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[Assessment 470] Family Literacy List Guest DiscussionMarie Cora marie.cora at hotspurpartners.comTue Aug 29 10:51:52 EDT 2006
Dear Colleagues, The following announcement comes from Gail Price, Moderator of the Family Literacy Discussion List. To participate in the discussion, sign up for the Family Literacy Discussion List at http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/familyliteracy Marie Cora Assessment Discussion List Moderator ************ On September 11th through the 13th, Cyndy Colletti, Literacy Program Manager at the Illinois State Library, will join the Family Literacy Discussion List as a guest speaker/discussion leader. Cyndy's topic will be "Implementing Interactive Parent Child Activities"-- a topic of much interest to those working with families. Cyndy's biography is given below. Before she begins her discussion on September 11, I will post some questions for your consideration. They will be the questions that will guide Cyndy's discussion. We look forward to having Cyndy join us and know that you will make her time with us rewarding and valuable by responding to her comments and questions. I will remind you of this discussion again as we get closer to the date. Read on for Cyndy's biography. Cyndy Colletti, currently the Literacy Program Manager at the Illinois State Library (ISL), worked as the Family Literacy Coordinator at ISL for nine years. In that position, she was responsible for comprehensive grant administration including developing and implementing the Family Literacy Grant Program, a comprehensive five component program including library services as the fifth component. The Illinois State Library has consistently funded between 40 and 55 family literacy projects annually since 1991. She has worked cooperatively with the practitioners in Illinois to develop programmatic resources for the Family Literacy projects such as parent-child activities (The Story Kits, online at <http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/ccollett/storykit/sitemap.html> http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/ccollett/storykit/sitemap.html are an example.) and workshops on other issues vital to family literacy. She has a master's degree from the University of Illinois and more than 20 years experience in the field of adult education and literacy and social service. Her current responsibility as Literacy Program Manager includes grants management and facilitating the effectiveness of program implementation on the local level by providing resource materials, training and support for local adult education and family literacy providers throughout Illinois. Gail J. Price Multimedia Specialist National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main Street, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40205 Phone: 502 584-1133, ext. 112 Fax: 502 584-0172 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/assessment/attachments/20060829/b102f59d/attachment.html
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