Christine Mercier, Coverdale Centre for Women

“…getting people literate by using experiences of their life…It’s student-centred…
If he’s working in a meat plant, we will make the literacy about the meat plant.” 
Dr. Heather Richmond, St. Thomas University

“Balanced approach—‘new literacy’ focuses less on school-defined reading skills, educational attainment and the ability to read great literature, and more on the everyday practices and uses of literacy…”
Dr. Heather Richmond, St. Thomas University

“Broad definitions of RiP—get the definition from individual authors.”
Cheryl Brown, SJFLC

“We have to derive the text from the learner’s life.”
Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre.

“The new Executive Director from the LDANB was there and she was mentioning that they are working on piloting and looking at assessment tools to screen adults for learning disabilities.”
Joan Perry, LCNB

“Decoding … the symbols on the page. That’s reading. Phonics, grammar and rules.”
Dr. Heather Richmond, STU

“discussing the events of the day”
Jan Greer, LCNB

“…she can tell you her own story”
Dr. Heather Richmond, STU

ENGAGING THE LEARNER!

Nason, Pamela Nuttall and Homer, Lynda, (1999),
PLC Training Manual, published by the Early Childhood Centre
University of New Brunswick Faculty of Education

“Is there a difference between Capital R research (that got all the money out there and does all of the projects and dissemination) versus what we are already doing in our practices?”
Joan Perry, LCNB

SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
“Elsa Auerbach’s approach to literacy; she would do this as a multiple literacy approach, the purpose being to raise awareness of identity and the family or community needing to change. Recognise literature is culturally specific…” Dr. Heather Richmond, STU

“E/Merging Literacies: Parents learn as they teach their children” Dr. Pam Whitty UNB, EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE, FACULTY OF EDUCATION

Perry, Joan B. (2003). Best practices for adult literacy. In 2003 Community Capacity Building Tool Kit. Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick. Available online at: www.nb.literacy/ca/pubs/best1.cover.htm The purpose of this project was to investigate best practices for facilitating the increase in literacy levels of adults. To achieve this purpose, the author undertook a literature review; conducted a ‘community of inquiry’ research method among the anglophone CASP (Community Academic Services Program) instructors in New Brunswick; and examined lists of CASP best practices (practical teaching tips and strategies) collected at provincial facilitator conferences.

“…that’s the direction that I hoped our conversation and our discussion would flow in, is that finding out how involved we currently are, how interested we are, how interested we may be and then, how it can impact what we do on a regular basis in our practice.”
Joan Perry, LCNB

CONVERSATIONS

WORK TOGETHER

discussion

awareness

“…they would be able to come and pool their concerns and questions and maybe problem-solve together as a collaborative group…”
Joan Perry, LCNB

Do you know anything with regards to the history of how they came about? Joan Perry, LCNB
Joan Perry, LCNB

observing, watching, listening

“If you obtain your dream, then your dream is too small.”
By Myles Horton
Quote shared by Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre.

“…do you practice research within your educational setting?
Joan Perry, LCNB

“…you really have to welcome the wild!”
Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre

“Program details–wrong time, waiting list, wrong content”
Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre

Wright, Brenda ( 2004). Reflections of a novice researcher. Community of Inquiry. 1(4), p. 2.

“…we really kind of stepped right into the whole realm of research in practice and photos and it goes to show that often times that pictures captivate us and the opportunity to really think and meditate and reflect.”
Joan Perry, LCNB

“…I kind of graduated from a small piece of paper to a piece of paper like this. So I threw that away and said okay, I have to present something.”
Cheryl Brown, SJFLC

“Action without philosophical reflection leads to mindless activism”
Quote shared by Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre.

“While I was doing my research on this program from 1995-1999, I met people such as Joan Perry and other wonderful teachers.”
Dr. Heather Richmond, STU

“Every part of that work is essential in what we are doing here… as practitioners, we need to find from the field, how many are interested in doing research in practice for purposes of dissemination and if they want to take that information and write it up and have someone else read it and validate it and see it as reliable data. Is there a structure? Are there some guidelines that we can use, in order to do that?”
Joan Perry, LCNB

“(Jack Miller)…all of us should get a copy of his work and make a note of what he says about the different types of curriculum because I found him to be useful when thinking about adult education…”
Dr. Heather Richmond, STU

Crawford, Sally (Fall 2003).
Reflections on research in practice gatherings. Literacies, 2, 30 - 31

Crawford, Sally (March 2004).
Researcher Practice Institutes: Venturing forth. Community of Inquiry, 1(1), p. 2 -3.

Brown, Cheryl & Dryden, Wendell (Fall 2004).
Literacy as a barrier to health/health as a barrier to literacy: Population health and the quality learning environment. Literacies, 4, 4 – 9.

Brown, Cheryl (May 2004).
Reflecting Critically to Improve Practice. Community of Inquiry. 1(3), 1-2.

Whitty, Pam, Crawford, Sally & Brown, Cheryl (2002).
Family literacy in New Brunswick: A glimpse into selected initiatives. English Quarterly, 34(3 & 4), 46 – 58.

“Trying to read what is out there and helping learners with learning.”
Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre

Learning Disabilities

Perry, Joan B. (2003). Best practices for adult literacy. In 2003 Community Capacity Building Tool Kit. Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick. Available online at: www.nb.literacy/ca/pubs/best1.cover.htm The purpose of this project was to investigate best practices for facilitating the increase in literacy levels of adults. To achieve this purpose, the author undertook a literature review; conducted a ‘community of inquiry’ research method among the anglophone CASP (Community Academic Services Program) instructors in New Brunswick; and examined lists of CASP best practices (practical teaching tips and strategies) collected at provincial facilitator conferences.

“…adapt curriculum to who is sitting in front of you” Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre

Are supports in place?
Joan Perry, LCNB

“Are there any professionals that would come around and test to see if there are severe learning disabilities there?”
Karen Garnett, Perth-Andover Adult Learning Centre

“...conversations there about comprehension, comparison is a higher level of thinking, about analysis.”
Dr. Heather Richmond, STU

Community of Inquiry / Kids Read!
Mrs. Cheryl Brown/ NEW BRUNSWICK COALITION FOR LITERACY / Fredericton,NB Phone: 457-1227 The New Brunswick Coalition for Literacy (NBCL) will promote the value of research by undertaking a project that will link literacy practitioners with researchers to help them develop their research techniques, assist them in developing research approaches within their own programs and learn about existing research which can be applied to their practices. This project will identify a range of priority research areas of interest to the literacy community. It will also meet the need that exists within the literacy community in New Brunswick to learn about research in practice and applying practice to research. In addition to this, NBCL will also work with representatives from various organizations to provide more children's reading materials through book donations for family resource centres, family literacy programs and parents in adult literacy programs. This initiative will address the shortage of good quality children's literature in these programs

Student-centered individualized learning (SCIL) plans
Frontier College

“Patricia Cranton writes on the transformative theory, that triggering moment that changes your practice.”
Joan Perry, LCNB

“Debates—how to teach reading–whether schools have failed—whether families are to blame—are the center of much controversy.”
Dr. Heather Richmond, Saint Thomas University

“Theory without practice leads to an empty idealism.”
Quote shared by Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre.

“I wear many hats. Nobody knows everything and everybody knows something.”
Quote shared by Sally Crawford, Saint John Learning Exchange/Fredericton Family Resource Centre.