MLC Summer Reads 2008

Children Left Behind: A Child’s Right to Education in the United States

mlcsummerreads — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:14:36 +0000

Here’s a link to the full presentation on Racial and Economic Segregation in Schools by Baris Gumus-Dawes, the speaker from last Friday’s in-service: http://www.irpumn.org/website/projects/index.php?strWebAction=project_detail&intProjectID=43

Open the pdf file linked on the right of the page view the full power point.

Happy Hour?

mlcsummerreads — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:11:15 +0000

Any VISTAs interested in getting together for a happy hour next Thursday (July 24)? Leave a comment if you’re interested, or if you’d like to do something else with the group in the next few weeks. Have a great weekend!

FREE things to do in the Twin Cities this summer

mlcsummerreads — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:35:07 +0000

2008 Pride Festival
Saturday & Sunday, June 28 & 29, 2008
Minneapolis’ Loring Park will host the 36th annual Pride Festival on Saturday & Sunday, June 28 & 29

Festival admission is free. Beer Garden admission is $5 per day and Headline Show tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the gate.

Festival Hours
Saturday, June 28 10am – 10pm
Sunday, June 29 10am – 6pm
Headline Show: Saturday at 6pm

Outdoor Movies and Concerts:
St. Paul Central library, Fridays
http://www.thefriends.org/calendar.htm#films

Concerts in Minneapolis parks, lots of days!
http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=714

Movies in Minneapolis parks (all days)

http://www.minneapolisparks.org/documents/activities/concerts/park_movies_schedule.pdf

Loring Park music and movies (Mondays)
http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=1076

Stevens Square movies and music (Wednesdays)
http://www.sscoweb.org/documents/CandCflyer2008.pdf

Fourth of July Celebration and MPRB’s BIRTHDAY BASH!

Celebrating 125 years of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Friday – July 4 – 2008 4:30 – 10:30pm
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board invites you to the annual Minneapolis RED, WHITE and BOOM Celebration along the beautiful downtown Minneapolis Riverfront. Enjoy an evening with great summer food, four stages of live music and free family activities. The event concludes with a spectacular fireworks display at 10pm. Join us for a birthday bash to remember.

Free Twins Tickets!

mlcsummerreads — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:59:54 +0000

As we announced at Friday’s in-service training, there are FREE Twins tickets available for the Summer Reads VISTAS. The tickets are for the Twins VS. Milwaukee Brewers game next Friday, June 27, at 7:10 P.M.

There are enough tickets for everyone to get two, possibly three. Please email Angelina (akostreba (at) themlc.org), Bridget (bbursaw (at) themlc.org), or Natasha (nlaumei (at) themlc.org) by next Friday to let us know how many tickets you’d like. We’ll hand them out at the in-service next Friday.

mlcsummerreads — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:05:55 +0000

You are invited to hear a presentation of
Children’s Defense Fund’s America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline Report
at a community discussion

Monday, June 23, 2008,
7-8:30pm,
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
451 W. Central Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55103

This gathering is co-sponsored by St. Paul Youth Services, the St. Paul Black Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, and the Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota.

Call Pakou Hang at 651-771-1301 for more information and to RSVP. (This event is free but we do ask for an RSVP in order to have adequate space and refreshment.)

Important Forms for Summer Reads Vistas

mlcsummerreads — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:02:13 +0000

Check out the Summer Reads Forms on the MLC website (http://www.themlc.org/forms) (added link in the sidebar, under Summer Reads Nework) to find your online mileage reimbursement form, various policies forms, and other forms you’ll need later in the summer.

Literacy Resources for Tutors

mlcsummerreads — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:59:45 +0000

Some new links have been added to the sidebar, under Literacy and Tutoring Resources. The Johns Hopkins Center for Summer Learning offers insight and advice about summer learning opportunites and resources. LDA Minnesota is an organization focused on education for adults and children with learning disabilites. Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the largest national children’s literacy organization, offering free books and literacy resources to children, their families, and educators who need them most. Reading Rockets is another national child and family literacy organization offering multimedia literacy resources. And finally, The Literacy Site is a fundraising site that gives free books to children through donations raised by online pay-per-click sponsors (so go click!).

If any of you have suggestions for more online literacy and/or tutoring resources, please send an email to Natasha at nlaumei (at) themlc.org, and we’ll add a link to the blog!

First week of Summer Reads

mlcsummerreads — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:39:49 +0000

Hello, Vistas! Most of you are well into your first week at your sites by now, and we hope everything is going well and you’re enjoying your tutoring time. As you may have noticed, there are links to each of your weekly feedback logs on the sidebar to the right. We would like you to complete these each week by Sunday evening (5:00 or so). If for some reason you are unable to do this, or have difficulty completing the online form, please talk to Angelina as soon as possible.

Next week we will begin visiting your afternoon sites to check in with you — take photos, listen to your tutoring stories, and see how your experience is going. If you have any quetions or concerns before then, please call, email, or come the MLC to talk to Angelina, Bridget,or Natasha. See you next week!

Welcome to Summer Reads 2008!

mlcsummerreads — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:13:53 +0000

Welcome, Summer Reads Vistas! We’re so excited to begin this year’s program with all of you! We hope that the next 8 weeks will be a positive and enlightening experience for each you (and us), and to help make that happen we will try to provide you with all the resources and support we can. This blog will be a way for you to keep up-to-date with what’s happening in the program and with your fellow Vistas. We’ll be posting announcements, events (check out the calendar), links to tutoring resources and the Summer Reads program and sites (see the sidebar to the right), photos and stories from each of your sites, and anything else we can think of to help you have a great experience as a Summer Reads Vista!