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SCALE
America Reads Contact: Priscilla G. Wood, Ph.D.
208 North Columbia Street, Suite 108
Chapel Hill, NC
E-mail: pgwood@email.unc.edu
URL:http://www.readwriteact.org/
Telephone: (919) 962-1542
Fax: (919) 6020
Participation:The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) is an agency within the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SCALE provides training and technical assistance to campus-based literacy programs across the nation. Additionally, SCALE directs the America Reads program at UNC-CH.
Tutoring:SCALE works with four partner school districts, one charter school, and one community center to place approximately 40 university work-study tutors with children in grades K-3. Our tutors work with children in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Pittsboro, Hillsborough, and Durham.
Resources:The program director designs and conducts initial and on-going tutor training. Additionally, our program model includes the role of coach mentor. The program hires from five to seven graduate work-study students to work as on-site supervisors and coach mentors to the undergraduate tutors.
Our America Reads program is supported by Glaxo-Wellcome Inc. and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Research: Data collected to determine the effect of the America Reads program include 1) the LEARNS Literacy Assessment Profile, 2) documentation of the Reading Recovery levels at which the learners can read independently, and 3) Parent/Guardian Evaluations. Data collected to determine the effect of the America Reads program on tutors include 1) Tutor Self Evaluations, 2) Attitudinal Assessments, and 3) Program Evaluations.
Relations: SCALE holds a national conference for campus program tutors, coordinators, learners, administrators, and community partners to share information and learn through an intensive weekend of workshops and round-table discussions on diverse literacy-related topics. The conference is usually held in late October.
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
America Reads Contact: Paige Wilbanks
Volunteer Services Box 7351
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
E-mail: volserv@wfu.edu
Telephone: 336 758-4549 Fax: 336 758-4744
Participation: Through a collaborative effort of Volunteer Services, Financial Aid, and the Education Department, Wake Forest University is supporting the America Reads initiative. We have distinguished our America Reads team by placing all of our work study tutors in one Elementary School. This program involves the efforts of 15 tutors working one on one with three childen each.
Tutoring: The Wake Forest America Reads team is trained by our Education faculty at the beginning of the year and continuing through both the Fall and Spring semesters. Though many skills and techniques are included in the training, one of the most exciting involves the University's commitment to Technology. Our tutors use their University lap top computers(which are given to all Freshmen upon enrollment) to motivate the children to read and write. Another important component of the America Reads experience is the emphasis on tutor reflection. Our tutors keep weekly journals detailing the building/development of relationships with the children and reflecting on the impact this experience is having on their own lives.
Resources: The America Reads program is primarily coordinated by Volunteer Services with the valuable support of Financial Aid and the Education Department.
Research: We are using tutor journals as a qualitative form of assessment and will also be using evaluation forms to explore the stregthns and weaknesses of the training, placements, support, etc. (to be given to both the cooperating teachers and tutors).
WILKSBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
America Reads Contact: Judy N. Henderson
1248 School Street
Wilkesboro, North Carolina
E-mail:
JNHenderson@InfoAve.net
Internet Address: www.wilkes.k12.nc.us/wilkesboro/index.htm
Telephone: 336-8384261
Participation: Wilkes County Schools Wilkesboro Elementary School 500 students
Tutoring: I met Carol Rasco at W.R. Davie school where we talked to her about our tutoring program. I run a one-to-one tutoring program for low reading second and third graders using teacher assistants and parent volunteers from the community. My tutoring program is modeled about Dr. Darrell Morris' Howard Street Tutoring Model. It is in the third year and very successful. We were one of 150 schools in NC that was a school of distinction for reading and math performance. Parents are trained and supervised in a year long tutoring program. As the supervisor, I supervise and support the tutors in a twice weekly program. Second graders are tutoring 2 days a week and third graders the other 2 days during the week. It is very successful. Dr. Morris Howard Street Tutoring Model book from Applachian State University
Resources: The PTO raised money to provide the books and materials. It is ongoing.
Research: I use an Informal Reading Inventory at the beginning and at the end of each year to track the progress.
Relations: I have presented my tutoring model two years in a row at the North Carolina State Reading Conference. As a member of Dr. Morris' NW Reading Teacher Academy, I present staff development in reading to the surrounding counties.
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