Great opportunity! Our next tutor training is scheduled for
Saturday, October 5th
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church
Severna Park, MD
and will include basic literacy, math,
and English Language Learner (ELL) instruction.
We have a class size limit of 35. If you, or someone you know, would be interested in attending this training, please email Lisa Vernon at director@aaclc.org or call 410-269-4419 as soon as possible to reserve a seat.
Please take a moment to “meet” Iris and Bryan, two of our inspirational students. Our students reach out for help with their literacy and math skills to achieve goals of landing a job/better-paying job, earning their GED, and improving their daily lives. Reading a bedtime story to your child, understanding warning labels on your children’s prescriptions, and balancing a checkbook are a few of the practical daily activities that adults master when improving their literacy and math skills.
If you have a passion for reading or math, are a lifelong learner, and want to make a positive difference in another person’s life and in your community, please contact AACLC by calling 410-269-4419 or emailing director@aaclc.org and be trained as a volunteer tutor. Information on our October 5th tutor training opportunity is HERE.
October 19th is our 2019 Annual Literacy Lights the Way 5K Family Walk-a-thon. This year, we want walkathon registrants to either register directly on our regular Donate page on our website (https://icanread.org/donate-
We still need someone to help with our database maintenance. CLICK HERE for more information.
Warm regards,
Lisa Vernon, Executive Director
Anne Arundel County Literacy Council
301-523-6750 (cell)
director@aaclc.org
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Each week for the past 3 years, AACLC tutor Bob Stoner has been meeting with Iris Herrarte at the Brooklyn Park Library for 2-hour tutoring sessions. They began in Book 1 of Laubach, and now three years later Iris is working on preparing for the GED using US history, math, science, and writing workbooks! Iris also continues to work on mastering English through further study in grammar workbooks.
Iris has had quite a journey over the last three years, from learning enough English to talk to her children’s teacher, to being able to translate for her friends. She has also recommended family members and friends to the AACLC to get help with their English.
Bob and Iris have taken breaks from academic study to do practical things like creating a resume and doing an online job hunt, getting her first credit card to build a credit history, and now Iris is looking into buying a house. Iris and Bob, along with the support of the AACLC, have been able to work together to make a positive difference in the Brooklyn Park community.
Whether you can be there or not, donation requests are $25 per person and all proceeds will be used to purchase AACLC student and tutor books for the upcoming 2018/2019 school year.
This year, we want walkathon registrants to either register directly on our regular Donate page on our website (https://icanread.org/donate-
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Bryan was matched with tutor Jan Booth seventeen months ago and has advanced his reading comprehension skills by 4.2 years during this time.
Bryan Martin
I owe my success to three wonderful women. Ms. Nancy Lewis, who helped me learn the basics of reading and writing. Ms. Janice Booth, who found a way to help me deal with my dyslexia and help me work around it. Also, my lovely wife Brandy Martin, who has been there for me from the beginning, supporting me through the hard times.
Tutor Cindy Widick and student Ji-Young Lee
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“My student Ji-Young works at a Korean pre-school where she was required to take an online college course in early childhood development to keep her job. The concepts were easy for her but taking the course in English was challenging. We worked together to review the grammar and spelling required for her assignments, and Ji-Young put in 4-6 hours every night after work to complete her homework. Her hard work paid off! She earned an A in the class. Ji-Young is very proud of her accomplishment, and so am I.”
Tutor Cindy Widick
AACLC uses a customized database to track tutoring related information and is finishing up an improved version. We are in need of a volunteer with expertise working with MySQL databases and web pages based on HTML and PHP, to help provide ongoing maintenance to the database and web pages.
Or if you know of a family member or friend who might be interested, please email Dan Milleville dan.milleville@gmail.com. Training will be provided.
