This is a fun way to encourage a love of reading for our young readers (K - 2nd Grade)! Our SUNY Potsdam students (mentors) will guide school aged children (mentees), through a variety of books and mini lessons, under the direction of the mentoring program coordinators and graduate assistant. This program is offered during the fall and spring semesters. Please contact Literacy@potsdam.edu for information and an application.
Mission: This after-school literacy program strives to provide local children, grades K-2, free mentoring services in the hopes that they will develop a life-long love of literacy.
Collaborative Partners: SUNY Potsdam departments of Literacy and Childhood Education, local school districts, graduate assistants, work study students, and the Alpha Kappa Delta Alumnae Association.
Program Coordinators
- Cary Boles
- Ashley Penny
- Michelle McMahon
This math club for students in grades 3 & 4 offers hands on activities to help students develop and strengthen their knowledge of math concepts through a fun, game-like setting. The program is overseen by the Rebecca V. Sheard Literacy Center Program Director and led by college student interns. This program is offered in the fall and spring semesters. Please contact Literacy@potsdam.edu for information and an application.
Mission:
To unite every citizen towards the goals of ensuring that our nations' children read well and independently; through the Literacy Center, eligible work study students participate at the Literacy Center and are sent out into local schools to work one-to-one with an emergent reader. Students tutor two times per week.
Collaborative Partners:
- America Reads (Federally Funded Work Study Funds)
- The Reading Institute
Responsibilities of Interns:
- Attend an orientation and participate in an interview process
- Act and dress professionally.
- Maintain confidentiality.
- Participate in a 5-6 hour training to learn about the curriculum.
- Prepare materials for lessons using the Reading Ready Curriculum.
- Work one-on-one or in small groups with students.
- If tutors qualify for Federal Work Study Funds, they may earn a total of $2,000.00 (at a rate of $15.50/hour) over the entire year.
Contact:
- Cary Boles
Adolescents in grades 5-12 who want to explore writing in fun and creative ways are invited to participate in the Write Spot Writing Club. Be inspired as a writer at the SUNY Potsdam campus! College mentors will conference with school students to assist them with their creative writing or writing related schoolwork if requested. Students of all writing levels are welcome! This program is offered in the spring semester only.
Coordinator: Cary Boles
For an application or more information about "The Write Spot", email Literacy@potsdam.edu.
Mission:
To unite every citizen towards the goals of ensuring that our nations' children read well and independently; through the Literacy Center, eligible work study students are sent out into local schools to assist teacher with the implementation of their literacy program.
Collaborative Partners:
America Reads - Reading Ready Program is a federally funded program set up through the "GOALS 2000" initiative in education.
Responsibility of Tutors:
- Attend an orientation and participate in an interview process
- Act and dress professionally.
- Maintain confidentiality.
- Assist their sponsor teacher to prepare materials for lessons.
- Work one-on-one or in small groups with students.
- Work with the sponsor teacher to secure schedule.
- Each tutor may earn a total of $2,000.00 (at a rate of $14.20/hour - dependent upon previous experience with the program) over the entire year (max. amount of hours you can work each week is 20 hours).
Contact: Cary Boles