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2007 Conference Agenda

Friday, October 26

9:30-10:30 Keynote Address – Ami Dar
Executive Director, Action Without Borders

10:45-12:15 Workshop I

1. Keynote Address Follow-Up
2. Digital Revolution and Community Transformation
3. Strategy Based Tutoring: A Path to Independent Learning
4. Language and Literacy in Preschool Latino English Learners: A Professional Development Program

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1. Poster Session 12:45-1:30
2. Conference Bookstore 12:15-1:30

1:45-3:15 Workshop II

1. From Garden to Table: Learning for Life, Learning for Health
2. Diversity: Acknowledging Difference, Seeking Common Ground
3. Using Narrative as a Tool for Reflection in Service-Learning Classes
4. Literacy Mentoring
5. Teams in Training: Best Practices of the IUPUI America Reads Program

3:30-5:00 Workshop III

1. Celebrating Literacy and Diversity – The International Reading Festival
2. Building a Culture of Evaluation in School and Community Settings
3. Civic Engagement and Service Learning to Advance Literacy
4. Basic Literacy Training: K-5
5. Working with Adults Who Have Difficulty Learning

5:15 Walking Tour of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Saturday, October 27

9:00-10:30 Workshop IV

1. Measuring Your Organizational Climate Around Training, Communication, & Evaluation
2. Hands-On: ESOL Best-Practices Tutor Training
3. Freedom School How You Feelin’?: Revisiting Service Learning and Social Justice Education
4. Politics 101 – Advocating for Change, Part I
5. Adolescent Tutoring, Part I

10:45-12:15 Workshop V

1. Teaching Tools Using Today’s Technology
2. Politics 101 – Advocating for Change, Part II
3. Diversity: Acknowledging Difference, Seeking Common Ground
4. Program Evaluation: Basic Tools for Program Staff
5. Adolescent Tutoring, Part II

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:45-3:15 Workshop VI

1. Better Support Tutors While Reducing Time and Money Spent on Tutor tracking, Reporting, and Evaluation
2. Write On!
3. Letting the CAT out of the Bag: Introducing the College Academy of Tutoring

3:30-5:00 Closing Performance - Interactive Theater Carolina