Grant Description

Reading Works will construct new student intake and assessment systems and build a long-term remote tutoring component. FHL's grant will improve literacy service delivery beyond the COVID crisis.

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Description
To effectively meet our mission, we are making changes in program delivery: • virtual student intake and assessment • long-term remote tutoring. Student intakes and assessments are essential to provide quality literacy services. We use the information gathered in these sessions to create individual education plans that are tailored to each student's goals, needs, and reading/language level. Because we can no longer meet with students face-to-face, we have to create something new. We will make virtual intakes/assessments part of our process permanently. This will add another level of accessibility for students who lack transportation or time to come to our office. In March 2020, 60% of our students wanted to continue tutoring despite the disruption COVID caused in their lives. By May volunteer tutors and students were meeting using smartphone apps, Google Duo, Zoom, and regular old-fashioned telephone calls. We discovered both tutors and students have technological and digital needs in order to meet remotely: equipment, internet access, training on how to teach and learn in this new way. We developed a new staff position - Student Intake and Curriculum Development Coordinator - to tackle these issues. Building these new systems will advance our mission into the future and help Reading Works be a more sustainable and effective organization.

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