Mark Your Calendars!
Emergent Reader Program (ERP) Town Hall (optional)
Friday, December 2nd from 10-11am. If you're serving an ERP student this year, we encourage you to join this Town Hall for a refresher on running the program plus a deep dive into ERP best practices. We promise a fun and engaging time!


Managing Student Behavior Workshop (optional)
Thursday, December 15 at 4pm. The second in a series of volunteer workshops this school year hosted by AARP Experience Corps. You should record as "training" hours if you attend.


Coach Zoom Drop-Ins (optional)
Friday, December 16th from 9-10am
Wednesday, January 18th from 12:30-1:30pm
Please join members of the Literations Program Team for drop-in hours to get advice on any program-related questions that may have popped up in the first weeks of sessions and have some great discussions with other coaches and Literations staff.

Use this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84150577396

Holiday Break
Begins December 24th. Literations has an organization-wide holiday and will not be running coaching sessions either at our schools or Boys & Girls clubs during the holiday break.

Framingham sessions will resume on Tuesday, Jan 3rd
All Boston school and club sessions will resume on Wednesday, Jan 4th

Gift Giving
Literations provides Reading A-Z books to our students and considers building a child's home library the greatest gift we can give. Cash and/or purchased gifts are not appropriate for students. While the holidays can be a time for gift-giving in many cultures, we ask that our volunteers refrain from giving gifts to their students. As an organization, we provide books throughout the year to our in-person students and have in past years provided end-of-year gift bags to all the students we serve.

We have a gift-giving policy in the LITERATIONS VOLUNTEER HANDBOOK (pg 32) you can refer to with your teams, site team leader, and program staff for discussion if your team is interested in potential gift-giving at the end of the program year.
Launching SEL Survey
Student Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Survey
We conduct a brief survey (5 questions) several times during the year asking for coach feedback about each of your student's social-emotional engagement with our program.

Please complete your student survey(s) by going to the "Welcome Page" of The Link and scrolling down for instructions and a link to the survey.
Coach Observations
Continuing to Support Our Coaches
Literations conducts coach observations to ensure our volunteers feel comfortable delivering our model. When our model is delivered well, we see it reflected in stronger student outcomes. 

In other words, we observe coaches throughout the year so we can understand what’s working and where we may need to provide additional support and training for coaches. The stronger and more confident our coaches are in delivering our program, the stronger and more confident our students will become in their reading. Our observations help make Literations an even better experience for both our coaches and students.

Team leaders and program staff will begin observing coaches (focusing on first-year volunteers first and returning volunteers next) in December and January. Please have a look at the observation form to see what team leaders will be observing and discussing with you. As you will see, the form follows our 30-minute structured session and provides opportunities for coaches to share what they need to feel confident and successful.

Coach Reminders
Time/Session Entry Weekly
Reminder to continue entering your time served into THE PORTAL and your student sessions on THE LINK on a weekly basis.

Please reach out to PROGRAM SUPPORT TEAM if you are experiencing any issues.


Read Aloud Workshop Recording
You can access the recording of the first workshop in the AARP Experience Corps series for volunteers. You should track as "direct" hours if you watch the recording.