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Hawaii Literacy
Our mission is to help people gain knowledge and skills by providing literacy and lifelong learning services.
Description:
Hawaii Literacy's programs focus on helping people gain knowledge and skills.
We believe that well-trained volunteers can teach adults to read and write, that adults need relevant curricula and material for learning, that parents are their children's first teachers, and that literacy is vital to full participation in a democratic society.
ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM:
One-on-one tutoring in basic reading and writing skills is available to English-speaking adults free of charge. This service is available throughout Oahu and Kauai. Volunteers tutors are trained and certified in the Laubach Literacy Method, proven to be the most effective means to teach adults how to read. Volunteers and students are matched up and usually meet weekly at their own specified time and place.
FAMILY LITERACY PROGRAM:
Provides literacy programs for caregivers and children to promote reading and lifelong learning. Family Learning Centers at Mayor Wright Housing and Kuhio Park Terrace offer books, puzzles, crafts, and computers for children Monday through Friday. Children enjoy Story Hours every Saturday and volunteers also bring books door to door to residents.
ENGLISH-AS-A-SECOND LANGUAGE(ESL)PROGRAM AND DROP-IN CENTER:
Offers free evening reading and writing classes to non-native English speakers at Mayor Wright Housing and Kuhio Park Terrace, and Kaumakapili Church. Sessions focus on life-skills for adults and their children. A Drop-in Center for all adults needing help to read and write is available on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, at Kaumakapili Church in Kalihi, Honolulu.
CLASSROOM ON WHEELS aka The Bookmobile
Hawaii Literacy's bookmobile currently provides weekly visits to many sites on the Wai'anae Coast, including several housing projects and the Boys & Girls Clubs. It offers a full check-out library, computers, games and other literacy activities to people of all ages.
History:
Hawaii Literacy was founded in 1971 to tutor adults in English-as-a Second Language (ESL) and basic reading/writing. In the early 1980's the Family Literacy Program was started. The ESL Program now responds to a need for ESL services among potential participants in the Family Literacy Program at Mayor Wright Homes and Kuhio Park Terrace and elsewhere in the Kalihi area. The Wai'anae Classroom on Wheels project began in the mid-1980's.
Contact people:
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Suzanne Skjold, Executive Director, (phone), (email)
Heidi Byrne, Adult Literacy Program Manager, (phone), (email)
Tamara Martinez, Manager, Family Literacy Program, (phone), (email) |
Office fax number: (808) 537-3072
Address:
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200 N. Vineyard Blvd., #320
Honolulu, HI 96817
(See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.hawaiiliteracy.org
Directions:
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This is the location of the administrative offices only. Tutoring takes place outside of the office.
To get to the office, WESTBOUND on H-1, take the Vineyard Blvd. exit; at the 5th signal light (A'ala St., just past Foster Gardens). . . (more)
Nearest Bus Stop: #2, #3, #13, #11, #93, B Liliha/Vineyard, 3 minute walk |
| Last updated on May 12, 2010 |
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Hawaii Literacy
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Overall Experience
Watching the growth - the 'ah ha' appear in the face of your tutee - is priceless!
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My goal is to help someone become self-empowered through literacy. Once launched, your tutee is ready to face a myriad of opportunities that were heretofore unavailable for her/him. If you are like the pebble that hits the still water of illiteracy, then it is your tutee who moves the waves of that water to places far beyond that first impact of your pebble.
I love the thought that my simple literacy skills can be so vital to one who hasn't developed their own literacy skills (for whatever reasons). Helping someone maintain their dignity and self-respect in the adult literate community is so rewarding that it makes you walk around with a smile on your face!
Your people skills are vital - watching for the subtle signs in your tutee. These may be signs of frustration, self-reprisal, impatience, etc. Whatever these signs may be, you have a challenge that urges you to find a positive solution. So, when your tutee shows impatience with him/herself, you can help put things into a broader perspective - been there done that vis-a-vis literacy and the struggle to find meaning. You can help your tutee to be patient reminding him/her that learning takes time, and that's OK.
posted by dwheeler on May 31, 2004 |
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