| Family Literacy |
- Develop a family literacy promotion, resource and public
awareness kit for provincial distribution
- Plan and implement three major events related to family
literacy:
- In partnership with Starbucks Coffee Company, implement a
province-wide children’s book drive
- Provide support and leadership to family literacy development
in B.C. through a one week Family Literacy Summer Institute
- Coordinate Family Literacy Day 2000 activities
- Provide training, consultation, support and coordination to
existing and new family literacy programs
- Build partnerships at the provincial level with family
literacy’s natural allies, both government and corporate
- Develop a best practices document for the family literacy
field in B.C.
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| Workforce Literacy |
Implement eight workforce literacy initiatives which will:
- help employers, unions and educators recognize their direct
stake in and responsibility around workforce literacy
- provide consultation, information and support services to
employers, workers and educators
- develop strong, collaborative partnerships around workforce
literacy issues and programs
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Build and Support literacy research capacity and activities in
B.C.
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There is growing interest in literacy research among literacy
practitioners and the academic institutions in B.C. Given this, we will
undertake the following activities, in consultation with the
B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education,
Training and Technology, UBC and
SFU:
- Apply, with SFU, to Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council (SHHRC) for a development grant which will build a network of adult,
workforce and family literacy practitioners in B.C. who are committed to
conducting a series of individual and joint practitioner-based research
projects over the next three years.
- In consultation with SFU, UBC and interested practitioners,
develop a three year strategic grant proposal to SSHRC which would:
- Build the research capacity within the literacy practitioner
community in B.C.
- Provide a structure for mentoring and training opportunities
- Establish an ongoing agenda and program of practitioner-based
research
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