Fellow Practitioners and Supporters of Adult Literacy:

ProLiteracy Worldwide invites you to attend the National Literacy
Summit.2 at your desktop. 
This second annual literacy event will convene literacy providers,
corporate sponsors, and government and academic representatives to
identify what works in literacy across the lifespan - the science,
strategies and practices that effect positive outcomes.
  
Together, we will: 

Define effective program elements, outcomes and measures for each stage
of literacy across the lifespan 
Examine and recommend research-based practices and strategies that
support program elements and achieve desired outcomes 
Enable greater understanding and collaboration among providers 
Produce a tool that can be shared with all providers 
Please join this interactive event, and contribute your unique and
respected knowledge
to a dialogue about how we should approach literacy across the lifespan.


Monday, October 30, 2006
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST 
For more details and to register for the Webcast, click here.

The Agenda for the Webcast:

1:00 - Welcome
Phyllis Magrab, Director, Center for Childhood and Human Development,
Georgetown University
Kathryn C. Brown, Senior Vice President, Policy Development and
Corporate Responsibility, Verizon Communications

1:15 - Literacy Across The Lifespan:  What Works
Dr. Timothy Shanahan, Professor of Urban Education, University of
Illinois at Chicago, Director of UIC Center for Literacy, and President
of the International Reading Association

1:45 - Literacy Across The Lifespan:  Quality and Outcomes
Dr. Dorothy Strickland, Senior Research Fellow, NIEER, Rutgers
University Graduate School of Education and Past President of the
International Reading Association

2:30 - Interactive Discussion
Sharon Darling, Founder and President, National Center for Family
Literacy
Dale Lipshultz, Literacy Officer - Office for Literacy and Outreach
Services, American Library Association, and Immediate Past President,
National Coalition for Literacy
Peter Waite, Executive Director, ProLiteracy America, the U.S. Programs
Division of ProLiteracy Worldwide

4:15 - Wrap up
Patrick R. Gaston, President, Verizon Foundation
  
EVENT SPONSORS
American Library Association, Georgetown University,
National Center for Family Literacy, National Coalition for Literacy,
ProLiteracy Worldwide,  and Verizon Foundation