TCALL has featured a summer Success Stories issue of our quarterly
publication (formerly called Literacy Links - now Texas Adult & Family
Literacy Quarterly) every year since 2003. Our top priority is to
publish stories written by adult learners, but we also include teacher
stories of classroom success, administrator stories of successful
program practice, etc.

 

Back issues can be found on our website here.

http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/publicationtoc.htm

 

 

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Harriet Vardiman Smith 
Clearinghouse Project Director & Interim Acting Center Director
Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning
<http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/> 
Texas A&M University
hsmith at tamu.edu

 

 

 

 

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From: professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Wrigley,
Heide
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:42 PM
To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
Cc: Harriet Vardiman Smith (hsmith at tamu.edu)
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2420] student success stories

 

Hi, Jackie and all 

 

I know of at least one place where student success stories appear on a
regular basis. TCALL - the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy
& Learning regularly publishes Student Success Stories in their
Quarterly Journal - the latest issue features a number of
student-written experiences with learning English and developing
literacy skills.  

 

I'm cc'ing Harriet Smith, the interim director of TCALL who might be
able to provide insights into the process by which stories are collected
and then selected for publication 

 

Best 

 

Heide 

 

Heide Spruck Wrigley

Mesilla, NM 

 

 

 

 

 

From: professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Taylor,
Jackie
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:56 PM
To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2418] Re: This I Believe - NPR - Do
Over's

 

Hi All,

Just a quick question:

 

What are the avenues available to students to publish their own success
stories? Is there a Wiki link where they could put stories on the Web,
are there other, more formal mechanisms on Web sites or with
newsletters?

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks~! Best, Jackie

 

Jackie Taylor, PD List Moderator, jataylor at utk.edu 

 

 

________________________________

From: professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Kathy
Tyndall
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:20 PM
To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2414] Re: This I Believe - NPR - Do
Over's

 

I have already printed off this "Do over" story to share with my
developmental English students. Thank you for sharing it.

K. Tyndall

Wake Tech Community College

Raleigh, NC

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	From: Sandra (Sandy) Jensen <mailto:SJensen at hawkeyecollege.edu>


	To: virginia at nmcl.org ; The Adult Literacy Professional
Development Discussion List <mailto:professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov>  

	Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:28 PM

	Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2413] Re: This I Believe - NPR
- Do Over's

	 

	Thank you so much for passing on something positive!!

	Sandy Jensen, Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, Iowa

	Adult Basic Education, GED, ELL

	From: professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Virginia
Pulver
	Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:18 AM
	To: Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
	Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2412] This I Believe - NPR -
Do Over's

	Good Monday Morning to Each of YOU!

	I heard an essay on National Public Radio (NPR)  yesterday and
wanted to share it with you (see below) since we all share a passion for
this topic . It is a success story about adult literacy.  Though this
man did not seem to find a mentor in the adult literacy community, he
did manage to set significant goals and reach them.  It is a nice
testimony about literacy, motivation and success...It is these personal
"love" stories that we share with people that remind us that what we do
is important - that there is a need...   

	 If you would like to hear this man tell his tale, there is an
audio link on the NPR website under the Weekend Edition program aired on
Saturday, 20 July.  The segment is called: "This I Believe" and the
title of the piece is "Do Over's."

	Happy reading!

	Life is good....

	Virginia J. Pulver, AmeriCorps*VISTA

	Recruiting Consultant, NM Coalition for Literacy

	3209-B Mercantile Court, Santa Fe NM    87507

	virginia at nmcl.org

	YOU can become a volunteer adult literacy tutor or 

	refer adult learners for FREE 1-1 tutoring!

	1-800-233-7587  

	Visit our Website: www.nmcl.org <http://www.nmcl.org/> 

	Weekend Edition Sunday, July 20, 2008 * I don't know why I came
to the decision to become a loser, but I know I made the choice at a
young age. Sometime in the middle of fourth grade, I stopped trying. By
the time I was in seventh grade, I was your typical degenerate: lazy,
rebellious, disrespectful. I had lost all social graces. I was
terminally hip and fatally cool. 

	It wasn't long after that I dropped out of school and continued
my downward spiral. Hard physical labor was the consequence for the
choices I made as an adolescent. At the age of 21, I was hopelessly
lost, and using drugs as a way to deal with the fact that I was
illiterate and stuck in a dead-end job carrying roof shingles up a
ladder all day.

	But now I believe in do-overs, in the chance to do it all again.
And I believe that do-overs can be made at any point in your life, if
you have the right motivation. Mine came from a surprising source.

	It was September 21, 2002, when my son Blake was born. It's
funny that after a life of avoiding responsibility, now I was in charge
of something so fragile. Over the years, as I grew into the title of
Dad, I began to learn something about myself. In a way, Blake and I were
both learning to walk, talk, work and play for the first time. I began
my do-over.

	It took me almost three years to learn how to read. I started
with my son's books. Over and over, I practiced reading books to him
until I remembered all the words in every one of them. I began to wonder
if it were possible for me to go back to school. I knew I wanted to be a
good role model, so after a year-and-a-half and a lot of hard work, I
passed my GED test on my son's fourth birthday. This may not sound like
much, and I'm surely not trying to get praise for doing something that
should have been done in the first place, but all things considered it
was one of the best days in my life. Today, I'm a full-time college
student, studying to become a sociologist.

	It's funny, growing up I always heard these great turn-around
stories of triumph over shortcomings. But I never thought they applied
to me. Now I believe it's a choice anyone can make: to do it all over
again.

	Independently produced for Weekend Edition Sunday by Jay Allison
and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick.

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