The Heyman Interages®Center is a program
of JCA® - Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington.
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THE INTERAGES CONNECTOR
STAYING CONNECTED
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Staying in Touch
Hello, JCA Interages Volunteers,
The Interages staff is making arrangements with MCPS to renew and mail your MCPS Badge, needed for volunteering virtually and in-person. For badges expiring in October, Interages staff will submit a request to MCPS in the first week of October. If all of your requirements are met, MCPS will mail the MCPS badge to JCA Interages, we will then mail the MCPS badge to you. A badge with a 10/22 expiration date means it will expire on 10/31/2022.
Please note that a valid Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse Webinar viewing is required for MCPS to release a renewed badge. Your webinar viewing is valid for three academic (not calendar) years from the time you last watched the webinar. If you need to watch the webinar again, CLICK HERE.
You can see when you last took the webinar by logging in as a GUEST to the website: https://classroom.mcpsmd.org/ - clicking on volunteers/contractors - on the left of the screen click on grades. If you cannot remember your password, you can click on forget password and create a new password.
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Thank you to Interages Connector Editor Bill Torrey for his years of providing insights and edits to the Interages Connector. Bill retired from his role with the newsletter. We can't thank him enough for his dedication. |
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THE NEW VOLUNTEER PORTAL OFFERS ANOTHER WAY TO VIEW INTERAGES VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES! |
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Interages now has a new volunteer portal. Through this link, volunteers can view available Interages opportunities anytime. Please note, all opportunities require preregistration and will require either a background check or an MCPS badge.
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COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM GETS HONORABLE MENTION
The summer intergenerational program collaboration with Arts for Aging, Kensington Club, and Interages will be recognized at the 2022 Cam Busch National Organization for Arts and Health Arts in Health (NOAH) Awards on November 3 (details TBA). Our project, Weaving Words and Movement into Art, has been awarded 3rd Honorable Mention by their judges in the Arts for Innovation category. We will receive a certificate and our work will be promoted through the conference, the NOAH website and the post-conference press release.
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SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR
IN-CLASSROOM OPPORTUNITES WITH GAITHERSBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Continuing to seek more volunteers for Gaithersburg Middle School. Teachers with Emerging Multilingual Learner (EML) students are requesting assistance in English, social studies, and math classes. Note: ESOL(English as a Second Language) has rebranded to EML.
Please click here for additional details, such as the schedule, course information, and the students you'd be assisting. MCPS Badge and Preregistration are required. Please contact idingledine@accessjca.org if you are interested.
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SEEKING A VOLUNTEER TO AID IN LETTER WRITING: KC SHARE FROM A DISTANCE
The Jewish Council for the Aging (JCA) is seeking a scribe (who is at least 18 years old) to help facilitate a pen pal program between students and Kensington Club (KC) members, who are adults with early-stage memory loss. This would be an in-person role starting the month of November, once a week either Tuesdays or Thursdays, for an hour between the hours of 9am and 1pm - the time is somewhat flexible. The end goal is to find someone to volunteer for the long term, but we are seeking someone immediately for the month of November.
Responsibilities include meeting with two of our KC members weekly and helping them complete correspondence with their youth counterparts.
JCA helps older adults in the Greater Washington, D.C. region maintain independence, dignity, vitality and self-respect. It also helps people of different generations understand, learn from and care for one another. If you're interested, please contact Grace Kim at gkim@accessjca.org for more details.
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MONTHLY READING TUTOR TRAINING SERIES
We hope you will join us on Zoom for our new monthly Reading Tutor Training series. We are so grateful to presenter Megan Bainbridge, Reading Specialist of the Captain James E. Daly Elementary School, who is providing the sessions. Each session focuses on a different Reading Tutor Training topic, and lasts about an hour. Prereregistration online is required.
RECORDED SESSIONS
September 2022 [Already recorded] - TOPIC Science of Reading (Shift to Structured Literacy from Balanced Literacy). Here is a recording of the session.
October 2022 [Already recorded] TOPIC Decoding. Here is a recording of the session.
UPCOMING SESSIONS
Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022 9:30 AM (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
TOPIC 3 - 5th grade Intermediate Reading Skills
Register in advance for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Thursday, Dec 15, 2022 01:00 PM
TOPIC Collecting data to help with focusing instruction
Register in advance for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Excerpt from resources
“All teachers want their students to master the skills that will allow them to enjoy reading books and writing their own texts. There is little disagreement on the goal, but teachers can have very different beliefs about the best ways to help their students accomplish that goal. This post explains the two most common approaches to literacy instruction, how they differ, and why one approach currently is the more promising means of preventing reading difficulties.”
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SLOTS ARE FULL!! Readers Theater: Volunteers Needed at Harmony Hills Elementary School
JCA Heyman® Interages volunteers participate in the Reader’s Theater program in-person at Harmony Hills Elementary School with 5th grade students on Tuesdays from 12:40 to 1:10 pm during the school year. Two volunteers will be placed with 5 to 7 students.
Reader’s Theater is a style of theater in which the readers gather in small groups to convey stories using vocal expression to help the audience understand it. Reader's theater increases reading comprehension, reading motivation, and helps develop fluency through repeated exposure to text.
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IN-CLASSROOM SUPPORT: VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED AT CLOPPER MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Clopper Mill Elementary School
18501 Cinnamon Drive
Germantown, MD 20874
In-person volunteers would assist during students' intervention or enrichment periods, which are:
- Kindergarten 2:20-3:00pm
- 1st grade 3:20-3:45pm
- 2nd grade 1:10-1:30pm
Each day of the week, volunteers are needed daily during the school days during these time slots.
Also, pre-K in-class support is needed Monday to Friday - that is all day. Volunteers choose a day of the week and time. For more information, please contact Indira Dingledine at idingledine@AccessJCA.org. MCPS Badge and Preregistration are required.
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Seeking Volunteers for In-Classroom Support at Redland Middle School
Redland Middle School
6505 Muncaster Mill Road
Rockville, MD 20855
is seeking in-person class support for English, science, theater, and chorus classes. Please see the following for details:
8:00 am to 10:00 am 7th grade Science
12:30 pm - 1:30pm 7th grade English
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm 7th grade Theater
2:00 pm - 3:00pm 8th grade Science with EML students
2:00 pm - 3:00pm 7th & 8th grade Chorus helping students with IEPS
1:30 pm - 3:00pm 7th grade Science with EML students
**These times are rough estimates because there's a different bell schedule on Monday and Friday versus Tuesday through Thursday. For reference, here is the bell schedule and school year calendar. For more information, please contact Indira Dingledine at idingledine@AccessJCA.org. MCPS Badge and Preregistration are required.
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Volunteer Highlight
JCA Heyman Interages is pleased to introduce Brian Berke, an Interages Volunteer to you. Currently, Brian is volunteering in the Interages Maryvale Elementary School Pre-K program. He loves being a surrogate grandparent to the kids. He says "nothing beats it! I love to get to know the 4-5-year-old persons' mindset." He adores his own two grandchildren aged 6 and 2 and two grown sons.
Brian is from Brooklyn NY originally. Before retiring, he worked for 50 years in the mortgage and commercial real estate world. He has volunteered in the past with Higher Achievement tutoring 3rd graders in math and coaching his children. There was the challenge of the children having finished the long school day and needing to do homework after school.
Brian was also a Teaching Assistant with Montgomery County Public Schools and tutored high school students in Algebra. From 2017-2019 he worked part-time as a senior helper, serving as a companion for elderly folk who couldn't get around. He said, "I took them for errands or outings or just sat around with them chatting or playing games." In addition, Brian loves reading mystery/suspense novels.
Thank you Brian for volunteering!
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JOIN SHARE FROM A DISTANCE AND BECOME A PEN PAL
Are you or someone you know interested in being matched with a young person to exchange letters back and forth? Build a relationship with a young person during this difficult time when people of ALL ages are feeling isolated and eager to make connections. Only first names are given and all correspondence is filtered through JCA staff. Even though students have returned to the classroom and activities, it is rewarding to make these "old-fashioned" connections with a young person and share perspectives as we move into post-pandemic life.
You can choose to write to a student via email or postal mail. We need more older adults to match with the many interested students. For more info or to sign up, please email sharefromadistance@accessjca.org. Thanks for your help and support!
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New 227 Area Code Coming to Montgomery County.
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Make a gift to support the good work that we do.
You can designate your gift to intergenerational programs on the donation form.
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– Dalai Lama
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For your convenience, past issues of the JCA Interages Connector are available on the JCA Interages website.
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