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For Immediate Release:	September 30, 1997
Contact: Edna Hussey, Manoa Writing Program, 956-7193

"Changing Lives, Building Communities" Literacy Hui conference November 1 Hawai'i's second New Literacy Conference takes place Saturday, November 1, 7 a.m.­5 p.m. at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. Keynote speakers will be: 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." Nearly 100 presentations are planned for one-hour break-out sessions at 10 a.m., 1:30 and 2:45 p.m. Among the special guest presenters will be Sheridan Blau, president of the National Council of Teachers of English, director of the Southern California Writing Project and author of The Writer's Craft: From Idea to Expression. Break-out session 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/ Deadline for advance conference registration is October 15. Registration for the full-day conference, including luncheon, is $50 ($25 for full-time college students). On-site registration will be permitted but luncheon places cannot be guaranteed for those who do not register in advance. For information or registration form, write: Literacy Conference, Bilger Hall 101, 2545 The Mall, UH Manoa, Honolulu 96822 fax: 956-9879 e-mail: ednah@paradise.mwp.hawaii.edu or phone: 956-7193. Participating organizations and representatives in the Literacy Hui are Education Technology, Family Literacy, Hawai'i Association of Independent Schools, Hawai'i Association of School Librarians, Hawai'i Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Hawai'i Book Publishers Association, Hawai'i Catholic Schools, Hawai'i Council of Teachers of English, Hawai'i State Department of Education, Hawai'i Educational Research Association, Hawai'i Library Association, Hawai'i Literary Arts Council, Hawai'i Writing Project, Kapi'olani Community College, Leeward Community College, Ka Hui Heluhelu, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, UH College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, UH Department of English, UH Manoa Writing Program and UH Teacher Education Curriculum Studies.

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