I, too, was involved in what I call the 'hay days' of workplace literacy, Lloyd.  Going to Milwaukee for those international conferences was one of the best ways to stimulate growth that I've seen in all my years in government.  A number of us from Alberta, Canada, made presentations at these conferences, and we always came back reenergized, and dare I say, proud of the work we were doing.  Unfortunately we lost momentum over the years, and we are now trying to rebuild system capacity - luckily with the infusion of new funding through the department I work for.  While I'm now funding innovative ESL programming, I still try to keep my finger the workplace literacy/essential skills pie.

Thank you for reminding me about the great work that Paul and Sue did.  I just retrieved it and intend to read it on a flight I'm taking next week to Newark.

Regards,



Carolyn Dieleman
Manager - Language Training
Immigration Policy and Programs Branch
Alberta Employment and Immigration
Tel:  780-427-5717
Fax: 780-422-0274


-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Lloyd David
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:24 AM
To: 'The Workplace Literacy Discussion List'
Subject: [Workplace 1599] Re: Evaluations of NationalWorkplaceLiteracyProgramprojects


Paul,
There are still some of us left in the field from those good old days of
NWLP projects.
I just want to add a few words to what you said. I feel that one of the
saddest consequences of the departure of the National Workplace Literacy
Projects from the scene was the loss of opportunities for the practioners to
meet. The national conferences in Milwaukee and later in Detroit and Chicago
were wonderful educational moments where we could compare notes and discuss
our projects and problems. I felt we were working towards a national
organization of people who knew the joys and pitfalls of workplace education
Hopefully we can re-create this in the future. Best to you.
Lloyd


Lloyd David, EdD.
Creative Workplace Learning
311 Washington Street
Brighton, MA 02135
Tel :  617-783-6360
FAX: 617-782-0136

-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of JURMO at ucc.edu
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:01 PM
To: workplace at nifl.gov
Subject: [Workplace 1598] Re: Evaluations of
NationalWorkplaceLiteracyProgramprojects


Thanks, Gary.  It's nice to know this work is useful.  I believe the
handbook you referred to has been widely used in Canada and also in
Massachusetts and New York State.  I continue to use it in my work in the
planning of career pathway programs in New Jersey.

A little more history:

-- The ABC CANADA guidebook that Gary refers to grew in part out of the
"team evaluation" work that Laura Sperazi and I did at NIFL.

-- One of the partners in Gary's organization, the Civil Service Employees
Association, was part of an informal network of workplace educators that
grew out of both the National Workplace Literacy Program and the NIFL and
ABC CANADA research on collaborative (team) approaches to worker education.
The network, called the Workplace Education Collaborative, met off and on
for about two years in upstate New York and Massachusetts.

My point is:  Investment in demonstration projects in workplace education
paid off not only for the workers and companies that participated in the
programs but for the practitioners who developed and shared new workplace
education practices.

Thanks to the organizers of this NIFL discussion list for providing a
vehicle for continued  collaborative development of our field.

Paul Jurmo

-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Gary Bartolina
Sent: Mon 9/15/2008 12:00 PM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 1596] Re: Evaluations of National
WorkplaceLiteracyProgramprojects

Paul,

Every time you do a posting I rush to read it, they are always so helpful!

Just this weekend I was reading the Collaborative Needs Assessment you did
for ABC Canada along with Sue Folinsbee back in 1994.  I am using it as a
guideline for us to conduct a NY statewide assessment of NYS-CSEA
represented employees need for ABE courses.


Ms. Gary Bartolina, Program Manager
Adult Education Basics
NYS & CSEA  Partnership for Education & Training Corporate Plaza East -
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Phone: 518-473-4990
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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of JURMO at ucc.edu
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 8:59 PM
To: workplace at nifl.gov
Subject: RE: [Workplace 1569] Re: Evaluations of National Workplace
LiteracyProgramprojects

Hello, Kaye and others,

I'm now catching up on emails and found the exchange below regarding
evaluations of NWLP programs.  A few comments:

-- Yes, the ERIC Clearinghouse at Ohio State University (mentioned by David
Rosen and Jim Parker) has/had an archive of the evaluations of the NWLP
programs.  This archive was reviewed by a national panel of experts to
identify some particularly useful evaluation reports.  I'm not sure whether
this valuable material is still accessible.

-- The "Voices from the Field" report is a good summary of a two-day meeting
of NWLP project representatives.  Participants had a chance to identify
recommendations for improving the NWLP projects.  This discussion led to
some changes in NWLP policy. (Laura Sperazi and I were the authors of that
report.)

-- When NIFL was first launched, the Institute funded Laura Sperazi and me
to do a series of documents on workplace education evaluation. These
included (a) a series of case studies of  workplace education programs which
used a "team"  approach to evaluate program activities (a multistakeholder
team planned and carried out an evaluation of program activities); (b) a
handbook on the team evaluation methodology which we developed, and (c) a
literature review about approaches and issues
related to workplace education evaluation.

Given the continued importance of educating the U.S. workforce, it would be
great if policy makers and practitioners take the time to learn from past
experience as they consider how to build effective workforce learning
systems in the U.S.

Paul Jurmo, Ed.D.
Dean, Economic Development and Continuing Education Union County College New
Jersey

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-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Kaye Beall
Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 10:37 PM
To: workplace at nifl.gov
Subject: [Workplace 1569] Re: Evaluations of National Workplace
LiteracyProgramprojects

Here's a direct link to the proceedings of a meeting of project staff from
the National Workplace Literacy Program in the early 1990's. The publication
is: Workplace Education: Voices from the Field. Proceedings, National
Workplace Literacy Program Project Directors Conference (Washington, D.C.,
September 1991).
The URL is
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019
b/
80/13/03/13.pdf
As one of the early grantees, I must say we learned a lot, but workplace
education has evolved from those early efforts.
Hope this helps,
Kaye
********
Kaye Beall
Project Director
World Education
6760 West Street
Linn Grove, IN 46711
765-717-3942
kaye_beall at worlded.org
www.worlded.org



-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of David J. Rosen
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:04 AM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 1564] Evaluations of National Workplace Literacy
Programprojects

Beatriz and others,

Sarah Newcomb, at OVAE, suggests that the best source of information on
those projects is at the local level, and that you may want to explore some
of the resources at

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+evaluation+of+national+workplace
+literacy+program&btnG=Search

(i.e. do a web search using "evaluation of national workplace literacy
program")

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net



On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Diaz, Beatriz B. wrote:


> Was this email answered?  I would also like to see these documents if

> they are still available.

> Thanks.

>

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> From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Depecoraro at aol.com

> Sent: Fri 7/25/2008 7:26 PM

> To: workplace at nifl.gov

> Subject: [Workplace 1555] Re: VESL

>

>

> A lot of materials were created  with funds from OVAE in the

> Department of Education in the 90's. I believe Sarah Newcombe was the

> program monitor. Does anyone know what happened to those documents?

> Many of them were very specific to certain industries.

> Is there an archive anywhere???

>

> Diane Pecoraro

>

>

>

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