Call for Proposals: SCALE’s Read. Write. Act. Conference

Posted by on April 30, 2007

CALL FOR PRESENTERS

The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education requests workshop and poster session proposals for

SCALE’s Read. Write. Act. Conference
October 26-27, 2007
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Please join us for the *only* national conference created specifically for campus-based literacy programs, college student tutors, program coordinators, adult learners and community partners.

We are accepting workshop proposals that address one of our conference themes:
Tutoring Strategies and Techniques
Social Justice & Activism in Education
Civic Engagement, Reflection & Service Learning
Assessment & Evaluation
Policy Issues
Program Practice & Program Management (e.g. volunteer recruitment, tutor training, sustaining your program)
Diversity
Community Partnerships

We are accepting poster session proposals that address one of the following themes:
Program practice
Program models
Tutoring materials
Research on tutoring
Program evaluation
(For example, writing a great tutor handbook, providing interesting activities for ESL tutors, or implementing an effective program evaluation would be appropriate topics.)

Conference Participants will include representatives from adult, youth and ESL campus-based literacy programs; undergraduate and graduate student leaders, tutors, mentors and volunteers; service-learning faculty; community service staff and America Reads administrators; adult learners; community partners; AmeriCorps / VISTA volunteers.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING A WORKSHOP OR POSTER SESSION, PLEASE VISIT http://www.readwriteact.org/rwa/conference.html TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL.

Deadline for submitting a workshop proposal is June 29, 2007.
Deadline for submitting a poster session proposal is September 28, 2007.