Do Adult Learners Have a Summer Break?

What do adult learners and the Literacy Alliance team do during the Summer? We keep learning together!

Literacy Alliance small group classes and tutoring typically continue formal learning while also providing flexibility for changing schedules or breaks. New activities provide engaging and contextual lessons that have application to everyday work and life while reinforcing what students have learned throughout the year. 

Students and teachers also take time to revisit goals that were set last year, review what progress has been made, and determine what still needs to be accomplished.

Other activities Literacy Alliance students experience include project-based learning through book clubs, scavenger hunts, museum & library visits, or “read alouds” in the park. 

Women's Giving Alliance Invests in Continuing Education for Women Re-entering Community

The Literacy Alliance was honored to receive a grant of $15,000 from the Women’s Giving Alliance to support continuing education for women transitioning from incarceration.

The Literacy Alliance currently partners with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office to provide adult education classes at three corrections facilities. Some of the women already enrolled in our jail based adult literacy and GED classes do not finish before they are released.

This funding helps make sure women enrolled in the classes will have opportunities to continue learning in community small groups, sometimes with the same teachers, once they are released.