Sentences with phrase «family literacy programs»

Over nearly three decades, the foundation says, it has raised and provided more than $ 110 million to support family literacy programs nationwide.

CROWN POINT Crown Point Central School received a grant from the International Paper Foundation to help support a new Family Literacy Program at the school, and they're putting it to use.

New Zealand's Manukau Family Literacy Program shows that parents and children can help educate each other.

As an administrator of family literacy programs, I created customized graphic organizers for grantwriting when compiling needs assessment data and creating the program evaluation plan (e.g. see Simplified Grantwriting by Mary Ann Burke).

For information and enrollment, please contact: Kimara Bedassie, Program Coordinator Broward Community Schools Family Literacy Programs Phone: [phone]

Crown Point Central School students have a new Family Literacy Program thanks to International Paper.

1 — Literacy: National Family Literacy Day, sponsored by the National Center for Family Literacy, for family literacy program directors, staff, and the general public, in cities throughout the country.

Our ESOL, GED, Adult High School Diploma, Adult and Family Literacy programs empower thousands of students to improve their lives.

That means everything from digital - smart family literacy programs to colorful posters pushing Book X or Book Y. Ideally, too, it can mean such innovations as cell phone book clubs for young people and their parents — efforts that could help popularize even paper books by associating words and stories with the gadgets that young people and their parents are most likely to carry around these days.

And certain family literacy programs improve parents» skills in talking with their children.

The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions during joint book reading, ACIRI helps parents promote the development of emergent literacy skills, helps early childhood educators improve and individualize their teaching of these skills, and helps family literacy programs provide evaluation data that demonstrates their practices are effective.

Learn how Arkansas integrates early childhood education, parent education, and adult literacy through existing local, state, and federal family literacy programs.

The Power is in the Partnership: Families as Partners in Bilingual Bicultural Family Literacy Programs

From 1995 to 1997 its Planning and Evaluation Service awarded 51 contracts to study the effects of federally sponsored programs, of which 5 involved randomized field trials on programs like Upward Bound, the Even Start Family Literacy Program, and the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program.

An evaluation by the assessment organization PricewaterhouseCoopers has concluded that for every dollar spent on the Manukau Family Literacy Program, the return to the community is worth nearly $ 10.

The Manukau Family Literacy Program, run by the City of Manukau Education Trust, is based in the island nation's third - largest city, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schooling.

This year, she is teaching a family literacy program for preschoolers, so she included on her word wall all her students» names, as well as picture words they see in their world, such as McDonald's and Albertsons (a food store in the area).

This report presents descriptive information on Even Start Family literacy programs and participants based on Even Start Performance Information Reporting System (ESPIRS) data from 1997 - 98 through 2000 - 01 for the universe of Even Start projects.

The next steps provide suggestions related to each of the five whole child tenets and include ideas such as regularly assessing school climate, supporting parent education and family literacy programs, and establishing multimetric accountability systems.

Reading is Fundamental is a national nonprofit organization that develops and delivers children's and family literacy programs that help prepare young children for reading.

Fresno State also offers a Reading Laboratory with literacy tutoring services for struggling school - age children from the community, summer writing programs and camps for local children, a family literacy program for parents and students, and a collaboration with a local Hispanic radio channel that disseminates information about their programs to potential teachers.

Pro bono consulting to AVANCE of El Paso, to assist with the implementation of their family literacy program;

To qualify for the Family Literacy Program, parents and guardians must... — Be 16 years old or older — Be enrolled in English or GED ® classes — Participate in parenting skills training — Participate in activities to help their children learn

National Center for Family Literacy Since 1989, The National Center for Family Literacy, have helped more than 1 million families make educational and economic progress by pioneering — and continuously improving — family literacy programs.

Broward Community Schools Family Literacy Programs In a Broward Community Schools Family Literacy Program, we provide opportunities for parents and children to learn together.

Other programs for which funding would be eliminated include: a family literacy program at John C. Clark Elementary and Middle School in Hartford; the extended day program at Lincoln - Bassett School in New Haven; and funding for reading instructional supports in some of the state's lowest - performing schools would be cut by $ 250,000.

Project FLAME, a family literacy program for Spanish - speaking immigrants developed by Tim Shanahan, receives Academic Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Education.

Some key programs were eliminated, however, including the $ 66.5 million Even Start family literacy program, and an $ 88 million program aimed at creating small learning communities within large schools, particularly at the post-secondary level.

«Theoretically, it is a good idea,» said David Morgan, coordinator of a family literacy program for the Mississippi Humanities Council, which tries to improve adult and child literacy in the state.

Other proposals included the expansion of magnet schools and specialized instruction, door - to - door sales pitches, family literacy programs, and the greater investment in early education programs.

And the same for family literacy programs, which also would benefit.

Kentucky Department of Education, Frankfort • KY 2002 — 2004 Technical Project Manager / Information Architect Conceptualized, architected, designed, and developed the ESFLP (Even Start Family Literacy Program) secured Web application.

72 Maryland State Department of Education, «William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program.»

ROW services include: ROW's Economic Action Program (REAP), Multilingual Access Program (MAP), Family Strengths Program, Family Literacy Program, and Rebuilding Lives Program.

And some family literacy programs also improve readiness.

Pediatric health care supervision could be a more effective entry point for «2 - generation» family interventions, eg, referrals to an Early Head Start program or to family literacy programs.

As part of a legislative requirement, South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness needed to implement a valid and reliable parenting assessment to produce evidence of their outcomes on parent - child interaction in their PAT, Parent - Child Home and Family Literacy programs.

Programs in the Transformation Zones include Family Connects, a nurse home - visiting program; Triple P, a family support program; and Motheread and Reach Out & Read, both family literacy programs.

Prior to joining Chapin Hall, Spielberger worked extensively in the training of Head Start teachers and as a researcher and consultant with Head Start family literacy programs.