“To me it is an image of people rising, helping themselves to achieve what they thought they might never achieve. It also speaks to the excitement that tutors feel when they are able to help their students reach their goals.” Jill York, Event Coordinator
Graphic art student Chanc Baylor has created our new AACLC logo! We love it and hope you do, too. A big thank you goes to Chanc Baylor, Mighel Jackson and Mike Busby for their important work on our new logo design, as well as to our dedicated Board members for their helpful input on this project throughout the summer.
Last year, we reported about a student being tutored by Deborah Ryan Johnson of Millersville. To read that article, CLICK HERE.
Deborah has been tutoring her student for four hours a week this past year. He is making excellent progress in his studies, has advanced several reading levels, has obtained his learners permit, and is eager to start driving!
This is why we do what we do…
We will have two tutor training dates to choose from this Fall! Both trainings will be held at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church in Severna Park. Our training will familiarize you with the Laubach teaching materials we use, and will cover both basic literacy and ESL instruction. We hope to match you with a student at the end of the training day. There will be a required October 26 Tutor Follow-On Workshop 9:00 am-12:00 noon, also at Woods Memorial.
Here are the training dates and the Follow-On Workshop information:
September 14 Tutor Training 9:00-3:00
OR
September 28 Tutor Training 9:00-3:00
AND
Required October 26 Tutor Follow-On Workshop
9:00-12:00
Class size will be limited to 20 participants for each training. If interested in either of these training dates, please email programdirector@aaclc.org or call 410-269-4419 as soon as possible to reserve a seat.
Twenty new tutors were trained on June 22nd, 2013. Special thanks goes to tutor trainers Phil Tawes, Dixie Catlett, Jae Sherwood, and Annette Graves for their excellent instruction and to Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church for graciously hosted our training. Thanks also to our dedicated Assessors who worked overtime to get our new students assessed so that they could be matched with tutors.
You don’t want to miss a single tweet from @AACLC. We now have 484 followers on Twitter! Here are a few samples from our 773 tweets so far:
Join us in one of the most rewarding volunteer jobs you could possibly do: become an AACLC Tutor!
The next New Tutor Training is Saturday, June 22, 2013 from 9am to 3pm at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park, MD.
AACLC tutors change lives. Contact us now to sign up or get more information. There are lots of ways to contact us:
The Abilities Network presented AACLC with the Community and Employment Program Partners Award at their April 24th, 2013 Awards breakfast. According to Abilities Network Director Anisha Thompson “each office is requested to acknowledge an organization, employer or business that has been supportive and beneficial to the individuals we support. As I was thinking of whom to recognize, I immediately thought of the Anne Arundel County Literacy Council, an organization that has helped many of our individuals build upon their reading skills and so many other attributes.”
Pictured from left to right: Jack and Mimi Larkin, Lisa Vernon, Anisha Thompson, Harry DeLong and Christine Harrison.
The summer of 2011, I was thinking about changing my job. I just lost interest in the work I do as a sheet metal worker. I want to get into law enforcement and I know I need help on my reading and writing, so I talked to my friend Jessica and asked if she could tutor me. We worked for weeks and Jessica told me that she thought I might need more help. So she looked up some classes for me to take and she came across the Anne Arundel County Literacy Council. I called the Literacy Council and made an appointment to meet a tutor.
The end of the summer in 2012 I started meeting with my tutor, NancyLewis, for two nights a week. Nancy and I work through a workbook that has lessons in it. We also read one chapter a night in a fiction book that I have picked. After two mouths meeting up with Nancy, I was told by my boss that I had to go on a three month road trip to Connecticut. Talking with Nancy about it, she and I came up with a way for us to still work together. Every Tuesday and Thursday I would call Nancy on the phone. We would work for two hours on my workbook and then we would read a chapter.It was hard working on the phone, because sometimes we could not hear one other. Nancy and I made it work and after the three months, I don’t feel like I missed out.
After I got back from my road trip, Nancy and I started meeting at the library again. Ten months have gone by and I have finished two workbooks (Laubach 4 and Challenger 4) and read five fiction books. I’m so glad I made that first call to meet a tutor. I feel that I have made a lot of progress in the work I have done. I can see my new career approaching very soon. I owe it all to my tutor Nancy, she takes time from her life to meet up with me to teach me how to read and write better.
Our AACLC student Lan (front in this photo) achieved her GED and went on to graduate from Anne Arundel Community College. She is now a student at the University of Maryland.
Yet another example of how Reading Changes Lives!
