Literacy: Spanning the US
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BEACON For Adult Literacy Pivots
During Coronavirus Pandemic
Potomac
Local: 6.25.2020 by Jacob Mosser
Since its founding in 1992, BEACON For Adult Literacy has grown to
an organization that serves over 400 adult students while remaining true to its
core mission of helping adults learn to read.
While the organization was
preparing for its spring semester of classes, the coronavirus pandemic halted
business as usual at the nonprofit organization. BEACON innovated and continued
to deliver its classes online.
BEACON’s day-to-day operation
relies heavily on its 130 volunteer instructors who teach in classrooms at one
of the five locations in and around Manassas. BEACON classes primarily teach
English but they also offer preparation for citizenship tests.
With their students coming from
over 49 countries and a large variety of educational experiences, teachers have
to be prepared to help students from a wide range of backgrounds.
In March as the coronavirus
spread, BEACON stopped its class sign up and refunded any registration fees it
had taken for its Spring semester. BEACON Executive Director Jen Mora Zuñiga
and her staff came together and created an online class structure. Using the
video conferencing system Zoom, BEACON volunteer teachers along with tech volunteers
have been conducting classes during the quarantine.
With classes being online,
attendance has been up to because students who may have had difficulty with
transportation or getting child care don’t have to leave their homes and can
access Zoom right on their phone. READ MORE ➤➤
Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade Level: 13
Reading Level: difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: 18-19 yrs. old
(college level entry)
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Family Literacy Program
Riverside
County Library: 6.27.2020
The family literacy program at
the Riverside
County Library System’s Literacy Services is the newest addition
to our program offerings thanks to the California Library Literacy Services generous
support. This program provides literacy support to adult learners and their
families to increase literacy skills across generations.
Family Programming
Libraries throughout Riverside
County will be hosting different family literacy events and workshops, which
include the following programs:
Family Literacy Hour
– This program offers an
overview of the importance of early reading, shared reading strategies, and
at-home literacy activity ideas.
Literacy and Loteria
– This program offers four
weekly workshops for parents and caregivers on the following topics: Family
Goal Setting
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Sparking Conversations with Your Family
◆ Shared
Book Reading
◆ Taking
Reading Outside the Cover
◆ Raising
a Reader
– This program is offered during
a library’s story time by providing a books for children and families to take home
and read together over a period of a few months.
◆ The
Lit Café
– This program offers more
in-depth literacy workshop skills for both caregivers and their
child. READ MORE ➤➤
Readability Consensus
Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade Level: 20
Reading Level: very difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: College graduate
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A Friend Indeed: Council Improves
Lives Through Literacy
Council improves lives through
literacy
Arkansas
Online: 6.28.2020 by Carin Schoppmeyer
Tell us about your organization:
The Ozark Literacy Council has
been providing free English classes and individual tutoring for adults in
Washington County since 1964. Our goals are to promote literacy, provide
education, support newcomers, build inclusive communities and advance
opportunities for new Arkansans. Through improved language skills and workforce
development programs, our students can gain employment, economic mobility and
community participation. We work to build inclusive communities and foster
understanding, belonging and mutual engagement among new Arkansans and their
neighbors.
The Ozark Literacy Council has
experienced a rapid increase in students in the past decade, which reflects the
growth of our vibrant Northwest Arkansas region. As our region becomes more
diverse, 95% of our students speak languages other than English. In 2019, our
380 adult students represented 50 different countries of origin.
Mission: Our mission is improving
lives through expanding and promoting literacy, and our vision is to ensure
that all people in Washington County possess literacy and language skills that
enhance their lives and empower them to become full participating members of
our community. READ MORE ➤➤
Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade
Level: 15
Reading
Level: very difficult to read.
Reader's
Age: College graduate
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Volunteers
Playing A Key Role For OCO
NNY
360: 6.28.2020
Volunteer:
Someone who selflessly shares their time and effort to meet a need or advance
the mission of an organization.
Whether
a person has served as a volunteer or know someone who has, it’s clear that the
role volunteers play in communities cannot be underestimated. For Oswego County Opportunities (OCO), the
community action agency for Oswego County, volunteers are a priceless asset
that enables the agency to meet its mission, goals and objectives.
OCO
provides 50-plus services that aid families and individuals throughout Oswego
County, serving 14,000 people directly and impacting the lives of many more
each year. The effectiveness of these services is greatly enhanced by a corps
of approximately 1,200 volunteers. Last year OCO volunteers logged over 26,000
hours of service and assisted OCO in a variety of capacities. From literacy
education to peer educators and youth leaders, to serving meals at OCO’s dining
and activity centers, the assistance that OCO receives from its cherished
volunteers is immeasurable.
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SCORE
(Support, Collaboration, Opportunity, Resources, Education and Employment)
brings together more than 20 community partners working together to provide a
workforce development program aimed at creating job readiness. One of the key
factors to achieving that goal is promoting empowerment and job readiness by
making it easy to access the resources needed to do so.
“Education,
childcare, transportation, job skills, and interpersonal skills are all
barriers that can impede someone from their goal of landing a job they can grow
with,” said OCO Collaboration Manager for Workforce Development Tina Eusepi.
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For OCO’s Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County,
the name says it all. Literacy Volunteers’ tutors provide weekly tutoring
services in reading, writing, math, English speaking, computer, and workplace
skills. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had an immediate impact on the
Literacy Volunteers program; one that affected both the adult learners and the
tutors.
“Tutoring
is done face to face, but of course we are not able to do that now,” explained
Literacy Volunteers Program Coordinator Meg Henderson. “The way we deliver our
service has completely changed during this pandemic. Tutors are meeting weekly
over the phone or virtually through a platform like Zoom. They have also had to
adjust by learning new technologies to best assist their students with
instruction remotely.” READ
MORE ➤➤
Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade Level: 14
Reading Level: difficult to read.
Reader's Age: 21-22 yrs. old
(college level)
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