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| Tutoring center nearing 1st 5-week session finish Posted: 30 Jul 2010 03:30 AM PDT BY JESSICA GOFF / THE DAILY IBERIAN A fledgling tutoring center is gearing up to service Iberia Parish high school students during the coming school year. The West End Tutoring and Skill Center, at 524 Hopkins St., will finish up its first five-week tutoring session with seven high school students and three students in a GED program. Center executive director Will Berry said the center is preparing to take in "as many students as it can" when the facility reopens on Sept. 7. Berry began working on a blueprint for the tutoring program in January, which is housed in the Com-munity Outreach Center owned by the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office. The program works with local high schools to help improve reading, writing and math skills. Keyboarding skills and basics to a foreign language are also taught during sessions, Berry said. The center's schedule will run parallel with the Iberia Parish school district's calendar. Iberia Parish Superin-tendent of Schools Dale Henderson encouraged students to take advantage of the program. "This is a wonderful opportunity for our students who need a little extra help," Henderson said. "As a school system, we want to do everything we can to support the efforts of this program. They have a very noble cause." Cornell Nezzet, a 17-year-old Westgate High School football player, has been studying in the program throughout the summer. He said language arts is his favorite subject, next to physical education, he added jokingly. His day at the center begins at 4 p.m. with journal writing. Then he's on to Spanish class, which is followed by a math lesson taught by 25-year teaching veteran Michael Daye. The days ends at 7:30 p.m. Berry said he was a teacher for 35 years and dubs himself the "biggest cheerleader for education." He said the tutoring center is meant for high school students who are either behind in school or just want to enhance their learning skills. He calls it "catching up, getting even or getting ahead." He said constant support is the key to inspiring teens to be open to education. He hopes the center will curb the parish's high school drop-out rate. "I think students respond when they see that there is a genuine interest on part of the instructor and there is a perception that teachers really care," Berry said. The center is funded through United Way and federal grants. The sessions are free to students, and Berry anticipates expanding the teaching staff for the fall tutoring session. Part of the West End Tutoring and Skill Center's mission statement is not only to "provide each student with the skills to learn," but to "recognize value in self and others." The center plans to provide mentors to advise students along with enhancing curriculum skills. The center will hold a "Welcome Back to School" night, which will include a hot dog cookout on Sept. 7. All parish students and their families are invited to attend. For more information on the tutoring center, call 577-6275. Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| KnowledgePoints gears up workshops, tutoring in Florham Park Posted: 30 Jul 2010 06:15 AM PDT [fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve full-text content] FLORHAM PARK – The KnowledgePoints Learning Center, with locations in Regency Plaza, 186 Columbia Turnpike, next to Trader Joe's, and at Lifetime Fitness, 14 Fernwood Road, both in Florham Park, is now enrolling students for its summer tutoring programs and workshops. |
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