RICHMOND COUNTY SAVINGS FOUNDATION LITERACY TRAINING CENTER
Cesar Claro, Executive Director of the teaching literacy to pre-K to 12 students. collection of sources with this focus is
Richmond County Savings Foundation, The Center has been equipped with a range invaluable to our students, teachers, and
explains the importance of the Center, of print sources for pre-K to 12 learners, the community.
“We acknowledge that literacy proficiency with a particular emphasis on content-area
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provides the essential foundation for texts. It also enhances undergraduate and The new Center will serve as a place to
learning in all subject areas. The clinic graduate learning opportunities in all of run clinics to support students of all levels
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will provide teacher candidate students the College’s programs (early childhood, in the community, as part of coursework
with technologically advanced resources childhood, adolescence, and special held after school, and for our teacher
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for teaching literacy.” Underscoring education) and provides the opportunity candidates to borrow resources for use in
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his foundation’s commitment to CSI, for faculty research and community their respective fields. Many members of
Claro adds, “Richmond County Savings outreach. In choosing materials, the Center CSI’s diverse student body of more than
Foundation is proud to assist the College selected engaging and authentic reading 12,500 students will take advantage of the
of Staten Island in their efforts to make sources (rather than curriculum materials) Center’s materials, including the College’s
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integrating technology and education a to promote lifelong learning. graduate-level students, in their research
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priority through several recent projects: and project development. Over 1,200
OR Thanks to a $45,000 grant from the the RCSF Science Teacher Training Center In addition, in keeping with the latest students participating in the Education
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Richmond County Savings Foundation and the RCSF Mathematics Teacher technology, the Center is equipped with curriculum will have access to the state-
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(RCSF), the College of Staten Island now Training Center.” computers and resources to support of-the-art resources, approximately 100
has vastly improved tools to spread literacy the technological skills for reading, teachers annually will use the Center to
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throughout Staten Island. The generous The Center’s most significant potential interpreting, and sharing knowledge. receive their respective certifications, and
grant has funded the development of a impact will lie in providing crucial The electronic text sources for pre-K to 15 CSI faculty members will utilize the
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state-of-the art, comprehensive literacy resources to students in the early stages 12 participants have been selected carefully new Center as an outlet for their literacy-
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clinic/resource center, named the of elementary education that will have a so that they reflect fully and provide for related research interests.
Richmond County Savings Foundation profound impact on literacy across subject the diversity of the local demographic
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Literacy Training Center. The Center areas. While the College envisions the profile, with attention to race/ethnicity, Currently, CSI faculty, led by Professor
will provide comprehensive facilities for Center to serve readers and writers in the socioeconomic status, special needs, Liquing Tao, are formally reaching out to
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present educators seeking certification, community who have underperformed, and language. The Center has placed a dozens of schools serving local pre-K to 12
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equip future educators with the most relative to national standards, it will particular emphasis on choosing sources students for participation commitments.
sophisticated literacy training, and also serve CSI’s teacher candidates well for the challenged reader to include high-
provide local pre-K to 12 students with an in providing them with the experience, interest/high-level content written for
unparalleled learning environment. exemplary context, and certification for developing reading levels. A comprehensive
Retired English Professor Michael Shugrue funds a Alumni and friends gather at
lecture and reception featuring Thomas Lynch, an CSI’s Green Dolphin Lounge for
author of Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans, Peace Train, A Sixties Cabaret, a
The Undertaking, Still Life in Milford, and Bodies in networking party hosted by the
Motion and at Rest. CSI Alumni Association (CSIAA).
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