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[SOUTH DAKOTA] Samples of America Reads Challenge Federal Work-Study Programs and National Service Initiatives
ANDERSON COLLEGE
President Dr. Lee Royce
America Reads Contact: Jeff Holliday
316 Boulevard
Anderson, SC
Email: jholliday@anderson-college.edu
Website: www.anderson-college.edu
Telephone: (864) 231-2070
Fax: (864) 231-2008
Number of FWS Students: 7
Number of Districts: 1
We have just begun the America Reads Challenge. Many schools have expressed an interest in having tutors for their students. Response from students has been strong. We have placed tutors in two elementary schools and the feedback have been quite favorable.
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
President President Constantine Curris
America Reads Contact: Elizabeth Rice, Director
311 Strode Tower
Clemson, South Carolina
Email: erice@clemson.edu
Website: www.clemson.edu
Telephone: 864-656-1676
Fax: 864-656-1345
Number of FWS Students: 12
Number of Districts: 1
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
President Dr. Ron Ingle
America Reads Contact: Dr. Sally Z. Hare
Center for Education and Community, Coastal Carolina University,
P. O. Box 261954
Conway, SC 29528
E-mail: sally@coastal.edu
Website: www.coastal.edu/center
Telephone: (803) 349-2678
Fax: (803) 349-2670
Number of FWS students serving as tutors: 6
The mission of the America Reads in Coastal Carolina is to establish intergenerational learning partnerships to build community literacy. America Reads in Coastal Carolina is based on the premise that it takes a whole community to educate a child...And it takes a child to educate the community. A community is only as strong as its weakest member. We are our children's partners in creating community. Families are the foundation, the building blocks, to a healthy community. Literacy and lifelong learning are vital to a healthy community. Diversity is essential to a strong and healthy community.
We are looking at a comprehensive model for America Reads -- a year-round, community -- wide program. Our intention is to truly involve the entire community -- to have a learning partner for every child in Horry County. Our goal is to establish intergenerational learning partnerships to build community literacy.
From the beginning we want to stress the importance of parents as first teachers, of early literacy, of reading to children -- and we want the emphasis of the learning partnership to be on the relationship between the learning partners. Mutuality is a key component -- we believe that both members of the learning partnership will learn from each other.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE
President Phyllis O. Bonanno
America Reads Contact: S. Royal
1300 Columbia College Dr.
Columbia, SC
Email: sroyal@collcola.edu
Telephone: 803-786-3671
Fax: 803-786-3560
Number of FWS Students: 6
We are presently in the start-up phase. We have contracted with the Boys and Girls Club of which there are six locations in the Columbia area. Presently, we are working with only one of them with the hopes of expanding to the others. We had some difficulties in the Fall semester both with the Boys & Girls Club and with finding students to make the commitment to tutor. We have overcome the problem with the Boys & Girls Club; however, we are still experiencing difficulty in recruitment.
MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE
President Dr. James Hudgins
America Reads Contact: Margaret H. Hunt
P. O. Box 2408
Columbia, South Carolina
Email: huntmh@mtc.mid.tec.sc.us
Telephone: (803) 738-7691
Fax: (803) 790-7503
Number of FWS Students: 7
Number of Districts: 1
Midlands Technical College has piloted a Reading Tutor Program. Our mission is not only to educate our students, but to serve our community as well. Our students will gain a wealth of knowledge by working with the children. The experience will be priceless!
Beginning with Spring 1998, Midlands Technical College in collaboration with Sandel Elementary piloted a Reading Tutor Program. Sandel has a student enrollment of 989. Students with reading problems were identified by teachers. Eighty students participate in the afterschool program (2:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.).
MTC was able to supply each child with his/her on workbook at minimal cost -- obtaining four teacher's manual at no cost.
To ensure its success, MTC provides two students to work in the capacity of aftercare instructors. Each child attends one time each week (same schedule each week). Two hours is dedicated to the reading tutor component and the other two hours is dedicated to homework and activities related to improving reading skills. We felt that by adding the aftercare component, parent would be willing to let their child participate. Over 60 percent of the children come from a working-single-parent home where the parent would not be able to deliver or pick up their child during the set time period. Parents were, however, able to pick their child up between 6:00 and 6:30 p.m. because their work day ended between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m.
We deeply feel that by adding the aftercare component, the program will continue to be a success. We have only had positive responses and plan to expand the program with other schools within the Richland and Lexington Counties areas by working with the school districts. Further work is being done to make the Reading Tutor Program community based.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
President John M. Palms
America Reads Contact: De Cole Petty
Office of Community Service Programs, Campus Activities Center
Russell House University Union, Lower Level, West Wing
Columbia, South Carolina
Email: dpetty@studaff.sa.sc.edu
Telephone: (803) 777-7110
Fax: (803) 777-7396
Number of FWS Students: 30
Number of Districts: 2
America Reads at USC began in the Fall of 1997. We currently have 8 tutoring sites, including one on campus, which consist of two area elementary schools, homeless shelters, community and learning centers, and churches. Tutors work with children from pre-school age- fifth grade. Our office distributes applications complete with Dept. of Social Service background check included.At the beginning of each semester, we request current copies of tutors class schedules and coordinate the best site match according to times of availability and transportation issues. This semester we are offering training sessions (1 per month) to focus on aspects of literacy. We have formed a committee including the coordinator of this office, literacy experts from the USC Dept. of Education and the community, and others to develop a training manual to foster growth of a more structured program.
WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW IDEAS!
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY
President: Dr. Anthony DiGiorgio
America Reads Contact: Lauri Yeargin
218 Dinkins Student Center
Rock Hill, SC 29733
Email: YEARGINL@WINTHROP.EDU
Telephone: (803) 323-4503
Fax: (803) 323-2395
Number of Students: 25-30
Number of Districts: 1
Winthrop University works with five tutoring worksites in the Rock Hill community -- three elementary schools, one after-school center for special needs children, and one board for disabilities. Two of these sites are within walking distance from campus, and the other three require that the tutors provide their own transportation. Each site is unique in its relationship with the tutors. Some tutors are assigned one or two children for the whole year, while others work with more. Some are in clasroom settings, and others actually work with children in their homes. Tutor recruitment begins in late spring with all tutors hired before school begins in August. Training is conducted in conjunction with Winthrop's Americorps program, and some of the worksites provide additional training in areas specific to the children served.
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This page last updated October 21, 1999 (saw).