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En Español Por Favor: My Day at Partners in Print1 comment

Meg Medina wrote 2 weeks ago: With the fabulous organizer Patricia Garcia I spent Saturday at the University Maryland (College Par … more →

Tags: Appearances, Community Work, Latino Life, Tia Isa Wants a Car, Meg Medina, Sonia Sotomayor, Candlewick Press authors, Patricia Garcia, Partners in Print

She IS AmeriCorps and #AmeriCorpsWorks - Ericka Zdenek McKibbin: Tallahassee, Florida

nealgorman wrote 2 months ago: Ericka Zdenek McKibbin: Tallahassee, Florida She IS AmeriCorps and #AmeriCorpsWorks! - AmeriCorps*NC … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Vista, nccc, americorps*nccc, AmeriCorps*VISTA, peace corps, Volunteer Florida, Center for Civic Reflection, Civic sense

Week 4

Howard wrote 2 months ago: They say that too many cooks in a kitchen is a bad thing. Not in a classroom, it’s not. On Fri … more →

Tags: Education, Mandarin, Taiwan, Children, China

Third week

Howard wrote 2 months ago: After three weeks at the school, I’m starting to learn names. Finally! There aren’t even … more →

Tags: Education, Chinese, Mandarin, Amy Chua, tiger mom

First Week

Howard wrote 3 months ago: As I am trying to fill out the timesheet and the MyTime log, I’ve decided that I will update o … more →

Tags: Education, Chinese, Mandarin, English, Math, Shuang Wen, Tutoring, Blogging

Starting work: first day

Howard wrote 3 months ago: I got to station after a quick shower after my 8 am recitation. After getting out of the station, I … more →

Tags: Education, Chinese, dual language schools, Mandarin, English, Teaching, ameria counts

EMU Young Alumni Profile

jfenton4 wrote 3 months ago: Somtimes It’s Who You Know Recently, I was honored by an invitation to participate in an inter … more →

Tags: John Fenton, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Alumni, delta tau delta, travis rockey, evening post publishing company, After Graduation, what-to-do-after-college

Employment Opportunity with America Reads Program

ufcls wrote 5 months ago: America Reads at UF is a collaborative project designed to provide literacy tutoring to at-risk stud … more →

Tags: Mentoring, community engagement, Employment, Education, Literacy, Tutoring, At-Risk students

Chicken Soup

wjamericorpsfellows wrote 6 months ago: Last year I wrote a little bit about my Sunshine Substitution (its pretty good- you should read it) … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Individualized Instruction

scalestaff wrote 8 months ago: From Asia: Individualized Instruction As a literacy tutor it is very important to not only teach/rei … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy

Motivating students

scalestaff wrote 9 months ago: More from Asia! As a literacy tutor it is important to find different ways to motivate your students … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy

Lessons learned from tutoring

scalestaff wrote 9 months ago: My name is Asia Vianna Mack.  I am a UNC graduate and worked with America Reads for four years.  I w … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy

Top 10 Tutoring List!1 comment

scalestaff wrote 9 months ago: From Claire! I have several lists running through my head at this point of the summer: a list of tas … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy

Bullying

scalestaff wrote 9 months ago: Another great post from our summer student blogger, Claire! Earlier this year, I asked the students … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy

Ashley Bryan

scalestaff wrote 10 months ago: Another post from Claire! A couple weeks ago, I took my boyfriend on his first ever visit to the Nor … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy, GYSD, Claire

Love of libraries and reading!

scalestaff wrote 10 months ago: Another post from our summer student blogger, Asia! One of my favorite aspects of being an America R … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy, Asia

Why is education important?

scalestaff wrote 10 months ago: Here’s a blog from one of our summer student bloggers and minimum time Americorps members, Asi … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy, Asia

Election year: use it for literacy!2 comments

scalestaff wrote 11 months ago: From our summer student blogger, Claire! One of the first major news events that I’m able to remembe … more →

Tags: Claire

Minimum-time AmeriCorps members

scalestaff wrote 11 months ago: From Claire, our summer student blogger: My freshman year of college flew by in a blur. One moment I … more →

Tags: AmeriCorps, Literacy, Claire


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