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Objective: To serve as a dedicated tutor to elementary-aged students, providing academic support in reading and/or math and homework assistance both individually and in collaboration with tutors and staff.Responsibilities:
• Assist students with homework, school projects, or other academic responsibilities.
• Get to know your students’ personalities: likes, dislikes, talents, hobbies.
• Learn about students’ abilities, emotions, and confidence levels regarding school, academic work, tests, etc.
• With the assistance of program coordinators, provide additional practice materials (books, games, worksheets) for each subject or skill area.
• Help students to organize their backpack and store their schoolwork; encourage them to always bring their materials.
• Use positive reinforcement to reward students for doing the right thing, including but not limited to: doing well on an academic work, being respectful to others, remembering to bring their materials.
• Communicate any needs, concerns or suggestions to program coordinators.
• Contact program coordinators ASAP in case of absence.
Qualifications: Ability to connect and communicate respectfully and responsively with elementary-aged children. Knowledge of elementary-level reading and math skills. Openness to work with a variety of personalities with different life situations. Ability to ask for suggestions or help when needed.
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Shiver me timbers, it’s time for the next SDCL Literacy Night & Movie in the Park! This year, we’re weighing anchor and setting sail with a pirate theme, with free crafts, games, a costume contest, treasure/scavenger hunt, and more! After the event, we’ll maroon ourselves on the lawn and watch the family-friendly movie The Goonies!Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | 6 | n/a | n/a |
| General | 3 | n/a | n/a |
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**This opportunity is for employees based in NYC only** Promote literacy, limit learning loss, and alleviate the mental health effects of social distancing among students of PS 31 X. Read and record a children’s book to be later shared through an online learning library. A list of appropriate children's books will be provided, including digital books. Stories should have a focus on social justice issues and/or provide a diversity of perspectives including books about characters who are queer, women, have disabilities, and are of color. Join a 30-minute video conference call for directions to record and upload your story video. This project is child and pet friendly!Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Time: 12:30pm to 1:00pm for kickoff, EOD to record and upload video
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91304584636
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moodys Hosts Story (Any)Time with PS 31 X | 30 | n/a | n/a |
Opportunity Details
We are celebrating children going back to school with a big Back-to-School bash on Saturday, August 14th from 9am-4pm. It is a fundraising event to keep our STEAM centered, children's museum going in a direction where we can reach more families. All of our events bring in members of the community to volunteer and we would love to include you as well!Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Shift | no limit | n/a | n/a |
| Afternoon Shift | no limit | n/a | n/a |
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The purpose of this position is to design, create and update the foundation website.Our website is important to show and promote the work we do; how are we impacting with our projects, partnerships, alliances etc. To provide scientific and educational information regarding marine ecosystems, marine species and their protection to the general public and fellow scientists. To encourage people join our cause and making a difference.
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Contribute your skills and passions to help people with print disabilities read. From scanning and proofreading, to describing images, to providing support for Bookshare® teachers and families.Scan books: using your scanner and OCR software, scan books in RTF that we don't have in the collection. This is a remote volunteer opportunity!
Proofread scanned files: clean up scanned RTF files from other volunteers and format them. Add images to picture books. This can be done remotely!
Apply Now. https://www.bookshare.org/volunteerSignup
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Hello parents, how are your children doing during the COVID-19? Do you know the benefit of reading to your children? It creates a special bond with your children, improves language skills, imagination, and creativity. Starting today, read to/with your children! Going through this special time together.Read with your children for charity, and donate your hours to us, it will support us doing research and provide books for more children.
These hours are counts when you read to your own child, your friend's child, your neighbor's child.
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**This opportunity is for employees based in NYC only** Promote literacy, limit learning loss, and alleviate the mental health effects of social distancing among students of PS 557 K, Brooklyn Gardens Elementary. Read and record a children’s book to be later shared through an online learning library. A list of appropriate children's books will be provided, including digital books. Stories should have a focus on social justice issues and/or provide a diversity of perspectives including books about characters who are queer, women, have disabilities, and are of color. Join a 30-minute video conference call for directions and have the weekend to record and upload your story video. This project is child and pet friendly!Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Time: 1pm to 1:30pm for kickoff, EOD to record and upload video
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91695357912
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moodys Hosts Story (Any)Time for PS 557 K | 30 | n/a | n/a |
Opportunity Details
We are looking for young people 18-30 to join our Junior Board. Its main function is to raise money and awareness for Children Across America. In this role you will gain valuable experience with the corporate and business side of 501C3 nonprofit.Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | 20 | n/a | n/a |
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Learning to read succeeds best with a multilayered approach. Grade school students benefit from reading support during the lessons for both in-class sessions and for remote sessions. During our early testing period, we developed the concept of a person joining the student during their online session.The reading coach role is to facilitate the student’s engagement during the lesson. A Reading Pal will pause the recorded lesson periodically and checking with the student to be sure the lesson skills were understood. At the end of the lesson, the Reading coach will reinforce the lesson by asking the student to re-read the content covered in the lesson.
The link below is an example of a reading pal reviewing the words at the end of a lesson.
https://vimeo.com/523335108
Our testing consistently measured a significant improvement in reading skills when a student engaged in a reading lesson three to five times per week. Reading lessons are typically 20 to 30 minutes this type of consistent exposure to a reading lesson will result in a progressive improvement in a student’s skills.
Reading pals will connect to a reading session via an online meeting, independent of the student's location. Some students will connect from home and others will connect from a classroom. All students are encouraged to wear headsets for clarity and minimizing distracting sounds to others in the same room.