Help plan our next
Community Outreach Project!
DC/SLA is in the process of determining what we would like to embark upon for our next Community Outreach project and we need your ideas. Please take a few minutes to answer a few questions to help us in our planning by responding to the survey. The Community Outreach Project gives members a chance use their resources and skills to enrich and provide support for a library or media center serving the public. Members get an opportunity to learn more about a segment of the local community that they may not always encounter. This year's Outreach project is the Coolidge High School Library.
Located in the Brightwood/Takoma Park are of DC, the Coolidge High School serves 660 students in grades 9 through 12. The enrollment is 100% minority. 97% of the students read below grade level and Coolidge has been designated as a school "in need of improvement".
The Coolidge Library program's primary focus is on literacy -- encouraging the students to read for recreation so that they hone their reading and comprehension skills. It sponsors a voluntary Reading Program, Everybody Reads@Coolidge. Each fall participating students receive a "Student Reading Log" on which they record any books they have read over the summer and which they update throughout the school year. The goal is to read 12 books a year. To verify that the students have read the books, each student discusses each of the books he has read with an adult during a Book Interview. The library needs new titles to satisfy the needs of students in the program.
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What can you do?
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Raise Funds:
- Ask if your employer, civic organization, or place of worship has a community relations program that gives grants to projects in the local community.
- Send us a tax-deductible contribution.
Lend Your Skills:
- Serve as an adult interviewer for students reporting on the books they've read for Everybody Reads@Coolidge.
- Help to weed the collection.
- Assist the Coolidge Librarian to automate the collection using Follett software.
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