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The Echo Park Time Travel Mart

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After-school tutoring

Last year, 826LA provided 208 days of drop-in tutoring at our Venice and Echo Park centers, and

served 230 different students. This was made possible with the support of over

215 volunteers.

“With 35 to 45 hours of tutoring, a

student can improve his or her reading skills by a grade

level.”

–“Literacy Facts,” County of Los Angeles Public Library Literacy

Office, March 2007

“I’m so grateful 826 opened a place in my neighborhood,

because for the first time it actually feels like a

neighborhood. Also, learning to be a tutor is just so fun. I mean, going through all the

tools of language you’d forgotten were even there,

rediscovering them, and then seeing someone else discover them for the first time? Is

there anything that makes you feel more useful?”

–Stacy Doran, tutor

“The opportunity to have positive role

models who are outside the family’s sphere of influence has helped

my children’s confidence and solidified what

they’ve learned at school and at home.”

–Kathleen Whitfield, parent

Field trips

Last year 826LA welcomed 549

students, from 25 different classrooms across Los Angeles, to their writing

labs for afternoon field trips.

“I was very excited making our own adventure book in a

group. That day I showed my mom the book.

She loved it and she thought it was really funny.

My favorite part was when the book

was bound together in the machine!”

– Ricardo Perez, Mayberry Elementary School

In-schools

Last year 826LA provided 718 students over 129 days of one-

on-one support at their schools.

“It’s amazing what you do for these

kids! As teachers, sometimes we feel like no one in the ‘outside’

world cares. Thanks again.”

–Lisa Whelan, teacher

“In the most disadvantaged schools, the average literacy achievement score in

grade 10 lies somewhere between mean achievement

for grades 5 and 6 in the most affluent

schools.”

–A. Rice, Public Policy Institute of

California, 2003

Workshops

310 students came to 826LA East and West in the evenings and on weekends to take workshops last year. Over 180 volunteers helped teach and support these

students.

“It was fun to ‘time travel’ and see how

the machine worked... I will

definitely tell my friends about this!”

- Olivia Wood, student from the EPRICoTT workshop

“At the elementary level, almost all kids spend less

than 3 hours a week writing, far less than they spend with TV.”

–The Neglected “R”: The Need for a Writing

Revolution, The National Commission on Writing in

America Schools and Colleges, 2003



Publishing

“You are great publishers.

I think I might want to be

a publisher.”

–Brenda Franco, student,

Ellen Ochoa Learning Center,

Los Angeles

“With school districts’ current focus on testing,

forays into creative writing have become rare in

English classes. After having met with the staff

of 826LA, I knew that I would have the support – both moral and professional – that

I would need to embark upon a meaningful, challenging, and creative approach to

student writing.”

—Jane Patterson, teacher, Marshall High School, Los

Angeles

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