April News

Through a generous gift from Townsend Press, CLI is providing
teacher training and coaching, children’s books, and
family workshops for CCPS’ Wiggins College Preparatory
Lab School as part of our Camden Literacy Project, which also serves 5 Catholic Partnership schools.

 

“My wife, she reads to my daughters because I work so much. When I come home I turn on the television. But I see, this is important. Tonight I will read to my daughters…for the first time.”

- Attendee, CLI Family Engagement Event

Recently, Erin Stanfill, a CLI Chicago teacher, was awarded a PBS 2012 Teacher Innovator Award. The award winners had to reinforce 21st century learning skills in the classroom. Erin Stanfill demonstrated how her students engage in author studies and how she used authors’ collections to introduce features of print, writing craft and illustration styles. She used quality children's books to engage students in conversations about feelings-specifically, focusing on emotional vocabulary.

"I wanted to say thank you to CLI... without this work I wouldn’t be the teacher I am today.” - Erin Stanfill

“Many students do not receive the literacy support they need early on in life, and by the time they reach high school they have fallen far behind. It is absolutely essential that students have a solid foundation in literacy before they leave the 3rd grade, and CLI makes that possible."                                                            

-  Tracey Lundgren

One of our i3 Philadelphia schools won a green ribbon award from the U.S. Department of Education. Congratulations, Albert. M. Greenfield Elementary!

The U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools recognition award honors schools that are exemplary in reducing environmental impact and costs; improving the health and wellness of students and staff; providing effective environmental and sustainability education, civic skills and green career pathways. The recognition award is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student engagement, higher academic achievement and graduation rates, and workforce preparedness, as well as a government wide goal of increasing energy independence and economic security.