DIRECT SERVICE
- Tutored 161 adults.
- Interviewed and assessed reading and writing skills of 84 learners.
- Matched 65 learner/tutor pairs and placed 9 tutors in community agencies.
- Sent 65 individualized recommendations to tutors upon initial match with their learners.
- Assisted over 150 learners to achieve their personal goals, often involving continuing their education, improving their employment situation, becoming more active in their community, and strengthening their families.
- Held five 12-hour training sessions for volunteer tutors, training 55 volunteers.
- Referred 69 persons to appropriate services.
- Answered 634 additional information questions.
- Continued to update the Project Read book collection in the Main and Branch libraries and completed the conversion of the Main Library’s collection to Dewey classification.
- Presented 4 continuing education classes for tutors.
- Held 11 tutor roundtable meetings.
- Held 11 meetings of the Wednesday Night Readers Book Club and distributed 264 free books and audio books to participating adult learners.
- Held 27 new learner orientation meetings.
- Continued to improve and update the Project Read blog (www.projectreadsf.blogspot.com) to support tutors, learners, and other members of the adult and family literacy community.
- Produced 4 issues of Project Read Update - a high quality print and online publication of learner writing, instructional resources, and program news.
COMPUTER LEARNING LAB
- Received more than 3,000 visits to our lab.
- Facilitated more than 1,500 highly supportive computer lab training sessions and one-to-one consultations.
- Continued our mission to emphasize the use of select educational software to achieve personal literacy and life skills goals, provide immediate and frequent opportunities for learner success, support learner-tutor teamwork, increase learner independence, demystify technology, and provide a welcoming gathering place for the Project Read community.
- Revised and enhanced our computer lab tutor training materials.
- Shared MS Word and PDF versions of our technology curricula and administrative forms with other adult literacy programs.
- Facilitated workshops and trainings for other adult literacy programs.
- Continued active participation in TINT – BALit (www.tintbalit.blogspot.com). Met quarterly at libraries throughout the Bay Area to share resources and promote the thoughtful and effective use of high technology in adult literacy.
- Project Read staff presented two workshops at the California Library Association Annual Conference in October entitled “Simple Strategies to Make Technology Accessible, Relevant, and Engaging for Adult Literacy Learners and their Tutors” and “Don’t Just Think It, Blog It: How to Create a Simple Yet Effective Blog for Your Program.”
OUTREACH
- Made 43 presentations to community agencies and businesses to promote Project Read services and propose collaborations.
- Made contact with 275 organizations and businesses to recruit additional students and tutors.
- Set up 111 informal information tables in San Francisco neighborhoods.
- Distributed over 5,000 flyers, posters, card stands, newsletters, pens, pencils, and other promotional materials.
- Participated in events sponsored by Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Association, All Hallow, City & County of San Francisco Drug Court, Bayview Housing Project, Bayview MAGIC - Youth and Children’s Books and Technology, Bayview Boys & Girls Club, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Association, Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, ETGAR 6 (Jewish youth development program), Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services, San Francisco Sheriff’s Dept. Pre Release Program, San Francisco Head Start Family Community Partnership Committee, Sunset Neighborhood Association, Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative, Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, Walden House, Western Addition Community Association, and the Mission YMCA.
FAMILY LITERACY
- Distributed over 400 children’s books to parenting learners. Books and other educational materials were distributed at the learner’s initial intake, workshops, office visits, and special events.
- Provided over 70 family events and individual consultations where we shared ideas and strategies on topics such as: reading in the home; utilizing the library and other community resources; media literacy; television as a learning tool; science literacy; parenting skills; working with the school system; health and nutrition; and computer literacy.
- Continued to serve as a KQED Hands on Literacy project mentor to develop new learning strategies, create engaging educational materials, and provide support and guidance to 35 agencies as they present workshops and provide first quality books to underserved and at risk families.
- Collaborated with the Exploratorium® to provide science literacy materials, educational toys, and Exploratorium® passes to parenting learners and their children.
- Served on the San Francisco Headstart Advisory Board.
- Served on the San Francisco advisory board of the national First Book Project (www.firstbooksf.blogspot.com) to support local agencies including The Children’s Book Project, The Reading Tree, Holy Family Day Home, Up on Top tutoring program, San Francisco State Childhood Development Center, Screen Actor’s Guild BookPALs, San Francisco - Raising a Reader, and the Jumpstart San Francisco Early Literacy Initiative.
- Increased our library of literature-based multimedia materials.
- Held a highly individualized summer reading club for families.
- Began ongoing collaboration with the San Francisco Early Literacy Network.
- Continued active participation in the family literacy chapter of BALit. Met regularly to discuss family literacy issues, share strategies, and promote best practices.
- Created a BALit family literacy blog (www.fflbalit.blogspot.com) to share resources and promote family literacy. Facilitated a hands-on blog training in the Project Read Computer Lab.
COLLABORATION
- Collaborated with City College of San Francisco by referring Project Read tutors to volunteer at the following Adult Basic Education sites: John Adams Community College, Adult Learning and Tutorial Center, Mission Community College, and Southeast Learning Center.
- Collaborated with Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco by referring Project Read tutors to become volunteers for homeless and at risk learners at the Skills Center.
- Collaborated with Common Knowledge, Inc., to assist in the editing of the Easy Voter Guide for the February 2008 primary election.
- Collaborated with the California State Library, Bay Area Literacy Network (BALit), and the Southern California Library Literacy Network (SCLLN) to promote the Writer to Writer Challenge for adult learners in library-based literacy programs throughout California.
- Collaborated with Stacey’s Bookstore to promote Project Read services and expand awareness of adult literacy issues.
- Collaborated with the Art Institute of California - San Francisco to provide additional support in our computer lab and to assist us in creating original materials geared to the needs of adult learners and their families.
- Collaborated with the SFPL Web Team to make Project Read learning resources available on our web site.
- Continued the ongoing collaboration with the SPARK youth tutoring program.
- Sponsored a networking meeting as a follow up to the 2006 Literacy Summit. The meeting was attended by representatives from social service agencies, adult education providers, and the local school district.
- Continued close collaboration with BALit (Bay Area Literacy), a consortium of 25 library-based literacy programs, in order to increase public awareness and enhance staff development.
- Collaborated with the Screen Actor’s Guild BookPALS program (www.bookpals.net) to provide a staged reading of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman at the July gathering of our Wednesday Night Readers Book Club.
- Collaborated with several community based organizations to present a family literacy night entitled “Help Your Child Succeed in School” at the Bayview / Anna E.Waden branch library.
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