Please grab your calendars and make plans to attend our April 26th Appreciation Dinner. You do not want to miss this event!
A fabulous buffet dinner will be followed by a short but exciting program to celebrate volunteers, students, and our 41st anniversary serving Anne Arundel County. We will have engaging speakers and student awards will be presented.
Make plans to attend and bring your family/friends with you for a night of fun and celebration! Last year’s event was our biggest ever – over 200 people attended.
Also, take note of the following important math and literacy training opportunities:
April 7 Follow-On Workshop for all tutors
April 14 Mini tutor training for teachers who missed the spring tutor training
April 28 Teaching fractions and how to input information into the TI-30XS calculator
“For every one of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always necessarily have to be in your family; for me, it was teachers and school.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
Our Executive Director, Lisa Vernon, was a guest recently on the “Volunteer Voice” show at WNAV. She did a fabulous job of explaining what we do at AACLC and how someone can use our free services. She personalized the dialog for the potential student or volunteer who might be listening. Click the arrow on the audio player below to listen:
Research has found that volunteering is good for you.
“A study by Sara Konrath at the University of Michigan showed that volunteerism predicts a longer life,” Dr. Emma Seppala says. “Interestingly, volunteerism lengthened lives only when the volunteerism was done for selfless reasons.”
The connection isn’t totally clear, but according to Harvard Medical School, volunteering may lower blood pressure, reduce stress, and reduce depression.
A fabulous buffet dinner will be followed by a short but exciting program to celebrate our volunteers, students, and our 41st anniversary serving Anne Arundel County.
Please make plans to attend and bring your family/friends with you for a night of fun and celebration!
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.orgor call 410-269-4419as soon as possible to reserve a seat.
Saturday, February 24th 9am – noon Founders Room Wood’s Memorial Presbyterian Church Severna Park
This workshop will cover the basics of GED-level algebra for tutors who have not worked with math for a while and would like a refresher. The topics we will cover include: signed numbers, equations with inequalities, systems of equations, and polynomials. If you have one, please bring a calculator (TI-30XS) with you as well.
RSVP to Jane Seiss at jane.seiss@gmail.com or call 410-269-4419 to register for this workshop.
“This year I got the best Christmas present ever; I got to read to my grandkids.” Reading to his grandchildren is one of many “firsts” for Ray Williams. “My dad, Herbert Scurlock, is bedridden. This Christmas, for the first time, I was able to go over to his house and read [to] him the Christmas card I’d gotten for him.” Ray is determined to turn these “firsts” into regular events. Determination is one of the hallmarks of Ray’s character. [click to continue…]
In the fall of 2016 former Literacy Council student Angel Cleckner was talking with Charlene Renaud, one of her hair styling clients, who confessed that she was unable to read. At Angel’s urging, Charlene contacted the Council for help and was assessed and matched with tutor Bonnie Wright. [click to continue…]
