Linking Community Resources to Nashville Public Schools to Help Young People Achieve Academic Success and Prepare for Life
We are one of the nation’s largest networks of businesses, universities, faith-based organizations and volunteers engaged in public schools.
Here’s what we accomplished this year:
Throughout the 17-18 school year, the LP PENCIL Box distributed the following into the hands of Nashville’s students:
200,922 pencils
19,776 packages of crayons – that many crayons weigh roughly 5,932 pounds; the same weight as all of the Nashville Predators players and their coaching staff combined
16,197 packages of notebook paper – if you laid each piece side by side, it would cover every square inch of both the Vanderbilt and Belmont campuses
76,101 glue sticks – if you used them to build a tower, it would be taller than Mount Kilimanjaro
3,494 reams of copy paper – the weight combined is the same as 5 Honda CR-Vs
And much, much more!
Throughout the 17-18 school year, PENCIL Partners have provided the following support to Academies across Nashville:
Career Mentors
Teacher Externships
Curriculum Development
Job Shadowing
Mock Interviews
Student Internships
Industry Certification Exam Tutors
And much, much more!
458 PENCIL PARTNERSHIPS SUPPORTING MNPS SCHOOLS
Last year, we partnered committed volunteers from our PENCIL Partnerships with MNPS Reading Clinics to mentor students for 30 minutes a week. Reading Clinic volunteers provided intensive, individualized, one-to-one mentoring using instructional strategies proven by researchers to promote reading gain. During sessions, volunteers provided support and guidance as the student read a book aloud, facilitated literacy-specific games with the student, and much more.
This was the first year we had PENCIL staff onsite at two elementary schools – Churchwell and Buena Vista. At those two sites alone, we saw the following successes:
102 VOLUNTEERS SERVED MORE THAN 860 HOURS
For the 18-19 school year, the district is re-evaluating the structure for Literacy support in Metro Schools and PENCIL is excited to be at the table as we create the next plan for literacy in Nashville.
Ivanetta H. Davis Early Learning Center, Tusculum Elementary School, Madison Middle School, and Antioch, Maplewood and Glencliff High Schools
Throughout the 17-18 school year, PENCIL’s FRCs provided students and families with the following services:
Food backpacks for at-risk students
Clothing, including school uniforms
School and personal hygiene supplies
Student tutoring resources
Parent resources, including counseling, employment and transportation
And much, much more!
Join us and become part of the solution!
