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Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don't expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content. Thanks for everyone's help on this and particularly our initial drafter of the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential
candidates:
- Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good reminder,
even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so up-to-date.
I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps with a preface
about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of the
Presidential candidates. - I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates,
again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January. - And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press
can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be
interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number
of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions.
Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the
respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the
NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach
we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and
staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.)
Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues
of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as
getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content.
Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of
the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
*pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org *
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Regina Suitt
Dean of Adult Basic Education for College & Career
Pima Community College
401 N. Bonita
Tucson, Arizona 85709-5600
520-206-6500
rsuitt@pima.edu rsuitt@pima.edu
Engage Educate Empower
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These are great ideas, Regina, on how to use this survey for other purposes.
I also wonder if there is potential for a social media campaign using this. For example, the Cleveland Literacy Coalition already has a hugely successful social media campaign with many subscribers. Perhaps they would be interested in using this as a tweet or on their Facebook page to get not only their subscribers’ attention, but if it gets social media hits, also traditional media attention. There may be other local social media campaigns that literacy advocates can tap into and use this survey to good effect, however, I particularly like the Cleveland’s because their “social media assets” are much broader than only adult basic skills programs and literacy practitioners, include a wide range of advocacy groups that are also stakeholders in adult and children’s basic skills, such as: libraries, museums, businesses, organized labor, poverty reduction advocacy groups and others.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com
On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Suitt, Regina rsuitt@pima.edu wrote:
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential candidates:
Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of the Presidential candidates.
I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates, again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.org mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content. Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.org mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Dean of Adult Basic Education for College & Career
Pima Community College
401 N. Bonita
Tucson, Arizona 85709-5600
520-206-6500
rsuitt@pima.edu mailto:rsuitt@pima.edu
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Hi all,
This is a very useful survey and I like both Regina's and David's
suggestions in using it beyond the initial intent.
Is it too late to add a suggestion? At the PIAAC Research Conference, a
paper Literacy and Numeracy Skills of Second-Generation Young Adults: A
Comparative Study of Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the
United States was presented. It had some findings that I think will inform
and give data to the Immigrants section of the survey. Jeanne Batalova,
Senior Policy Analyst and Michael Fix both at the Migration Policy
Institute were the presenters. I am attaching the summary we were given
here for your review. David, you might remember it?
The survey is excellent as is, Peter!
Polly Smith
(COABE Public Policy Chair)
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:28 PM, David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com wrote:
These are great ideas, Regina, on how to use this survey for other
purposes.
I also wonder if there is potential for a social media campaign using
this. For example, the Cleveland Literacy Coalition already has a hugely
successful social media campaign with many subscribers. Perhaps they would
be interested in using this as a tweet or on their Facebook page to get not
only their subscribers’ attention, but if it gets social media hits, also
traditional media attention. There may be other local social media
campaigns that literacy advocates can tap into and use this survey to good
effect, however, I particularly like the Cleveland’s because their “social
media assets” are much broader than only adult basic skills programs and
literacy practitioners, include a wide range of advocacy groups that are
also stakeholders in adult and children’s basic skills, such as: libraries,
museums, businesses, organized labor, poverty reduction advocacy groups and
others.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com
On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Suitt, Regina rsuitt@pima.edu wrote:
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential
candidates:
1. Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good
reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so
up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps
with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of
the Presidential candidates.
2. I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates,
again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
3. And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press
can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be
interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a
number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and
suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to
the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on
the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The
approach we took was to use the document for the education of the
candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t
expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect
it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as
getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content.
Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of
the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
*pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org *
Find us and follow us on Facebook
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Dean of Adult Basic Education for College & Career
Pima Community College
401 N. Bonita
Tucson, Arizona 85709-5600
520-206-6500
rsuitt@pima.edu rsuitt@pima.edu
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Regina et al,
Thanks for the excellent suggestions and follow up actions.
Let’s plan to add this to our policy call agenda on Jan. 6th. Giving this additional life would be terrific.
I have included the call information again below and several agenda items for a starter.
Starting at this meeting our great member from CLASP Judy Mortrude is our official policy chair. Michele Diecuch and I will assist with the committee as well.
Public Policy Committee call
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
Please add additional items.
Talk with everyone then.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971
From: Suitt, Regina [mailto:rsuitt@pima.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 3:37 PM
To: Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso MBellso@proliteracy.org
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential candidates:
- Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of the Presidential candidates.
- I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates, again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
- And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content. Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Regina Suitt
Dean of Adult Basic Education for College & Career
Pima Community College
401 N. Bonita
Tucson, Arizona 85709-5600
520-206-6500
rsuitt@pima.edumailto:rsuitt@pima.edu
Engage Educate Empower
Hi All,
I haven't been very involved with the Coalition recently, but wanted to
make a couple of comments on the survey. It's well done, but there are a
couple of changes that might further strengthen it.
The survey mainly uses the term "literacy" and begins with a sentence about
American adults who struggle to read. The next sentence adds writing and
basic math. I think it's important to consistently refer to "literacy and
numeracy" as I think many (if not most) people think of literacy as meaning
reading and writing, but not numeracy.
Each "issue" paragraph ends with a question about whether the candidate
would be in favor of additional funding to address the issue. I am
concerned that it will be easy for candidates (who bother to respond) to
say "yes" over and over again in response to each question, but not to say
anything more specific such as how much funding, funding for what types of
activities, etc. Perhaps at the end of the survey, we could add a few more
specific questions. I'd like to hear the candidates proposed solutions,
not just the simple yeses.
Thanks,
Sally
[image: World Ed Logo]sally waldron [image: Red Squares] vice
president [image:
Red Squares] 617.482.9485
www.worlded.org [image: JSILogo] http://www.facebook.com/worlded [image:
JSILogo] http://www.twitter.com/worlded
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
wrote:
Regina et al,
Thanks for the excellent suggestions and follow up actions.
Let’s plan to add this to our policy call agenda on Jan. 6th. Giving
this additional life would be terrific.
I have included the call information again below and several agenda items
for a starter.
Starting at this meeting our great member from CLASP Judy Mortrude is our
official policy chair. Michele Diecuch and I will assist with the
committee as well.
Public Policy Committee call
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
Please add additional items.
Talk with everyone then.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
*pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org *
Find us and follow us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.
http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971
From: Suitt, Regina [mailto:rsuitt@pima.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 3:37 PM
To: Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso <
MBellso@proliteracy.org>
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential
candidates:
1. Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good
reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so
up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps
with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of
the Presidential candidates.
2. I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates,
again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
3. And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press
can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be
interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number
of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions.
Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the
respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the
NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach
we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and
staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.)
Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues
of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as
getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content.
Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of
the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
*pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org *
Find us and follow us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
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Dean of Adult Basic Education for College & Career
Pima Community College
401 N. Bonita
Tucson, Arizona 85709-5600
520-206-6500
rsuitt@pima.edu rsuitt@pima.edu
Engage Educate Empower
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Hi,
Thank you, Peter for taking the lead to write the letter to the
presidential candidates. I agree with Sally's points and Regina's
suggestions for extending the use of the document. What if, instead of
asking yes/no questions, we asked them to rate how strongly they support
each item or how likely they would be to support additional funding?
Happy holidays to you all!
Silja
.
Silja kallenbach [image: Red Squares]Vice President [image: Red Squares]
617.482.9485
www.worlded.org [image: JSILogo] http://www.facebook.com/worlded [image:
JSILogo] http://www.twitter.com/worlded
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Sally Waldron sally_waldron@worlded.org
wrote:
Hi All,
I haven't been very involved with the Coalition recently, but wanted to
make a couple of comments on the survey. It's well done, but there are a
couple of changes that might further strengthen it.
The survey mainly uses the term "literacy" and begins with a sentence
about American adults who struggle to read. The next sentence adds writing
and basic math. I think it's important to consistently refer to "literacy
and numeracy" as I think many (if not most) people think of literacy as
meaning reading and writing, but not numeracy.
Each "issue" paragraph ends with a question about whether the candidate
would be in favor of additional funding to address the issue. I am
concerned that it will be easy for candidates (who bother to respond) to
say "yes" over and over again in response to each question, but not to say
anything more specific such as how much funding, funding for what types of
activities, etc. Perhaps at the end of the survey, we could add a few more
specific questions. I'd like to hear the candidates proposed solutions,
not just the simple yeses.
Thanks,
Sally
[image: World Ed Logo]sally waldron [image: Red Squares] vice
president [image: Red Squares] 617.482.9485
www.worlded.org [image: JSILogo] http://www.facebook.com/worlded [image:
JSILogo] http://www.twitter.com/worlded
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
wrote:
Regina et al,
Thanks for the excellent suggestions and follow up actions.
Let’s plan to add this to our policy call agenda on Jan. 6th.
Giving this additional life would be terrific.
I have included the call information again below and several agenda items
for a starter.
Starting at this meeting our great member from CLASP Judy Mortrude is
our official policy chair. Michele Diecuch and I will assist with the
committee as well.
Public Policy Committee call
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
Please add additional items.
Talk with everyone then.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
*pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org *
Find us and follow us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.
http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971
From: Suitt, Regina [mailto:rsuitt@pima.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 3:37 PM
To: Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso <
MBellso@proliteracy.org>
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential
candidates:
1. Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good
reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so
up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps
with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of
the Presidential candidates.
2. I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates,
again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
3. And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press
can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be
interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a
number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and
suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to
the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on
the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The
approach we took was to use the document for the education of the
candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t
expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect
it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as
getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content.
Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of
the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
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Hello,
Many thanks for putting this document together Peter. I also agree that finding a way for the candidates to provide some details in their responses would be a preferred way to gauge their true support. Is there any way of determining though that their responses would be consistent with their past practice and stance on adult education/literacy/numeracy efforts so that we would know that this is not simply campaign rhetoric?
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Silja Kallenbach
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:25 PM
To: Sally Waldron
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: [Caution: Message contains Redirect URL content] Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi,
Thank you, Peter for taking the lead to write the letter to the presidential candidates. I agree with Sally's points and Regina's suggestions for extending the use of the document. What if, instead of asking yes/no questions, we asked them to rate how strongly they support each item or how likely they would be to support additional funding?
Happy holidays to you all!
Silja
.
Silja kallenbach [Red Squares] Vice President [Red Squares] 617.482.9485
www.worlded.orghttp://www.worlded.org/ [JSILogo] http://www.facebook.com/worlded [JSILogo] http://www.twitter.com/worlded
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Sally Waldron <sally_waldron@worlded.orgmailto:sally_waldron@worlded.org> wrote:
Hi All,
I haven't been very involved with the Coalition recently, but wanted to make a couple of comments on the survey. It's well done, but there are a couple of changes that might further strengthen it.
The survey mainly uses the term "literacy" and begins with a sentence about American adults who struggle to read. The next sentence adds writing and basic math. I think it's important to consistently refer to "literacy and numeracy" as I think many (if not most) people think of literacy as meaning reading and writing, but not numeracy.
Each "issue" paragraph ends with a question about whether the candidate would be in favor of additional funding to address the issue. I am concerned that it will be easy for candidates (who bother to respond) to say "yes" over and over again in response to each question, but not to say anything more specific such as how much funding, funding for what types of activities, etc. Perhaps at the end of the survey, we could add a few more specific questions. I'd like to hear the candidates proposed solutions, not just the simple yeses.
Thanks,
Sally
[World Ed Logo]
sally waldron [Red Squares] vice president [Red Squares] 617.482.9485
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Regina et al,
Thanks for the excellent suggestions and follow up actions.
Let’s plan to add this to our policy call agenda on Jan. 6th. Giving this additional life would be terrific.
I have included the call information again below and several agenda items for a starter.
Starting at this meeting our great member from CLASP Judy Mortrude is our official policy chair. Michele Diecuch and I will assist with the committee as well.
Public Policy Committee call
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
Please add additional items.
Talk with everyone then.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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From: Suitt, Regina [mailto:rsuitt@pima.edumailto:rsuitt@pima.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 3:37 PM
To: Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org>
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso <MBellso@proliteracy.orgmailto:MBellso@proliteracy.org>
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential candidates:
- Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of the Presidential candidates.
- I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates, again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
- And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content. Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
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ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
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Pima Community College
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Hello All,
I hope everyone had a great holiday and are getting ready for another one.
Great comments all around and I will work with our team to see what we can come up that will incorporate as many of the good comments as we can.
The editorial additions were very helpful and the suggestions started by Regina were a great idea.
We will do a final draft and get it out soon and also think more about the additional dissemination ideas and possible updated versions.
Thanks again for the input and ideas.
Peter and team.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Nash
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 10:07 AM
To: 'Silja Kallenbach' silja_kallenbach@worlded.org; Sally Waldron sally_waldron@worlded.org
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso MBellso@proliteracy.org
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] [Caution: Message contains Redirect URL content] Re: Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hello,
Many thanks for putting this document together Peter. I also agree that finding a way for the candidates to provide some details in their responses would be a preferred way to gauge their true support. Is there any way of determining though that their responses would be consistent with their past practice and stance on adult education/literacy/numeracy efforts so that we would know that this is not simply campaign rhetoric?
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Silja Kallenbach
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:25 PM
To: Sally Waldron
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: [Caution: Message contains Redirect URL content] Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi,
Thank you, Peter for taking the lead to write the letter to the presidential candidates. I agree with Sally's points and Regina's suggestions for extending the use of the document. What if, instead of asking yes/no questions, we asked them to rate how strongly they support each item or how likely they would be to support additional funding?
Happy holidays to you all!
Silja
.
Silja kallenbach [Red Squares] Vice President [Red Squares] 617.482.9485
www.worlded.orghttp://www.worlded.org/ [JSILogo] http://www.facebook.com/worlded [JSILogo] http://www.twitter.com/worlded
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Sally Waldron <sally_waldron@worlded.orgmailto:sally_waldron@worlded.org> wrote:
Hi All,
I haven't been very involved with the Coalition recently, but wanted to make a couple of comments on the survey. It's well done, but there are a couple of changes that might further strengthen it.
The survey mainly uses the term "literacy" and begins with a sentence about American adults who struggle to read. The next sentence adds writing and basic math. I think it's important to consistently refer to "literacy and numeracy" as I think many (if not most) people think of literacy as meaning reading and writing, but not numeracy.
Each "issue" paragraph ends with a question about whether the candidate would be in favor of additional funding to address the issue. I am concerned that it will be easy for candidates (who bother to respond) to say "yes" over and over again in response to each question, but not to say anything more specific such as how much funding, funding for what types of activities, etc. Perhaps at the end of the survey, we could add a few more specific questions. I'd like to hear the candidates proposed solutions, not just the simple yeses.
Thanks,
Sally
[World Ed Logo]
sally waldron [Red Squares] vice president [Red Squares] 617.482.9485
www.worlded.orghttp://www.worlded.org/ [JSILogo] http://www.facebook.com/worlded [JSILogo] http://www.twitter.com/worlded
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Regina et al,
Thanks for the excellent suggestions and follow up actions.
Let’s plan to add this to our policy call agenda on Jan. 6th. Giving this additional life would be terrific.
I have included the call information again below and several agenda items for a starter.
Starting at this meeting our great member from CLASP Judy Mortrude is our official policy chair. Michele Diecuch and I will assist with the committee as well.
Public Policy Committee call
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
Please add additional items.
Talk with everyone then.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
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From: Suitt, Regina [mailto:rsuitt@pima.edumailto:rsuitt@pima.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 3:37 PM
To: Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org>
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso <MBellso@proliteracy.orgmailto:MBellso@proliteracy.org>
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential candidates:
- Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of the Presidential candidates.
- I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates, again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
- And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content. Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
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Peter - thanks for sharing - always a great idea to get in writing, if
possible, candidates' support of literacy during campaign season. I echo
whoever has said crafting the questions to get more of a commitment or a
plan or "how would you..." ..as opposed to a "yes".
Happy New Year!
Jeff
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number
of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions.
Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the
respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the
NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach
we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and
staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.)
Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues
of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as
getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content.
Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of
the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
*pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org *
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Thanks Polly!
Yes the recent PIAAC meeting had some very good information and we were thinking of incorporating something from PIAAC into the introductory letter as well.
We will have a final draft and response sheet out soon.
Happy New Year to everyone.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Polly Smith
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 5:21 PM
To: David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso MBellso@proliteracy.org
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hi all,
This is a very useful survey and I like both Regina's and David's suggestions in using it beyond the initial intent.
Is it too late to add a suggestion? At the PIAAC Research Conference, a paper Literacy and Numeracy Skills of Second-Generation Young Adults: A Comparative Study of Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States was presented. It had some findings that I think will inform and give data to the Immigrants section of the survey. Jeanne Batalova, Senior Policy Analyst and Michael Fix both at the Migration Policy Institute were the presenters. I am attaching the summary we were given here for your review. David, you might remember it?
The survey is excellent as is, Peter!
Polly Smith
(COABE Public Policy Chair)
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:28 PM, David Rosen <djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com> wrote:
These are great ideas, Regina, on how to use this survey for other purposes.
I also wonder if there is potential for a social media campaign using this. For example, the Cleveland Literacy Coalition already has a hugely successful social media campaign with many subscribers. Perhaps they would be interested in using this as a tweet or on their Facebook page to get not only their subscribers’ attention, but if it gets social media hits, also traditional media attention. There may be other local social media campaigns that literacy advocates can tap into and use this survey to good effect, however, I particularly like the Cleveland’s because their “social media assets” are much broader than only adult basic skills programs and literacy practitioners, include a wide range of advocacy groups that are also stakeholders in adult and children’s basic skills, such as: libraries, museums, businesses, organized labor, poverty reduction advocacy groups and others.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Suitt, Regina <rsuitt@pima.edumailto:rsuitt@pima.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
This is great; I'm looking forward to the final version.
A few ideas on utilizing this survey, besides the actual Presidential candidates:
- Send to all state and local elected officials. It's a good reminder, even for our champions, that the need is great and this is so up-to-date. I will send this to my two southern AZ reps/senators perhaps with a preface about wanting to make sure they knew what was being asked of the Presidential candidates.
- I may also send to state and local campaign offices of candidates, again with a preface that candidates will receive this in January.
- And lastly, I will send it to our newspaper -- sometimes the press can get candidates to answer things.... if nothing else, the press may be interested in the information too.
Thanks again for providing this and Happy Holidays to all!
Regina
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is a revised draft of our Presidential Survey. We made a number of adjustments and additions based on various comments and suggestions. Our plan is to do one final revision and then send it on to the respective candidates shortly after the first of the year.
We will post the document and any responses or comments we get back on the NCL website. Feel free to do so on your website as well. The approach we took was to use the document for the education of the candidates and staff as much as to seek specific responses. (We don’t expect many.) Our hope is to give the issue some exposure and connect it to other issues of importance.
If you have any contacts within the campaigns please let us know as getting this to the right contacts is as important as the content. Thanks for everyone’s help on this and particularly our initial drafter of the paper Michele Bellso.
Look forward to hearing from folks and have a Happy Holiday.
Peter
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Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
?
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Peter,
This has developed into a solid 2-page document. Congratulations. I appreciate the amount of work and thought that went into this. I still have some doubts about whether the presidential hopefuls or the nominees will want to take the time to fill out the response sheet and return it, assuming that is how you will direct the 2-page document, but I may be wrong about this. It will be interesting to see. Will you be using a covering letter to transmit it? Will it be sent electronically or by regular mail?
Full speed ahead! Thanks so much for your enormous effort.
Gail
On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
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ProLiteracy | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
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Adult Learning Partners, LLC
440 East 23rd Street - Ste. 11c
New York, NY 10010
Peter,
Let me add my thanks and congratulations for this effort. The background information is well-done and can be used for other purposes. I agree that it might be tough to get responses--but you can't get them if you don't try. Thanks again.
Carol
Carol Clymer, Ed.D.
Co-Director
Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy
Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy
403 B Keller Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-5876
(814) 863-6108 (fax)
email: cdc22@psu.edumailto:cdc22@psu.edu
On Jan 6, 2016, at 5:48 AM, Gail Spangenberg <gspangenberg@alpamerica.commailto:gspangenberg@alpamerica.com>
wrote:
Peter,
This has developed into a solid 2-page document. Congratulations. I appreciate the amount of work and thought that went into this. I still have some doubts about whether the presidential hopefuls or the nominees will want to take the time to fill out the response sheet and return it, assuming that is how you will direct the 2-page document, but I may be wrong about this. It will be interesting to see. Will you be using a covering letter to transmit it? Will it be sent electronically or by regular mail?
Full speed ahead! Thanks so much for your enormous effort.
Gail
On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Peter,
Kudos to you and your team! The comprehensive background information is so valuable, and the response sheet certainly meets the need I saw.
I do have one question: Since so many of the questions involve commitments for additional resources which may not receive positive support at this time, I wonder if an additional question regarding bully pulpit support for the recognition of the importance of this issue. My first thought regarding the phrasing is: Will you provide public recognition of the importance of addressing adult literacy, including English proficiency, in the future of the United States?
I will try to be on this afternoon's call.
JoAnn
JoAnn Weinberger
Co-Chair, Public Policy Committee
PAACE
On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future
candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult
education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a
non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say
that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational
explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in
writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the
heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean
nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always
prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the
yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to
this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with
varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response
sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add
the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it
please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have
for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you
can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
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*pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org *
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Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100tel:1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash tnash@windhamraymondschools.org wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.org mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100 tel:1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.org mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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This is a great discussion. Glad to see all this activity on the list.
I think that between no and the election, it would be a big win to be able to get at least some of the candidates to respond even in just a generally positive way. Beyond a few issues, candidates like to to avoid specifics anyway. The exceptions are things like tax plans or some other particularly hot issue — many candidates release a plan in those instances with some degree of detail, although when you look closely, specifics are usually still a bit lacking. Moreover, my guess is that no candidate, including campaign education staff, are well-versed enough in our issue(s) to be comfortable suggesting specific legislative initiatives — and politically, our issue probably doesn’t have the perceived constituent base for it to be worth (in their view) doing.
BUT, it seems to me that after the election, we can build on general expressions of support to develop (or for individual members to develop) a much more specific legislative agenda to propose as a way for the winning candidate to act on the general support they expressed. Developing a few legislative agenda items could be a next-step project after this one.
The survey also might help us better understand what strategy would most likely to appeal to certain candidates… i.e. what the hook might be to get them more interested in our issue (immigration reform, health, et.)
General expressions of support are also useful in that they are handy to cite when we come back in future years asking the President to include additional funding in their budget proposals.
Great work by all involved!
Jeff
Jeff Carter
—
President, National Coalition for Literacy
http://national-coalition-literacy.org
General Contact Info —
jcarter@literacypolicy.org or jeffcrtr@gmail.org
Personal Twitter: @jeffcrtr | literacypolicy.org
Cell: (202) 374-4387
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:15 PM, David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com wrote:
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com mailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash <tnash@windhamraymondschools.org mailto:tnash@windhamraymondschools.org> wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.org mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100 tel:1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.org mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Sorry about typo below in the first sentence of paragraph 2. Meant to write "I think that between now and the election…"
Jeff
On Jan 6, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Jeff Carter jcarter@literacypolicy.org wrote:
This is a great discussion. Glad to see all this activity on the list.
I think that between no and the election, it would be a big win to be able to get at least some of the candidates to respond even in just a generally positive way. Beyond a few issues, candidates like to to avoid specifics anyway. The exceptions are things like tax plans or some other particularly hot issue — many candidates release a plan in those instances with some degree of detail, although when you look closely, specifics are usually still a bit lacking. Moreover, my guess is that no candidate, including campaign education staff, are well-versed enough in our issue(s) to be comfortable suggesting specific legislative initiatives — and politically, our issue probably doesn’t have the perceived constituent base for it to be worth (in their view) doing.
BUT, it seems to me that after the election, we can build on general expressions of support to develop (or for individual members to develop) a much more specific legislative agenda to propose as a way for the winning candidate to act on the general support they expressed. Developing a few legislative agenda items could be a next-step project after this one.
The survey also might help us better understand what strategy would most likely to appeal to certain candidates… i.e. what the hook might be to get them more interested in our issue (immigration reform, health, et.)
General expressions of support are also useful in that they are handy to cite when we come back in future years asking the President to include additional funding in their budget proposals.
Great work by all involved!
Jeff
Jeff Carter
—
President, National Coalition for Literacy
http://national-coalition-literacy.org http://national-coalition-literacy.org/
General Contact Info —
jcarter@literacypolicy.org mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org or jeffcrtr@gmail.org mailto:jeffcrtr@gmail.org
Personal Twitter: @jeffcrtr | literacypolicy.org http://literacypolicy.org/
Cell: (202) 374-4387
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:15 PM, David Rosen <djrosen123@gmail.com mailto:djrosen123@gmail.com> wrote:
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com mailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash <tnash@windhamraymondschools.org mailto:tnash@windhamraymondschools.org> wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.org mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100 tel:1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
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?Thanks for the good feedback Gail. Yes we will do a transmittal letter and likely use both email and mail depending on the contact information we have. Any suggestions or assistance on contacts will be helpful we have a pretty good list so far.
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From: Gail Spangenberg gspangenberg@alpamerica.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 5:48 AM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Peter,
This has developed into a solid 2-page document. Congratulations. I appreciate the amount of work and thought that went into this. I still have some doubts about whether the presidential hopefuls or the nominees will want to take the time to fill out the response sheet and return it, assuming that is how you will direct the 2-page document, but I may be wrong about this. It will be interesting to see. Will you be using a covering letter to transmit it? Will it be sent electronically or by regular mail?
Full speed ahead! Thanks so much for your enormous effort.
Gail
On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
?
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Good suggestion David and on our NCL Policy call there discussion of a blog to keep tabs on response and maybe follow up. I can talk with Jeff more about this idea and how it might help with what you suggest.
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From: David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: Peter Waite; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash <tnash@windhamraymondschools.orgmailto:tnash@windhamraymondschools.org> wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100tel:1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Hello NCL friends,
It’s really been bugging me about how many responses we’ve gotten in the past, from whom, and whether they were helpful. In 2004, David Rosen, David Collings and I organized Literacy President, in partnership with the Change Agent at World Ed, VALUEUSA, and Lennox McLendon. We modeled the idea after PAACE did a similar campaign at the state level (was it for governor, JoAnn?)
The Literacy President campaign was to “to increase national awareness of adult literacy regardless of which candidate is elected.” In 2008 we broadened the collaborative and partnered with NCL and NCL organizations, like ProLiteracy, the state directors, and others. We had a website where we posted training packets for practitioners and learners to ask the candidates questions in campaign forums.
We had lesson plans on writing and questioning presidential candidates, and tracked the candidates online forums where practitioners could ask questions of candidates online. It was a very time intensive volunteer project. 2004 and 2008 were both very different. In 2004 we learned a lot and we started earlier for 2008. 2008 exploded with social media and it was difficult to get questions asked in person. But I heard that similar campaigns at the state level were very effective in getting their questions asked and answered in-person and in writing (PAACE and AZ AALL come to mind).
While I don’t know to what extent practitioners and learners participated in the national campaigns, we got written responses from the Bush and Kerry campaigns in 2004 and the Obama and Edwards campaigns in 2008. We published them on the web. Since the website has been down for years, I researched the responses via the Wayback Machine. I’ve copied them into Word and they are attached.
Enjoy!
Jackie
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Peter Waite
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:20 AM
To: David Rosen; Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Good suggestion David and on our NCL Policy call there discussion of a blog to keep tabs on response and maybe follow up. I can talk with Jeff more about this idea and how it might help with what you suggest.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
http://www.proliteracy.org/ ProLiteracy | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 Facebook and http://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_ Twitter.
http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971 Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.
From: David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: Peter Waite; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash tnash@windhamraymondschools.org wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [ mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: mailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite < mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
tel:1-605-477-2100 1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
http://www.proliteracy.org/ ProLiteracy | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p tel:315.214-2460 315.214-2460 | f tel:315.422.6369 315.422.6369 | mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Jackie,
You are absolutely correct re Pennsylvania's success with gubernatorial positions. We used an open ended format, having included background information. One candidate asked us to write his position, which we did, he approved and then we reminded him of his commitments once he was elected! It worked in terms of authoring legislation and increased funding.
We have also submitted requests to US Senatorial candidates, with greater and lesser success, depending on the candidates.
In both cases, meeting with the policy person for education has been instrumental.
JoAnn Weinberger
Co-Chair, Public Policy Committee
PAACE
On Jan 8, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Jackie Taylor jackie@jataylor.net wrote:
Hello NCL friends,
It’s really been bugging me about how many responses we’ve gotten in the past, from whom, and whether they were helpful. In 2004, David Rosen, David Collings and I organized Literacy President, in partnership with the Change Agent at World Ed, VALUEUSA, and Lennox McLendon. We modeled the idea after PAACE did a similar campaign at the state level (was it for governor, JoAnn?)
The Literacy President campaign was to “to increase national awareness of adult literacy regardless of which candidate is elected.” In 2008 we broadened the collaborative and partnered with NCL and NCL organizations, like ProLiteracy, the state directors, and others. We had a website where we posted training packets for practitioners and learners to ask the candidates questions in campaign forums.
We had lesson plans on writing and questioning presidential candidates, and tracked the candidates online forums where practitioners could ask questions of candidates online. It was a very time intensive volunteer project. 2004 and 2008 were both very different. In 2004 we learned a lot and we started earlier for 2008. 2008 exploded with social media and it was difficult to get questions asked in person. But I heard that similar campaigns at the state level were very effective in getting their questions asked and answered in-person and in writing (PAACE and AZ AALL come to mind).
While I don’t know to what extent practitioners and learners participated in the national campaigns, we got written responses from the Bush and Kerry campaigns in 2004 and the Obama and Edwards campaigns in 2008. We published them on the web. Since the website has been down for years, I researched the responses via the Wayback Machine. I’ve copied them into Word and they are attached.
Enjoy!
Jackie
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Peter Waite
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:20 AM
To: David Rosen; Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Good suggestion David and on our NCL Policy call there discussion of a blog to keep tabs on response and maybe follow up. I can talk with Jeff more about this idea and how it might help with what you suggest.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.
From: David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: Peter Waite; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash tnash@windhamraymondschools.org wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Yes, in AZ we were most successful at getting candidates to answer these
types of questions at events. It takes a lot of work but it's a great way
to not only get candidates views but also to get them in public and the
additional benefit is that everyone else at the event learns a lot too!
This survey can be utilized in that way too at events. And asking each
question multiple times in multiple ways on social media works too.
There are ways to follow up with candidates who end up winning with the
questionnaire even if all they did was answer yes or no AND their Ed policy
person will know more too.
Win win awareness raising all around!
Thanks for creating this and the great discussion!
Regina
On Friday, January 8, 2016, JoAnn Weinberger <joann.weinberger@gmail.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','joann.weinberger@gmail.com');> wrote:
Jackie,
You are absolutely correct re Pennsylvania's success with gubernatorial
positions. We used an open ended format, having included background
information. One candidate asked us to write his position, which we did, he
approved and then we reminded him of his commitments once he was elected!
It worked in terms of authoring legislation and increased funding.
We have also submitted requests to US Senatorial candidates, with greater
and lesser success, depending on the candidates.
In both cases, meeting with the policy person for education has been
instrumental.
JoAnn Weinberger
Co-Chair, Public Policy Committee
PAACE
On Jan 8, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Jackie Taylor jackie@jataylor.net wrote:
Hello NCL friends,
It’s really been bugging me about how many responses we’ve gotten in the
past, from whom, and whether they were helpful. In 2004, David Rosen, David
Collings and I organized Literacy President, in partnership with the Change
Agent at World Ed, VALUEUSA, and Lennox McLendon. We modeled the idea after
PAACE did a similar campaign at the state level (was it for governor,
JoAnn?)
The Literacy President campaign was to “*to increase national awareness
of adult literacy regardless of which candidate is elected.” In 2008 we
broadened the collaborative and partnered with NCL and NCL organizations,
like ProLiteracy, the state directors, and others. We had a website where
we posted training packets for practitioners and learners to ask the
candidates questions in campaign forums. *
We had lesson plans on writing and questioning presidential candidates,
and tracked the candidates online forums where practitioners could ask
questions of candidates online. It was a very time intensive volunteer
project. 2004 and 2008 were both very different. In 2004 we learned a lot
and we started earlier for 2008. 2008 exploded with social media and it was
difficult to get questions asked in person. But I heard that similar
campaigns at the state level were very effective in getting their questions
asked and answered in-person and in writing (PAACE and AZ AALL come to
mind).
*While I don’t know to what extent practitioners and learners participated
in the national campaigns, we got written responses from the Bush and Kerry
campaigns in 2004 and the Obama and Edwards campaigns in 2008. We published
them on the web. Since the website has been down for years, I researched
the responses via the Wayback Machine. I’ve copied them into Word and they
are attached. *
Enjoy!
Jackie
From: Members [
mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] *On Behalf
Of *Peter Waite
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:20 AM
To: David Rosen; Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Good suggestion David and on our NCL Policy call there discussion of a
blog to keep tabs on response and maybe follow up. I can talk with Jeff
more about this idea and how it might help with what you suggest.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
pwaite@proliteracy.org
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From: David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: Peter Waite; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele
Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to
adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and
review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or
all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach,
although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is
for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and
request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing
adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education
support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in
raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash tnash@windhamraymondschools.org
wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the
questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine
if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with
no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [
mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] *On Behalf
Of *Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future
candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult
education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a
non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say
that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational
explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in
writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the
heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean
nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always
prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the
yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to
this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with
varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite pwaite@proliteracy.org
wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response
sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add
the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it
please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have
for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you
can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street |
Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 |
pwaite@proliteracy.org
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Good suggestions all. Hopefully we can build on some of the great work done in the past.
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From: JoAnn Weinberger joann.weinberger@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 6:09 PM
To: Jackie Taylor
Cc: Peter Waite; David Rosen; Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Jackie,
You are absolutely correct re Pennsylvania's success with gubernatorial positions. We used an open ended format, having included background information. One candidate asked us to write his position, which we did, he approved and then we reminded him of his commitments once he was elected! It worked in terms of authoring legislation and increased funding.
We have also submitted requests to US Senatorial candidates, with greater and lesser success, depending on the candidates.
In both cases, meeting with the policy person for education has been instrumental.
JoAnn Weinberger
Co-Chair, Public Policy Committee
PAACE
On Jan 8, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Jackie Taylor <jackie@jataylor.netmailto:jackie@jataylor.net> wrote:
Hello NCL friends,
It’s really been bugging me about how many responses we’ve gotten in the past, from whom, and whether they were helpful. In 2004, David Rosen, David Collings and I organized Literacy President, in partnership with the Change Agent at World Ed, VALUEUSA, and Lennox McLendon. We modeled the idea after PAACE did a similar campaign at the state level (was it for governor, JoAnn?)
The Literacy President campaign was to “to increase national awareness of adult literacy regardless of which candidate is elected.” In 2008 we broadened the collaborative and partnered with NCL and NCL organizations, like ProLiteracy, the state directors, and others. We had a website where we posted training packets for practitioners and learners to ask the candidates questions in campaign forums.
We had lesson plans on writing and questioning presidential candidates, and tracked the candidates online forums where practitioners could ask questions of candidates online. It was a very time intensive volunteer project. 2004 and 2008 were both very different. In 2004 we learned a lot and we started earlier for 2008. 2008 exploded with social media and it was difficult to get questions asked in person. But I heard that similar campaigns at the state level were very effective in getting their questions asked and answered in-person and in writing (PAACE and AZ AALL come to mind).
While I don’t know to what extent practitioners and learners participated in the national campaigns, we got written responses from the Bush and Kerry campaigns in 2004 and the Obama and Edwards campaigns in 2008. We published them on the web. Since the website has been down for years, I researched the responses via the Wayback Machine. I’ve copied them into Word and they are attached.
Enjoy!
Jackie
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Peter Waite
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:20 AM
To: David Rosen; Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Good suggestion David and on our NCL Policy call there discussion of a blog to keep tabs on response and maybe follow up. I can talk with Jeff more about this idea and how it might help with what you suggest.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
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From: David Rosen <djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: Peter Waite; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash <tnash@windhamraymondschools.orgmailto:tnash@windhamraymondschools.org> wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100tel:1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
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Hey Jackie et al,
As we launch this next survey I wanted to underscore your good observations about the work of the past. The project you and others did on those past elections was outstanding and it linked instruction with advocacy which was particularly valuable.
Our efforts are not as comprehensive and as you mention the advent of social media has put some limits on the quality of response we may get. The early responses on the campaigns you queried in the past were quite good.
Any further guidance or suggestions are very welcome and once again you and others did a fabulous job in years past and hopefully we can build on that effort.
Peter
From: Jackie Taylor [mailto:jackie@jataylor.net]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 4:25 PM
To: Peter Waite; 'David Rosen'; 'Thomas Nash'; 'Jeff Fantine'
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: RE: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hello NCL friends,
It’s really been bugging me about how many responses we’ve gotten in the past, from whom, and whether they were helpful. In 2004, David Rosen, David Collings and I organized Literacy President, in partnership with the Change Agent at World Ed, VALUEUSA, and Lennox McLendon. We modeled the idea after PAACE did a similar campaign at the state level (was it for governor, JoAnn?)
The Literacy President campaign was to “to increase national awareness of adult literacy regardless of which candidate is elected.” In 2008 we broadened the collaborative and partnered with NCL and NCL organizations, like ProLiteracy, the state directors, and others. We had a website where we posted training packets for practitioners and learners to ask the candidates questions in campaign forums.
We had lesson plans on writing and questioning presidential candidates, and tracked the candidates online forums where practitioners could ask questions of candidates online. It was a very time intensive volunteer project. 2004 and 2008 were both very different. In 2004 we learned a lot and we started earlier for 2008. 2008 exploded with social media and it was difficult to get questions asked in person. But I heard that similar campaigns at the state level were very effective in getting their questions asked and answered in-person and in writing (PAACE and AZ AALL come to mind).
While I don’t know to what extent practitioners and learners participated in the national campaigns, we got written responses from the Bush and Kerry campaigns in 2004 and the Obama and Edwards campaigns in 2008. We published them on the web. Since the website has been down for years, I researched the responses via the Wayback Machine. I’ve copied them into Word and they are attached.
Enjoy!
Jackie
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Peter Waite
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:20 AM
To: David Rosen; Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Good suggestion David and on our NCL Policy call there discussion of a blog to keep tabs on response and maybe follow up. I can talk with Jeff more about this idea and how it might help with what you suggest.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971
From: David Rosen <djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: Peter Waite; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash <tnash@windhamraymondschools.orgmailto:tnash@windhamraymondschools.org> wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
l
Jan 6th 4pm eastern
1-605-477-2100tel:1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
ProLiteracyhttp://www.proliteracy.org/ | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460tel:315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369tel:315.422.6369 | pwaite@proliteracy.orgmailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 and Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_.
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Thank you Peter and to all who are working on this; it is exciting times!
Stay warm and safe in the storms this weekend everyone.
Jackie
From: Peter Waite [mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 4:20 PM
To: Jackie Taylor; 'David Rosen'; 'Thomas Nash'; 'Jeff Fantine'
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: RE: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hey Jackie et al,
As we launch this next survey I wanted to underscore your good observations about the work of the past. The project you and others did on those past elections was outstanding and it linked instruction with advocacy which was particularly valuable.
Our efforts are not as comprehensive and as you mention the advent of social media has put some limits on the quality of response we may get. The early responses on the campaigns you queried in the past were quite good.
Any further guidance or suggestions are very welcome and once again you and others did a fabulous job in years past and hopefully we can build on that effort.
Peter
From: Jackie Taylor [mailto:jackie@jataylor.net]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 4:25 PM
To: Peter Waite; 'David Rosen'; 'Thomas Nash'; 'Jeff Fantine'
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: RE: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Hello NCL friends,
It’s really been bugging me about how many responses we’ve gotten in the past, from whom, and whether they were helpful. In 2004, David Rosen, David Collings and I organized Literacy President, in partnership with the Change Agent at World Ed, VALUEUSA, and Lennox McLendon. We modeled the idea after PAACE did a similar campaign at the state level (was it for governor, JoAnn?)
The Literacy President campaign was to “to increase national awareness of adult literacy regardless of which candidate is elected.” In 2008 we broadened the collaborative and partnered with NCL and NCL organizations, like ProLiteracy, the state directors, and others. We had a website where we posted training packets for practitioners and learners to ask the candidates questions in campaign forums.
We had lesson plans on writing and questioning presidential candidates, and tracked the candidates online forums where practitioners could ask questions of candidates online. It was a very time intensive volunteer project. 2004 and 2008 were both very different. In 2004 we learned a lot and we started earlier for 2008. 2008 exploded with social media and it was difficult to get questions asked in person. But I heard that similar campaigns at the state level were very effective in getting their questions asked and answered in-person and in writing (PAACE and AZ AALL come to mind).
While I don’t know to what extent practitioners and learners participated in the national campaigns, we got written responses from the Bush and Kerry campaigns in 2004 and the Obama and Edwards campaigns in 2008. We published them on the web. Since the website has been down for years, I researched the responses via the Wayback Machine. I’ve copied them into Word and they are attached.
Enjoy!
Jackie
From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Peter Waite
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:20 AM
To: David Rosen; Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Good suggestion David and on our NCL Policy call there discussion of a blog to keep tabs on response and maybe follow up. I can talk with Jeff more about this idea and how it might help with what you suggest.
PETER A. WAITE | Executive Vice President
http://www.proliteracy.org/ ProLiteracy | 104 Marcellus Street | Syracuse, NY 13204
p 315.214-2460 | f 315.422.6369 | mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org
Find us and follow us on http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707 Facebook and http://twitter.com/#!/_ProLiteracy_ Twitter.
http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=971 Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.
From: David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Thomas Nash; Jeff Fantine
Cc: Peter Waite; members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Tom, Jeff, and others,
One possibility to check for a candidate’s awareness of and commitment to adult literacy is to request the candidate's education position paper and review it to see what it says about adult basic education. In nearly all or all cases, however, we would be disappointed. The most fruitful approach, although not always possible, is to find out who the education person is for each candidate, try to find out someone who knows that person, and request a phone call or meeting to talk about the importance of addressing adult basic education. The goal would be to get adult basic education support into the education position paper.
Sending a letter and questionnaire, of course, may also be useful in raising a candidate’s attention to the issue.
David J. Rosen
On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Nash tnash@windhamraymondschools.org wrote:
Hello All,
I appreciate your comments Jeff as I felt the same way about the questions. In an earlier post, I posited how we would be able to determine if their responses were simply what you have noted; campaign rhetoric with no substance. Is there a way to encourage them to provide details?
Thanks,
Tom Nash
COABE President
From: Members [ mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fantine
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Peter Waite
Cc: mailto:members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org; Michele Bellso
Subject: Re: [NCL Members] Presidential Survey and PPC call reminder
Thanks for sharing and doing...
It's so important (for OUR field anyway) to try and engage future candidates on this issue and hear if/how they would support literacy/adult education.
Not sure this survey does that - or it does is a non-committal/non-substance way. I still would like to go on record to say that the questions we ask should require some sort of knowledge or rational explanation about HOW they would support these various issues - so it's in writing, AND so it demonstrates to us (the field) that they know what the heck they're talking about. To me, funding/programs/initiatives mean nothing (or little) without them being directed in the right way. I always prefer to support candidates who provide more specifics and less with the yesses and nos. Honestly, I can see most candidates who might respond to this, circling extremely likely for all of these (on both sides and with varying intentions) and my guess is few will add comments.
Can't be on the call, but my 2 cents...Happy New Year!
Jeff Fantine
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Peter Waite < mailto:pwaite@proliteracy.org pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote:
Hello Coalition members,
Attached is the final draft of our Presidential Survey and a response sheet. We attempted to incorporate as many comments as possible and add the response sheet as suggested by several members.
We can have one last review tomorrow on our call and if you cant make it please feel free to email back any final suggestions.
We have compiled a contact list but can use any others folks might have for the dissemination.
Once sent we will also post on the NCL website and feel use it anyway you can..it is clearly "open source" so adapt as necessary.
The call tomorrow and a tentative agenda is below. Talk to you then!
Peter
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Jan 6th 4pm eastern
tel:1-605-477-2100 1-605-477-2100
Passcode 240804
Agenda items
Presidential Survey
Appropriations follow up
2017 and beyond appropriations
Caucus update
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