Posts Tagged ‘afterschool’

In case you haven’t heard, the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, of which Stratepedia is part, has received funds from the Wal-Mart Foundation to start a project promoting literacy in out-of-school environments. We’ll be partnering with Boys and Girls Clubs of America to extend the scalability and reach of interventions like Strategic Tutoring, Possible Selves, and Fusion Reading.

The Stratepedia team will all be working on this project alongside Mike Hock, Don Deshler, Irma Brasseur, and Josh Saunders. For our part, we’re taking a close look at how volunteer mentors and tutors can be brought up to speed on the aforementioned interventions, in a reasonable amount of time, without degrading the models. We’re looking toward technology to help accomplish this, as a support for our usual professional development models, data tracking, and communication. Look for some of these new tools to roll out this summer.

The Wal-Mart Foundation sponsored a media event in Lawrence last Wednesday. About 100 people and most of the local media outlets attended, as did Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Don, and representatives of the Wal-Mart Foundation and Boys and Girls Clubs. You can read more about it on the CRL’s website (and see a photo of Don and Governor Sebelius holding the giant check!), then head over to the brand new site we’re developing for the project. It’s a bit sparse right now, but will become the news hub of this project in particular and things we find pertaining to out-of-school literacy opportunities.

After School Literacy Project at the Center for Research on Learning