Grant Application for
Petoskey District Library
Mission Statement:
Fiscal agent if applicant is not tax exempt:
Tax ID Number:
82-3027702
Contact First Name:
Contact Last Name:
Valerie
Meyerson
Address:
500 E. Mitchell St.
Phone Number:
12317583120
Website:
Project Name:
Growing Readers Together
Project start and end dates:
August 4, 2020
December 22, 2020
Amount Requested:
$
5000
Project Description:
Michigan’s “Read by Grade Three” law mandates that third graders not reading at grade level will be held back a year. As of Winter 2020, in Petoskey, 30% of 3rd graders and 25% of the K-2 graders are not proficient or partially proficient in reading and have an Individual Reading Improvement Plan (IRIP). It is imperative that our youngest students receive increased and enhanced reading assistance now – before they enter 4th grade.
In partnership with Public Schools of Petoskey, Growing Readers Together will take a three-pronged approach to tackling this issue: one-on-one student tutoring, family support programs, and materials to take home. Hestia funds will be used for the tutoring portion. The Library will provide, at no cost to the family, one-on-one reading tutoring for students in need. Tutors are matched with students in K - 3rd grade who have and IRIP and are teacher recommended. Each student is tutored once per week for one hour.
Goal of the Project
How many people will you reach?
60
What percentage are female?
55
If your program serves both males and females, how will Hestia funds specifically target women and girls?
We will use the Hestia funds to pay for tutoring of the girls and use money from other sources to pay for the boys. Our tutoring program utilizes many Title IX workers from the school, mostly women. So the funds help women two fold – the tutors and the tutees! 90% of our tutors are women.
How are recipients identified or selected to receive services? Is financial need considered?
Students in the program have an Individual Reading Improvement Plan, as well as a recommendation from their teacher or the school's literacy coach. Financial need is not considered.
What do you hope to achieve? What difference will this make in the lives of women and girls?
How will this project meet Hestia's mission statement?
Our goals are: to provide students with an enhanced learning environment, promote lifelong learning for the whole family, to document our process, & to clearly indicate student progress by achieving reading proficiency for 75% of participating third graders by spring 2022.
It is stated that if children are not reading proficiently by grade 4, they never catch up and will forever struggle with learning. Without reading proficiency, students are at a disadvantage in all their other learning endeavors. By providing support early, the children's success rate in school will increase, decreasing the odds of lifelong learning problems.
Another goal of Growing Readers Together is to promote lifelong learning for the whole family by creating a warm, welcoming environment at the public library for parents & the children. By visiting the library for tutoring & other programming, parents will become more comfortable in the library environment & have a better understanding of how the library supports their child and their educational endeavors.
Reading is the foundation of learning throughout life. By increasing reading proficiency of children, they will be more apt to continue to learn, be more confident, & become productive citizens.
How will you evaluate or measure your success:
1. Survey parents to evaluate whether the families will continue to utilize library resources and whether they feel all the program is valuable.
2. The Petoskey School's literacy coach will provide statistics for each of our kids to show how their reading improved over the school year
3. Our core planning group will evaluate the responses to see how the program needs to be tweaked for the next school year.
The first year of the program saw glimmers of meeting our goals: 20% of our students graduated from the program (no longer needed an IRIP) and were reading proficiently. This is a higher graduation percentage than the kids who were not in the program.
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