SOAR Program - Chatham Education Foundation

The students we serve are so hardworking and we are blessed to have wonderful, caring and child centered volunteer tutors trained by Augustine Literacy Project.

"Reading is so important and poor kids have the deck stacked against them," says Cassedy, explaining her new commitment to volunteer at ALP. A former social worker, Cassedy specialized in child advocacy, working at an adoption agency and later, a foster care center. "They all need tutors."

SOAR tutor Barbara Kassman (January 2018 ALP/SOAR Graduate)

"I have grand kids and they have a gazillion books, but some kids don't," said Barb Kassmann, explaining her reasons for volunteering as an ALP tutor. "And it's really important to teach kids how to read early." Kassmann, a newly retired pediatric nurse practitioner from Pittsboro, completed her ALP training last week as part of the SOAR project funded by the Chatham County Education Foundation.

Give the lifelong gift of literacy to a child, become a SOAR Program volunteer literacy tutor, partner or donor! Please join us Thursday, January 11th at noon at the Chatham Community Library in Pittsboro or at 3:00pm at Virginia Cross Elementary School in Siler City to learn more about Chatham Education Foundation's new program SOAR. Learn about our specialized 1:1 literacy tutoring and how you can provide tutoring to selected 1st and 2nd grade students not meeting literacy benchmarks. The SOAR program addresses the gap in services offered in the schools via the Tier 2, 3 and IEP programs and students that need additional reading assistance. Tutors are trained with the Augustine Literacy Project, a proven program with strong concrete results. Sign up online at https://goo.gl/forms/vW9QpfSOvqH8fw1d2
OR register in person at our next SOAR Meeting on January 11, 2018. Watch a child SOAR in reading, writing and spelling!