Elizabeth Cottrell

Elizabeth H. Cottrell is a social media professional, freelance writer, author, and digital publisher in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She teaches small business clients how to increase visibility and build strong customer relationships. She helps authors get the book out of their head and published on Amazon. Free blog and newsletter at RiverwoodWriter.com. She blogs about the power of connection at Heartspoken.com.

Director’s Message December 2019

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Thank you for making Giving Tuesday a tremendous success again this year! $14,360 was donated through Paypal, Facebook, and checks on December 3rd to improve adult literacy in Anne Arundel County. Your tax-deductible donations are transforming lives through literacy by providing free books, tutoring, and assessments for all interested, low-income adults and out-of-school county youth.

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Effects Of Adult Literacy On Children

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By Thomas Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education

“With hundreds of billions of federal dollars invested in Early Head Start, Head Start, kindergarten, elementary, and middle school special reading programs, over the last 40 years, we have consistently witnessed failures to improve the average reading scores of 17-year-olds who are on the cusp of adulthood and, for millions of them, on the brink of parenthood. Meanwhile, expenditures for adult literacy education have been and still are trivial.”

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Outreach Impact by 1st Baptist Church

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The Good Time Gang in Gambrills

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Tremendous thanks go out to the 1st Baptist Church in Glenarden, their pastor John Jenkins and his wife Trina, the Good Time Gang in Gambrills, and Lee Goode a.k.a. DJ Dynasty for generously preparing 30 Thanksgiving meal food boxes for low-income Literacy Council students throughout Anne Arundel County! AACLC staff and tutors picked up and delivered the food boxes to very grateful AACLC students on Saturday, November 23rd.

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Student Success: Brooklyn Flowers

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Dr. Perinaaz Gandhi, student Brooklyn Flowers, and Susann Felton

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During Brooklyn Flowers’ senior year in high school her military stepfather received temporary duty orders that moved the family from Mississippi to Fort Meade. Due to a series of events, it was too late to register Brooklyn at the on-base school. She needed an alternative or she would have to repeat her entire senior year, so Brooklyn and her parents decided to pursue a GED via home school and hoped to find a GED preparation program.

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