National Adult Literacy Database

Nominations are being accepted to recognize early learning and child care professionals who make valuable contributions through positive and creative environments for children and their parents.

The physical expansion, estimated to cost about $60 million, is just one of the fundamental changes facing the Greater Victoria Public Library, which serves 10 of the region's 13 municipalities. It is also trying to find ways to generate extra funding after the province cut library grants by 22 per cent across the province last year.

The Literacy and Essential Skills (LES) Coordinator position is a new full-time job position within Literacy Partners of Manitoba (LPM) reporting to and working with the Executive Director. The deadline to apply is February 11, 2011.

People are getting the message – strong literacy skills are essential for success in the 21st century.

Practitioners, researchers, and others involved in the field of Adult Basic Education are invited to submit proposals for 90-minute presentations reflecting the 2011 Conference theme “Transitions & Transformations: Embracing Change”.

“National Family Literacy Day is a great way to showcase the benefits of reading and promote literacy throughout our province's communities,” said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Jody Carr. “Reading with a child is one of the most important things that anyone can do to support a child's education.”

Communities from all across British Columbia will come together during the week of Jan. 27, 2011 for a day of all-age literacy celebration.

With a strong belief that every child’s first and most important teachers are their parents, the Regina Literacy Network promotes intergenerational family learning opportunities whenever it can. Family Literacy Day allows its members to celebrate the importance of family, relationships and learning with others across the country.

Several new themes emerged from the 2010 institute, specifically around questions of embedded teaching and learning and the qualifications and professionalism of workplace essential skills providers. The 2011 institute, June 27-29 in Montreal, will focus on these, as well as on the continuing preoccupation of engaging employers and learners.

Positive Parenting Across Cultures, a new video project aimed at supporting and strengthening B.C.’s immigrant and refugee families, has been unveiled at the SUCCESS multicultural agency in downtown Vancouver.

FREDERICTON, N.B. - The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) has issued a call for nominations for its second annual NALD Innovative Technology Award. NALD established the award in 2010 to bring greater visibility to an exemplary or innovative technology product, project or service that benefits the field of adult literacy and essential skills.

Deadline to apply: February 4, 2011 Literacy Alberta is a provincial membership based non‐profit charity working to raise literacy levels in Alberta. We build capacity in individuals, organizations, workplaces and communities. We influence decision makers and we raise awareness of literacy issues provincially and nationally. Literacy Alberta is growing and we are currently accepting applications for a Project Manager/Facilitator.

Adult learners are an under-utilized asset in the promotion of adult learning and literacy. Often, the perspective of adult learners is not sought.

Almost half the literacy training that’s available to people living in Waterloo Region and Wellington County (Ontario) will disappear by the end of March, agencies warn.

Ontario's libraries, school boards, colleges and universities have been collaborating to provide a wide range of electronic French-language products and services across the province, and Knowledge Ontario, a not-for-profit collaborative, coordinates these initiatives.