NEW PROJECTS

• Increased support systems for learners and tutors through 3-, 6- and 9-month portfolio review meetings
  with the Literacy Instructional Supervisor and learner/tutor pairs.
• Established Poetry and Public Speaking workshops for learners, designed to enhance reading and
  writing skills and develop self-confidence by tapping into the learner's personal experience and
  expression.
• Expanded the student intake procedure to include additional testing to identify learning difficulties.
• Developed benchmarks to determine stages of learner progress.
• Began the Transitional Service Program to assist advanced learners to transfer to other educational and
  vocational programs.
• Made educational resources more readily available to learners and tutors through expansion of the
  Project Read book collection and by giving workbooks and other materials to learners and tutors during
  the 3-, 6- and 9-month reviews.
• Trained Project Read learners as Computer Learning Lab tutors.

• Tutored 304 adults.
• Interviewed 140 students.
• Matched 138 studenttutor pairs and placed 34 tutors in 11 community agencies.
• Held seven 12hour training sessions for volunteer tutors, training 197 volunteers.
• Held 33 series of small group instruction focusing on Poetry, Public Speaking, Writing for the GED,
  Introduction to Computers, E-mail, Reading Newspapers, Spelling, and The Internet.
• Held six Continuing Education sessions for tutors.
• Referred 455 persons to appropriate services and answered 426 additional information questions.
• Sent 103 letters with recommendations and learning strategies to tutors.
• Interviewed 168 student/tutor pairs for three and six month progress reviews.
• Sent 62 books to learners in celebration of learning achievements.
• Assisted 12 learners in transition to other educational, vocational or job opportunities.

• Tutored 104 adults who are parents.
• Enrolled 15 adults who received free books for their 33 children during the first interview.
• Sent 42 children of Project Read students a free book on their birthday

• Made 15 presentations to community agencies and businesses to explain Project Read and propose
  collaborations.
• Made contact with more than 168 organizations and businesses to recruit additional students.
• Distributed 19,631 flyers, posters, card stands, pens, pencils, etc.
• Exhibited at the Bernal Heights Community Fair, 9 Starbucks store openings, Bret Hart School Health
  Fair, Haight Street Fair, Potrero Hill Street Fair, and other neighborhood events.

• 3-, 6- and 9-month portfolio review meetings show increase in reading levels and evolution of writing
  skills. Tutors receive recommendations to enhance tutoring skills, which include reading and writing
  strategies, resources such as dictionaries and workbooks, and computer class information and software
  for learners. Learners write longer sentences, spell better, use more difficult vocabulary, express more
  interesting content, and expand their writing to include letters, filling out applications, and poetry.