Wendell Dryden

CAREER SUMMARY

Family Resource Work; Early Childhood, Youth, and Adult Literacy;  Adult Academic Upgrading;
Literacy Program Promotion and Assessment; Staff Training and Management.

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE

• 2007. Adult Literacy Facilitator Training Materials (Saint John Learning Exchange)

• 2006/-. Adult Literacy Resource Consultant (QLNB / Saint John Free Public Library)

• 2006. Local Adult Learning Online (QLNB / Saint John Free Public Library)

• 2006. Local Adult Learning Group (QLNB / Saint John Free Public Library)

• 2003/-. Quality Storytents & Bookwagon (Saint John Free Public Library) {award}

• 2003/-. CALP Adult Academic Upgrading (Saint John Learning Exchange)

• 2002/-. CORE Basic Adult Literacy (Saint John Learning Exchange)

• 2000/04. Parent-Child Mother Goose (CLNB / Saint John Learning Exchange)

• 2001/03. Family Learning & Health (Saint John Learning Exchange)

• 2001/02. Family Literacy Facilitator (Saint John Learning Exchange)

• 2001. Lorne Middle School Literacy (Lorne Middle School, Saint John)

• 1999/01. Family Literacy Workshops and Promotion (Saint John Learning Exchange) {award}

• 1999/01. Childcare Supervisor (Family Resource Centre SJ Inc.)

• 1998/01. Children's Book & Toy Lending Library (Family Resource Centre SJ Inc.)

• 1998/01. Family Drop-In Play and Support (Family Resource Centre SJ Inc.)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Choice Theory/Reality Therapy (2 of 5 modules); William Glasser Institute.

• Foundational Family Literacy (facilitator training); Centre for Family Literacy.

• Blended e-Learning / AlphaRoute (mentor training); Province of New Brunswick.
  

• Making Connections (facilitator training); Adult Learning Systems.

• Adult Literacy Assessment (assessor training); Saint John Learning Exchange.
• Basic Adult Education (facilitator training); Saint John Learning Exchange.

• Parent-Child Mother Goose (facilitator training); Parent Child Mother Goose

• Multiculturalism in Childcare, Literacy & Young Children; UNBI Institutes.

• Saint Thomas University (30 Credit Hours toward BA)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• 2007 Canada Post Community Literacy Award – Educator

• 2003 Lieutenant-Governor's Early Childhood Literacy Award – Educator

• Co-founder, Saint John Family Literacy Advisory Committee (now Quality Learning NB)

• founder, Local Adult Learning Online Network <http://360.yahoo.com/wendelldryden>

• Brown & Dryden (2006). Quality Storytents: A Resource for Family, Early Childhood and Community Literacy Workers. <http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/readclub/cover.htm>

• Brown & Dryden (2005). Summer Reading Club: Outreach Library Service through a Neighbourhood Storytent Program. <http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/readclub/cover.htm>

• Brown & Dryden (2004). Literacy as a Barrier to Health/Health as a Barrier to Literacy. Literacies, 4 (Fall 2004) 4-9.

• Brown & Dryden (2004). Quality Storytents: Using Choice Theory to Support Reading. International Journal of Reality Therapy, 24(1), 3 – 12.