~a Word from CALA~

It is with great pride that the Colchester Adult Learning Association shares in presenting this learning resource to our community. CALA’s mission is the provision of “ opportunities for all individuals to pursue their learning goals through partnerships which improve the social and economic well-being of participants, resulting in the development of healthier communities in Colchester County”. Thus, this opportunity to partner with CORDA in their Innovative Learning Communities project has been a logical opening for us to move forward toward our goals.

UNESCO has identified four Pillars of Learning:

1. Learning to Know: the type of learning concerned less with the acquisition of structured knowledge than with the mastery of learning tools.
2. Learning to Do: the type of learning closely associated with the issue of occupational training: how do we adapt education so that it can equip people to do the types of work needed in the future?
3. Learning to Live Together: In early childhood, this type of learning focuses on the discovery of other people; in lifelong education, it encourages involvement in common projects, an effective way of avoiding conflict or resolving latent conflicts.
4. Learning to Be: learning directed toward the complete fulfillment of the learner, as individual, member of a family and of a community, citizen and producer, inventor of techniques and creative dreamer’.

It is CALA’s hope and belief that this publication will prove to be a useful tool in the strengthening of these four pillars in the community that is the Colchester Region and in the individuals that comprise them. To continue to be a successful community, we cannot afford to allow any one of us to fail to reach our individual potential. It is our hope that these pages may prove to be a connection between our citizens and the resources that they need to reach their learning goals.
Our congratulations and gratitude are extended to Bonnie MacDonald, a long-time CALA employee, for her enthusiastic and dedicated management of this project.

Kenneth W. Henderson
Chair
Colchester Adult Learning Association

Office of the Mayor Truro, Nova Scotia

On behalf of Town Council and the citizens of the Town of Truro, I would like to extend our support to the Colchester Adult Learning Association.

CALA plays a very important role in our community by providing literacy programs, GED classes, rural outreach programs, and also, programs for English as a second language. CALA works to give adults of all ability levels the opportunity to pursue their learning goals and develop skills that will help them throughout their lives. There are many, many success stories from individuals who have participated in CALA's programs and gone on to contribute to their own social and economic well being, as well as that of the community.

CALA has created this publication to provide information on all of the learning and educational opportunities available within Colchester County. I am sure this will become a very useful resource to residents of Truro and surrounding areas and I wish CALA all the best with their first issue.

Sincerely,

W.R. (Bill) Mills
Mayor
Town of Truro

Town of Truro
Website: www.truro.ca
695 Prince Street, PO Box 427
Email: town@truro.ca
Truro, Nova Scotia
Phone: 902-895-4484