Literacy Green Bay

Program: ell classes are available monday through thursday, mornings and evenings at four levels of proficiency. Students attend class twice per week for 2 hours per class. During the covid-19 pandemic, we limited classes to tuesdays and thursdays only due to low student enrollment during that time. We resumed in-person classes in august 2021. Childcare is offered during all class times, however during the pandemic we did not offer childcare since we had no in-person classes. We have a well-equipped, modern computer lab with 16 computers, which is staffed by a computer lab instructor 12 hours per week but is also available for students to work independently during all business hours. Objective: to provide english language learning, computer Literacy, and critical thinking instruction to enable learners to become engaged, self-sufficient parents, employees, and community members. Over 400 adults are enrolled and attending one of the 4 levels of english classes. Class students are reassessed at the end of every semester to measure gains and goals achieved.

Trained volunteer tutors work one-on-one with adult learners seeking to improve their Literacy skills. An average of 200 tutored pairs work each year within a learner-centered curriculum and on individual student goals. Objective: to provide educational opportunities to assist learners in Literacy goals such as english language learning, ged attainment, basic adult Literacy skills, citizenship, or other specific goals. Tutoring pairs generally meet 1-2 times per week for 2 to 3 hours per week. Tutored students are reassessed after every 50 hours of instruction to measure gains and goals achieved.

Program: the children first family Literacy program is offered two mornings and two evenings each week for 2.5 hours per class period. In-person classes resumed in june 2021. Objective: to provide a comprehensive literacy-based educational program to undereducated and underprivileged families with children under age ten by offering programming that includes ged instruction for the parents, early childhood education for the children, parenting and interactive parent and child time together (pact) activities between parents and their children. Parents are also receiving computer skills/keyboard training to prepare for the online ged exam. Approximately 30 families participated in the program in 2021-2022.

Citizenship preparation, objective: learners seeking to earn citizenship by working with a trained tutor to prepare for their citizenship interview and exam. Workforce development: this is a fee-for-service program offering ell classes in the workplace. Objective: to provide customized workplace ell programming for employees at company sites utilizing curriculum customized to the employees' needs and emphasizing speaking, listening, and critical thinking.