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Augustine Literacy Project Our Restoration and Sustainability program is growing! This year, a group of Covenant Day students completed two months of training and a practicum to become Augustine Literacy Project tutors. The Augustine Literacy Project is a non-profit that trains tutors to use the Orton-Gillingham approach to improve the reading, writing, and spelling skills of students in need. Mrs. Caron Lye, Associate Director of Academic Resources at CDS and leader of the group, said that Covenant Day is the first school in the area to pilot the program. With any new program, there are bumps along the way, and this was no different! Plans fell through with the first school due to COVID-19, but God opened the door for Covenant Day students to provide virtual tutoring two days a week with The Nest Academy, a tuition-free school that serves Charlotte’s immigrant and refugee community. While doing the sessions over Zoom has posed some challenges, everyone has come together to make it work. “Our first session was wild, exciting, and filled with tech glitches, but the girls were wonderful,” Mrs. Lye shared. Teachers at The Nest Academy say that students benefit from the program because it reinforces the concepts they’re learning in class, plus they like hearing from a fun, friendly face! However, students at The Nest Academy aren’t the only ones benefitting. Emery Van Voorhis, a junior at CDS said, “I treasure my Tuesday and Thursday afternoons where I can meet with my student over Zoom. It is rewarding to watch her face light up with joy each time she tackles a new letter or a difficult word! I expected this program to be an opportunity to help someone else, but I have been blessed by this time more than I could have ever imagined.” 4
COVENANT CLASSIC | 2021
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