It’s raining out my office window, and inside the mood is a little gray, too, as the Literacy Council struggles to find funding. In an attempt to help, I’d like to create a tutor fundraising group of interested members who can bring fresh ideas to the cause. If you’d like to help with this mission, please shoot me an e-mail so I can gauge how many of you there are, and we can set up a meeting here in the office to brainstorm.

Please mark Tuesday, June 3 on your calendars for our Tutor Talk, which will run from 11-1 and includes lunch. I was planning to have Becki Maurio, World Language Discipline Coordinator and Spanish professor and former ESOL/ Adult Education Director at Carroll Community College, speak on immigration in Carroll County, but family health matters have caused her to take a leave of absence. While I work on filling her spot, for the second portion of our meeting I’d like to divide into groups based on your primary tutoring interest (ESOL, GED, Basic Literacy, Computers/ Technology) so that you, as teachers, can share with each other activities and resources that have worked well for you and your students. With that in mind, I’m asking three things of you: 1) to let me know if you’ll be attending our Tutor Talk, 2) to notify me if you’d like to be a group leader for one of the above-mentioned groups, and 3) to choose 3-5 things you find worthwhile sharing with your tutoring peers on June 3.

We’re up to two reviews for the Literacy Council on the Great Nonprofits website. I’ll keep bugging you until we hit the ten reviews we need. 😊 Here is the link again: www.greatnonprofits.org

That’s all I’ve got for May, folks. It’s a short one. Find time to enjoy spring, and reach out to me if you have any questions, needs, or concerns.

Thanks,

Erin