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2019 NJALL Award winners

10/28/2019

 
Every year NJALL recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adult education. Meet this year's winners and find out how to nominate someone for 2020!

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Lee Snowiss, Adult Basic Education Instructor at Brookdale Community College for 27 years was named NJALL 2019 Teacher of the Year.  Lee, in the center, is flanked by her director Linda Roma and Dr. Joan Scocco.   Across the years Lee made herself available to meet with newly hired instructors, sharing words of wisdom and inviting them to observe her classroom and instructional interaction with students.  She has been a passionate advocate for students by seeking and obtaining services and support from across the college community.  Among many great students, Pasang Schreck was one of Lee’s own.  In 2019 Pasang was the first NJALL scholarship recipient to be recognized for graduating from college with her bachelor’s degree.
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Judith Fitzpatrick, ESL Instructor, Greater Bergen Community Action in Hackensack also received the NJALL 2019 Teacher of the Year Award. Judy was nominated by her director, Figen Tabakci, pictured on the left.  With the vast experience and expertise that she has, Judy was the ‘go to’ ESL instructor for ideas, suggestions, recommendations, and solutions to ESL teaching challenges for our other instructors.  She had an ‘open door’ policy for other instructors who requested to observe her class and current and former students who many times came to ask her suggestions, or just to visit her.
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The 2019 NJALL Lifelong Learning Award was awarded to Jacinta Vilas of the Paterson Adult and Continuing Education program (PACE).  Nominated by Nora Hoover and Susan Ronga, Jacinta had herself been a student at PACE.  She has been a personal inspiration to thousands of students and has a total understanding of the challenges and demands faced by staff, students and administrators alike. When a consortium partner was struggling, Jacinta created and provided professional development to share PACE’s successful programming and instructional strategies with the sister agency. Today that program is a thriving part of the adult education community.
2020 Award Nominations
NJALL is again asking for nominations from our network of professionals and participating organizations for the following: 

1. Barry Semple Lifelong Learning Leadership Award
This award, named for our own Dr. Barry Semple who has been a NJALL leader since 1963, will be given to an outstanding individual or group demonstrating responsibility, influence, courage, motivation, inspiration, direction or guidance, and has made an outstanding contribution to lifelong learning through research, program design and development, publications, effective and innovative use of funds, service to the profession, etc. 
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2. Teacher of the Year Award
This award is presented to an adult educator who has demonstrated professionalism and exemplary performance in the field of lifelong learning.

Nominations are due by January 31, 2020. 
Awards will be presented at the NJALL conference on May 15, 2020 at Brookdale Community College
2020 Awards Nomination form

NJALL Annual Conference: May 15, 2020

10/21/2019

 
Please save the date for NJALL's next annual conference. If you've expertise to share, please consider submitting a workshop proposal.
NJALL 2020 Annual Conference   
May 15, 2020 
9:00 AM - 3:45 PM 
Warner Student Life Center at
​Brookdale Community College 

765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738

​ACCEPTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS UNTIL JANUARY 13th 

To download a copy of the proposal form, please click here.   

While we welcome all proposals that deal with adult education, we are especially interested in the following topics:
  
ESOL Teaching Strategies            Adult Literacy           Numeracy
 
           Student Advising and Counseling    Student Led Projects                   
    
Career Pathways                 College Transitions
 
Technology                Advocacy             Health Literacy    

Workshops run 90 minutes (AM) and 75 minutes (PM) 
 
All presenters will receive a complimentary registration for the conference.  
                            
Please contact us if you have any questions - njallmail@gmail.com

NJALL Learner Writing Magazine 2019

10/21/2019

 
Insight, NJALL's annual publication of student writings, is now available, and you can download it here.  
Earlier this year the New Jersey Association for Lifelong Learning (NJALL) held its fifth annual adult learner writing contest. The five entry categories were fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry and photography. Several winners read and discussed their work at the annual NJALL conference, which has been a highlight of the conference for the past four years. The students shared their powerful personal experiences and helpful reflections about the writing process. 
We'd like to thank all of the students who participated and all of the teachers and tutors that made the contest successful. Every year it is an honor to read the students' work, and we are happy to be able to share it with you now. Please peruse the gallery of this year's winners who were able to attend the NJALL conference.
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The call for submissions for the next contest will be distributed soon. We will also be looking for reviewers again, so please let us know if you are interested in joining the review committee (to njallmail@gmail.com).

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