Monthly Provider Meeting

Our Calendar is not working at present, so if you are checking in this week - our monthly meeting of the Supervisors of Adult Basic Education programs is happening on Wednesday October 7 at 9am.  Our host this month is Jefferson Parish Adult Education - at their Causeway site.

We will be talking about some recommendations to the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization and updates on the Literacy Mayor Initiative - getting the issue of adult literacy into the community and onto the agendas of New Orleans mayoral candidates.

Barnes & Noble Bookfair

We also have our Barnes & Noble Bookfair coming up - November 4 - 11.  Vouchers will be available on the website soon to use that week in bookstores NATIONWIDE (how cool is that?!) that will give a portion of the proceeds to the Literacy Alliance.  There will be several events in the store that week including a book signing by author Sara Roahen, of this year's One Book One New Orleans selection - Gumbo Tales: Finding my Place at the New Orleans Table.

We are working on planning a Veterans Day "I Read Aloud" event at the store - if you have connections to a local veterans group, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it soon.  In this event, you dedicate your reading to someone you know who has a literacy issue or someone who helped you with your literacy.  We're really excited and looking forward to this one!

B&B Tour

The Bed and Breakfast Tour of homes for literacy now has an official name, date and time and will soon have a cool official logo and flyer to go along with it.  "Beds to Read Inn" will be held on Sunday, December 6 from 1 - 5pm along Esplanade Ridge.  You can go to the quarter, stop by the B&B Tour and then head to City Park to see the lights. 

COABE

I am heading for the regional COABE meeting in Atlanta at the end of the month for some literacy celebrity stalking.  The famous and fabulous Stephen Brookfield is scheduled to speak, and I will probably be too intimidated to say anything, but maybe he'll sign one of my favorite books of his,  "Adult Education, Adult Learners and the Community."

I am also working on submitting a presentation to the COABE/ProLiteracy Conference in March next year in Chicago.  But what I really want is a conversation instead of a presentation to talk with other experts on the questions I still have regarding literacy and public policy.  Getting English/Texas help this afternoon.  I'll let you know!

Learning Always

Rachel