Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
Highland Library program aims to improve adult
literacy
Highland News: 4.20.2017
The San Bernardino County Library is pleased to
provide adult literacy services to the Highland
community.
The adult literacy program features individualized
literacy services in one-on-one, confidential, student-centered sessions. The
program is intended to equip participants with lifelong learning skills and
prepare them for personal, family, career, and community success. Best of all –
this program is absolutely free.
The adult literacy program at the Highland Branch
Library is improving the quality of life for our residents and making a big
difference in our community. The library is proud to offer a program that
fosters confidence and enables our learners to pursue new opportunities for
success.
If you or someone you know struggles with
literacy, the Highland Library is here to help. For more information on the San
Bernardino County Library system and the adult literacy program, visit
www.sbclib.org or call the Hesperia Branch Library directly at (909) 425-4700.
Highland’s adult literacy program plays a key role
in San Bernardino County’s Vision2Read
program, which seeks to make literacy a reality for all residents of San
Bernardino County. READ MORE @
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Literacy Volunteers host 30th anniversary
celebration
Waldo Village Soup: 4.2102.017
Literacy Volunteers of Waldo County invites
community members to help celebrate its 30th anniversary with a free buffet
meal, documentary and speaker Thursday, May 4, 5:30 to 8 p.m., at Waldo County
Technical Center in Waldo.
The celebration will be an occasion for all who
care about literacy to come together to reflect on the power and pleasure of
reading — be it by gaining fluency and understanding with words, math problems,
computer skills or the English language, according to a press release. In
“Looking Back, Looking Forward,” this event will honor the organization's past
30 years — and the many years ahead — of creating opportunities for learning
partners to come together.
The stories of what tutors and their learning
partners discover together will be shared and celebrated through a video
documentary. Guest speaker Mitch Littlefield will highlight the positive impact
of a student-teacher relationship. Littlefield is the author of “Memories of
Shucking Peas,” a collection of stories written because of the encouragement of
a middle school English teacher. READ MORE @
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Brownsville Literacy Center works to help public
Brownsville Herald: 4.22.2017 by Kaila
Contreras
For 30 years, the Brownsville
Literacy Center has dedicated itself to improving the
community’s literacy rate by offering courses and sometimes free tuition.
“Thirty years ago, Mary Yturria, Doug Hardy,
Christie and Richard Burden and Raul Tijerina felt there was a need for an
educational program to help the community, and what (the founders) did was
conduct a survey via The Brownsville Herald,” Executive Director Victor Rivera
said. “At the time they thought, ‘Let’s survey the community and see if there
is a need for literacy.’”
Throughout the years, the literacy center has
changed locations four times.
“We started to grow, we got more students and so
we felt we needed to find a bigger location,” Rivera said.
The literacy center’s mission statement is to
“promote literacy in the Brownsville area by providing appropriate and
accessible educational programs designed to meet the needs of underserved
adults and families.”
Some of the classes offered are English as Second
Language, the Family Literacy Program and the Computer Skills Training Program. READ MORE @
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