Essential Skills in Action
CLO is eager to hear from community literacy agencies that are in the various stages of implementing ES training. If you have an idea, project, strategy, or question that you would like to share, please contact Mary-Ann Stark, CLO ES Project Consultant, at fourreds@sympatico.ca. With permission, we will post your comments in the next bulletins.
The Road Ahead
In the coming months, CLO will develop a variety of materials to better acquaint community literacy agencies with Essential Skills. In addition to three ES Bulletins, we will develop and facilitate two online training sessions via Centra, and produce a self-directed, online ES training module for our Literacy Basics website. Both are scheduled for delivery in Spring 2008. We are grateful to the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities for providing the necessary funding for this project.
We are also excited to be a part of another ES project , Promoting Provincial Partnerships: Motivation, Process and Outcomes, developed and led by the College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading (CSC). The other two partners are Continuing Education School Board Administrators (CESBA) and the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC). Together we have embarked on a precedent-setting journey that will provide opportunity to identify and document the benefits, challenges, and best practices that come with developing a provincial partnership. Our vehicle is an “ES Tour Guide” workbook designed for adult literacy practitioners. The participating project workers will share the trials and tribulations of planning an inter-organizational journey at CESBA’s annual conference in April. We will post our itinerary as travel plans are confirmed. Please wish us a Bon Voyage!
