Specialized Literacy Professionals is pleased to announce the second annual Service Project Grant.
The goals of this service project grant initiative are to:
Submissions for the grant are due May 1st, 2022.
For more information on applying, please follow the instructions here.
The goals of this service project grant initiative are to:
- initiate, extend, or expand existing university-, school- and/or community-based literacy projects
- support literacy-focused trainings for parents and other community members, and/or professional learning opportunities for teachers, specialists, and other school-based professionals /or parents
- increase access, equity, and diversity efforts related to literacy instruction and/or literacy materials
- expand literacy intervention work.
- align grant work with the SLP mission (http://www.literacyprofessional.org/) and the 2017 Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals (https://literacyworldwide.org/get-resources/standards/standards-2017)
Submissions for the grant are due May 1st, 2022.
For more information on applying, please follow the instructions here.
The 2022 Service Project Grant was awarded to the “1, 2, 3, 4 Back to School Party!” at Notre Dame College. The event was held on October 17th. Parents, guardians and families were able to:
- Participate with their children in learning centers that will give them the ability to facilitate their children’s skills in letter naming and sound matching, identifying rhymes in poetry, reading comprehension, writing in cursive, composition, and early math skills;
- Be provided with free workbooks from Scholastic’s “Scholastic Success With…” series that cover the topics in the learning centers;
- Receive one-on-one assistance and scaffolded support from full-time faculty members and teacher candidates in the Division of Professional Education as they work in the learning centers;
- Participate in an interactive read-aloud (The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson); and
- Have an opportunity to win a grand prize from the Scholastic “Grab & Go Packs” with the theme of developing social-emotional learning with books, a writing journal, and a family literacy handbook.