[CBW_Exec] Personal/Professional updates

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Hi! In response to Hannah's request for up-dates on our activities:
I continue to administer, develop and assess the MA in Language and 
Literacy 
CCNYhttp://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/humanities/english/graduate_language.cfm. 
Lynn Troyka, Jane Maher, Tom Peele, and Kate Garretson have all taught 
courses for L&L MA students recently. A few months ago, I wrote and submitted a  
 self-study report on the L&L MA for Fall 2008/Spring 2009. 
This Spring 2010 semester, I am working together with Amy Dalsimer and 
Wynne Ferdinand (of the La Guardia Com. College Adult & Continuing Education 
program) to pilot an internship for two graduate students to co-teach in GED 
classes in the La Guardia Community College's Adult ACE division. Since the L&
L MA's mission is to prepare graduate students to teach   adult education, 
basic writing, or college composition and literature courses, I am delighted 
that two of our L&L grad students (Justin March & Wynne Ferdinand) secured 
two full-time teaching jobs within CUNY in the past few months. In addition, 
two of our recent graduates (Lauren Ball and John Lyons) have just started 
doctoral programs (with fellowships) at NYU and at St. John's U. 
This semester, I'm developing a new curriculum for a grad course titled 
Adult Learners of Language and Literacy. I'm also teaching an undergrad 
sociolinguistics class for 1st time.
For my research   on adult undergraduate writers of autobiography in a 
prior learning assessment program, I won a Professional Staff Congress-CUNY 
research award for this academic year and presented part of my findings at the 
National Institute on the Assessment of Adult Learning   in Princeton, NJ in J
une '09. Next month, I'll report further on this work at CCCC, where I'll 
also chair the SIG on Teaching Adult Learners in Diverse Contexts Friday 
night. We'll be focusing on issues related to teaching and learning on-line. 
Would love for you to attend!! 
Looking forward to seeing you all very soon. 
Warmly, Barbara Gleason
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