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Welcome to GLF - The Global Literacy Foundation.

We invite you to participate in the GLF Advocacy Experience! As a supporter, you will raise awareness and funds to help learners achieve true 21st Century Skills.

Donations can be made using the Donate button. Please consider making a recurring donation of time or money to help advance our cause. We offer micro donations.

Help GLF advance Modern Literacy. What is Modern Literacy? Click here to find out.

Transform industrial age education.
Recognize that lifelong learning and brain fitness go hand in hand.

GLF and World Care Technology Program for International School of Tucson

CooperationGLF in association with World Care, is helping the International School of Tucson meet its growing and immediate technology needs.

GLF is providing the Software, Professional Development, Network infrastructure and Digital Curriculum as well as all other needed IT services to advance the IST mission. World Care is providing repurposed computers.

A case study is in the works for publication this summer as this long term project meets its first major milestone.

A Wonderful Case Study - High School As It Ought To Be

Here's a great example of passion and projects overcoming inertia...

Excerpt from: http://theenergyproject.com/blog/2009/12/high-school-way-it-ought-be

" HIGH SCHOOL THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE

By Tony Schwartz, CEO, The Energy Project on Dec 01, 2009

How much more focused and engaged would high school students be if they were given an opportunity to pursue their passions – topics that truly sparked their interest and excitement?  

A year ago, we helped launch an experiment with 9th graders at the Riverdale Country School, a small independent school in the Bronx.  A year earlier, a new head of school had been hired and he brought to his role a series of ideas about education that ought to be commonplace but are all too rare. Among them: 

Formal, non-formal and informal learning: The case of literacy and language learning in Canada

Executive Summary

This research report investigates the links between formal, non-formal and informal learning and the differences between them. In particular, the report aims to link these notions of learning to literacy and essential skills, as well as the learning of second and other languages in Canada.

Philosophical underpinnings of this research are:

  • There is value in learning of all kinds.
  • Learning is a lifelong endeavour.
  • An interdisciplinary approach is valuable.

Notions of formal, non-formal and informal learning may be briefly outlined as:

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Our work begins with Bill and Melinda Gates’ belief that all lives
have equal value. We think all people deserve the chance to have
healthy, productive lives. Our approach to giving is driven by the
foundation’s guiding principles.  

Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett set our overarching
grantmaking priorities—such as improving health and reducing extreme
poverty in the developing world and improving high school education in
the United States. They establish high-level goals for our grantmaking
programs. Then our three program teams devise a strategy for meeting
these goals. 

More information at: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx

Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)

 

Our name has changed from the Office of Indian Education Programs, OIEP, to the Bureau of Indian Education, BIE. <!--The website address has changed from oiep.bia.edu to BIE.EDU-->

After you have looked over our new site, please take a moment and
tell us if you were able to find the information you were seeking and
provide any comments or recommendations you have to make the site even
better. Click on Contact BIE - Feedback to provide your comments.

The BIE has responsibility for 184 elementary and secondary schools
and dormitories as well as 24 colleges, and our Bureau-operated Haskell
Indian Nations University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute.
Our post-secondary institutions, schools and dormitories are located on
63 reservations in 23 states across the United States serving
approximately 60,000 students representing 238 different tribes.

Transforming Learners

Transforming Learners ....are generally highly motivated, passionate, often persistent even in the face of failure, and highly comitted learners. They most often:

* place great importance on learning ability, committed effort, independence, vision, and intrinsic resources.
* use personal strengths, ability, persistence, challenging strategies, high-standards, learning efficacy, and positive expectations to self-direct learning successfully.
* lose motivation and may become frustrated or resistant in environments or conditions that mismatch their aggressive learning needs.

More information at: http://training.trainingplace.com/loq/pop_trans1.htm

Successful Learning Strategies at: http://www.trainingplace.com/loq/strategies.htm

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