CIET Staff Activities
Faculty Articles, Conference Participation and Presentations

Gardner, Hillary and Silja Kallenbach "How We Are Smart, Not How Smart We Are: Multiple Intelligences in Adult Education" Literacy Assistance Center NYC, March 2008

Grimaldi, Carolyn "Communicative Family Literacy Lesson Sets for Al Gets Sick" CUNY Central Curriculum Roundtable, Hostos Community College, February 2008

Thomsen, Melinda and Suma Kurien "From Workers to Professionals: The Hotel TEACH Experience with English Language Learners" National Retail Federation Convention (NRF Skills Center Directors' Meeting), New York City, Jan 13, 2008

Thomsen, Melinda "Melinda's ESL for Work Podcast" Pod-O-Matic (January 2008)

Thomsen, Melinda "Mixed Abilities and Mixed Aspirations" English Teaching Professional, November 2007, Issue 53

Kurien, Suma "Crossing Borders" In Transit: the LaGuardia Journal for Teaching and Learning (volume 2, no. 1), Fall 2007

Thomsen, Melinda "Teaching Soft Skills to ESOL Classes," Literacy Update March 2007, Vol.16, No.4

Gardner, Hillary "Why Drawing Belongs in the Adult ESOL Classroom," TESOL Compleat Links, volume 3, issue 2 (June 2006). Incorporated into "Reaching Adult Learners through Multiple Intelligences and Differentiated Instruction Online Mini-Course" presented through World Education by Silja Kallenbach and Wendy Quinones.

Gardner, Hillary and Sandra Ruff "Seeing American Values", The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice: News, Issues & Ideas, New England Literacy Resource Center, Issue 22 (March 2006)

Gardner, Hillary "Learning Vocabulary, Talking About Values" The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice: News, Issues & Ideas, New England Literacy Resource Center, Issue 22 (March 2006)

Gardner, Hillary "Redefining Civics Education Through Problem Posing" In Transit: the LaGuardia Journal for Teaching and Learning (volume 1, no. 2) Spring 2006

Thomsen, Melinda "Writing for an Audience: Interviews of Working New Yorkers" TESOL Perspectives on Community College ESL Series, October 2006

Thomsen, Melinda "Art Appreciation and Vocational Training" In Transit: the LaGuardia Journal for Teaching and Learning (volume 1, no. 1) Fall 2006

Gardner, Hillary "Integrating Civics into the Adult Education Classroom" Literacy Update, Literacy Assistance Center, New York, NY, vol. 14 no.3, January 2005.

Gardner, Hillary “President Presentations” National Institute for Literacy ESL Special Collection mini-grant (December 2004)

Gardner, Hillary "Review: Reading Changed My Life" The Change Agent (Issue 17) September 2004

Gardner, Hillary "Drawing to Write: A Look at Our Childhood Houses" The Change Agent (Issue 17) September 2003

Gardner , Hillary "Discussing Values in the Adult ESOL Classroom" WE LEARN Conference on Women and Literacy, Fordham University NYC, March 7, 2008