Elon University's "It Takes a Village" Project began in 2008 with Elon education students providing after-school reading assistance to 16 third-graders.
An Aug. 5 article in the Burlington Times-News takes a look at the impact that Elon University’s “It Take a Village” Project has had on the broader community as the innovative program approaches its 10th anniversary.
The “It Takes a Village” project uses a collaborative approach to address reading difficulties faced by many students through after-school and summer sessions that focus on reading and tutoring. That collaboration involves the active participation of Elon’s School of Education, Elon students, faculty and staff, in-service teachers, various community partners and most important, parents and other family members.
Jean Rattigan-Rohr, Elon’s executive director of community partnerships and director of the Center for Access and Success, launched the program and gives the parents of participating students a lot of the credit for its success.
“People always ask, because [we’ve completed nine years], ‘How do you guys sustain it?'” Rattigan-Rohr told Williams. “Education programs — they last two years, and then they’re done, and you move on to something else, and so how do we manage to do it? And I really think it’s the parents.”
Read the entire article here.