From tgsticht at gmail.com Wed Mar 6 19:09:50 2024 From: tgsticht at gmail.com (Thomas Sticht) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:09:50 -0800 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Women's History Month Message-ID: March 6, 2024 March is Women?s History Month *Highlighting Literacy Work by Caroline Clark Myers for Adults and Children* Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education (Ret.) During the U.S.A. involvement in World War I (1917-1918) some 700,000 recruits were determined to be illiterate, many of whom were non-English speakers. After the World War I armistice was signed, Caroline Clark Myers, the first woman hired to teach non-English speaking and illiterate adults in the Army in World War I, worked with her husband and others and developed materials and methods of teaching English, reading, and writing to illiterate soldiers for the war department. After the war she was the lead author on books for teaching English to non-English speaking adults based on her experiences teaching during the war (Meyers & Meyers, 1921). The teacher?s manual for these books outlined the thoughts behind their development for teaching English to immigrants stating, ?We desire these newcomers to wish to learn to live as real Americans, we want them to think and feel as we think and feel about our community and our country. We want them to wish to develop habits in dress, in choice of foods, in cleanliness in care of their persons, like the best type of good substantial Americans and most of all we want them to wish to get habits of using every opportunity to improve themselves individually to be good useful members of their neighborhood. We want them habitually to feel a pride in living in America and in the opportunity to become citizens of this new country; a pride in its flag and a pride in the great men who have lived Americans and died Americans (p.16)?. ?It will be observed that the course presupposes the presence of women as well as men in classes of non-English speaking people. This side of Americanization has been greatly neglected. The lessons in themselves suggest ideal complete families of these one time foreign folk with children that are well cared for, well fed, well trained, living in a clean well kept home like the best American homes owned by these families because of their thrift and industry. In homes where happiness reigns supreme where there is comradeship and where these children grow up to be cultured and well educated young men and women who are known in their communities as among the best young people of that neighborhood. Frequently the lessons suggest the advantages to foreign women to learn English quite as well as to the young men (p.22)?. In the late 1920s and through the 1930s Meyers was trained in parent education at Columbia and other universities. She went on to became a specialist in parent education in the extension department of Cleveland College at Western Reserve University. She administered the parent education program, developed institutes for parents , helped in the development of radio programs and taught classes for leaders of parent education groups. In 1946 she and her husband started a magazine for children called *Highlights for Children.* As with the World War I Language in America materials she and others developed, *Highlights* uses lots of illustrations, puzzles, cartoons and stories aimed at catching the interest of both children and their parents. The latter are encouraged to read to their children to promote the intergenerational transfer of literacy from parents to their progeny and increase family literacy. Caroline Clark Meyers stayed active with *Highlights for Children *until her death in 1980 at the age of 93. Today, the *Highlights* web site reports that over 1.373 billion copies of the magazine have been mailed, with *Highlights* products in 60 countries, and in 28 languages! March 8th is International Women?s Day! Let's *Highlight* that! Language in America Teacher?s Manual Available Online *TEACHERS MANUAL THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY ENGLISH AND CITIZENSHIP FOR ADULTS* BY CAROLINE E MYERS AND GARRY C MYERS, 1921, Newson & Company. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Language_of_America/lWwXAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=caroline+clark+myers+google+books&printsec=frontcover -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppearson at berkeley.edu Fri Mar 15 19:07:09 2024 From: ppearson at berkeley.edu (P David Pearson) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:07:09 -0700 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Fwd: Remembering NAEd member Luis Moll In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sad news to hear. Luis's Funds of Knowledge construct was a conceptual breakthrough in thinking about asset-based pedagogy. And he was a prince of a person. David ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jack Busbee Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:50?AM Subject: Remembering NAEd member Luis Moll To: Dear members, We were saddened to hear about the death of National Academy of Education member, Luis Moll, who passed away on March 5, 2024. The University of Arizona has written an In Memoriam, which you can find online . Our thoughts go out to his family and friends. If you are in the area, church funeral Mass will be on Thursday, March 21st at 10:30 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church. Sincerely, Jack ------------------------ Jack Busbee Senior Director National Academy of Education naeducation.org -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Two Anonymous Irish Quotes for the Last Half of March:* ...May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. ...May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ P. David Pearson Evelyn Lois Corey *Emeritus* Professor of Instructional Science Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley email: ppearson at berkeley.edu other e-mail: pdavidpearsondean at gmail.com website for publications: www.pdavidpearson.org PDP's YouTube Channel : ******************* *Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses* 110 41st Street, Apt 401 Oakland CA 94611-5237 iPhone: 510 543 6508 **************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From victoria.j.risko at Vanderbilt.Edu Fri Mar 15 19:13:18 2024 From: victoria.j.risko at Vanderbilt.Edu (Risko, Victoria J) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:13:18 +0000 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Fwd: Remembering NAEd member Luis Moll In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: So sorry to learn this. Luis' funds of knowledge concept had a major impact on my teaching and learning. Vicki Professor Emerita, Language, Literacy, Culture Vanderbilt University 2011-2012 President, International Literacy Association http://www.readinghalloffame.org/victoria-risko-inducted-2011 Co-author, Professional Learning in Action: An inquiry approach for teachers of literacy. (Risko & Vogt), 2016. NY:Teachers College Press. ________________________________ From: Reading-hall-of-fame on behalf of P David Pearson Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 2:07 PM To: reading hall of fame Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Fwd: Remembering NAEd member Luis Moll Sad news to hear. Luis's Funds of Knowledge construct was a conceptual breakthrough in thinking about asset-based pedagogy. And he was a prince of a person. David ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jack Busbee > Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:50?AM Subject: Remembering NAEd member Luis Moll To: Dear members, We were saddened to hear about the death of National Academy of Education member, Luis Moll, who passed away on March 5, 2024. The University of Arizona has written an In Memoriam, which you can find online. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends. If you are in the area, church funeral Mass will be on Thursday, March 21st at 10:30 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church. Sincerely, Jack ------------------------ Jack Busbee Senior Director National Academy of Education naeducation.org -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Two Anonymous Irish Quotes for the Last Half of March: ...May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. ...May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ P. David Pearson Evelyn Lois Corey Emeritus Professor of Instructional Science Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley email: ppearson at berkeley.edu other e-mail: pdavidpearsondean at gmail.com website for publications: www.pdavidpearson.org PDP's YouTube Channel: ******************* Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses 110 41st Street, Apt 401 Oakland CA 94611-5237 iPhone: 510 543 6508 **************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppearson at berkeley.edu Tue Mar 19 20:10:47 2024 From: ppearson at berkeley.edu (P David Pearson) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:10:47 -0700 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Event Message-ID: Thought some of you might know someone who would be interested in this upcoming event. It's a sort of a continuation of her LRA keynote session in Atlanta. David -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Two Anonymous Irish Quotes for the Last Half of March:* ...May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. ...May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ P. 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