The mission of the Kansas State Literacy Resource Center (SLRC) is to enhance systems, both public and private, which provide basic skills education across Kansas. The Center serves as the catalyst for collaborative efforts that address the needs of undereducated adults in Kansas. The Kansas SLRC is housed in the Adult Education Division of the Kansas Board of Regents in Topeka, Kansas.

The objectives of the Kansas SLRC include support for the following efforts to enhance lifelong learning for all Kansans:

• Kansas Education Resource Center Items:
  • Guide to Using the Resource Listing
  • Key to Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Administrative Issues
  • Adult Education in General
  • Assessment and Testing Issues
  • English-as-a-Second Language
  • Family Literacy
  • GED Materials
  • Health Literacy
  • Journals (Reference Only)
  • Language Arts
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Literacy
  • Lower-Level High Interest Readers
  • Mathematics
  • Professional Development
  • Social Studies
  • Special Populations
  • Student Issues
  • Technology
  • Transitions
  • Volunteers
  • Workforce Literacy and Job Preparation
• Continuous updating of a comprehensive list of available resources for adult educators, literacy tutors, social service providers, etc. Read more.
• Activities of the Kansas Coalition of Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities
• A calendar listing adult education professional development opportunities Read more.
• Support for the Kansas Adult Education Association professional development activities Read more.
• A database of adult education practitioners and adult education programs in Kansas Read more.

The Kansas SLRC maintains a lending library available to all Kansas Adult Education practitioners, regardless of program or agency affiliation. Copyrighted materials in text form may be checked out for eight weeks, and video and audiocassettes and supporting text are loaned for one month. One copy of non-copyrighted materials will be sent upon request and may be kept and duplicated. To ensure that borrowed materials will continue to be available, please return them on time.

Personnel:

Dianne S. Glass
State Director of Adult Education
Kansas Board of Regents
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 520
Topeka, KS 66612-1368
785-296-7159
FAX: 785-296-4526
dglass@ksbor.org

Michelle M. Carson
Associate Director of Adult Education for Professional Development
Kansas Board of Regents
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 520
Topeka KS 66612-1368
785-368-7359
FAX: 785-296-4526
mcarson@ksbor.org

Margy McCready - Lending Library
Senior Administrative Assistant for Adult Education
Kansas Board of Regents
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 520
Topeka, KS 66612-1368
785-296-0175
FAX: 785-296-4526
mmccready@ksbor.org