Community Preservation and Development Corporation believes in community empowerment and revitalization. It is through educational opportunities given to children and adults that we provide assistance in developing and maintaining strong united residential communities. The children’s successes encourage parents and other residents to commit to their own personal educational goals, creating not just a “brick and mortar” community, but a community working together to create a future of empowerment for itself, its families, and its children; a community of learners.
Services:
- Homework Club
- Tutoring
- Home-to-School Relationships
- School-to-Home Relationships
Another CPDC approach to providing educational services to our residents is to develop partnerships with the local school district and other educational organizations. We hope to aid in the national endeavor toward community based schooling by working with the schools our students attend for their personal benefit and for the schools’ benefit. This consists of offering our community center as a place for students to complete their community service credit hours, sharing resources, knowing the programs the schools are offering and encouraging participation. Other organizations with which we partner are colleges in the area and non-profit learning organizations. They may offer more specialized service than currently we are able to offer. Working together we can achieve the vision of a community of learners.
HOME to SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP
In an effort to do even more than service the minds of our residents, the Educational Specialist is available to attend parent/teacher conferences. She can also aid in developing and maintaining a home to school relationship. Working with parents to help them learn how to navigate the public school system is an important step toward taking responsibility for their child’s education. Becoming comfortable working with the schools and learning how to become involved will help to ensure that their child is receiving the services and programs that are appropriate and necessary.
HOMEWORK CLUB
The first approach to education is to provide on site services designed
to support what students are learning in school. Connection Coordinators
provide these services, as do volunteers from the resident community, and
volunteers from the extended community. One such service is assistance
with school assigned homework. Through membership in a Homework Club,
students receive the help they require to complete and better understand
their assignments. Membership in this club is a time not only of
improving oneself academically, but also eagerly helping other club members
with their studying. This interaction encourages community investment,
caring, skill reinforcement for the “helper” and the “helpee,” and self-worth.
Students also take the time to listen to each other and help solve or simply
acknowledge the trials and tribulations of everyday life. This creates
a real support system with many components.
TUTORING
One on one and group tutoring sessions are available to help students prepare for state functional testing, improve reading ability, and improve achievement in academic subjects. We help students practice use reasoning skills, solve problems, and apply knowledge through direct instruction and the use of educational software programs in the computer lab. We will assist students in achieving state educational standards and acquiring the ability to use higher order thinking skills.
We encourage adult residents to participate in our services too.
We are happy to offer help with reading, writing, and instruction in English
as a Second Language (ESL) as well as meeting other individual needs.
