Colleagues, please see the announcement below and the attached flyer for an upcoming webinar from the Open Door Collective. I'm distributing this at the request of David Rosen. Feel free to share this information widely with your networks and to contact David with any questions. Thanks! Deborah Deborah Kennedy Executive Director http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/ The Open Door Collective (ODC) is excited to present a webinar, “An Open Door Out of Poverty” on February 22nd from 3:00 - 4:30 pm EST given by ODC Steering Committee member and co-founder, John Comings. (Please note the time zone and adjust as appropriate) This webinar is focused on an ODC position paper: An Open Door Out of Poverty. The paper uses the U.S. data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to estimate the population segments that could benefit from ESOL, ABE, or ASE programs.  As lead author, Dr. Comings will explain the paper’s goal, the key elements of the paper, the reasons why ODC published it, and how it can be used to advocate for greater support for ESOL, ABE, and ASE programs. The paper is available on the landing page of ODC’s website: https://www.opendoorcollective.org/. John Comings was Director of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1996 to 2008.  He is now a Senior Literacy Consultant at World Education in Boston.  Register https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSej1f3fWNMvLJEkht84gFtog0KAwTeaNJ35aAIC1staZkwmNg/viewform.   Also, please share the attached flyer.   David J. Rosen, Chair Open Door Collective Communications and Membership Committee mailto:djrosen123@gmail.com