Motheread Incorporated

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

Feb 15, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$543,767

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

TRAINING The Motheread Training Coordinator and other staff made 13 technical assistance visits to 12 community colleges across the state. These visits provided an opportunity for program evaluations and recommendations for improvement. Thirteen trainings were held across the state with 210 people being trained through the initiative funded by the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) office. The most frequently offered training was Keeping it Real: Contextualized Instruction. The majority of participants trained were ABE faculty. In addition to the trainings funded by the North Carolina Community College System office, six others were conducted in North Carolina and in our affiliate network across the country. The out-of-state trainings were held in Colorado, Connecticut, and Washington. A total of 107 people completed these trainings. NEW INITITATIVES AND PARTNERSHIPS This past fiscal year presented us with several exciting opportunities and new initiatives both in our national affiliate network, in North Carolina, and in Wake County. Our Colorado affiliate (Colorado Humanities) has launched a five-year initiative that will provide Motheread/Fatheread Institutes and Story Exploring throughout the state of Colorado. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to increase the frequency and quality of low-literacy parent/childcare provider/early childhood educator reading to children, more visits to libraries and more books in homes and childcare centers. On the state level, Motheread has been included as a program that will be part of an early childhood initiative implemented in the eastern part of our state. North Carolina won a Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We have joined an initiative through Wake County Public School System to implement programming to help parents help their children improve their reading skills. The ultimate goal of the initiative is that all children will read on grade level by the end of third grade. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT We wrote a supplement for the Motheread/Fatheread curriculum to add three additional Literacy as Art sections. One Section is written for infants, one for toddlers, and one for preschoolers. Each section is based on an age-appropriate book, and includes accompanying information and activities. This new supplement gives instructors the opportunity to further discuss adult lesson material in the context of a book that parents will take home to practice with very young children. WEBSITE We launched a new website this year. The new website not only contains material about all of our programming and services, but also includes free resources for both practitioners and parents.

Filer

EIN

58-1811261