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PR: Zwanieke Visser Hired As New Executive Director
Zwanieke Visser Literacy Volunteers of the Montachusett Area (LVMont) is pleased to announce the hiring of Zwanieke Visser as the organization’s new Executive Director. Zwanieke has extensive international background, ESOL teaching experience and significant leadership and management experience in a variety of challenging settings. A former Navy Officer and military spouse who
Literacy Nonprofit Adds Board Members
The Literacy Volunteers of the Montachusett Area has elected Luisa Fernandez, Anaili Diane Hernandez, and Girija Verma to its Board of Directors. Ms. Fernandez is currently the Family and Community Engagement Coordinator for the Fitchburg Public Schools. She also serves as president of Inform Fitchburg and is a member of the MOC Policy Council,
Board News
The Literacy Volunteers of the Montachusett Area Board of Directors welcomes Anne Ndunda as a new board member and board treasurer. Welcome and thank you, Anne! Anne is finance director at Waltham Committee, Inc. We also have a new Fundraising and Marketing Committee member, Paul Vernucci, Manager of COVID-19 Response at Worcester State University. Paul worked with another
Online Tutoring Resource
Common Sense Teaching ESL is the website of ESOL book author David Kehe, who has written excellent books on conversation strategies. On his site there are articles about such strategies as clarification, rejoinders, follow-up questions, and other moves that we make in conversation. These can be difficult to teach because those of us who have grown up speaking
Online ESOL Tutor Training
Welcome to our new ESOL tutors! We trained new tutors for Fitchburg, Worcester, Southbridge, and Boston in our October training. Our next online ESOL Tutor Training will be on Monday and Thursday mornings, Jan. 31-Feb. 17, 9:30-12:00, via Zoom. The training is 15 hours in total, over 6 sessions. Application is required. Please apply by January 20. This training will prepare volunteers for working with adults
Volunteer Information Session
If you are, or if someone you know is, interested in becoming a tutor, a board member, a committee member, an intern, or volunteering with us in some other way, we are having an online Volunteer Information Session on Thursday, January 13, 2022, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM on Zoom. This is an opportunity to come and find out about the organization, the students, and what
Online English Conversation Groups
We are continuing our online English conversation groups. Conversation groups are a friendly place to practice speaking English. We will have a Tuesday morning group and a Wednesday evening group. Registration is required. After you register, we will send you the Zoom link. The Tuesday morning group will meet on Tuesdays, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, January 18-March 29. Register here: https://forms.gle/wGqn8p4pEXMP27rL8 The Wednesday evening
Citizenship
We just wrapped up our Fall Citizenship class at the Fitchburg Public Library. Thank you to the Fitchburg Public Library and St. Mark Community Education Program for helping us make this possible! This class and the summer class were supported by a grant to the Fitchburg Public Library from the American Dream Literacy Initiative, a grant offering of the
Giving Tuesday Recap
Thank you to everyone who donated during our Giving Tuesday and end-of-year campaigns! Your generosity continues to help provide our tutors with the materials and training they need to work effectively with local adults who wish to improve their English reading and language skills. The one-on-one tutoring LVMont offers gives them what they need to achieve