Literacy Hui Conference



  

 

University of Hawai'i

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Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-8856 Telephone

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MEDIA ADVISORY : October 30, 1997
Contact: Edna Hussey, Manoa Writing Program (808)956-7193



"Changing Lives, Building Communities"
Literacy Hui conference Saturday, November 1

What: Hawai'i's second New Literacy Conference

	Nearly 100 presentations are planned for one-hour break-out sessions
at 10 a.m., 1:30 and 2:45 p.m.; topics include literacy issues in school-to-work
and business, media-techno literacy, literacy and literature, effects of
community service on literacy, literacy pedagogy, standards and accountability,
and literacy as it relates to ethnicity, class, age, gender and race. A
detailed program is available at the Literacy Hui website, http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lll/

When: Saturday, November 1, 7 a.m.5 p.m.
Where: Sheraton Waikiki Hotel
Who: Keynote speakers:

	· Linda Darling-Hammond-professor of education and curriculum
at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and executive director
of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. Darling-Hammond
will speak at 8:30 a.m. on "The Right to Learn and Teach: Towards Democratic
Education."

	· Linda Holt-Chapter 1 Reading Teacher at Maui's Ha'iku Elementary
School, 1997 Milken Award recipient and 1995 Hawai'i Teacher of the Year.
Holt will speak at 12:30, following the conference luncheon, on "Into
the Looking Glass: One Teacher's Self-Assessment."

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University of Hawai'i University Relations Media & Publications Honolulu, HI 96822	(808) 956-8856 Telephone (808) 956-3441 Facsimile ur@hawaii.edu E-Mail
MEDIA ADVISORY :	October 30, 1997
Contact: Edna Hussey, Manoa Writing Program (808)956-7193

What:	Hawai'i's second New Literacy Conference Nearly 100 presentations are planned for one-hour break-out sessions at 10 a.m., 1:30 and 2:45 p.m.; topics include literacy issues in school-to-work and business, media-techno literacy, literacy and literature, effects of community service on literacy, literacy pedagogy, standards and accountability, and literacy as it relates to ethnicity, class, age, gender and race. A detailed program is available at the Literacy Hui website, http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lll/
When:	Saturday, November 1, 7 a.m.5 p.m.
Where:	Sheraton Waikiki Hotel
Who:	Keynote speakers: · Linda Darling-Hammond-professor of education and curriculum at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. Darling-Hammond will speak at 8:30 a.m. on "The Right to Learn and Teach: Towards Democratic Education." · Linda Holt-Chapter 1 Reading Teacher at Maui's Ha'iku Elementary School, 1997 Milken Award recipient and 1995 Hawai'i Teacher of the Year. Holt will speak at 12:30, following the conference luncheon, on "Into the Looking Glass: One Teacher's Self-Assessment."