WE LEARN 2010 Program

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WE LEARN Annual Conference 2010

March 5-6, 2010
Providence, RI
http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html


Friday Program

10:30 - 12:00
Workshop Sessions 1

  • Orientation to WE LEARN & Conference
  • Learning with All Your Senses
  • Undoing the Silence: Students and Teachers Coming to Voice
  • Stress Reduction in the Classroom
  • Transforming the self/transforming community--education in women's lives

1:00 - 2:00

  • Student Leadership: How Do We Do Organizing?

2:00 - 3:15

  • (Net)Working –Caucus time, informal performance art, regional or topic groups, etc.
  • Caring for the Whole Woman: A Journey and Discussion of Healing and Advocacy
  • Dynamics of Domestic Violence

3:15 - 4:45
Workshop Sessions Block 2

  • Literacy Facilitates Empowerment of Women and Families to Strengthen Communities
  • Why can learning be so hard?
  • Our Fun Friendly Sexual Selves
  • What's money got to do with it?
  • Overcoming Barriers to Build Our Futures: Experiences of Older Women Students

5:00 - 6:30
Women's Perspective Celebration and Reception

Saturday Program

9:45 - 11:15
Workshop Sessions Block 3

  • Taking it to the streets
  • Making Sense of Peace: Can You Feel It?
  • Community Consulting Initiative, Participatory Action Research in Adult Basic Education
  • Let's Meet on the Web: Connecting to WE LEARN Year round

1:15 - 2:45

  • Adult Education Women Are Super (ROLE) Models and Partners
  • Research and Practice for Women’s Literacy
  • Healing Power of Words: Choosing Books that Change Our Lives.
  • Gifts and Secrets: Taking Care of Ourselves

3:00 - 4:30
Reflection to Activism: Next Steps to Expanding our Power