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Teaching children to read since 2003!
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Summer 2016 Newsletter
I hope you had a wonderful summer and enjoyed some summer reading while spending time with your family and friends. Reading Power is preparing for our 14th year of tutoring in North Chicago and our third year tutoring in Zi
on. We will be expanding our North Chicago prekindergarten program (from two to six classrooms) this year after last year's successful pilot program. Our students continue to make great literacy strides while learning and growing
alongside
their volunteer tutors. We are excited to welcome back our returning tutors, to welcome our new volunteer tutors to the Reading Power family, and meet our new students this year.
Thank
you
to everyone - volunteers, donors, supporters, and partners - who make Reading Power possible each year.
~Rebecca Mullen, MSEd, Executive Director of Programs
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Mission Statement:
Reading Power is a literacy tutoring program serving low-achieving children attending elementary schools. Our mission is to accelerate children's literacy learning and to develop in them a love of reading and writing. We accomplish this goal through an independent tutoring program working in partnership with schools. We believe that all children deserve to reach their intellectual potential.
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Fall Calendar
Organizational
9:30 - 11:30
700 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045
Fellowship Hall (downstairs)
New 1st and 2nd Grade Tutor Training:
August 25 & 26
9:00 - 12:00
2833 Washington Ave.
Great Lakes, IL 60088
1st and 2nd Grade Refresher Training:
9:00 - 12:00
2833 Washington Ave.
(Further details will be sent regarding all events in additional emails.)
"Each year, I return as a Reading Power Site Coordinator so I can watch the magic that occurs as our volunteer tutors connect with each of their students as they are learning to read. The smiles on the faces of both the tutors and the children tell our story.
Our Reading Power room is hugged each and every day by our dedicated volunteer tutors". ~
Marla Guziec, Forrestal Site Coordinator
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Forrestal
Green Bay
North
Beulah Park
Students = 254
Tutors = 186
Professional Staff = 8
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Kindergarten Tutor Training:
12:30 - 3:00
2833 Washington Ave.
Prekindergarten Tutor Training:
Thursday, September 1
9:00 - 12:00
2100 Green Bay Road
North Chicago, IL 60064
Zion Community of Character Walk:
September 15
6:00 p.m.
Bake 425 Fundraiser:
Thursday, October 6
All Day (15 - 30% of all the day's purchases go to Reading Power)
(Further details will be sent regarding all events in additional emails.)
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Tutor recruitment is underway!
Please, tell your friends and family about Reading Power and encourage them to become a volunteer tutor and join our life-changing organization.
Tutor applications can be completed on our website
here
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Our greatest needs for new volunteer tutors are for our afternoon program at Forrestal Elementary School tutoring kindergarten students (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons) and for our prekindergarten program expansion at Green Bay Early Childhood Center
(Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings). We also have openings for our 1st and 2nd grade morning programs at Forrestal and North Elementary Schools in North Chicago (Monday - Friday mornings) and at Beulah Park Elementary School in Zion (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings).
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Summer offers Reading Power a bit of time to reflect on our past year and prepare for the next. The analysis of our student data is always exciting. This shows us that all the hard work by our students and tutors has an impact. The combination of the curricula and our wonderful tutors accelerates our students' learning compared to their classmates. This helps our students reach their intellectual potential, become active problem solvers, and more confident learners in and out of the classroom.
~Kathy McFarland, PhD, CEO and Board Chairman
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| A note from one of students |
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| A note from the prekindergarten teachers |
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| The Lake County Community Foundation Grant |
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Reading Power is honored to announce that The Lake County Community Foundation has provided a generous grant to support our Zion program. Our donors make a vital difference in students' lives by supplying funding to support one-to-one interventions to our students before they have a chance to fail.
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A big thank YOU to all our Reading Power tutors who marched in the Lake Forest Day parade with us! It was a wonderful, hot day to recruit new tutors.
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Reading Power Board Director, Peter Fisher, PhD., professor of literacy at National Louis University, captures the effectiveness of our program in this
article on our
website.
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| Affiliations and Testimonials |
As a nonprofit organization, we are often applying for grants, seeking out new donations, and sharing our story with new constituents. We have created two Google Forms to collect your affiliations and/or volunteer tutor testimonials. The affiliation form will ask about your connections to local organizations, faith-based communities, and civic memberships. The testimonial form is to share any of your Reading Power stories from tutoring throughout the year. If you click on the links, the forms are easy to complete and the information is invaluable to us. Thank you!
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"
I am very thankful that my son attended Reading Power for first and second grade. It really helped him a lot and he improved so much in reading. I would really recommend Reading Power for any child that is struggling in reading. All the Reading Power tutors are amazing." ~Eliana Escobar, Reading Power parent
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Reading Power Board of Directors
Kathy McFarland, PhD, Chairman, Germaine Arnson,
Jim Chomko,
Kathleen Cowie,
John Davidson,
Peter Fisher, PhD, Mark Goodman,
Todd Litzsinger,
Melinda Mooney,
Beverly Raudabaugh, Betsy B. Rosenfield,
Frank Sibley, Nancy Smith, CPA,
Tad Alexander Walgreen, Mary Weber,
and Rev. Dr. Gordon Butcher, Emeritus
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