Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! |
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Center Closed, Winter i-Ready Diagnostics, College and Career Day, and more... |
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The Wooten Center will be closed for the holidays from Dec 24 to Jan 3. Our Spring CollegeTrek Afterschool Program with private tutoring, robotics, Teen Talk, singing, and more at no cost will start on Mon, Jan 11. Registration is open now. Students who registered in the fall do not have to register again. Our registration fee is waived for all families this year. |
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Year-End Giving Thank you to our students whose drawings made one lovely Christmas card this year. This cover is a digital artwork by Samantha, a 6th grader, giving her interpretation of our theme, "The Gift of Love." The theme is a celebration of the many ways people are giving to support other people impacted by the pandemic. Click here to view the card and the story of our temporary closure and some unexpected gifts that have kept us going online. You can also give if you can to help us continue our work. Thank you. |
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Wooten Dollar Store Gifts and More! |
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By participating in private tutoring sessions and class activities, our students earn Wooten Dollars that allow them to shop one day in our Wooten Dollar Store. We are beyond grateful and blessed for our amazing staff, parents, donors, partners, and volunteers who helped make this day happen!! A huge thank you to staff at Pepperdine Seaver College, Leslie Fishburn at HKS Architects, and a $500 donation from USC Civic Engagement for providing $2,600 to buy our Wooten Dollar Store gifts!
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Thank you for the Christmas gifts! Thanks to USC Athletics Community Outreach Department for 30 bags of Christmas gifts valued at $75 per student through age 11. Current students ages 12 and up received $50 gift cards, thanks to our board member John Lapham and his wife Evelyn who gave $2,500. A portion of their gift will be used for $25 gift cards for students who complete their i-Ready diagnostics by Dec 31. Call Christelle at 323-756-7203 to receive your i-Ready account login to use on your own. |
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Get Ready for Spring Tutoring |
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See the flyer below for instructions for students to take our Winter i-Ready diagnostics in reading and math. This is test 2 of 3 taken in our 2020-21 year to track our students' progress and identify their challenges to be addressed. What happens after the i-Ready diagnostics? Parents can book up to three 45-minute sessions per week with tutors from schools including USC, UCLA, Loyola, and St. John's University. All sessions are online and one-on-one. The assessments are for students in grades 3-12 enrolled in our afterschool program. Click below to schedule your student's assessments. |
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Save the Date: Wooten Family Orientation Wednesday, January 6, 2021, 6-7:30pm RSVP at www.wootencenter.org/events A discussion on our new procedures, coming events, and i-Ready diagnostics and scores. i-Ready Support Want one-on-one support for booking i-Ready or reviewing your child's scores? Book an appointment with our education director Christiane at www.calendly.com/iready-score-talk. |
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Spring 2021 Schedule: Private Tutoring, Classes, Workshops, Events Click below to download our Spring 2021 program and tutor schedules.
For Zoom logins and the link to book private tutoring, call (323) 756-7203. |
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For Our Parents and Community: One webpage for all! |
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Coming in the Spring: One webpage for accessing information and referrals on community activities AND for booking private tutoring, obtaining logins, viewing schedules, etc.
One webpage to access them all! Stay tuned! |
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No more Band app in the spring! Follow us to receive updates. | |
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Spotlight: World Languages and Culture With Cooking |
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World Languages and Culture With Cooking is one of our most popular classes. Taught by our associate director Christelle Telesford, a native of St. Vincent in the Caribbean, the weekly class explores cultures from around the world, including the language, architecture, music, dance, and food. The latter is hands-on, with everyone cooking in their own kitchen. See the video above for a snapshot of the countries we traveled to in the fall. See full videos of this and other classes on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/wootencenter. All registered students and their parents are welcome to attend this and other activities, including our monthly College and Career Day. |
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Our Village! Thank you to our donors, partners, and volunteers who helped keep us going and growing in 2020 in the midst of a pandemic. See www.wootencenter.org/supporters. See pics below for some online activities provided by some great partners. Clockwise from top left: - Singing with White Hall Arts Academy
- Private tutoring with professionals from Merrill Lynch and Pinebridge Investments and college students from USC, Loyola, Pepperdine and more
- College Applications Night with the California Council on Black American Affairs
- Minecraft: Artificial Intelligence with STEAM:CODERS
- Coding and Robotics with South LA Robotics
- College Admissions Process with AKA Sorority, Inc. Tau Beta Sigma
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College and Career Day: Interior Design with Leslie Fishburn |
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Leslie Fishburn (far right photo with her son Aidan in our back alley and above seated far right in our library) first learned of the Wooten Center after meeting our executive director at Loyola Marymount, where teams of students were presenting several options for redesigning our parent room and front office. Leslie is an interior designer and principal at HKS Architects, designer of the Rams So-Fi Stadium. She was impressed with the center's work and a couple of weeks later went for a visit that has since led to donations of carpet from Mannington Commercial and paint from Sherwin Williams (enough for two buildings!). |
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She also recruited teams of HKS and Loyola volunteers to serve several days helping complete the work, largely funded by a $150,000 grant from Ahmanson Foundation and pro bono services from SAA interior + architecture. Leslie shared her expertise again recently at the center, this time online at our monthly College and Career Day. As a guest mentor, Leslie shared her college and career experiences and led students in a hands-on activity bringing "joy" to some rooms. Best part is having a very sweet friend our kids can be encouraged and inspired by! See the video below. |
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