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Loudoun Literacy Council Kicks Off 40th Year with
New Pricing, Logo
LoudounNow:
12.13.2019
The Loudoun
Literacy Council is beginning its 40th Anniversary celebration a little
early by unveiling a new 40th-year logo and special pricing for adult English
for Speakers of Other Languages classes.
The organization began its operations as the only
non-denominational literacy povider in Loudoun County in 1980, and in 2020
marks its official 40th Anniversary. Beginning with the January registration
for five levels of adult classes throughout the county, Loudoun Literacy
Council will charge $40 per 12-week session (two instructional hours per week.)
“Loudoun Literacy Council has been changing lives
and promoting personal growth and empowerment since 1980 and has always been
flexible in pricing, because we believe so strongly in helping those who want
to strengthen their English-language skills so they can become more active
members of Loudoun County,” said Chairwoman Margaret Brown. READ
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LearningQuest literacy Center Programs Draw Kids Into
Helping Parents’ ESL Progress
Modesto
Bee: 12.15.2019 by Deke Farrow
Eisenhut Elementary School fifth-grader Jeanette
Cisneros has a straightforward way of helping her mom, Rosa, improve her
English language skills.
“Sometimes I don’t understand some Spanish, so I
just tell her, ‘Speak English,’ and that helps her,” the child said. Her blunt
comment drew laughs from her mom and Karen Williams, executive director of LearningQuest-Stanislaus Literacy Centers, as the
three sat at a cafeteria at the north Modesto school one recent evening.
Every occasion to speak English does help Rosa
Cisneros, who more than 15 years ago immigrated to the U.S. from Peru with her
parents and little brother. Just 15 then, she was thrust into high school,
where she struggled to improve her language skills.
“It was really hard for me,” she said as she waited
for her LearningQuest ESL night class to begin at Eisenhut, and Jeanette and
her brother, Daniel, took part in the Kids Club offered for children of the
English-as-a-second-language students. “But with the passage of years, I just
get a job and my English started coming out.
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“Rosa has also participated in our PACT (Parent and
Child Together) programs the last two years,” Williams said. “These programs
are an additional four weeks a year of demonstrating learning activities
parents can do with their children in the home by having parents and their
children learning in class together.” READ
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Literacy Volunteers Needed in
Midcoast Area for the New Year
Times
Record: 12.16.2019
Working
closely with the Midcoast New Mainers Support Group and Nsiona Nguizani, the
cultural broker for Brunswick, Midcoast
Literacy has been enrolling both school-age children and adult new Mainers
in their one-on-one tutoring programs and matching them with volunteer tutors.
The organization is now providing free tutoring for 16 adults and six children
from the asylum-seeking families that relocated to the Bath/Brunswick region
just four months ago.
In
addition to helping this population of new arrivals, Midcoast Literacy is
simultaneously providing tutoring for other adults and children in the region
who are learning English or who may simply need help with a variety of literacy
skills.
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Midcoast
Literacy is a non-profit organization based in Bath that has been providing
free literacy programs to people of all ages in Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and
northern Cumberland counties for nearly 50 years. READ
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