We enjoyed the opportunity to support children’s literacy through Chapter One US (formerly Innovations for Learning). This one-on-one approach helped elevate local elementary school students’ reading levels for the 2023-2024 school year. 8 of our employees volunteered roughly 17 hours over the course of 68 sessions!
Awesomeness!
Literacy is the foundation for school and life success, and is nurtured when families and caregivers support each other within community.🌟 UWCM's Preschool for Success Community Support sessions offer families and caregivers of preschoolers time for connection and helpful tools and resources. Learn more about how UWCM's work to help all children succeed so our community thrives: https://hubs.la/Q02lZMxy0
"Soul of Southern Film" Award from Indie Memphis for directing my debut civil rights documentary, "Marvin Booker Was Murdered" (2017). I love working on causes bigger than one's self.
"Repost with your thoughts” Where to begin? When this year is over, will I have a story to tell. At the halfway point. I must self-gloss on the hump crossed by myself, the filmmaking team and our organization. "We", Ben Scholle , Sam Chegini , Alexander Elmore , Isaiah Mancha and I not only “locked”Denverdocsoc's second civil rights documentary film, but "we" as an org unlocked a lot of minds to the power of non-narrative cinema and media literacy. The info is below, but we directly activated 1,200 DPS students over the 2023/24 school year. Colorado is set to let loose a three year "Enrichment" grant program. I am now seeking others who want to support our efforts in making Denver as well known for documentaries as we are murals (and I love murals {may even make a narrative about 'em}). I personally oversaw all of our education last year and interacted with more than 3,400 students. DPS serves a large, amazing, Hispanic population. When we shared documentary movies with the students it was powerful testament to how story is universal. It electrified and engaged all the students across all grades and cultures. My personal take? Students in K-12 are digital dependent but not digitally challenged (nor, sadly, digitally acknowledged in the positive). Documentary combined with media literacy can be a game changer in the language arts. Please consider supporting our efforts in making a difference. Visit our website or connect directly: https://lnkd.in/grEGVkPz
We always confront the facts. This year has been challenging. Our organization struggles financially. But Denverdoscsoc stayed focused on the objective of bringing the language of documentary film and media literacy into Denver Public Schools. As proud educational partners w/ DPS. We are the only film based nonprofit with this designation. We piloted our documentary & media literacy program across DPS and spoke at 60 schools and more than 3,400 students about what we do. DDS activated 120 fourth grade students at Swansea elementary. We taught, lectured and presented our movies and methods with 1,080 high school students. We seek support to bring our assemblies, movies and methodologies into classrooms across Colorado.
This is an excellent article about embracing the science of reading in adult education. It gives a look into the reality of the underfunded and overlooked adult literacy world. "If the numbers of children currently reading below grade level are correct, we are heading into an even worse adult literacy crisis than we have now. The rallying cry for effective instruction methods for children is loud and clear. But it is time to sound the bell for the refugees of the broken reading education system as well: all those children who didn’t learn and are now adults, still not reading." Literacy Source classes provide explicit alphabetics (phonics and phonemics) instruction to our adult emergent readers. We see this need and are proud of what we do to help stop the adult literacy crisis. Why the Adult Education World Is Overdue In Embracing the Science of Reading – The 74 (the74million.org)
Postsecondary educational programming in prison continues to grow. With this growth comes a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape how we evaluate rehabilitative programming and, more importantly, its impacts on the people enrolled in the same. Learn more about effective ways to evaluate higher education in prison in the latest piece from the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy 11 Trends in Philanthropy series.
Check out our latest reflections by our CEO Rich Harrison about our recently published school dashboard data and the impact we are driving toward in our East Oakland communty!
Lighthouse Community Public Schools takes our California Department of Education and CORE DISTRICTS dashboard data seriously, and we want our staff, families, and community stakeholders to know where we made growth, where we need to improve, and make sure we are taking steps to better serve our East Oakland community! Special thank you to California Charter Schools Association, Charter Schools Development Center (CSDC), and our authorizers Oakland Unified School District
The research is clear: reading proficiently by 3rd grade prepares children for long-term success not only in academics, but throughout life. Virginia’s students have fallen behind. 𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 students are not on track. 50% of Virginia’s 3rd graders did not pass the reading SOL in 2023. It is time to act with urgency – we must make early literacy a top priority in VA. Learn more about how you can help make sure every child reads: https://brnw.ch/21wEFeq
#VoteToTransformLives: Education To improve children and young people's experiences at school, we call for better supports that provide a link between the community and school. This quote from a young person we work with illustrates perfectly why this support is needed. #TransformingLives #CommunityEngagement #SchoolSupport #YouthEmpowerment #StudentSuccess 🏫 🧩
Unit Manager, Community Relations at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
1moThis is an unique program to help children learn how to read. Delighted to support Chapter One to teach young readers who are our future leaders. Waay to go Team Blue!