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Community Learning Center would like to acknowledge Alma, our work study partner from Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA). Alma does art classes with our Community Learning Center Academy students and helps with many different projects around the center. She has many, many talents that have been put to use and her help is much appreciated.

Alma is studying to be a Medical Assistant at UMA and was recently designated a Student Ambassador. As a Student Ambassador, Alma is there to assist fellow students and represent the UMA program.

UMA helps their students who are studying for careers in the medical field with programs that pay UMA students for working with local non-profit businesses while they are attending classes.

The UMA students that we have had working with Community Learning Center have been an asset to our quest to improve education in the local community.

UMA offers programs in the medical field which include Dental Assistant, Medical Assistant, Certified Nursing Assistant and many more. Community Learning Center is proud to partner with UMA in helping students of all ages achieve their goals and dreams for a better future!

The PostcardMania staff held a Christmas tree contest and one of the teams had a CLC theme. They pulled in donations of kick balls, footballs, basketballs, sports equipment and $181 cash for our school. They made it possible to have a full physical education program in our school with lots of fun sports activities! Owner Joy Gendusa and her amazing PostcardMania team are always greatly appreciated for all they do for CLC kids!

“Since I. started at the Community Learning Center a few weeks ago, she has been doing much better in school with math. This area has been a big struggle for her, where she averaged B’s or C’s. At home, the math homework would take over an hour for one page and usually involved a lot of upset for her.”

“After only a few sessions with Debbie, her confidence has come way up. She’s able to connect in her mind how math works. She’s getting through all her homework much faster and her last quarterly report from school showed she is now averaging an A in math! I’m very appreciative to Debbie and the resources here for helping my daughter! It’s great to see I. bright and happy with math!” -G.L. (parent of a 4th grade student)

“When I first started in this school, I was at a 3rd grade level in math and spelling. By the end of the school year, I was at a 5th grade level in everything. I came up two whole grade levels in math and spelling! I really caught up on my grades. My favorite subject is reading. I also like geography. I have also learned percentages.”

“I like my friends, too. I like Alessandro except when he karate chops my body when he’s playing. I love all my teachers!” -A.W. (5th grade CLC Academy student)

“M. just finished his third year at the (Community) Learning Center. Bill has been his tutor for all three years and the results have been fantastic! M. maintained “honor roll” status the entire year. Out of the seven classes, he had four A’s and the rest were B’s.”

“This would not have been possible without Bill’s dedication and help. The (Community) Learning Center was vital in our son’s educational process.”

“M. got accepted into an Academic Magnet program for High School and we will again be keeping him at the (Community) Learning Center to ensure his future academic success. I can’t thank Bill enough for his role in making this happen. The Learning Center is a vital part in our Community and I feel fortunate that we have this center available to use right in our neighborhood.” (C.L. -Mother of Middle School graduate)

Written by: Holly Haggerty, Executive Director

Three recent real examples of schoolwork from our students:

• An 8th grade girl who can’t add 6 + 7 without counting on her fingers and can’t do subtraction problems that involve regrouping is working on finding the slope and y-intercept on a graph in school. (If you don’t understand that, don’t worry, neither does she.)

• A 7th grade boy who hates to write is asked to write a high-level comparison of plot development and plot structure between Emily Dickinson’s poem “I had been hungry all the years” and Teasdale’s “The Lighted Window”.

• A 3rd grade girl who has not mastered single digit addition has math homework asking her to find the unknown quantity in problems like this:  X-24+7=48.

If you chose “pile-on” then you agree with how each of these students felt with that homework—piled on.

Most people would agree that a good educational system prepares students for life.