ABC Life Literacy Canada - Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award

Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award

Online Entry Form

The Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award recognizes an individual for their outstanding achievement in increasing workplace literacy and essential skills in their community. Please see guidelines and criteria below, or download them here.

Please complete this online entry form by Friday, May 31, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. EDT. All fields are required.

Name of Nominee:
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Nomination Criteria and Information

Nomination Criteria

The Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award is open to Canadians who have shown passion and impact in the workplace literacy field.
The candidate is an individual who has steered workplace literacy programs in their workplace or community.
Applicant must be nominated by at least two individuals.
Nominators submit an online rationale (up to 500 words) as to why the individual should be considered for the award. Nomination to include name, employer and reason for nomination. Nominators must include their name, title, employer and contact email/phone number and address.
A nominee cannot be a current ABC Board Member or Board Member of an organization contracted to ABC Life Literacy Canada.

About the Award

The Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award recognizes an individual for their outstanding achievement in increasing workplace literacy and essential skills in their community. The honour was established in 2010 to recognize the outstanding contribution of ABC Life Literacy Canada board member and former Chair, Dr. Alan Middleton.

Nominees can represent individual employees, organization management including HR professionals and CEOs, and union and government representatives involved in workplace literacy and essential skills.

Workplace literacy, for the purpose of this award, is defined as programming that includes development and training in the nine essential skills as identified by the Government of Canada (reading, writing, document use, numeracy, computer use, thinking, oral communication, working with others, and continuous learning) as they are used in nearly every job and at different levels of complexity. Essential skills are the foundation for learning all other skills which enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change.

The winner is invited to attend Life Literacy Night in Toronto, ON in September 2013. (Transportation and accomadations provided by ABC.)

Past Winners

In 2010, the inaugural winner was Kevin Landry, a snowplow operator with the Department of Transportation and Public Works in Antigonish, Nova Scotia while Jeannie Spence of the BC Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Society was named the 2011 recipient in part for her creation of the Hastings Learning Centre at the Racecourse Centre in Vancouver.

The 2012 recipient, Sandi Howell, adult educator, program developer, trainer and curriculum designer, has shown outstanding commitment to workplace essential skills training as the Provincial Coordinator for Essential Skills in Manitoba: the first such position created in Canada. She is also the strategic advisor to Workplace Education Manitoba, working to engage people in literacy and essential skills at their workplaces. Sandi helped to establish the first Workplace Essential Skills Training centre in Manitoba, leading the way for five other centres throughout the province to deliver programs to more than 2,500 students every year.

Nominations accepted until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 31, 2013.