National Adult Literacy Database

Voting is your way to choose an individual to represent you in Canada’s Parliament. By making your choice, you are exercising one of your fundamental democratic rights.

The Community Learning Network and Literacy Alberta are pleased to bring you the Literacy & Learning Symposium 2011. This province-wide professional development symposium focuses on literacy and lifelong learning for adults, as tools for positive change.

In celebration of International Adult Learners’ Week happening across Canada April 2-9, ABC Life Literacy Canada will travel to Edmonton March 30-April 1 as part of a media and PR Tour.

Twitter is not just your friends telling you what they ate for breakfast. Increasingly, news stories that arise – a tsunami, a plane crash, the score of a hockey game, the latest Charlie Sheen gossip – arrive in tweets from people we follow on Twitter.

Whether at work, in your community or with your family at home, mark IALW 2011 (April 2-9) in your calendar and participate. Spreading the word about the importance of lifelong learning contributes to more opportunities for all.

The 2011 Census Adult Education Kit provides an excellent introduction to the census. It explains what a census is, how the 2011 Census will work, and why the census is important. Adult students will learn how their personal information is protected, and how to seek help if they have difficulty answering the questions.

International Adult Learners’ Week (IALW), an initiative that celebrates adult learners and the joy of lifelong learning, will be observed in Canada from April 2 to 9, 2011.

The Salvation Army in Regina, along with Carmichael Outreach and the Regina and District Food Bank are set to deliver a new program that connects people searching for jobs with opportunities in their area.

In addition to lessons on firing a gun and searching for improvised explosive devices, Canadian soldiers will also be teaching Afghan forces to read, write and perform basic medicine when the country’s new training mission begins later this year.

OLC’s Spotlight on Learning:  Becoming Agents of Change conference was held in October 2010 in Toronto. This new website is designed not only to highlight the conference, but also to feed the momentum and energy in the field with continued learning, news updates, and stories of change that have been inspired by learning. Full of workshop videos, resources, downloads and much more, this website encourages a continuum of learning.

This is a teaching and learning package designed to help adult learners increase their literacy and essential skills in order to make easier transitions to a new workforce or adapt to changing technology on the job.

The Government of Saskatchewan has proclaimed March as Supported Employment Month. The month will be marked by a series of events across the province supported by the Saskatchewan Association of Rehabilitation Centres (SARC).

The Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network Inc. is seeking an Adult Literacy Coordinator for half-time permanent position. The successful applicant will be trained in and deliver the Circles of Intelligent Knowledge: An Aboriginal Adult Learner Program.

The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) has launched a new online tool that allows users to measure the state of two crucial components of financial literacy – numeracy and document literacy – in more than 52,000 neighbourhoods and communities across the country.

The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) has extended the nomination phase for its second annual Innovation Technology Award. Submissions will now be accepted until April 15, 2011.