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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:08 )

Welcome!

First joint COABE/ProLiteracy conference in CHICAGO!

Join adult education professionals and students from across the country for this first ever joint national conference of the Commission on Adult Basic Education – COABE and ProLiteracy, March 16 – 19, 2010. The conference is hosted by the Illinois Adult Education Professional Association , IACEA – the voice of adult education.

Pre-conferences will begin on Monday, March 15th with the opening session on Tuesday afternoon, March 16. All activities will be held in the beautiful Chicago Hilton Hotel located on South Michigan Avenue. Plans are being finalized for an outstanding list of guest speakers, thought provoking and high quality plenary and concurrent sessions and exciting activities to explore the amazing city of Chicago.
It’s all “Coming Together in Chicago” in March 2010.

We hope you will be coming too!

Click on a link below to learn more about the sponsor organizations.
COABE
ProLiteracy
IACEA

Conference Registration

Click here to Register Online

Click to here download and/or view the Concurrent Sessions List.

 

More Useful Information

Conference Registration Information - click for more information.

Pre-Conference Session Descriptions - click for more information.

 

CHECK OUT OUR CONTRIBUTING PARTNERS

Many partners are contributing to the success of this conference by providing intensive Pre Conference Sessions, concurrent sessions throughout the conference and encouraging their members to attend and contribute to the conference professional development program.   The name and website for each partner is listed below.

Literacy Powerline – www.literacypowerline.com

National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs – www.naasin.org

National College Transition Network – www.collegetransition.org

ProLiteracy – www.proliteracy.org

Adult Numeracy Network – www.adultnumeracynetwork.org

Center for Applied Linguistics - www.cal.org

Center for Literacy Studies at University of Tennessee NIFL LINCS – www.cls.utk.edu

Dyslexia Training Institute – http://dyslexiatraininginstitute.org

Payne and Associates – http://payneandassociates.com

Ohio Literacy Resource Center NIFL LINCS – http://literacy.kent.edu

National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium – http://naepdc.org

National Coalition for Literacy – www.ncl.org

Adolescent Literacy and Learning Disabilities – www.adlit.org

American Institute for Research – www.air.org

Western Pacific LINCS (NIFL) – http://literacynet.org/lincs

Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers – www.aalpd.org

Go Airport Express

The COABE and ProLiteracy-Joint Conference 2010 has also teamed up with Go Airport Express to provide discounts on airport transfers from ORD and MDW airports!  COABE and ProLiteracy attendees receive 10% discount for advance reservations made online or using the group conference discount code. Go Airport Express offers efficient and economical shared ride services, and their shuttles depart from O'Hare and Midway Airports every 10-15 minutes for Downtown Chicago and Suburban Chicago area Hotels.

Click the logo below to make a shuttle reservation or call 1-888-284-3826 and use code “LITERACY”.

Go Airport Express logo

 
Hotel Information

Currently all rooms at the Hilton, Blackstone and the Essex Inn have been sold out.

The link below provides access to a list of hotels that have rooms available as of March 1, 2010. It is important to note that these hotels do not have any contract or agreement related to the COABE/ProLiteracy 2010 “Coming Together In Chicago” conference. A range of possible rates is listed for each hotel, but there are no guarantees that rooms will be available at the lowest rate.

Click for More Area Hotel Information.

If you have questions, please email us at hotel@coableproliteracy2010.org for assistance.