Greetings!  We would like to invite two writing, reading, or literature faculty from your school to participate in an April 25 luncheon and forum at Lincoln Land Community College’s Trutter Center. The event is free, CPDU credit is available, and Professor Deborah Brandt—a nationally recognized expert on literacy studies–will be our visiting keynote speaker.  You will also have the opportunity to participate in a national “literacy narrative” stories project.  More info on this optional and fun forthcoming!

Purpose of the Forum:

v  Opportunity to explore curriculum content at each participant’s school, including LLCC;

v  Opportunity to establish networking links between area writing, reading, and literature faculty;

v  Opportunity to plan collaborative professional development programs

 

Where:           Menard 2207, Lincoln Land Community College. 

When:            Saturday, April 25, 2009, from 10-2.

How:              RSVP by April 3 to Vickie Ward at 786-2329

* Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Deborah Brandt

Deborah Brandt is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches undergraduate writing and graduate courses in literacy and contemporary writing studies.  Her research focuses on the changing conditions for literacy learning as they are felt in the experiences of everyday Americans, especially the economic pressures that come to bear on how literacy is learned and valued.  She is the author of three books, Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), Literacy in American Lives (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Literacy and Learning (Jossey-Bass, in press).  She is a former visiting fellow at the U.S. Department of Education and in 2002 won the Grawemeyer Foundation Award in Education, which brings attention to scholarship that can have wide social and educational impact.