CLEVELAND — As part of our Education Station initiative, WKYC Studios will be bringing back its volunteer tutoring program at Charles Dickens School in Cleveland.
The program will offer afterschool tutoring in reading to help boost literacy scores for second- and third-graders at Dickens School, located in Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
Launched in February 2020, the program was gaining traction and attracting a steady stream of volunteers until COVID unexpectedly shut it down.
The program will resume in October 2021, and volunteers are needed to tutor children from 4 to 5:30 pm on Tuesdays through Thursdays.
"Students in the 3rd grade are very nervous about taking the state assessment. Teachers were also more focused on books in the curriculum, as opposed to books the children would be interested in, with people and characters who look like them. Books are an opportunity for you to be able to escape, to be able to dream big," said Dickens Principal Jocelyn Foster.
To learn more, please email WKYC Director of Advocacy & Community Initiatives Margaret Bernstein at mbernstein@wkyc.com
Past Stories:
- Watch Again: A favorite from 2019 as Leon Bibb reads "The Night Before Christmas" to Charles Dickens students
- Dickens Reads students get tablets for reading at home
- Students get to meet book illustrator via an online chat
- 3News morning reporters pop in for Read Across America Day at Dickens School
- Cleveland Public Library's East 131 Street branch holds puppet parade to celebrate reading
- Dickens Reads students wind up February book club sessions with a lyrical message
- '21 Strong: Cleveland teacher Ebony Donley instills love of literacy and learning
- First Class: A 3News special about the first I Promise graduates
- Cleveland Public Library unveils new brand and vision for the city
- As Northeast Ohio's students return to the classroom, what could the state of the COVID-19 pandemic look like in the fall?
Editor's Note: The below video features a previous story at Charles Dickens Elementary School