Literacy President Training Resources

Sample of Letter Sent to Campaign Staff
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This is a sample of the letter mailed to the campaign staff of Presidential candidates. It contains a cover letter, campaign staff questions, and a fact sheet that provides supporting details for each Literacy President question.

Campaign Initiative 2008 Training Guide:
Adult Learner and Practitioner Training Packet
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This training is designed to assist learners, practitioners, and other stakeholders in raising adult education and literacy issues at caucuses and other public events in early primary states.

Participants will:

Rephrase Literacy President questions in their own words and ask them at public campaign events
Increase comfort in raising their own questions at public campaign events
Identify strategies for responding to the media
Identify public campaigning events and ways to participate in the campaign process
Understand mechanisms for documenting and reporting back campaign-trail commitments and comments

Literacy President Fact Sheets

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Provides facts and supporting details for each Literacy President question. Useful with both the Campaign Initiative 2008 Training Guide and Questioning Our Candidates Lesson Plan.

Questioning Our Candidates Lesson Plan

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For use in the classroom, this lesson plan can be used as a stand-alone lesson for helping learners understand the issues. In the lesson, adult students:

Research the issues
Evaluate, prioritize, and refine the Literacy President questions
Reflect on their knowledge and experience of advocacy
Prepare to ask Presidential candidates the questions that matter most to them
Identify ways to become involved

Sample Adapted Lesson Plan and Learner Feedback
Lisa Mullins, Adult Educator, Hawkins County, Tennessee
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To post your adapted version of the lesson Questioning Our Candidates on this Web page, email a brief description of your adaptations to Jackie Taylor at: jataylor_1@yahoo.com