Wednesday, August 4, 2010

“Tutoring center nearing 1st 5-week session finish” plus 3 more

“Tutoring center nearing 1st 5-week session finish” plus 3 more

Tutoring center nearing 1st 5-week session finish

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 09:25 AM PDT

BY JESSICA GOFF / THE DAILY IBERIAN
Published/Last Modified on Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:07 PM CDT

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.

"We will not turn away a single student," Berry said.

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.

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Posted: 03 Aug 2010 10:23 AM PDT

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Nnamdi Tutoring DHB After Hours

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 11:08 AM PDT

By JOE KUKURA
Updated 10:45 AM PDT, Wed, Aug 4, 2010

Why is Pro Bowl cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha spending all kinds of extra time after practice to work with a dubious and disappointing first-round Oakland Raiders draft bust like Darrius Heyward-Bey?

Because Nnamdi himself used to be a dubious and disappointing first-round Oakland Raiders draft bust. But eight years and a little hard work later, Asomugha is a three-time Pro Bowler and unquestionably the best NFL cornerback who is not currently engaged in a holdout.

So Asomugha has taken on Heyward-Bey for personal tutoring sessions at the conclusion of Raiders training camp practices each day. The Associated Press reports the sessions include "getting off the line of scrimmage, getting separation and other key details a receiver needs to master to succeed in the NFL."

DHB has been an eager student. "With him being the top DB in the league," Heyward-Bey said of Asomugha, "picking his brain is key."

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Hard to believe, but Nnamdi was once considered a first-round disappointment, too. "He's not a natural player," dissed Sports Illustrated in 2003, right after the Raiders selected Asomugha, "struggling in coverage and sometimes reacting late."

Asomugha has struggled and reacted late all the way onto the NFL's All-Decade Team for the 2000s, as named by Fox Sports.

Now he's passing the knowledge onto Heyward-Bey. "We'll come aside after practice and I'll ask him what is it today. He'll be like, 'I need work on this, I need work on that'. We just go out and do it."

To be fair, both guys will make more than $15 million in 2010. Fans might expect them to put in some extra time.

But elsewhere in the NFL, some guys making more than $15 million aren't even capable of practicing.

Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who is not a natural player and struggles in coverage.

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First Published: Aug 4, 2010 9:15 AM PDT

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ACT test help to continue for Broward students

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:33 AM PDT

By Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald

11:13 a.m. EDT, August 4, 2010

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Broward County Public Schools and the Princeton Review, a company specializing in tutoring and test preparation, announced Tuesday the continuation of their joint College Readiness program into the 2010-2011 school year.

The program, which was started in 2009, targets students from 17 Broward high schools who have failed the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) three times, as well as teenage and adult dropouts who want to obtain their diploma.

More than 2,500 students participated in last year's program, which prepares pupils for the ACT, a national college admissions exam that can be used in place of the FCAT to meet Florida high school graduation requirements.

Out of 1,100 students who reported their reading and math test scores to Princeton, an average of 70 percent achieved the minimum requirement and were able to graduate.

"Through grassroots efforts and word of mouth, we've been able to reach a lot of people who didn't receive a standard diploma and realized they can't make a living out in the work force without one," said Elizabeth Stephen, an executive director at Princeton Review and former teacher at Miami Southridge High School.

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