DIRECT SERVICE
- Tutored 141 adults.
- Interviewed and assessed reading and writing skills of 70 learners.
- Matched 63 learner/tutor pairs and placed 9 tutors in community agencies.
- Sent 63 individualized recommendations to tutors upon initial match with their learners.
- Assisted 61 learners to achieve their personal goals often involving continuing their education, improving their employment situation, becoming more active in their community, and strengthening their families.
- Held six 12-hour training sessions for volunteer tutors, training 65 volunteers.
- Referred 56 persons to appropriate services.
- Answered 761 additional information questions.
- Continued to update the Project Read book collection in the Main and Branch libraries and prepared the Main Library Project Read collection for Dewey classification.
- Presented 4 continuing education classes for tutors.
- Held 11 tutor roundtable meetings.
- Held 11 meetings of the Wednesday Night Readers Book Club.
- Presented voting preparation and financial literacy workshops for adult learners.
- Held 27 new learner orientation meetings.
- Created the Project Read blog (www.projectreadsf.blogspot.com) to support tutors, learners, and other members of the adult and family literacy community. Our blog received nearly a 1,000 visits between May and December of 2006.
- Produced 4 issues of Project Read Update - a high quality print and online publication of learner writing, instructional resources, and program news.
COMPUTER LEARNING LAB
- Received well over 3,000 visits to our lab.
- Facilitated over 250 highly supportive computer lab training sessions.
- Continued our mission to emphasize the use of select educational software to achieve personal literacy and life skills 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 and enhanced our computer lab tutor training materials.
- Posted MS Word and PDF versions of our technology curricula and administrative forms on our web site.
- Presented an original workshop for the State Library on “How to Make Technology Accessible, Relevant, and Engaging for Adult Literacy Learners and Their Tutors” at the California Literacy Conference in Pasadena.
- Continued active participation in TINT - BALit. Met quarterly at libraries throughout the Bay Area to share resources and promote the thoughtful and effective use of high technology in adult literacy.
OUTREACH
- Made 43 presentations to community agencies and businesses to promote Project Read services and propose collaborations.
- Made contact with 275 organizations and businesses to recruit additional students and tutors.
- Set up 111 informal information tables in neighborhoods.
- Distributed over 5,000 flyers, posters, card stands, newsletters, pens, pencils, and other promotional materials.
- Participated in events sponsored by Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Association, All Hallow, City & County of San Francisco Drug Court, Bayview Housing Project, Bayview MAGIC - Youth and Children’s Books and Technology, Bayview Boys & Girls Club, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Association, Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, ETGAR 6 (Jewish youth development program), Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services, San Francisco Sheriff’s Dept. Pre Release Program, San Francisco Head Start Family Community Partnership Committee, Sunset Neighborhood Association, Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative, Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, Walden House, Western Addition Community Association, and the Mission YMCA.
FAMILY LITERACY
- Distributed over 400 children’s books to parenting learners. Books and other educational materials were distributed at the learner’s initial intake, workshops, office visits, and special events.
- Provided over 60 family events and consultations where we shared ideas and strategies on topics such as: 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; health and nutrition; and computer literacy.
- Revised our family literacy tutor training curricula.
- Posted MS Word and PDF versions of original family literacy curricula on our web site.
- Continued to serve as a KQED Hands on Literacy project mentor to develop new learning strategies, create engaging educational materials, and provide support and guidance to 35 agencies as they present workshops and provide first quality books to underserved and at risk families.
- Collaborated with the Exploratorium® to present a highly interactive science literacy workshop and provide educational toys and Exploratorium® passes.
- Collaborated with the University of California Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program to provide an informative, engaging, and tasty nutrition workshop.
- Served on the San Francisco Headstart Advisory Board.
- Served on the San Francisco advisory board of the national First Book Project to support local agencies including The Children’s Book Project, The Reading Tree, Holy Family Day Home, Up on Top tutoring program, and San Francisco State Childhood Development Center.
- Increased our library of literature-based multimedia materials.
- Held a highly individualized summer reading club for families.
- Instituted an ongoing collaboration with the San Francisco Public Library Early Literacy Project.
- Presented an original workshop on family literacy strategies at the California Literacy Conference in Pasadena.
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 Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco by referring Project Read tutors to become volunteers for homeless and at risk learners at the Skills Center.
- Collaborated with Common Knowledge, Inc., the Bay Area Library Information System, and the California State Library to expand the Project Money website to include information on using credit wisely. Learners from the Project Money team also traveled to various libraries and literacy conferences to present workshops on financial literacy topics.
- Collaborated with Adult Learners on Staff from California Library Literacy Programs to promote the Writer to Writer Challenge sponsored by the Center for the Book and the California State Library.
- Collaborated with Artists For Literacy (SIBL Project) to promote awareness of adult literacy.
- Collaborated with the San Francisco Department of Elections to present a voting workshop for Project Read learners.
- Collaborated with Stacey’s Bookstore to promote Project Read services and expand awareness of adult literacy issues.
- Collaborated with the Art Institute of California - San Francisco to provide additional support in our computer lab and to assist us in creating original materials geared to the needs of adult learners and their families.
- Collaborated with the SFPL Web Team to make Project Read learning resources available on our web site.
- Instituted an ongoing collaboration with the SPARK youth tutoring program.
- Co-sponsored, along with the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services, the first ever Literacy Summit attended by representatives from social service agencies, adult education providers, and the local school district.
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