Proyecto Educar is a partnership program with AmeriCorps that seeks to increase the educational level and job preparedness skills of adults while also addressing the educational needs of children through school readiness and school success initiatives. The tool kits will help 75,000 young people improve their marketable skills through effective education. Their curriculum was developed by two students from the ASU School of Education, and centers around using award-winning children's books to capture children's interest in reading. The story session is followed by literacy enrichment activities that can include story maps, readers' theater, paired reading character mobiles and reading and writing activities. More than 70 FWS students from Yale University are paired with third grade students at Dwight Elementary School in New Haven, Connecticut.
Tutors work with their students for one hour after school, three to four days a week.
As part of their time together, the pair spends an hour reading and exploring at the public library. The guide was developed by Chandler Arnold, a Harvard University student whose 1997 summer internship project at the U.S. Department of Education included developing this guide. While geared to college students working with preschool children, many ideas in the booklet can be adapted for children of different ages. The Learning Disabilities Project at WETA provides LDOnLine , an Internet source for information and ideas on the range of issues facing the learning disabled community. The Alphabet Superhighway is a web site that focuses on helping schools and teachers build their competencies in using the worldwide web as part of their lesson plans.