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LINCS Literacy and Learning Disabilities Special Collection
This newly redesigned collection of resources aims to provide a single point of access to information on LD issues important to: adults with learning disabilities and their families; adult education teachers and tutors; staff of human services, vocational rehabilitation, and one-stop centers; and employers. As with all LINCS Special Collections, Literacy and Learning Disabilities has the advice and assistance of an advisory committee of adult educators, adult learners, and researchers who have significant expertise in literacy and learning disabilities.

Verizon Thinkfinity Online Professional Development Courses
Developed in collaboration among Verizon Thinkfinity, National Center for Family Literacy, and ProLiteracy Worldwide, VLU offers online courses for volunteers and staff in adult and family literacy programs. Some of the many course offerings include: Parents and Children – Natural Learning Partners; Connecting Families and Computers; Valuing Volunteers – Effective Methods of Retaining Today’s Volunteers; and Culture and English Language Learners. See menu link to Free Online Courses.

Workforce/Workplace Literacy

Teaching SCANS Skills in Adult Basic Education Learning A Living: A SCANS Report for America 2000 was developed by the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills for the U.S. Department of Labor. This website highlights portions of the SCANS reports of practical interest to adult educators, including What Work Requires of Schools (1991) and Learning a Living: A Blueprint for High Performance (1992). Resource links on the left take you to Florida-specific sites, but there’s good basic information about SCANS in the main body of the page.

Workplace Skills for the Adult Learner: An Integrated Curriculum
The GMU Verizon Curriculum was developed in 1999 and piloted in 2000-2001 by a group of graduate students in the George Mason University master’s program in Adult Education for Practicing Professionals. Job readiness, office technology, and academic skills are integrated and mutually reinforced and designed to provide unemployed or under-employed adults with the academic and technical skills needed for sustainable employment in an office environment and to provide the basis for lifelong learning. The curriculum requires six weeks of instruction with classes meeting five days per week for six hours per day.

Workforce Education LAB
Purpose of the Southern LINCS Workforce Education LAB is to collect and distribute high-quality Web-based learning activities that focus on the basic skills and knowledge adults need to be effective in the 21st Century workplace. Instructors can find learning activities developed by other instructors and submit their own learning activities to the bank. Learners can use the site to interact directly with Web-based learning activities.

Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology The Bridging the Gap curriculum guides offer practitioners the tools to integrate information technology into many of the reading, writing, and computer requirements of today’s workplace. Having a comprehensive computer-integrated curriculum gives both the practitioner and the learner the skills needed in the 21st Century workplace.

Family Literacy/Early Childhood

Even Start in Texas Web Page on Texas LEARNS’ website now features an Even Start in Texas page, which will include important information for the field selected by State Even Start & Family Literacy Coordinator Beth Thompson. Featured resources include: Approved Even Start External Evaluators; Evaluation Documents; Sample Position Descriptions; and more.

PBS Parents – Talking and Reading Together
Learn how children become readers and writers and how parents of babies, toddlers, and kindergarteners can help them develop by talking, reading, and writing together every day.

Creating a Literacy Rich Classroom. Does your early childhood classroom help children learn about reading and writing? This feature of the Reading is Fundamental website offers a checklist to review the literacy-related features of the classroom environment.

New Bilingual Section of Reading is Fundamental Website
RIF’s new bilingual section will help support Latino families as they read, sing, and share stories together at home. Families will be welcomed with a colorful, user-friendly design concept that evokes a home setting. Each room of the interactive house will provide a variety of online and offline activities promoting the benefits of a literate home. Children and adults alike will be able to explore the house and find resources and games tailored to their needs. A companion site will also be available in English.