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2005
advertising poster
& Program Book Cover |
Janet
Isserlis (Literacy Resources/Rhode Island) offers a welcome from
The Swearer Center at Brown University, conference co-sponser. |
Andy Nash
and Silja Kallenbach deliver the keynote address.
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The 2005
(Net)Working Conference was attended by 120 participants over
the 2 days, in spite of snow in March in New England. Teachers
& students from Project Hope in Dorchester, MA enjoyed the
weather (as well as the conference).
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WE
LEARN exhibited women-centered adult basic reading and curriculum
materials. This
display offered a hands-on look at some of the resource materials
listed on the Resources page of the WE LEARN website. (www.litwomen.org/Resources.html) |
Display
honors the life and work of Elizabeth
Morrish. |
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Char
Caver developed a display replicating the healing and supportive
atmosphere created at Project Hope in Dorchester, MA. |
Presenters
Margaret Kennedy, Hortense Birchett, Marta Adams, from the Caroline
Center in Baltimore, MD.
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Donna
Jones, an ABE student from San Francisco, received a 2005 scholarship
from the Elizabeth Morrish Memorial Student Scholarship Fund to
attend the conference. Donna also writes a regular column for the
WE LEARN newsletter. Click here
to see her review of the 2005 conference.. |
The
Operation Bootstrap Student Health Action Team got their workshop
participants involved through the use of interactive theater. |
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Mary
Belenky |
Klaudia
Rivera |
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Ujwala
Samant |
Klare
Allen
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Lorna
Rivera, Moderator |
Panel Discussion
Women & Literacy...Strengthening the Web
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Workshop
Presenters:
Rebecca Garland (right) & Sondra Cuban (below) |
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And
participants look on |
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Members
enthusiastically offered their ideas for the future of WE
LEARN. Click here
for the membership meeting minutes. |
Networking:
meeting old and new friends and alliances |
Nancy Howard
(right), co-chair of the WE LEARN Board of Directors, welcomes
newly elected board member, Amelia Onorato.
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Mev Miller,
WE LEARN Director, thanks all conference attendees for their participation
and enthusiasm. |
