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Community Partnerships: Forsyth County Public Schools & Literacy Forsyth

Community Partnerships: Forsyth County Public Schools & Literacy Forsyth. Kathy Jolly, Forsyth County Schools and Annaliza Thomas, Literacy Forsyth March 2013. Overview. Introduction of Literacy Forsyth & Forsyth County School System (FCSS) Why partner with FCCS?

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Community Partnerships: Forsyth County Public Schools & Literacy Forsyth

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  1. Community Partnerships: Forsyth County Public Schools & Literacy Forsyth Kathy Jolly, Forsyth County Schools and Annaliza Thomas, Literacy Forsyth March 2013

  2. Overview • Introduction of Literacy Forsyth & Forsyth County School System (FCSS) • Why partner with FCCS? • How does our CLCP partner with these programs? • Results • Q&A

  3. Literacy Forsyth • CLCP since 2010 • Partners with Lanier Technical College in Forsyth County • Provides tutoring and classes for basic literacy, ESOl, GED test prep and U.S. Citizenship test prep • Target demographic: over 16,000 county residents

  4. Literacy Forsyth • 1 employee 30 hours per week • 45 Volunteers (including Board Members) Provide Lanier Tech with approximately $55,000 of support which goes to: • GED & ESOL teacher salaries • Instruction Materials • Scholarships • Jail Instruction Materials • Graduation Costs

  5. Forsyth County Schools • Enrollment – 38, 969 Students • Elementary Schools – 20 (18,869 students) • Middle Schools – 9 (9,427) • High Schools – 5 (10,416) • Alterative Schools – 4 (257)

  6. Economically Disadvantaged • Free Lunch – 6,956 or 17.17% of total enrollment • Reduced Lunch – 1,633 or 4.03% of total enrollment • Total Eligible – 8,589 or 21.20 % of total enrollment

  7. Forsyth County Schools Demographics

  8. Federal Programs • Title I Schools: Chestatee Elementary, Cumming Elementary, Midway Elementary, Otwell Middle, & Little Mill Middle • Title III/ESOL – 1,520 English Learners • Migrant – 34 students • McKinney-Vento Homeless - 503

  9. Examples of Our Programs • GED outreach to Migrant Out of School Youth and Drop Outs • Migrant Parent Advisory Council Meetings and Ongoing Recruitment for Adult GED and ESL Programs • Federal Programs Advisory Council Meetings • Summer Intervention Programs: KinderCamp & Accelerate Language Camp • Literacy Services Offered On-Site at Select Title I Schools • Support for School-Readiness and Family Literacy at the Transition Services Office

  10. How does Literacy Forsyth partner with these programs?

  11. Parent Outreach • Attend any and all meetings in which parents will be attending. • Present CLCP services to parents • Recruit potential students • Recruit volunteers • Connect parents to resources in the community • Increase visibility

  12. How we work together

  13. Provide Services to Parents:ABE Classes

  14. Provide Services to Parents:Community Speakers

  15. Provide Services to Parents U.S. Citizenship classes

  16. Provide Services to Parents GED Scholarships

  17. Extend services to k-12 student population in programs Summer learning opportunities: Digital storytelling camp

  18. Extend services to k-12 student population in programs Provide materials

  19. Extend services to k-12 student population in programs Mobile Family Literacy Unit

  20. Results

  21. Thank You! Annaliza Thomas Literacy Forsyth literacyforsyth@gmail.com

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