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TeamWork Awarded 50 College Scholarships

On March 26 the
TeamWork Education
Foundation awarded
50 college scholarships
to Palm Beach County
students at its 10 Year
Anniversary College
Scholarship Awards
L unc he on whi c h
was held at Mirasol
Country Club in Palm
Beach Gardens.
Thirty-nine of these
scholarships were
presented to financially
deserving, academically
outstanding local public
high school seniors. From left to right – TeamWork
Eleven renewal college Executive Director Kathy Perry
scholarships were with TeamWork founders Ken Stein
presented to college and Sandy Strine

Group photo of all 50 scholarship winners
all about kiDS

Reading

Comprehension

Problem?

By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., Licensed School Psychologist
Harold and Eleanor Oertell present a
Reading comprehension scholarship
is a complex task involving
your child, the text, and the students who were previously awarded
multidimensional task of TeamWork scholarships.
reading. These variables Criteria for the awarding of these
combine to create reading $4,000 scholarships was based most Group photo of students who received scholarship renewals
comprehension. importantly on financial need, and also
Consider your child. based on scholarship achievement, community service, team support with the involvement of families, teachers
To achieve reading letters of recommendation and personal essays. To date, and TeamWork trained volunteers. TeamWork serves
comprehension, your TeamWork has awarded more than $1 million in college financially deserving students attending public schools
child must bring a positive scholarships to several hundred students. in Palm Beach County, Fla. In addition to providing
mindset, background Scholarship awards may be used while attending a college scholarships, TeamWork supports the growth of
knowledge, and reading skills to what they read. If your Florida college, university or technical school to pay for student instrumental music programs, a student mentoring
child is a reluctant or struggling reader, does he have a tuition, books, fees and college or university sponsored program and the support of the nationally acclaimed
positive mindset about it? If not, how can you change it? room and board plans. college-bound teaching and learning program, AVID, in
Your child’s prior life experiences contribute to reading Michael Burke, superintendent of schools for the School several elementary schools.
comprehension. Consider yourself assembling furniture. District of Palm Beach County, was the featured speaker.
When you’ve previously put together furniture, that The TeamWork Education Foundation is a Palm Beach
experience helps you anticipate assembling the new piece. County public charity, dedicated to providing innovative
Every time your child learns or experiences something
new they make connections and store it to use later when
encountering new material. Thus, what type of varying
experiences or knowledge are you giving your child?
The text or books your child reads contributes to his
or her understanding. Like the story of Goldilocks and the
Three Bears, you don’t want the text your child reads to be
too easy or too hard, but just right. Find out your elementary
age child’s Lexile level and pick books within that range.
Learn more at lexile.com or talk to your local librarian.
The act of reading is multidimensional and includes
quickly sounding out words, reading speed, and vocabulary.
If your child is reading aloud to you and mispronounces
words, only correct the words that change the meaning. The Conservatory School string ensemble played before the
Using a book at your child’s Lexile level, simultaneously luncheon. They are a school TeamWork supports through our
read aloud with your child to build reading speed. Stop instrumental music program.
periodically and take turns describing what each person Ginny and John Kapelewski with John’s mentee of two years,
is picturing in their mind as visualizing helps with Jetavious Saragosa and a relative of his Good Works on page 8
comprehension. Teach your child a new vocabulary word
each week and practice using it during the week.
If you want to increase your child’s reading
comprehension, allocate sufficient time to work on it, read
with your child, provide varied life experiences, and work
on skills. If you need a specialist, I have reading tutors at
jimforgan.com/tutor.
Dr. Forgan is a licensed school psychologist and
certified dyslexia testing specialist and can help you at
(561) 625-4125 or JimForgan.com.