Institutes

• 2008 Health and Literacy Institute (Calgary, AB)
• Calgary Charter on Health and Literacy

Summer Institute

The Summer Institute is an annual forum designed to encourage the free exchange of ideas and experiences among participants from all levels and factions of the literacy sector in Quebec, Canada and around the world.

The topic of the institute changes each year in response to current trends and issues in literacy and basic education. Over the course of three days, participants are given every opportunity to share their work, learn about other projects and initiatives, form partnerships and work together to develop innovative programs and policies in the area under discussion.

The Summer Institute has been a defining program of The Centre since 1990. In that time, The Centre has gained wide recognition and respect for its ability to identify and interpret trends and challenges facing the sector.

Read about past Summer Institutes

In recent years, we have published summaries and reports from the Summer Institute inside Literacy Across the CurriculuMedia Focus (LACMF). The following links will take you to the tables of contents of each issue containing a report. 

Click here to view the annotated bibliographies and literature reviews created for each Summer Institute.

• ESL and Literacy: Finding Common Ground, Serving Learners' Needs (2008)

• Libraries and Literacy: Making it Work (2007)

• Accountability and Public Trust: Restoring the Balance (2006)

• Adult Basic Education & Literacy, Media and Technology (June 2005)

• Adult Basic Education: Impact of Policy on Practice (2004)
  (for a more scholarly version of Joseph Lo Bianco's article, click here)

• Literacy and Health: Prescription for Progress (2003)

• Math for Learning, Math for Life (2002)

• Literacy, Technology and Learning Disabilities (2001)

• Adult Literacy and Television: Has a Familiar Tool Been Overlooked? (2000)