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Pratt Institute's America Reads/ Counts Tutors,
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Pratt Institute Center for Sustainable Design Studies (CSDS) and the Pratt Incubator for Sustainable Design Innovation will partner with Pratt Towers housing cooperative to hold a community “design jam” on Saturday, July 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Pratt Towers located at 333 Lafayette Avenue. Members of the community are invited to brainstorm possible residential uses for 60 square feet of unused space behind the towers that has remained empty for 15 years.
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Pratt Institute President Thomas F. Schutte and The Board of Trustees of Pratt Institute will hold a dinner to celebrate the establishment of The Marc Rosen Distinguished Visiting Chair in Design on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at The Gramercy Park Hotel Roof at Two Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The event will include a cocktail reception at 7 p.m. followed by dinner, and will celebrate the first endowed professorship in the history of Pratt Institute.
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Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, a Pratt alumna and fashion design executive with over 15 years of experience, has been named acting chair of the Institute’s Fashion Design Department. Pailes-Friedman, who has taught in Pratt’s fashion and industrial design departments since 1998, will begin her appointment July 1, 2009. She replaces Rosie DePasquale, who is stepping down after serving as chair of the Fashion Design Department since 2000 to work on the launch of her yoga accessories and clothing line. DePasquale will return in the spring 2010 semester as a full-time professor.
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Pratt Institute department of fine arts graduate students Charlotte Meyer
and Kris Scheifele won 2009 Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awards for their accomplishments in sculpture and painting, respectively. Through this award program, Meyer and Scheifele will each receive a $15,000 grant and will also participate in a group exhibition at the Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York in
spring of 2010.
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FAQs about the program
How do I qualify?
- Open to all students on campus, regardless of major.
- Must be available to work a minimum of 5 hours per week on site (preferably in the morning hours) during club hour (no classes).
- Must be Registered at Pratt institute and have work-study
- Must attend monthly Paid training meetings
- Must submit Bi-weekly Tutor Logs
How am I assigned to a school site?
- The Program Coordinator, Peggy Feagin, meets with each prospective tutor to establish the most appropriate site to meet the need of the community, whether they are geographic or age-specific. A list of sites profiles are on file for students to review with Peggy. Though every effort is made to pair tutors with sites they are interested in. Availability of sites is limited due to the large number of applicants for positions. Final site placement is up to the Coordinator. Students who have a year or more service with the program will be given first preference.
How am I paid?
- Tutors are paid bi-weekly on Fridays after 10:30 am.
How do I enroll?
- Contact Peggy Feagin at : 718-399-4489 Email: pwestbar@pratt.edu
- Meet with a Financial Aid Representative on campus (first floor, Dekalb Hall.) to make sure that you are qualified to receive Federal Work Study funds.
- Complete an application and schedule an appointment to meet with the Peggy Feagin. Bring your application to the meeting. If hired, you will be asked to complete additional paperwork.
- Volunteers and Language volunteers are also welcome
Peggy Feagin
- Click to see her photo
Peggy Feagin began her career at Pratt Institute in December 1999, as the Financial Aid Department’s Administrative Information Specialist and Assistant to the Director of Financial Aid. Prior to arriving at Pratt Institute, Peggy served as the Assistant Director of Admissions at the famed Art Institute of New York from 1993-1999. In 2000, Peggy was given the task of establishing Pratt Institute’s first America Reads/Counts program. America Reads/Counts is a federal program that addresses the problem of failing literacy scores in our nation’s schools through tutoring. This Clinton initiative pays college students through work-study dollars to tutor children pre-school to elementary children free of charge to the agency of school in reading and math. The America Reads/Counts program provides personal instruction and mentoring services that strengthen reading and math skills so children can read independently and are performing at grade level by 3rd grade.
Pratt Institute’s America Reads/Counts initiative differs from the other programs administered by the other 1,400 participating colleges. Peggy has expanded service options to include creative and unique enhancements that support the learning needs of young school-aged children. These enhancements include: Costumed Reads, Read-A-Loud in Pratt’s gym hosting over 600 children; the Black Cowboys history show; American Sign Language for tutors and children; Foreign Language instruction taught to children by Pratt student-tutors; A Tutor Award ceremony that hosts over 500 people including Mary Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President, Community leaders, Dr. Thomas Schutte, President of Pratt Institute, parents, faculty, students and children and their families from the 30 tutoring sites. Today, the program provides service learning opportunities to 75 Pratt students who deliver reading and math tutorial services to 5,000 children weekly at 30 school and community based sites, including day care centers, head start programs, and schools which provide specialized services to students who are visually and hearing impaired.
Another unique component of Pratt’s America Reads/Counts Program instituted by Peggy is called Saturday Tutoring where one hundred neighborhood children gather once a month to learn Reading, Math, Foreign Languages, Braille and American Sign Language. Peggy’s newly formed Teen division is learning Shakespeare and participating in spelling Bee’s using SAT words. Peggy graduated with honors in speech/theater from Long Island University and is currently pursuing a post-graduate degree in Library and Information Science at Pratt’s School of Library Science.
Peggy is passionate about education, providing students of all ages with the resources and services they need to be successful in school. Peggy is always seeking to develop new and innovative activities that support the learning needs of children and provide college students with access to resources that emphasize the importance of life long learning and community service.
Program Coordinator: Cheryl Green
T: (718) 694-6957
F: (718) 694-6958
200 Willoughby Ave.,
ISC Building Rm. 205
Brooklyn NY 11205
Director: Elizabeth Morgan
T: (718) 961-6884
F: (718) 461-4691
138-46 Northern Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11354
260 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Director: Sam Morgan
T: (718) 522-2122 x323
F: (718)935-9463
57 Willoughby Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Marc Williams
T: (718) 804-6400 x6441
F: (718) 260-9245
29 Fort Greene Place, Rm 7E4 Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Jerry Aiello Elizabeth
T:(718) 230-2406
F:(718) 230-2215
Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway & Flatbush Ave.,Brooklyn NY 11238
Executive Director: Tyronne Brown
T: (718) 399-2300
F: (718) 399-2351
tbrown@brooklynmusicandartsprogram.org
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Fred Watson
T: 718.636.3600 Ext. 3504
200 Willoughby Ave
ISC Building 2nd floor Rm 204
Brooklyn NY 11205
Saturday tutoring on Pratt Brooklyn Campus
Director: Sharmine Byrd
T: (718) 622-3271
F: (718) 230-0828
230 Classon Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
Hours: 2:00pm-6:30pm
Educational Director: Ruth Cherry
T: (718) 453-0500
F: (718) 453-1067
275 Marcus Garvey Brooklyn NY 11221
Hours: 9:00am-6:00pm
Supervisor: Gerline Gomez
Recreational Director: Joyce Bartholomew
T:(212) 645-5005
F:(212) 645-0170
Elisa Geliebter
Cell: 845-532-4112
T: 845-246-2372
bookls@lisalibraries.org
P.O. Box 430
Boiceville, NY 12412
Principal: Greg Santamoor
T: (212) 821 9200 ext. 616
F: 212-821-9656
111 59th St
New York, NY 10022
Kenneth Gary, chief executive officer at the Gary Foundation, spoke in September during an orientation meeting of the America Reads/Counts program. Gary encouraged new and old mentors alike by emphasizing the importance of the America Reads/ Counts mission, urging them to be good role models: “You are making a difference even when you’re not aware of it, kids look up to you.”
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America Reads/Counts at Pratt, distributed backpacks and school supplies to needy children on behalf of the Institute at a “Back To School/Stay in School” rally in downtown Brooklyn.
Shown on the right: From left to right, Karen Boykin Towns, president, NAACP’s Brooklyn branch; Peggy Feagin, coordinator, America Reads/Counts at Pratt; New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein; and Corin James, NAACP education committee chairperson.
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America Reads/Counts Tutors spent the day reading and face painting the children of incarcerated parents at Hale House.
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The America Reads/Counts program is proud to participate in Pratt’s annual International Food Fair. Pratt students and staff members hailing from over 20 countries prepare special dishes for this popular event. America Reads/Counts Junior, Teen and College Tutors compete in a poem recital in 10 foreign languages. Many of the Tutors sharing the gift of language with the children are international students who volunteer as language tutors thus qualifying for out-side scholarships which do not have to be repaid through the Out-side Scholarship work shop.
- 2007 photos
During spring break when most students returned home to their families or went on vacation, Pratt America Reads/Counts tutors and Volunteers visited a Family Shelter on Catherine Street in New York City. The life Center located in Manhattan, New York, provides the area's homeless families with temporary shelter, training, children's programs, counseling and access to health care. Residents receive individualized care to encourage them to take responsibility for changing their lives. . Pratt Tutors read books and played educational games with the children. Puppets were used to tell stories, goodie bags and books were given to every child and certificates were presented to the children. Educational toys were also presented to the children as a gift from the Pratt America Reads/Counts Program.
- Shelter Read 2006 photos
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(Park Slope Family Health Center)
Heidi Sabers
T:(718)630-7175
F:(718)630-7175
220 13th street., (bt 4th 5th Ave Brooklyn NY 11215
Director: Datashiah Kohn
Home: 516-771-8566
Cell: 646-9573119
Site: 718-455-4308
Hours: 8am-4pm
715 Gates Ave Suite 1c
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Ms. Betty – School Special
T: (718) 453-7600
F: (718) 453-2734
144 Pilling Street
Brooklyn N.Y. 11207
Director of Activities: Risa Segan ext. 135
Asst. Dir of Activities: Maritza Alvarado ext. 214
T: 718-858-6400
F: 718 596-5067
140 St. Edwards
Brooklyn NY 11201
Director: Chaya Zaetz
T: (718) 756-2020 ext.11
F: (718) 756-2053
420 Lefferts Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225
Daycare Director: Devika Constance
T: 212-714-2870
F: (212) 465-8125
515 W. 41st St.(between 10th & 11th Ave.)New York, NY 10036
Principal: Magalie Alexis
T: (718) 622-1626
F: (718) 622 3471
180 6th Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217
Hours: 8:30am-6:30pm
Pratt Participation in the America Reads/Counts Program
At Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn Campus, work study and volunteer tutors participating in the America Reads/Counts Challenge are part of a long-standing institutional commitment to community service. Documented outcomes of the program illustrate significant improvement in the literacy and math skills of the children with whom we are tutoring. Our students and neighborhood children are benefiting from this relationship. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus is proud to be a part of the America Reads/Counts Challenge.
America Reads/Counts at Pratt is unique because we have over 30 public and private community tutoring sites for our tutors to work in including special needs sites such as hospitals, and nursing homes. Additional special needs partnerships include: St. Francis De Sales School for the Deaf, The Helen Keller School and The Light House school for the visually impaired and the Manhattan school for Autistic children and Hale House. Most sites are in walking distance while others require a short bus or train ride to get there. All tutoring services provided by the Institute through the America Reads/Counts program are free of charge to the community. Students can work one hour per week, or twenty hours per week reading to children and helping them with their homework. Work-study students who speak a language other than English can share the gift of language or sign language with children. International students can volunteer one Saturday per month to share their gift of language with children and receive community service credits at the Pratt outside scholarship workshop. (See outside scholarship work-shop web page). The America Reads/Counts program has over 30 weekly tutoring sites and over 100 children who meet once per month at Pratt Institute to Read, Calculate, learn Sign Language, Foreign Languages, and Braille and perform Reader’s Theatre. All tutoring is free of charge to the parents of accepted children. To assist with the Saturday program we have volunteers who read to the children and lend their expertise to the program in the form of motivational speeches, sign language training, Braille training, Author visits, Storytelling, Children’s Bookmaking, Puppetry , Costume making, Photography, Vidiography, Animation and professional training sessions run by teachers and professionals from various walks of life. All free of charge.
With this fantastic workforce of Pratt students and volunteers, the America Reads/Counts program at Pratt institute has become one of the leading colleges providing mathematics and literacy services to over 3000 children and their families each year. The program has grown to provide these services to 32 sites in Brooklyn and the metropolitan New York area including sites with special needs.
America Reads/Counts students helped Lisa Libraries in Brooklyn to pack and ship over 4000 books to children in Mobile Alabama, displaced by the Katrina hurricane.
- 9/30/2005 photos
Pratt Institute's America Reads/Counts program hosted the "Legacy of the Black Cowboys". PS-282, the Park Slope Elementary School, joined the after-school event honoring the Federation of Black Cowboys and their president Edward J. Dixon. Tutoring partners St. Mary's after school, and Bedford Stuyvesant Head Start after school also attended. The event proved to be one of Ms. Feagin's best efforts to educate young children on the legacy of the black cowboy. The event gave the children the chance to experience the history of the Black Cowboy, along with square dancing, roping demonstrations, and their very own cowboy hats and bandanas. Gregory West-Feagin, program manager of Praxis Scatter Site II a division of Praxis Housing Initiatives, spoke to the children about the old west, cowboys, and cowgirls. President Schutte attended the event, and the Vice-President of Student Affairs, Helen Matusow-Ayres, presented Mr. Dixon with a plaque from Pratt Institute’s America Reads/Counts program. Quentin Streets from the Brooklyn Borough President's office attended and was quite impressed with the program.
- Black Cowboy 2006 photos
America Reads/ Counts put on its first costumed play in 2007, based on The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by the Jon Scieszka. Putting the wolf on trial in Memorial Hall, America Reads/ Counts turned over 500 children into the jury members through interactive guilty and not guilty signs given them upon arrival... Accompanied by costumes and music, Pratt tutors, teen tutors and Jr. Tutors delivered an outstanding performance to all the audiences. At the end, the children all voted the wolf not guilty.
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Students who have little time during the week or who want to share the gift of language or sign language with children can work on campus one Saturday per month with over 100 neighborhood children who meet to review reading and math skills. In addition to the 3R’s the children and tutors learn Sign Language, share Foreign Languages, Braille and perform reader’s theatre. All services are free of charge to the parents of excepted children. To assist on Saturday the program has a service board of volunteers who read to the children and lend their expertise to the program in the form of Motivational Speeches, Sign Language and Braille training, Author & Illustrator visits, Storytelling, Children’s Bookmaking, Puppetry, Costume Making, Photography, Vidiography, Animation and professional training sessions run by Teachers, Pratt Tutors and Professionals from various walks of life.
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Tutors and Jr. Tutors perform Foreign Languages, America Sign Language, Spelling Bee, and Math Bee for parents, faculty, administrators and special guests.
- Academic Achievement Day 2004 photos
Pratt Institute's America Reads/Counts tutors along with program Coordinator, Peggy Feagin, visit America Reads tutoring sites dressed in colorful costumes, and read some of the kids' favorite stories, bringing children stories to life. The costumed read was photographed and videotaped by Pratt Institute's photography and film majors. Every year tutors get this chance to do something special for the kids, and every year the children look forward to it.
- Costumed Read 2005 photos
Pratt Institute teamed up with America Reads/Counts programs from Fordham University, New York University, Columbia University, Long Island University, and New York Institute of Technology for our first Read-Out event. Tutors, volunteers, faculty and administrators spent the day reading to over 300 children from local schools in the Pratt Gym. All children received a brand new book and educational toy.
- Read Out in GYM 2006 photos
America Reads/Counts is a tutoring program started in 1997 by the Clinton Administration in response to the failing literacy and math scores in our nation’s schools. America Reads/Counts is a grassroots national campaign challenging every American to help all our children learn to read and calculate. The target group is pre-school to 8th grade.
College Students, Librarians, Business Professionals, Parents, Teachers, Professors, Policy Makers, Senior Citizens, and children of all ages. Everyone can play an important role in meeting the challenge whether it's reading with children or math homework help.
Day Care Centers, Head-Start programs, Hospitals, Public Schools, Colleges, Universities, Public/Private Libraries... Businesses and organizations can participate in assisting children learn to love reading and calculating if we start early.
Family members and early caregivers like Pratt tutors must build a foundation for literacy by talking and reading daily to babies and toddlers. Long before a baby babbles or says a first word she is beginning to develop skills necessary to learn how to talk and read. In addition, caregivers and we must ensure that ALL children enter school ready to read. Learning to read and write is critical for success in school and throughout life. By starting early, we recognize learning to read begins long before a child enters school. Reading to a young child, even before a baby can hold a book, creates an appreciation for what books offer. Parents and caregivers will find that talking, singing, and reading will help their young children be ready for school.
Brenda Lawrence, Director
T: 718 493-7208
F: 718-493-7193
933 Herkimer St. Brooklyn, NY 11233
Head Teacher: Ms. Minto
Home: 631-835-1063
T: 718-622-5612
F: 718-622-5612
259 Washington Ave. Brooklyn NY 11205
Director: Gloria Martinez
T: (718) 237-9578
F: (718) 246-3942
343 Warren St. Brooklyn, NY 11201
Education Director: Lillie Akeem
T: 718-622-3734
F: 718-622-5101
315 Vanderbuilt ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Director: Ms. Casale
(718) 857-3114
300 Vanderbilt Ave,
Brooklyn NY 11205
Educational Director, Melissa Bradshaw
T: (718) 852-7020
381 Myrtle Ave.
Brooklyn Ny 11205
Andrea Gurpersaud, Director
T: (718) 237-4303 F: (718) 237-2697
55 Hanson Pl., State Office Building., Brooklyn, NY 11217
Principal: Alfonzo Forrest
T: 718-384-1577
F: 718-384-3379
760 Dekalb Ave.,
Brooklyn NY 11216
Director: Eleanor Croford
Marise Soantore, Administrative Assoc.
T: (718) 622-8622
F: (718) 622-5443
972 Fulton St. Brooklyn NY 11238
photos
Academic Achievement Day 2004 photos
Read Out in GYM 2006 photos
Costumed Read 2005 photos
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