Marcus Haile

@mwhaile
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Open Source Soul. Café Philosopher. Girl Dad. Librarian by Marriage. Nonprofit Pro. Adult Education, Adult Literacy Advocate, Economic Justice Advocate. CEO @ Literacy Alliance of Northeast FL.
#AdultLiteracy leads to #EconomicJustice "Reading and numeracy are gateway skills to multiple literacies – including civic, digital, financial, health, and information – all of which interconnect and enable social and economic mobility," said Sarah Cacicio of All In Literacy.
https://allinliteracy.org/adult-literacy-and-learning-impact-network-releases-new-white-paper-investing-in-multiple-literacies-for-individual-and-collective-empowerment/
Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network Releases New White Paper - ALL IN

Washington, D.C. – June 13, 2023 – The Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper, “Investing in Multiple Literacies for Individual and Collective Empowerment.” ALL IN is a collective impact initiative formed by national thought leaders across the adult learning ecosystem. Conceived and convened by […]

ALL IN
"We know the stories that are told,
by starts and stops, by bent men at strange joy
regarding the precise enactments of their own
gesturing. And among the women there will be
a naming of families, a counting off, an ordering."
- Memorial Day, by Michael Anania
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48719/memorial-day-56d22a3011bdc
Memorial Day by Michael Anania | Poetry Foundation

It is easily forgotten, year to

Poetry Foundation
What #cafe or #coffeeshop will you start your week at? Bring some philosophy to your work week? #cafeculture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_philosophique
Café philosophique - Wikipedia

Add to the focus of #familyliteracy the goals for "parent literacy." - "some of the parents of those children have a hard time reading themselves." Enough with the "family literacy" workshops. Foster parent enrollment in #adultedu #adultliteracy.
https://www.sungazette.com/opinion/editorials/2023/04/adult-literacy-should-be-a-bigger-concern/
Adult literacy should be a bigger concern

A lot of attention is being paid to what our children are reading nowadays, turning once sedate classrooms and libraries into battlefields in our country’s never-ending culture wars. Some overzealous parents and community members have gone on book-banning benders, even though restricting the choices of young people and dampening their curiosity is hardly a path […]

Williamsport Sun-Gazette
May the pitch clock of life favor your timing. Happy #openingday2023

#adultedu is "increasingly taking place through new platforms and providers, and in non-institutional or non-traditional contexts."

That's The Literacy Alliance. Non-institutional and not-traditional.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-08-11-it-s-time-to-reboot-our-thinking-about-adult-learners-in-a-digitally-transformed-world

It’s Time to Reboot Our Thinking About Adult Learners in a Digitally Transformed World

As our economy enters a new era, so too must the world of postsecondary education.Twenty-five years after the Internet became commercially available, ...

EdSurge
"For knowledge is always universal: it is what unites, whereas ignorance separates. Murder, hatred and violence do not come from a wicked heart, but from an ignorant soul." - Albert Camus

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana