Learning Cities
Canadian Council on Learning Highlights Learning Communities
The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) reports that there are estimated to
be more than 300 “learning communities” around the world, the majority of
them in Europe and Australia. Many Canadian cities and regions from coast
to coast – including Victoria and Vancouver – have either started a learning
community initiative or are seriously considering the idea. Find out more
about learning communities, and how CCL has been working with Vancouver
to use the Composite Learning Index to measure the city’s progress in
achieving its goals and objectives as a learning community. Visit
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports/CLI/LearningCommunities.htm
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Poetry
Random Acts of Poetry
For one week, 25 acclaimed poets across Canada commit Random Acts of
Poetry. This project of the Victoria READ Society sees 25 acclaimed poets
reading poems to strangers on buses and subways, in donut shops and cafes,
police stations, grocery stores, shelters, curling rinks, on city streets and
country lanes. Poets will also read their poems in ESL and Adult Literacy
classes. As well, they will present poetry in middle school classes, and give
the students a book of poetry written by middle school students, We Can Say
This. For more information about this international project, see
http://national-random-acts-of-poetry.blogspot.com/
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Commuters Enjoy Poet-in-Residence
A poet in residence has been appointed to write original poetry on train walls
for the Glasgow travel network. The poet, John Rice, will also run writing
workshops in local schools and libraries. The Scottish Arts Council hopes to
mimic the success of London’s Poems on the Underground, which have run
since 1986. This article is from the Glasgow Herald, 15 August 2008 at
http://www.theherald.co.uk
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Policy
Special Bulletin: Reading the Reports from Literacies
Literacies
presents a critique of two recent reports that could inform public
policy decisions in Canada: Learning Literacy in Canada and Reading the
Future. The intention of the bulletin is to spark a dialogue within the literacy
community on the reports, their meaning, and their implications for practice.
Read the bulletin at
http://www.literacyjournal.ca/literacies/Bulletins/reading_the_reports.pdf
In addition, you can listen to one of the authors of this bulletin, Dr Nancy
Jackson, speak about literacy statistics in a CBC interview. The AlphaPlus
blog highlights the issue and links to relevant sites at
http://blog.alphaplus.ca/page/5/
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