Reading Partners North Texas is seeking volunteers for the 2023-2024 school year. Brenda Shepherd Jones, the senior program coordinator for Americorps in the area, is dedicated to ensuring that all students in North Texas have access to quality education, regardless of their background.
Brenda Shepherd Jones considers herself a lifelong learner. She wants the same for young students across North Texas, no matter their background. It’s why she is the senior program coordinator for Americorps in our area. Oftentimes, her full-time job pulls her in to help.
“Any time that a volunteer is not able to come in, because like I said, we have a lot of students for testing or vacationing or summer, summer, I mean, not summer, spring break, then I volunteer and I tutor as well," Jones Shepherd said. She oversees hundreds of volunteers who fan out across North Texas to help children get to or exceed grade-level reading after being identified as a child who could use extra help in the classroom.
Many of those volunteers are students themselves from Texas Christian University or the University of Texas- Arlington. “It’s anything from learning their ABCs, to phonics, fluency, we do the whole nine yards,” Jones Shepherd said.“If they come in and they have a volunteer that’s sitting in front of them with a smile on their face, its just more inviting and more welcoming. They feel like they are coming to a warm place where they can learn and they can thrive,” Jones Shepherd said.
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