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Crossroads Café
Useful Links
Supporting Agencies
Key partners in the development of
Crossroads Café include the Education Agencies for the states
of:
California
(www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ae/)
Florida
(www.firn.edu/doe/workforce/adult_ed.htm)
Illinois (www.isbe.net)
New York (www.emsc.nysed.gov/workforce)
Other Useful Links
Heinle & Heinle
Publishers (http://www.heinle.com)
A leading ESL publisher and a key partner in the development of
the Crossroads Café television and print series.
Anywhere, Anytime Learning (http://www.anywhereanytimeabe.org)
The Massachusetts ABE Distance Learning Project is a statewide
partnership formed to develop. test and document the use of telecommunications
technology to deliver basic education to adults.
Florida Human Resources Development
Inc. (http://www.floridahumanresources.org)
A non-profit corporation that assists in the development of
statewide workforce development in the state of Florida. Their
facilitation of " best practices" has included the
series Crossroads Cafe, On Common Ground, Madison Heights
and Lifelines.
United States Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/index.html)
Another key development partner in the Crossroads Café
project, the Department's adult education and literacy programs
provide more than four million adults with the literacy skills
they need to obtain good jobs, to play active roles in the
education of their children, and to carry out the rights and
responsibilities of citizenship.
NIFL ESL Special Collection (http://www.literacynet.org/esl)
The ESL Special Collection is a comprehensive collection of
materials, resources, and web links for instructors, tutors,
program administrators, and adult learners. A major focus
of this site will be downloadable curricula for use by tutors
and teachers.
TESOL (http://www.tesol.org)
The international education association, Teachers of English
to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL). Its mission
is to develop the expertise of its members and others involved
in teaching English to speakers of other languages to help
them foster effective communication in diverse settings while
respecting individuals' language rights.
LINCS (http://www.nifl.gov/lincs)
The National Institute for Literacy’s gateway to ABE
and ESL resources on the Internet.
NCLE (http://www.cal.org/ncle)
The National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE), one
of the special projects of ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages
and Linguistics, focuses on the language and literacy education
of adults and out-of-school youth learning English.
Oregon EL Civics (http://www.nwlincs.org/orelbeta/start.htm)
Developed
by the State of Oregon for their EL Civics program, this website
offers individual
lessons that include a narrative of the class instruction, as well
as any teacher prepared materials and/or other forms used to enhance
or expand the learning. All lessons have been prepared and
utilized by instructors in the state of Oregon, who have generously
given their full consent and authorization for use or reproduction.
The ESL
Watercooler (http://inlincs.org/page.asp?bd=esl&hd=esl_top)
The ESL Watercooler
is a spot to come and relax while you chat with colleagues
about issues both big and small that you face in the classroom
everyday. It is also a place for you to browse through
available resources and to ask questions and get suggestions
from colleagues. The ESL Watercooler is maintained as
part of the Indiana Adult Education Professional Development
Project in IN LINCS.
ABLE Distance
Learning (http://www.able.state.pa.us/able/)
Visit
the distance learning website of the State of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is currently
piloting both Madison Heights and Lifelines as family literacy distance
learning curricular resources. Download a variety of reports
which outline the progress being made in this state using distance
learning for adult education.
U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm)
A
major funding and development partner on the On Common Ground Project,
The U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) is responsible for enforcing the laws
regulating the admission of foreign-born persons (i.e., aliens)
to the United States and for administering various immigration
benefits,
including the naturalization of qualified applicants for U.S. citizenship.
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