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[NORTH CAROLINA] Samples of America Reads Challenge Federal Work-Study Programs and National Service Initiatives
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
President Augusta Souza Kappner
America Reads Contact: Toni Gifford
610 West 112 Street
New York, NY
Email: tgifford@bnkst.edu
Website:
www.bnkst.edu/americareads/americareads.html
Telephone: (212) 875-4595
Fax: (212) 875-4594
Number of FWS Students: 24
Number of Districts: 1
BARNARD COLLEGE
President Judith Shapiro
America Reads Contact: Geri Perret, Student Employment Coordinator
3009 Broadway
New York, NY
Email:
gperret@barnard.columbia.edu!--
Website: www.barnard.columbia.edu/ocd/comser.htm
Telephone: 212-854-7748
Fax: 212-854-2188
Number of FWS Students: 45
Barnard students have responded to the "America Reads" challenge very positively. We began recruiting at Federal Work Study orientations for first-years and transfer students. We also attracted a number of upper class students through postering, descriptions in the "Community Service" jobs binders, and orientation sessions. We structured our program around an existing student volunteer program, Students Helping Students, and we worked with a neighborhood coaltion, Morningside Area Alliance, and other after-school programs to develop additional sites and contacts. Our students tutor in local elementary schools and at after-school programs in the local neighborhood and elsewhere in Manhattan. Students also tutor in an America Reads program at Community Impact, a Barnard-Columbia organization, that runs its own after-school reading program. The student tutors are wonderful - they really demonstrate a commitment to community service and an interest in helping children learn to read.
COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE
President Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny
America Reads Contact: Sr. Marion Lynch,o.s.u.
College of New Rochelle
New Rochelle, New York 10805-2339
Email:
ian758@hotmail.com
Website:
cnr.edu
Telephone: (914) 654-5487
Fax: (914)654-5866
We have three sites for our tutoring which takes place both within the school day and in the after school program. The tutors are in two elementary schools and in an outreach program. The children vary in age from early childhood through the early elementary grades. A very good partnership has developed among the sites. Tutors have ongoing training and meet periodically to evaluate and reflect. Information from the Web sites is an additional resource for the tutors.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
President Sandy Helling
America Reads Contact: Katie Graves and Martina Olzog
Mail Code 2010 - Earl Hall
New York, NY 10027
Email:
americareadsci@hotmail.com
Telephone: 212-854-2611
Number of FWS Students: 30
Number of Districts: 3
The program takes place in a local middle school in Harlem. We work with children ages 6-12 in an after school program. There are five established classrooms with 12-15 children each. The Columbia students, both work-study and volunteer, design and implement their own lessons within the classroom three days a week. Tutors do both group work and one-on-one tutoring. We are looking for suggestions on helpful resources as well as methods for effective publicity.
THE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL AT EXODUS HOUSE
President Hans E. Hageman
America Reads Contact: Paul Brill
309 East 103rd Street
New York, NY
Email: omondi@juno.com
Telephone: 212 876-8775
Fax: 212 876-8776
The East Harlem School at Exodus House serves African-American and Latino students in grades 5-8. The school seeks children from the East Harlem community who are intelligent, but have yet to succeed academically. With emphasis on discipline, focus, and commitment to excellence, The East Harlem School strives to help its students develop into responsible members of the East Harlem community and American Society.
The East Harlem School was founded in 1992 by two brothers, Hans and Ivan Hageman, who were raised in the same building that now houses the school. Following successful careers in law and education, the Hagemans returned to East Harlem to address the complex educational needs of the neighborhood's children. The school now teaches 60 students.
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
President Mark Gearan
America Reads Contact: Teresa Dulko
Smith Hall
Geneva, NY 14456
Email: tdulko@hws.edu
Website: www.hws.edu
Telephone: (315) 781-3825
Fax: (315) 781-3303
Number of Students:
Number of Districts: 2
LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
President Ray Bowen
America Reads Contact: Marcia Glick
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, New York 11101
Email: aglick@earthlink.net
Telephone: (718) 482-5639
Fax: (718) 482-5599
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, BROOKLYN CAMPUS
President David Steinberg
Address: I University Plaza
Brooklyn, New York
Email: LHICKS@HORNET.LIUNET.EDU
Telephone: (718) 488-1623
Fax: (718) 780-4059
Number of Students: 200
Number of Districts: 31
Our program serves children from the ages of 2-8 years old in after school programs, head starts, pre-school, day care, public schools, family shelters, and hospital settings (Brooklyn and Bellevue).
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, C.W. POST CAMPUS
President David Steinberg
America Reads Contact: Karen Lind
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, New York 11548-1300
Email: rldevel@titan.liunet.edu
Telephone: (516) 299-2207
Fax: (516) 299-3948
Number of Students: 30
Number of Districts: 3
During the 1997-1998 school year 60 Long Island University tutors from the C.W. Post campus worked with at-risk students (grades K-3) in seven elementary schools in Nassau County. About 15% of the tutors are bilingual (English/Spanish and English/French Creole). Our program is called CLIMB - the Steps to Literacy- Collaboration, Literacy, Image, Mentoring, Build for a Successful 21st Century. Tutoring takes place during regular school hours, after school until 4 p.m., and also supplements the summer reading program for two of the districts. Demand for tutors (especially for bilingual tutors) consistently exceeds applicants. Training and supervision are provided by LIU via a three-credit literacy training course each semester which is taught by the director of the Reading/Learning Development Center. Ongoing support is provided by a site coordinator at each school. Feedback from teachers, community members and our tutors has been very positive. We are currently trying to expand CLIMB by seeking grants for supervision, materials, and technology support. Please contact us with any information that we can share.
At the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University our program is called CLIMB- the Ladder of Literacy, Collaboration, Literacy, Image, Mentoring, Build a foundation for a successful future. To become a FWS tutor each candidate submits an application and an essay, followed by a personal interview. If the applicant is accepted both financial aid and his/her advisor must then approve his eligibility. Each tutor participates in a three credit mandatory literary training course sponsored by Long Island University. Then our FWS tutors are assigned to one of seven participating local schools. They work during the school day within the confines of the classroom for approximately 12 to 15 hours per week with the selected tutees. In addition to a central program coordinator, a site coordinator is available at each school. Children, parents, administrators, and teachers have commented positively about CLIMB. Our college students have seen tremendous progress in their tutees' achievements and have found this experience to be very unique and fulfilling to them educationally and personally.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
President: L. Jay Oliva
America Reads Contact: Sharon Slotnick
25 West 4th Street, Room 323
New York, NY
Email: areads@nyu.edu
Telephone:
212-998-2097
Number of Students: 700
Number of Districts: 3
NYU America Reads Literacy Tutors are all work-study eligible students representing all academic disciplines except the Dental and Medical School programs. Currently NYU has 700 work-study students working as America Reads tutors in 42 public elementary schools, in 3 school districts in Manhattan, and Brooklyn, NY, working over 6,000 hours collectively a week, serving thousands of New York City public school children. This summer tutors will be continuing their work in New York City summer schools, and in Board of Education Breakaway Camps.
Our tutors are set up in teams of 10 with one graduate student per team. The graduate student acts as the on-site liason for the site and to the University program director. Communication between tutors, and program director occurs in-person during site visits, over e-mail, and the phone, monthly mandated graduate student meetings, journal entries, and through bi-weekly payroll which is run out of the America Reads office.
New York University is committed to expanding our America Reads program next year and beyond. Starting Fall 1998, the program will include pre-kindergarten children.
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY
President Paul L. Golden, C.M.
America Reads Contact: Marilynn P. Fleckenstein, Ph.D.
Learn and Serve Niagara
Niagara University
Niagara, NY
Email:
mpf@niagara.edu
Website:
http://www.niagara.edu/index.php
Telephone:
716-286-8573
Fax: 716-286-8753
Number of FWS Students:
30
Number of Districts: Niagara Falls, NY;
Niagara University students offer tutoring in reading in America Reads Programs at five sites in the Niagara Falls, NY School District. Two of the sites are in school buildings and three sites are in community centers. Niagara University tutors are recruited, primarily from the College of Education and provide at least 18 hours of tutoring per semester. Training for the tutors is held at the beginning of each semester and the tutors are placed and supervised by the Tutor/Mentor Coordinator of Learn and Serve Niagara. Tutors are evaluated regularly by the local school and site personnel as well as by the Learn and Serve Tutor/Mentor Coordinator. Transportation of tutors to the site is coordinated and provided by Learn and Serve Niagara. The "America Reads" initiative is part of a large tutoring program involving 32 schools in three local school districts. Over 400 Niagara University tutors will provide at least 18 hours of tutorng per semester for the academic year. Fuding for the project is provided by private Foundation grants and by Niagara University.
PACE UNIVERSITY
President Dr. Patricia O. Ewers
America Reads Contact: Diane E. Hynes
1 Pace Plaza
New York, New York 10038
Email: hynes@ny2.pace.edu
Website:
http://www.pace.edu/
Telephone:
(212) 346-1300
Fax: (212) 346-1750
Number of FWS Students: 38
Number of Districts: 5
We have 38 tutors for Spring 1998 semester from our New York City and Westchester campuses. Currently, we are working with the YMCA of Greater New York through their VIrtual Y program, the Henry Street Settlement, and other school districts. The tutors work with children who are primarily, Pre-K through 3rd grade.
In order to to be eligible to become a tutor, he or she must; -be eligible for Federal Work Study
-Sophomore Standing ( 32 credits or more ) -Minimum GPA 2.5
-Experience with children is preferred
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
President Karen Hitchcock
America Reads Contact: Dennis Tillman
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222
Email: faodbt@safenet.albany.edu
Website: www.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5487
Fax: (518) 442-4953
Number of FWS students: 100
Number of Districts: 3
The purpose of the U Albany America Reads Program is to provide extended learning time to young children (grades K-4) who need additional help in reading. There are approximately 75 work-study and 25 volunteer undergraduates (sophomores, juniors and seniors) who tutor one on one in an after-school program at the children's school. All tutors who work 105 hours over the course of the term are also eligible for community service credit (3 credits). Tutors receive 18 hours of training, 10 hours in a central location and 8 hours at the school site. Tutors car-pooled to the school site and drivers were compensated for their mileage by the University.
More than 200 children in eight elementary schools participated in the tutoring during the first term. At least one teacher from each school helped develop and participated in the training. In addition, these teachers observed the tutors at their schools, assisted in materials selection, and provided feedback on ways to improve the instruction. Teachers in one school district, with five elementary schools participating in America Reads, were compensated for their time and received in-service credit for the training. In this district, the superintendent also provided an after-school monitor at each to supervise the children's comings and goings. In the other three schools, the U Albany paid a stipend to each participating teacher. The compensation for teachers was approximately $1500 per term or $3000 per school year in all sites. One urban district (2 schools), one working class suburban (5 schools), and one middle-class suburban district participated (1 school). An article on the America Reads program will appear in the SOE Alumni Newsletter. A doctoral student in reading is conducting an evaluation of the program and a graduate program evaluation class is using the America Reads programs as their class project.
The America Reads Program at the University of Albany was initiated in partnership with at least one reading teacher at eight elementary schools in three different districts -- one urban, two suburban. The Dean's Office in the Graduate School of Education, the Reading Department faculty, and the Superintendent's Office in at least one of the districts have collaborated to provide funding for teachers' participation in the training and supervision of the tutors, tutors' training materials, and the cost of mileage for students who carpool. Ten hours of training were provided at the school site by the supervising teachers. Tutors work with two children for an hour each, at the school site, in an after-school program. The children are selected by the supervising teachers, and along with the classroom teacher, select books and other material for the tutors to use in instructing the children. In addition to work-study students, there area number of UAlbany undergraduates who volunteer in the America Reads program.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT
President: Dr. Paul YU
America Reads Contact: Rob DiCarlo
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, New York
Email:
rdicarlo@po.brockport.edu
URL: http://www.brockport.edu
Telephone: 716-395-5422
Fax: 716-395-2708
Number of Students: 4
Number of Districts: Brockport
Building upon our prior literacy experience with migrant education and the federally funded Student Literacy Corps program, we inititated a program with the Brockport School District. Currently, we have four students being paid through the CWS program and approximately 15 volunteers participating. We hope to expand to 15 paid CWS students for Fall, 1998. Students may also opt to receive credit as well as being paid for their tutoring experiences.
Our student tutors work primarily in classrooms under the supervision of teachers. The tutors often lead small groups or work one-to-one with students experiencing difficulty. Most of the tutors are placed in blended classrooms to provide additional services to at-risk students.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
President Kenneth A. Shaw
America Reads Contact: Pamela Kirwin Heintz
237 Schine Student Center
Syracuse, New York 13244
Email:
cpcs@summon2.syr.edu
Website: http://students.syr.edu/cpcs/
Telephone: (315)443-3051
Fax: (315)443-3365
Number of FWS Students: 15
Number of Districts: City of Syracuse School District
In May 1997, fifteen S.U. students were selected through an extensive interview process to become members of the first S.U. Literacy Corps, and to participate in a pilot tutoring project in the City of Syracuse School District working with its Inclusive Summer School Program. The program took place at the Bellevue School where tutors worked with approximately 200 K-3rd grade children in inclusive classrooms. There were two SU Literacy Corps tutors in each of seven classrooms. Each classroom had between twenty and thirty typical and special needs children, together with a regular classroom teacher, special education teacher and any additional one-to-one aides that children required. The tutors had three days of training directed by a professor at the S.U.School of Education, the Director of the S.U. Center for Public and Community Service, the Administrative Assistant for the S.U. Literacy Corps, and memebers of the City of Syracuse School District staff. There was an orientation at the school and the branch of the Onondaga County Libray, which provided library opportunities for the program over the summer since the Bellvue School library was closed. The tutors worked full time, thirty-seven and a half hours each week, 8:00 AM- 4:30 PM every day, from June 30 through August 13th. The day consisted of van rides to the school, tutoring from 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM then returning to S.U. every day for debriefing, in service training, or ongoing reflection until 4:30 PM. The tutors had training, provided tutoring, reviewed all materials used, evaluated and prepared proposals for every aspect of the program.
The success of the Literacy Corps was beyond expectation on the part of tutors, city school teachers, administrators, staff, and children. S.U. has continued the tutoring through the academic year under the direction of the Center for Public and Community Service, with fourteen tutors working at eight different elementary schools in the City of Syracuse District, with children in grades K-3. We are presently recruiting and interviewing new tutors for inclusion in the summer program this year, 1998, anticipate increasing our number to thirty. We will also expand our tutoring to all elementary grades and family literacy programs. We are working right now to develop a familty literacy program with the pediatric clinic at the SUNY Health Science Center and to assist the City School District with serveral of their family literacy programs. The inclusion of all elementary grades and family literacy in the America Reads FWS program offers S.U. this opportunity. It is our intention to continue building on the excellent program that was developed from the unique relationship between S.U. and the Syracause City School District as we continue to expand the SU Literacy Corps.
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