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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Hello! I’m very excited to announce the attached job opportunity for the project coordinator of Ready to Learn, a northeastern Oregon early literacy pilot
project which builds on Reading for Healthy Families and supports the Early Learning Councils kindergarten readiness goals and the Governor’s 40-40-20 plan.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Applications due February 27, 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Questions? Contact Wendy Simer at
<a href="mailto:wendy.simer@imesd.k12.or.us">wendy.simer@imesd.k12.or.us</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">This project will combine resources from public libraries, public education, Oregon State Treasury and multiple community and business partners to focus on the goal of kindergarten readiness. The scope of
work includes providing overall project coordination in fulfillment of the Grant objectives; organizational and administrative assistance to the Project Team and Work Groups; selection and coordination of Field Staff; report writing; developing content for
early learning newsletters; supplemental grant writing; and implementing a project marketing campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Project Ready to Learn (brief description):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">This pilot program will be run by a coalition of public libraries and partners in a five-county area<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">of rural Eastern Oregon. It will (1) incentivize and improve pre-kindergarten readiness while<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">establishing planning for college as a fundamental part of early learning and (2) provide<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">measurable data on the impact that public library visitation, borrowing, and children’s program<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">attendance has on a child’s early literacy development. A “Ready to Learn Card” will be issued<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">to parents of children from birth through age five in a process similar to getting a library card.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">This process will also create an Oregon College Savings Plan account in the child’s name. Each<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">time the card is used in a library activity such as to check out materials or attend a story program,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">$0.02 will be credited for deposit in the child’s Oregon College Savings Plan account. At entry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">into kindergarten, all children will take a standardized, kindergarten readiness assessment. An<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">amalgamation of results from Ready to Learn participants will be compared against nonparticipants<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">to determine the program’s impact. This project directly addresses the new p-20<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">seamless education goals of Oregon by connecting the dots between two points in the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">educational continuum where efforts have been shown to yield the strongest positive results and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">return on investment: pre-kindergarten readiness and entry into college.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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