STUDENT TO STUDENT: SCALE's National Youth Literacy Network

Program Overview

Through a generous grant from the UPS Foundation, SCALE’s STUDENT TO STUDENT Program will enable under-served adolescents to demonstrate improved literacy skills and attitudes toward learning. Working initially in communities of selected campus-based literacy programs, college student tutors will be trained in a comprehensive volunteer tutoring model specifically addressing the needs of adolescent learners. Subsequently, the STUDENT TO STUDENT model will be disseminated to campus-based literacy programs around the country.

SCALE is collaborating with a distinguished group of experts in the field of adolescent literacy and development to establish the tutor training model that will form the core of the STUDENT TO STUDENT Program. The Board of Advisors includes:

    Alliance for Excellent Education
    Rafael Heller
    Senior Policy Associate

    America’s Promise- The Alliance for Youth
    Kris Minor
    Senior VP, Alliance Partnerships

    Arizona State University West
    David W. Moore
    Professor, Reading-Language Arts
    Secondary Education

    Childrens Defense Fund
    Jeanne Middleton-Hairston
    National Director, CDF Freedom Schools

Alicia Powers
CDF Freedom Schools

    Corporation for National and Community Service
    Bob Davidson
    Senior Advisor to Director of Learn and Serve America

    International Reading Association
    Cathy Roller
    Director of Research and Policy

    National Dropout Prevention Center
    Jay Smink
    Executive Director

    National Institute for Literacy
    Tanya Shuy
    Program Analyst for Adolescent Literacy and Learning Disabilities

    MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership
    Cynthia Sturtevant
    Director, Training and Technical Assistance

In addition, SCALE has selected a network of campus based literacy programs that will serve as the pilot sites for the STUDENT TO STUDENT tutoring program during the first year of the program:

Alamance Community College, North Carolina
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Guilford College, North Carolina
Indiana University at Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indiana
Loyola University at New Orleans
Tennessee State University, Tennessee
Tulane University, Louisiana
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Virginia Tech, Virginia

SCALE will post key elements of the STUDENT TO STUDENT Program on our web-site as they are developed. Watch for materials, resources, training workshops, and more related to working with adolescent literacy learners.

Contact STS

For more information about the Student to Student project, please contact:

    LeeAnn Sell, Director, Student to Student
    SCALE
    UNC-CH CB#3505
    Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3505

PHONE 919. 962. 6675
FAX 919. 962. 6020
EMAIL ljsell@email.unc.edu