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March
2013

Message From the Director  

Greetings!
  
***We made an embarrassing mistake regarding our newest board member in the Let Me Introduce You! section below. 
Our newest board member's name is Veronica Jagoe, not Valarie Jagoe. Sorry, Veronica for the error!
   
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 Please mark your calendars and join us on April 13th for the Annapolis Book Fair at the Keys School campus, and on May 5th and 6th for the Annapolis City Fair. Both are fun family events that will help us publicize all the exciting things we're accomplishing at the Literacy Council.  

 

If you haven't done so already, please RSVP for the April 19th Tutor Tune Up Workshop with Catherine Waterman and Nancy White. Also make plans to attend our Tutor/Student Appreciation dinner on May 23rd, 6:00 to 8:30 PM at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church. Further details will be shared in our April newsletter regarding these events. Please join us!

 

Warmest regards,

Lisa Vernon 

[email protected]  

401-798-0408             

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being." - Lee Iacocca

 
Let Me Introduce You!  

                                                                         
New Board member for 2013:

Governance Committee Chairwoman: Veronica Jagoe
Veronica Jagoe

Veronica Jagoe has joined our Board and will Chair our Governance committee.  Veronica brings with her a wealth of experience and wisdom to AACLC.  She currently serves as a Legislative Aide for the Anne Arundel County Council. Veronica has previously managed and administered the daily functions of the Displaced Homemakers Program, and was the Special Project Manager for the LEVER/DIP Programs (Substance Abuse Program).  

 

Veronica also served as a Program Manager for the YWCA Counseling and Career Services, was a Career Consultant/Special Project Coordinator for the Business & Workforce Development Center, has been an Adjunct Faculty ESOL instructor for Anne Arundel Community College, and was an Adult Education Instructor for the Adult Learning Center in Buffalo, New York. She received her M.S. degree in Adult Education from Syracuse University, New York. Welcome to AACLC, Veronica!         

 

 

April Board Meeting:
Wednesday, April 10th, from 7-8:45 PM at the  Annapolis, West St. library

Annett and Student
Why We Do What We Do

 

Bertha Garcia and her tutor, Annette Graves

 

Bertha Garcia is an energetic forty year old woman referred to us by the Anne Arundel Community College. She moved to the United States over twenty years ago from Mexico with her husband and two children. Bertha's son is about to graduate from college and her thirteen year old daughter is doing well in the Anne Arundel County Public School System. Through the years, Bertha and her husband always stressed the importance of education with their children.  

 

Bertha's husband died unexpectedly nearly a year ago. Since that time, she has been working two jobs to support her family. One of her jobs is in the bakery department of a supermarket, where she recently turned down a supervisory position because she felt she did not have the speaking and writing skills necessary to do the job.

 

Bertha is an absolute joy to work with and is every teacher's dream of the ideal student. She is always cheerful, reliable, and hard-working. She is progressing rapidly and hopes to be able to take a supervisory position the next time she has the opportunity. Another goal of hers is to prepare for her GED.

 

"No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care."

-Unknown     


Classroom students
 
Coming Attractions

Reading Strategies Workshop
April 19th, 2013
10:00
to 12:00 noon


 
Mark your calendars!  Reading specialists and educators Catherine Waterman and the Rev. Nancy White will be team teaching a Tutor Tune Up on Friday, April 19th, from 10:00-12:00 at the Severna Park Library. Their workshop will cover reading strategies with a focus on learning styles and Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences--an interactive approach that will suggest more activities that will help boost your student's reading comprehension.
 
This is an opportunity you do not want to miss, so please RSVP to
[email protected] or call our office at (410) 269-4419 and leave a message with your name and phone number to reserve a seat.

 

 


Please Plan On Attending!
The Annapolis Book Festival  

We have been invited to participate in the Annapolis Book Festival, which will be held at the Key School campus on April 13th from 10 AM to 4 PM  Please plan on attending this fun family event. If interested in volunteering at our booth, please email

[email protected]
or call 410-269-4419 to sign up.  We would love your help!

The Key School 534 Hillsmere Dr. Annapolis, MD 21403  410.263.9231 (click the "Key School" link for directions)

Tutor training 3/2/13  
Tutor Training 

 

We had 35 new tutors present on Day 1 of our tutor training! These tutors are being trained in both basic literacy and ESL instruction, and will all be matched with students after the completion of their training this Saturday, March 23rd.  

 

A big thank you goes to our tutor trainers Dixie Catlett, Charlie Catlett, Phil Tawes, and Maggy Cullman for providing this well organized training, and to Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church for graciously allowing us to use their Fellowship Hall.

 

Day 2 of tutor training-March 23, 9:30 AM-3:00 PM

 

Follow On Session-April 20th, 10:00-11:30 AM


Tutor Tips

You don't want to miss a single tweet from AACLC!  We are following over 200 Literacy Councils and leading thinkers in educational reform and innovation from around the world.  We then tweet interesting and thought-provoking links to articles on reading, writing, ESL, and technology, which we hope will challenge and inspire you along your tutoring journey.  Here is a sample from our 240 tweets so far: 

50 Incredibly Useful Links For Learning & Teaching The English Language http://www.teachthought.com/learning/50-incredibly-useful-links-for-ell-educators/ ... 

 

Great website! Choose from over 1,000 FREE lessons that include video & interactions.  http://www.GCFLearnFree.org 

 

Free Reading Comprehension game from Reading Sage: Steampunk Board Game...http://reading-sage.blogspot.com/2012/12/steampunk-board-game-steampunk-reading.html?spref=tw ...     

 

 

Leonardo da Vinci's IEP Meeting @ASCD EDge Blog post ...

http://edge.ascd.org/_Leonardo-da-Vinci39s-IEP-Meeting/blog/6512759/127586.html� � 

"The toughest thing that happened in my life was not being able to read."
WWII vet learns to read @ 89... http://yhoo.it/ZiYwi5  
 

Thanks to a generous donation from Robert and Jolene Caspar, we were able to completely renovate our website, icanread.org, this past fall. Elizabeth H. Cottrell, a freelance writer, author, social media pro, and digital publisher worked side by side with us to make our vision for this site become a reality.  Since then she has donated her time to help us learn the basics of WordPress, while updating our blogs for us.  If you haven't done so already, please take a moment to look at this beautiful website.  Thank you, Elizabeth!

 

 Elizabeth Cottrell

 Elizabeth H. Cottrell  

                                            

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