Literacy event to feature special guest Miss Kansas

The FHSU Language and Literacy Institute, in partnership with Hays Masonic Lodge 195, will host a household literacy evening from 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Particular visitor Miss Kansas, Ayanna Hensley, will share with individuals the story of how her second-grade instructor saved her from a lifetime of poverty, violence, and drug dependancy by creating an after-school guide membership only for her. Hensley is an FHSU alum and Rudd Scholar.

Households are welcome to attend this occasion to hearken to Miss Kansas, play video games, and probably win prizes. The Hays Masonic Lodge 195 will serve hotdogs, chips, and drinks starting at 5:30 p.m.

The occasion will mark the grand opening of the FHSU Language and Literacy Institute at its new location, The United Methodist Campus Ministries, 507 Elm.

The language and literacy institute provides free in-person and on-line studying tutoring supplied by preservice instructor training college students as a part of their required practicum expertise. As well as, it gives assets to households at household literacy nights to allow them to help literacy within the dwelling.

FHSU Language and Literacy Institute volunteers will start tutoring struggling readers at Topeka Correctional Facility this fall. Moreover, volunteers on the institute will start providing English classes to English language learners locally and Ukrainian refugees in japanese Kansas this fall. 

Enrollment is underway without cost studying tutoring periods which start Sept. 20. People within the periods can e mail Dr. Sarah Miller at sebmiller@fhsu.edu to study extra and to enroll. 

“A lot of our nation’s social issues resembling poverty take root in a person’s incapability to learn proficiently,” Miller mentioned. “Each semester, I inform preservice academics they’re studying to be superheroes. They will actually change the trajectory of a kid’s life by educating them to learn. Giving somebody the ability to learn is unbelievable.”