new ideas and applications of transformative education to the classroom. Read more... |
Grade 12 still elusive for many
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Recent information from the 2006 Census indicates that the numbers of young people with incomplete high schooling is still above 20%. This statistic flies in the face of commitments made by successive governments to cut the school drop-out rate. “When a significant portion of the population in their early 20s lacks a high school education, there are consequences for the economy, the workplace and for justice and law enforcement” says Rob Sarginson, Researcher at the Manitoba Institute for Literacy and Learning. Read more... |
What's new at our Resource Library
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Despite the fact that Canadian Library Month was just for the month of October, we have decided to extend the deadline for entries for our contest to November 21. We will draw for the prizes at our AGM on November 25. Our prize collection is growing and currently our confirmed supporters are Boston Pizza, Aalto’s, Celebrations, Sobey’s, and Superstore. Contest details are on our home page and we will be sending out updates via e-mail and fax. If you don’t receive any information in the next few weeks, please call Debra for further information. Our e-mail and fax lists may not be current enough to include all our members to date. It would be really helpful if you will all pass the word along. We want lots of participants for these great prizes so we look forward to lots of entries. See here for our Halloween book list! |
Improving literacy levels among Aboriginal Canadians
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Data suggesting that large numbers of working-age Canadians have inadequate literacy skills have prompted calls for improving literacy practices among children, youth and adults. For Aboriginal people, the need for improvement is especially urgent. More... |
Laura Bush sees women neglected in literacy push
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Laura Bush decried illiteracy among women Tuesday, saying that midway through a decade-long U.N. education push nations have failed to make a dent in the numbers unable to read and write. "The percentage of women who lack literacy skills remains unchanged," the first lady said at U.N. headquarters discussing progress on an initiative called the United Nations Literacy Decade. "If women are educated, everything across the board improves for their families." |
Resource: Family Math Fun
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Contact Us
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Do you have an event coming up? Do you have praise to pass along? Is there something happening in your program you’re particularly proud of? Give us a call at: (204) 947-5757, fax us at (204) 956-9315 or email: communications@mb.literacy.ca. We want to hear about it! |
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