[YL] Hello and Question

[Heather High]

Hi Wanda,

I am a Family Services Director with a YMCA in South Carolina & I am
somewhat familiar w/ the America Reads/Counts program.  The YMCA I use
to be employed with worked with tutors from Furman University who were a
part of this program.  They were paid through the University & would
work with the children daily.  The contact person who was in charge of
this program is Faye Jordan, she's Furman's Director of Student
Employment, & her e-mail address is faye.jordan at furman.edu.

Her phone number is 864-294-2184.

Good Luck!

Heather High

Family Services Director

Eastside Family YMCA 

864-292-2790

 

-----Original Message-----
From: wanda-edwards [mailto:wanda-edwards at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:54 AM
To: youthlearn at milhouse.edc.org
Subject: [YL] Hello and Question

 

Hello Everyone!

 

My name is Wanda Edwards and I currently am employed in an afterschool
tutoring program and I volunteer as a director/coordinator of my
church's summer youth programs.

I am a single (divorced) mother of 3 children, th oldest of which is 19
and developmentally delayed. In my adult life I have been a foster
parent, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for children, home day
care provider, Sunday school teacher, VBS teacher and director, and
private tutor.

I am also a student, I am finishing my Bachelors degree at The
University of Toledo in Youth Development.

So, I said all that to say this: I LOVE WORKING WITH CHILDREN!

 

Now for my question:

 

In collaboration with another community agency, I am attempting to
establish a summer tutoring program for students grades 1 - 6 next
summer. All tutors will be volunteers and this project has an extremely
low budget.

In searching the Internet I found the archived information from America
Reads and America Counts tutoring programs (leftovers from the Clinton
administration). The few people I talked to describe it as a dismal
failure. I looked over the website and I am not seeing any major faults
with the curriculum, maybe some things could be tweaked to make it
better. The most attractive part to me, I must admit, is the cost
(FREE).

 

Does anybody have any experience with these programs? Any information
you could share with me would be greatly appreciated. Or even if you
know of any super low cost curriculums that we could use would be great!

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Wanda J Edwards

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