Community Learning Center Blog

Ribbon Cutting benefits CLC

The Salon Absolute Ribbon Cutting last Tuesday was a huge success! Hundreds of attendees came out to this beautiful salon to celebrate, including Clearwater Mayor George Cretekos and the Clearwater Chamber. Attendees enjoyed food, wine tasting, photographs, raffles, door prizes, networking, music and dancing. Kids enjoyed face painting, balloons, food, coloring, games and free books. 

AVOID the Summer Learning Slide

If you don’t engage your child in educational activities this summer, you can guarantee he will start the new school year behind.

WE OFFER QUALITY TUTORING SERVICES IN:  Reading, Math, and Study Skills. 

What you will get:

• A full grade level of improvement in less than 30 hours!
• Your student’s exact challenge areas are identified
• Targeted instruction – we don’t waste your time or money
• One-on-one instruction from a highly qualified tutor who has had background screening
• Option of tutoring in-home, at our Center or other community facilities

No gimmicks. No contracts. No high pressure sales. Just results you and your child can count on. 

Don’t need tutoring but would like assistance with materials and strategies to help your own child? Call us at the Center (727) 441-4444 to set up an appointment with a Learning Coach.

Teens Tutoring with Technology Program Success

“My time as a tutor was a blast!  I learned the barriers to learning and the huge problem of the misunderstood word.  Not understanding a word can throw off your whole train of thought.  This program also helped me confront situations in a different, more acceptable manner while in training.  I was introduced to new words, the basics of learning and the power of vocabulary.  Most of the time I was also being tutored myself in math which helped me in school.  I’m in love with words and my vocabulary has increased.  Me being a teen raised in a rough place (South St. Pete), I never thought I’d have as much knowledge as I do now, and me being a tutor knocked that thought to the side.”

S.R. (Teen Tutor – Teens Tutoring with Technology program)

Target sponsors Books for Kids events

Target Corporation was recently acknowledged by the Community Learning Center for sponsoring our Free Books for Kids events during the 2012-2013 school year. Target gave the CLC a grant for $2,000 that allowed us to promote this event to six local elementary schools and to provide snacks and beverages for our children and families.

These events give us an opportunity to distribute hundreds of gently-used books to local children in order to encourage them to read. The children are also able to do arts and crafts, spend time on the playground and enjoy a book reading or storytelling by a local children’s book author.

Thank you to Target Corporation for your generosity and for helping to increase literacy among our local kids!

Wishing you a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day from the Community Learning Center!

Make homework fun

Children have a better chance at success in school when parents take an interest in homework.  Parents, you can be supportive by demonstrating study skills, organizational skills, time management and by just maintaining a positive attitude!

• Make sure your child has a quiet place to do homework that is well-lit and free of distractions.

• Make sure your child is well-fed so he can stay focused. 

Help CLC win $10, 000 in the Mary Kay voting contest!

Two of our wonderful volunteers, Lynn Posyton and Patricia Nemeth, are entered in the Mary Kay Makeover Contest to win $5,000 each for our Center. PLEASE vote for both of them EVERY day.

The contest began on May 12th at 1pm EST and ends on May 27th at 1pm EST. Vote using a valid email address and you can vote 5 times per email address each day! So please vote for both our gals! Here are their voting pages:

lynn.magna.net – LYNN’s story – Voting page

patricia.magna.net – PATRICIA’s story – Voting page 

How to be successful in school

To ensure your child’s success in school, goal-setting is a necessary beginning step!  When you and your child work on creating his academic goals, you should first find out what motivates and interests him.  The goals should line up with your child’s purpose so that he feels the value of achievement once the goals are met. 

• Set a reasonable number of goals for your child to work on.  Overloading your child with too many targets could result in him not attempting to complete any of them.  Younger children especially benefit from a fewer number of goals set and often enjoy working on these goals one at a time.

• Write the goals down. Simply stating the goals is not enough. Putting your child’s goals on paper makes them real.

• Set S.M.A.R.T. goals!  S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for the five steps to follow when setting goals:  Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-based.  It’s a simple tool used by individuals and businesses to move away from unsuccessful goal-setting and toward an actionable plan that gets results. 

How to Survive and Thrive in any Economy                  – a seminar by Pat Clouden

JOIN US ON SATURDAY, May 11, 2013

10:00am to 2:00pm
New Community Learning Center Building
1411 N Fort Harrison Ave, Clearwater, FL

$50 donation includes seminar and lunch and all of the donation goes to renovations for the new Community Learning Center building

• Find out what problem almost any person has in our society…and what the solution is!
• Understand the “mystery” of inflation and deflation (it’s not as complicated as the “experts” want us to believe) and the TRUE basics of economics—the prerequisite to being cause over the subject.
• Find out how to turn around a business that is contracting and rebuild it bigger than it ever was—no matter what the government or the bankers are doing.
• Discover the TWO best things to do when times get tough so you can be free of the worries and stresses connected with losing income. Should you buy gold?
• Learn how a man becomes a slave to his job and the simple thing you can do to become a free man again.