Community Learning Center Blog

Our Worldwide Telethon weekend was filled to the brim with amazing volunteers, tremendous talent and generous donations! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED! We had a fantastic event and we were able to get the word out about the Community Learning Center to thousands of people! We had entertainment from so many talented artists including Chill E.B., Rob Meister, Jim Meskimen, Princess Joy Villa, Diego Verdaguer, the Jam Band, the Jive Aces, David Pomeranz and the amazing Kenny Rogers! 

If you weren’t around to see this event, you can go to the Telethon page (using the tabs at the top) or by going to www.clctutoring.com/telethon and you have 30 more days you may watch it on LiveStream. Check out the thermometer on the right side of the page… great results! 

CLC has books, art, face painting and fun!

Fun at the Books for Kids event!

Please join us on Saturday, January 11th from 11am – 1pm for our FREE Books and Art for Kids event right here at our Community Learning Center! We are located at 1411 N Fort Harrison Avenue in Clearwater, FL.

Each month, we hold this free event so that we may distribute hundreds of gently used books to local children in order to encourage them to read. These books are donated by families and organizations. We provide snacks, arts and crafts activities, face painting and we will have an author attend to do a book reading for the kids. Every child may take home up to five gently-used books. This event is open to the public!

Please join the Community Learning Center tonight – Thursday, December 19, 2013 from 6pm – 9pm for our annual Holiday Party at Winter Wonderland! It is located on the northwest corner of Drew Street and N Fort Harrison Avenue in Clearwater, FL. All CLC kids get free admission to the event!

Happy Holidays and hope to see you there!

Algebra is fun!

But it is not fun if you think that Algebra is just mathematical alphabet soup. To help you clarify for yourself and your child exactly what algebra is, we are sharing this definition and WONDERFUL examples provided by one of our wonderful tutors, Jancis Dienes.

Algebra is the study of mathematical statements which are generally true.

In algebra, the statements we study form a pattern which is true no matter what number we put in that pattern.

For example:

(4+2) = (2+4)

(6+8) = (8+6)

(9+3) = (3+9)

So we can say:

(a+b) = (b+a)

Please join us on Wednesday, October 2, 2013 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm for our Ribbon Cutting! The new Community Learning Center building is located at 1411 N Fort Harrison Avenue in Clearwater, Florida. Come help us celebrate moving from a 1,500 square-foot facility into a new 7,200 square-foot facility. We will be able to increase the number of children we serve on-site from 50 kids per week to over 300 kids per week. We will also be able to expand our tutoring services and projects on character education, drug prevention and human rights. We will also be able to offer additional hands-on activities like art, gardening and photography.

RJ Toftness joins the CLC for math presentation

Please join us at 7pm TONIGHT at the new Community Learning Center building at 1411 N Fort Harrison Ave in Clearwater for a fantastic math presentation by RJ Toftness! RJ is the author of “Unlock the Mystery to Math” and he is going to be sharing invaluable data with us. This presentation is FREE, open to the public and suitable for adults and children alike.

For more info, please call us at the Center at (727) 441-4444.

Save the Date…

Please join us on Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 7 pm for our 3rd annual Let Loose for Literacy Casino Night fundraiser.

Expect a night filled with fun and an intense Poker tournament, casino games, hors d’oeuvres and drinks, raffles, Vegas girls and all to benefit the Community Learning Center! The event starts at 7 pm and the Texas Hold’Em tournament starts at 8 pm. The event will be held at:

For more information and to purchase tickets, please go to:

www.letlooseforliteracy.com

Teens Tutoring with Technology

“I learned a lot of things that helped me understand the way we learn and the effects of barriers to study. During the process, I also created a bond with Jada, my student, and I didn’t expect that at all. I feel that I helped Jada with phonics and basics that she needed help with. I hope that she continues to use the skills that she has learned. This program has opened my eyes about teacher-student relationships and I am happy that I’ve had the once in a lifetime opportunity of helping someone else reach their academic goals. I’m just sad that it has to end because I’m going to miss Jada a lot. But this program taught me something I will use forever and that’s improving my communication skills.”

Alexia (Teen Tutor – Teens Tutoring with Technology program)

If you don’t engage your child in educational activities this summer, he is guaranteed to start the new school year behind.

Please click the link below to watch an interesting video on the Summer Learning Slide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ahhj3wxxkdM#t=0s

For FREE Assessment Testing for your child and a FREE e-booklet on Parent Tips, please go to www.clctutoring.com/summer and fill out the Contact Form. A Community Learning Center representative will contact you shortly.