April Newsletter

You're Invited:
Spring Fundraising Luncheon
This is a free event, but an RSVP is required by April 8.
Please call 828.696.3811 or email [email protected].

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Happy Spring Everyone,

We have exciting workshops coming up. Please join us if you can. Register for one or both at [email protected] or 828.696.3811.


The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 
This November, to recognize our tutors’ and students’ dedication to learning, we will sponsor a showing of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Flat Rock Playhouse. We are preparing activities for the next 8 months to facilitate our students’ reading the book themselves and with their families.

An April workshop for tutors has been schedule to present you with engaging, multi-leveled materials and activities for students and their families. We hope that this will inspire them to spend time reading together and enrich the experience of seeing these characters come to life in November!
Wednesday, April 24
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Room 122 Continuing Education Building, BRCC

Goal Reporting and Development Workshop
Near the end of each fiscal year, we need tutors to gather information about yearly student accomplishments using our Goal Achievement Report (GAR). This year we will be returning to a simpler GAR form. This workshop will provide instructions on this year's GAR, when to complete it, and how to support your student with effective next steps.
Thursday, May 16
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 122 Continuing Education Building, BRCC
Partners In Action
Norm's Minit Mart Laundries and Blue Ridge Literacy Council have teamed up to provide Literacy Corners as an extension of our Family Literacy Program. These literacy corners contain easy to read books that families can enjoy while doing their laundry!
Did you know that the Literacy Council received a 2018 grant from Dollar General Literacy Foundation to support our Family Literacy program?

The store managers of the Dana and Edneyville locations also support our tutoring program by assisting us with space.

We are grateful to have partners like Dollar General
and Norm's Minit Mart.
BRCC Campus Announcements:
Spring Break 4/15/19 - 4/18/19
Campus is open 8 am - 3 pm
BRLC Office & Cont Ed Building is open 8 am - 5 pm
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BRCC and BRLC Closures:
Friday, April 19, 2019
Memorial Day Monday, May 27, 2019
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