Redlands Library :: How to volunteer with Redlands Adult Literacy Program

How to volunteer with Redlands Adult Literacy Program

Redlands Daily Facts: 8.27.2016 by Diane Shimota, adult literacy coordinator at the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands.

Do you have a passion for reading or writing? Would you like to help someone learn to read?

The Redlands Adult Literacy Program provides an opportunity for you to pursue your passion with a purpose by becoming an adult literacy tutor. Volunteer tutors are the foundation of the Adult Literacy Program because they donate their time to support learners in their quest for reading and writing competency.

Let me introduce you to a few of these wonderful volunteers.

Martha Kennedy, a retired teacher from Redlands High School, has tutored with the Redlands Adult Literacy Program for five years. Kennedy, with Sharon Regalado, leads the off-site adult literacy program at Lugonia Elementary School where six tutors meet one-on-one with their adult learners each week.

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Rebecca McCurdy, who formerly worked for a private company, has been a tutor with the Redlands Adult Literacy Program for more than three years.  READ MORE @

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events :: September 2016

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events

September 2016

SCLLN

Literacy & Library Events & Conferences

- Local, California and National –

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Southern California Library Literacy Network

for more information

Southern California & California

Library Card Sign-Up Month

Food Literacy Awareness Month

Sep. 06   #ReadABookDay

Sep. 08   International Literacy Day

Sep. 10   Sacramento Play Summit, Tsakopoulos Library Galleria 9a

Sep. 10   Autism Sensory Friendly Films KUBO 10a

Sep. 11+ Get Outside the Lines, Libraries Reintroduced  #GetOTL

Sep. 13   Roald Dahl Day

Sep. 13   Autism Sensory Friendly Films SULLY 7p

Sep. 15   International Dot Day

Sep. 17+ Comic Con Long Beach

Sep. 17   Teen Book Festival, Pasadena Library 12N

Sep. 17   Family Day at the Park, Stockton

Sep. 17   Curiosity Day with Curious George

Sep. 18   Read an eBook Day

Sep. 21   School Backpack Awareness Day

Sep. 22+ Fall into Fiction UCAAB, Carson CA

Sep. 23+ Southern California Writers' Conference, Los Angeles

Sep. 24    National Punctuation Day

Sep. 24+ ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival, Sacramento

Sep. 24   Autism Sensory Friendly Films STORKS 10a

Sep. 25  Banned Book Week

Sep. 25  Orange County Children's Book Festival, Orange Coast College

Sep. 26  Adult Education & Family Literacy Week

Sep. 27  National Voter Registration Day

Sep. 28  Banned Websites Awareness Day

ALOUD: Library Foundation of Los Angeles  @ALOUDla

Los Angeles Literary Calendar  @LALitScene

Poets & Writers Los Angeles Literary Events Calendar

California Book Festivals

Poetry Flash – So & No California

Storytelling Association of California

Literacy Library Jobs :: Sacramento

Literacy Library Jobs – California

Adult Learning and Literacy Supervisor – FT

Sacramento Public Library

oversee the Adult literacy efforts for Sacramento Public Library, including Adult Basic literacy, English as a Second Language (ESL), and General Education Development (GED) tutoring, and the Career Online High School program. 

DEADLINE:  Sep 22

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Library Jobs in California

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Riverside County Library :: To Increase Literacy Among Nonliterate Latino Adults

Riverside County Library System to Increase Literacy Among Nonliterate Latino Adults

Riverside County Library Press Release: 3.08.2016

The Literacy Headquarters, located at the Louis Robidoux Library, has been selected as one of five libraries across California to pilot LeamosTM (Let’s Read) @ the Library.  Centro Latino for Literacy (Centro Latino), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Los Angeles, launched the project to bring its online literacy course to the state’s non-literate Spanish speakers, which number 573,866 (2009-2011 ACS, PERE pooled file).  The two-year pilot project is supported by a grant awarded by the James Irvine Foundation to Centro Latino to explore partnerships with public libraries. Greg Lucas, California State Librarian said, “In a state which in 2014 gained a Latino plurality, it seems at a minimum good common sense to encourage programs like Leamos™.  Without literacy skills in their native language, proficiency in English becomes significantly harder, if not impossible to attain.”

Public libraries will incorporate the use of Leamos™ as an effective strategy to both promote reading at its most basic level and to effectively outreach to Spanish-speakers in their communities. “Public libraries are a natural ally in fulfilling our mission of creating innovative solutions that transform lives through literacy.  Leamos™ @ the Library is the portal for nonliterate Spanish speakers to close both the basic and digital literacy gaps and to increase civic engagement,” stated Mari Riddle, Centro Latino President and CEO.  “Learning to read and write is ground zero. Many students have described learning to read and write as being able to see after a lifetime of being blind – ‘Ya tengo ojos (Now I have eyes)’”.  READ MORE @

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List of 90 Colour Idioms With Meanings

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90 Minutes of English Idioms

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This video can easily serve as the

ultimate guide to popular English idioms!

@english_idioms  Mar 2

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: September 2016

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar
September 2016

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

                                  Celebration  of  Literacy              Literacy Trivia Bee

                                              Newport Beach Library                 Upland Library

Sep. 01 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation South Bay Literacy, Torrance Library 7p

Sep. 03 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Rialto 10a

Sep. 03 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Yucaipa 12N

Sep. 06 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 12N

Sep. 07 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Fontana 5p

Sep. 07 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Mission Valley Library 6p

Sep. 08 Annual Celebration of Literacy Newport Beach Library 10a

Sep. 08 Adult Literacy Tutor Training READ/San Diego College Rolando Library 6p

Sep. 10 ESL Tutor Training Azusa Library 9a

Sep. 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Literacy Center Thousand Oaks 9a

Sep. 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Yucca Valley 9a

Sep. 10 ESL Tutor Training San Gabriel VLC 9a

Sep. 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Chino Hills 9:30a

Sep. 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation READ/OC Library 1p

Sep. 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation READ/OC Library 6p

Sep. 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Diego Co Library El Cajon Branch 12N

Sep. 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Barstow 11:30a

Sep. 15 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 6p

Sep. 17 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Grand Terrace 10:30a

Sep. 15 Youth Literacy Tutor Orientation Words Alive SD 1p

Sep. 17 ESL Tutor Training Laubach Literacy Ventura 9a

Sep. 19 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Mission Valley Library 9:30

Sep. 19 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Redlands Library 6p

Sep. 20 SCLLN General Meeting, West Covina Library 10a

Sep. 20 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Hesperia 3p

Sep. 22 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation Huntington Beach Library 6p

Sep. 26 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Corona Library 7p

Sep. 29 Literacy Trivia Bee Upland Library Carnegie Cultural Center 6p

Beverly Hills Library Adult Literacy: last Friday month 10:30 - 12 N

LAPL Adult Literacy volunteers receive 7 hours of Online Instruction

Local Tutor Workshops :: Always Scrolling in the Right Frame

Statewide Workshops @ California Library Literacy Services

Huntington Beach Library :: Blast Into Reading !

Blast Into Reading !

Open Doors: July/August 2016 by Susie Hodge Literacy Volunteers—HBPL

75 learners, tutors, literacy staff and friends of literacy gathered at Central Library to celebrate and acknowledge accomplishments during the past year. The room was decorated in traditional red, white and blue to evoke both the BLAST INTO READING theme, as well as the upcoming 4th of July holiday. Tutors received 5, 10, 15, or 20-year pins in recognition of their volunteer years, with Dionne Cox, former tutor and board member and current Library Board Trustee, was honored for volunteering 20 years with literacy services. Dionne continues be active with the program by spearheading the Duck-a-thon.

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Thanks and congratulations to her and all the tutors who give so freely and generously of their time and expertise.

Learner awards included special pins and journals for those whose learners who worked extra hard throughout the year, participated in SCLLN's Writer-to-Writer Challenge, or earned their citizenship.

The annual June celebration of achievement culminates a year of hard work and dedication of tutors and learners alike. Goals are achieved in the form of getting a job, obtaining citizenship, reading a book or writing to an author. Literacy Services continues to strive forward as new tutors join the program with determination to transform one life at a time. A huge hug of thanks goes out to tutors and to their learners, whose lives are changed the moment they step over the literacy threshold.