We are fortunate to be meeting at Arlington Heights Library for our fall meeting. They have an excellent ESL program. I hope you can all make it.

Below is the agenda for the meeting. We will be omitting the portion of the meeting which we usually devote to sharing resources in favor of discussing what we would like the future of LEARN to be (i.e How do members hope to benefit from LEARN, or what can LEARN do to best help members provide and promote ESL?).

LEARN Fall Gathering
Date             Tuesday, October 11, 2011 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Place            Arlington Heights Memorial Library
500 N. Dunton Avenue
Arlington Heights, IL  60004-5966
847-506-2632
Host            Katalin Zsupan, ESL/Literacy Specialist
Email: kzsupan@ahml.info

http://ahml.info/services/esl_literacy

Note: Please see the AHML ESL Web site before our meeting.

Agenda

2:00 p.m.        LEARN attendees meet on main floor ESL/Literacy area

2:00 – 2:15 p.m.    Tour of ESL collection and Learning Lab

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.    2nd floor meeting room for refreshments/networking

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.    ESL at AHML: presentation by Katalin Zsupan
-    overview of AHML ESL program
-    Why volunteer?
-    Tea and Talk
-    Book discussion groups
-    ESL student testimonials
-    Good print and software resources/vendors

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.    Open discussion
-    Future role of LEARN – brainstorming session about the needs of LEARN members