Direct
Service
- Tutored
161 adults.
- Interviewed
and assessed reading and writing skills of 100 learners.
- Matched
103 learner/tutor pairs and placed 15 tutors in 11 community agencies.
- Sent
103 individualized recommendations to tutors upon initial match with
their learners.
- Assisted
30 learners to reach their goals, which included expanded educational,
vocational or job, and personal opportunities.
- Held
six 12 hour training sessions for volunteer tutors, training 97 volunteers.
- Held
18 individual classes or multi-session workshops focusing on Writing,
Poetry, Voting, Using Library Resources, Learning and Tutoring Strategies,
Lesson Planning, and Computer and Internet Introduction, and the monthly
Wednesday Night Readers book discussion.
- Held
5 Continuing Education sessions and 4 Roundtable meetings for tutors.
- Referred
622 persons to appropriate services and answered 905 additional information
questions.
- Sent
198 letters with recommendations and learning strategies to tutors
after pair reviews with Instruction Supervisor.
- Interviewed
198 learner/tutor pairs for three-, six-month and one year progress
reviews and other instructional meetings.
- Continued
to expanded the Project Read book collection in the Main and Branch
libraries.
Family
Literacy
- Collaborated
with KQED’s First Book Project to provide additional reading materials
for Project Read families.
- Offered
services to 40 parenting adults.
- Gave
on average 10 books to each child of learners upon the learner’s initial
intake, the children’s birthdays, and/or at monthly giveaways, workshops
and special events.
- Offered
more than 20 events that focused on promoting reading in the home;
utilizing the library and other community resources; media literacy;
television as a learning tool; science literacy; parenting skills;
working with the school system; and health and nutrition.
- Created
original materials geared to the needs of adult learners and their
families.
Collaboration
- Collaborated
with City College of San Francisco by referring Project Read tutors
to volunteer at the following Adult Basic Education sites: John Adams
Community College, Adult Learning and Tutorial Center, Mission Community
College, and Southeast Learning Center.
- Collaborated
with community agencies by referring Project Read tutors to volunteer
at the following: The Episcopal Sanctuary’s Skills Center, and San
Francisco County Jail #8.
- Collaborated
with other Bay Area literacy programs, the SIBL (Songs Inspired By
Literature) Project, and California Literacy, Inc. to present a literacy
conference on September 14, 2002 featuring workshops for learners
and tutors.
- Collaborated
with library literacy programs from throughout the state to plan and
present the Literacy Reception at the Annual Conference of the California
Library Association at Sacramento in November.
- Continued
partnership with the SIBL Project to promote awareness of adult literacy
in the State and the Bay Area.
- Began
working with California Literacy, Inc. to plan a statewide public
awareness campaign to promote the issue of adult literacy.
Outreach
- Made
50 presentations to community agencies and businesses to promote Project
Read services and propose collaborations.
- Made
contact with 17 organizations and businesses to recruit additional
students.
- Set
up 168 informal information tables in neighborhoods.
- Distributed
42,100 flyers, posters, card stands, pens, pencils, and other promotional
materials.
- Participated
at 1st Annual ProLit Conference (San Diego), 21st Century Academy,
Bay View-Hunter’s Point Community Block Party, BV-HP Resource Faire,
Bernal Heights Street Fair, Brothers for Change (Turk St.), California
State Library Conference (SF), Cameo House (Pierce St.), City College,
Community Resource Fair (Valencia Gardens), Friends & Foundation Book
Sale (Fort Mason), Harumbe in the Park (BV-HP), International Literacy
Day (San Leandro), Isabel Allende Foundation Award Ceremony, KZQZ-FM,
Maxine Hall Health Center, Potrero Hill Resource Fair, SIBL Project
CD Release Party, SIBL Project Fundraiser, Walden House, Western Addition
Community Center, Women’s Media Center.
Computer
Learning Lab
- Further
refined our computer lab materials and procedures to more effectively
emphasize the use of select educational software to achieve personal
literacy and lifeskills goals, provide immediate and frequent opportunities
for learner success, support learner-tutor teamwork, increase learner
independence, demystify technology, and provide a welcoming gathering
place for the Project Read community.
- Revised
tutor training materials to encourage and support tutor participation
in the computer lab.
- Facilitated
over 200 highly supportive computer lab training sessions.
- Received
over 2,000 visits to the lab.
- Hosted
the founding meeting of TINT, an organization connecting computer
lab coordinators of adult literacy programs throughout the Bay Area.
- Refurbished
and distributed 21 donated computers to Project Read learners and
their families.
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