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The Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) Celebrates Adult Education and Family Literacy Week

September 13, 2010

COABE recognizes the challenges of adult literacy and is very proud of the students and our members that serve them. We celebrate their efforts during Adult Education and Family Literacy Week on September 13 - 19, 2010 and encourage our member organizations and individual members to inform us of local events and efforts that are scheduled to for this special week of celebration.

Thanks again for all that you do!

Media Note: For more information, visit www.coabe.org or contact Info at COABE

Literacy Day September 8!

A CELEBRATION OF LITERACY

This coming Friday September 8th NMCL, is having a "Celebration of Literacy" in Albuquerque on September 8, Literacy day. It should be a fun event, and you're invited!

This is a good time to think about doing a Literacy Day event in your community.



11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Outpost Performance Space
210 Yale, SE
Albuquerque, NM


For information call the NMCL at 800-233-7587


We hope you can make it to the festival!

NM ABE WEBS project

The NM ABE WEBS project website is up and running.

 The NM ABE WEBS project is designed to build capacity at the local level, responding to local needs. New Mexico ABE communities will be involved from the inception of this project to assess their professional development needs.  

Please visit.

Press Alert: Congress Declares National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2010

Congress Declares National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2010

Thank you to all who contacted their Members of Congress in response to COABE alerts on this issue. We did it! Your contacts made a difference.

The resolution passed the House on a vote of 369-0 under suspension. Congressman Conyers-Michigan, Guthrie-Kentucky and Loebsack-Iowa also spoke in favor of the resolution during the floor debate last night.

Special thanks to advocates in Colorado for their advocacy work with Congressman Polis. Congratulations to advocates in New York, Arizona, Texas, California, Maryland, Kentucky, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Maine, DC, Minnesota, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Tennessee and the Northern Mariana Islands who cinched commitments from House members to co-sponsor the Resolution (H. Res. 1472).

If your House Member co-sponsored, now is a good time to follow up with a note of thanks.

More information on National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week will be posted in the NCL Advocacy Blog in the coming days: http://blog.ncladvocacy.org . Resources will be made available to you soon to help you plan celebration activities. They will be posted at: www.ncladvocacy.org .

So Please share the good news, and mark your calendars for September 13 - 17, 2010!

Distance Education

We are currently working on getting a pilot program ready for January of next year, that will allow us to run a distance education program for our students that are outside of the Roswell area.

After our pilot program, we will be able to provide distance education GED and ESL to our students that are able to participate in the program. More information will be posted as soon as we finish our training.

We are also very excited about the upcoming program  and we hope that everyone can participate!

Roswell ABE Graduation on 5-13-10

 

Last week we held our yearly event for our ABE GED graduates. We are so proud of them, and wish them the best in whatever road they pick.

A poem to those who succeeded in attaining their dream, that which they thought was never possible.

It Couldn't Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it. 
by Edgar A. Guest

Congratulations to all our ABE graduates!