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Oral History with Diana McMillan Sherry, OH3066
Oral History with Diana McMillan Sherry, OH3066
Call Number
OH3066
Date
2021
Contents
Single audio file; 2 hours, 02 minutes, 05 seconds
Description
Diana Sherry talks about the founding, development, and accomplishments of the BoulderReads adult literacy program, which she ran for twenty-six years. She details some of the specific subprograms and events that she and her staff developed over the years, which contributed to the program’s success: GED classes, literacy tutoring for jail inmates, the Picturing Writing program for adult
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Oral History with Micaela Lozano de Ortiz, OH3067
Oral History with Micaela Lozano de Ortiz, OH3067
Call Number
OH3067
Date
2021
Contents
Single recording; 40 minutes, 15 seconds
Description
from Mexican culture to American culture and some of the reasons that learning English has been important for her. Through the BoulderReads program, she worked for many years with a tutor to improve her English and earn a GED. She describes some of her favorite BoulderReads/library programs, such as book discussion groups and a group that included painting and writing poetry, and talks about
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Oral History with Lisa A. Klein, OH3068
Oral History with Lisa A. Klein, OH3068
Call Number
OH3068
Date
2021
Contents
Single recording; 45 minutes, 32 seconds
Description
Lisa Klein talks about volunteering with the BoulderReads program, a Boulder Public Library adult literacy program that has been in existence since 1986. She had previously volunteered with Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) in the northeast part of the country before moving to Boulder County and starting to work with BoulderReads in 1992. She talks about students she tutored and the long
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Oral History with Laurie Watkins, OH3069
Oral History with Laurie Watkins, OH3069
Call Number
OH3069
Date
2021
Contents
Single recording; 1 hour, 15 minutes, 38 seconds
Description
Laurie Watkins talks about her work with the BoulderReads program, where she first worked as a volunteer tutor and then as a paid administrator from 1996 until 2016. She describes her role as administrator, discusses the economic structure of the program and how it evolved, and details the many sub-programs that BoulderReads offered in addition to one-on-one tutoring, such as GED programs
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Oral History with Eleanor Kalejs, OH3070
Oral History with Eleanor Kalejs, OH3070
Call Number
OH3070
Date
2021
Contents
Single recording; 50 minutes, 54 seconds
Description
Eleanor Kalejs talks about working from 1999 to 2014 as the tutor/student coordinator for the BoulderReads literacy program. She discusses training tutors in literacy education methods, matching tutors and students, what motivated students to want to improve their literacy skills, how BoulderReads met their needs, and the transition to working extensively with second language learners. Other
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Oral History with Oradan Barlow, OH3071
Oral History with Oradan Barlow, OH3071
Call Number
OH3071
Date
2021
Contents
Single recording; 42 minutes, 47 seconds
Description
Oradan Barlow grew up in a Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints family, living in Utah, Colorado, Texas, and North Dakota, before he left the church in 2015 at the age of 19 and moved to Boulder County. As a child he was largely homeschooled, and as a young adult, he realized that he wanted to have better reading skills. He briefly became a BoulderReads student in 2015. After leaving the program
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Oral History with Laura J. Roettiger, OH3074
Oral History with Laura J. Roettiger, OH3074
Call Number
OH3074
Date
2021
Contents
Single recording; 68 minutes, 48 seconds
Description
Laura Roettiger had been a volunteer tutor with BoulderReads, an adult literacy program, for three years at the time of this interview. With a background in teaching and previous training as a reading specialist, she brought many relevant skills to her work with BoulderReads. She discusses the differences between teaching reading to children (which she had done previously) versus adults. She
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Oral History with Kayann Short, OH3079
Oral History with Kayann Short, OH3079
Call Number
OH3079
Date
2022
Contents
Single recording; 59 minutes, 00 seconds
Description
This interview with Kayann Short focuses on the BoulderReads Reading Buddies program that she and Diana Sherry developed and that Dr. Short subsequently ran for 16 years. The program paired Dr. Short’s University of Colorado undergraduate students with preschool-aged- through middle-school-aged students. The pairs of students met regularly and read to each other, an activity that strengthened
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Oral History with Franklin Morse, OH3080
Oral History with Franklin Morse, OH3080
Call Number
OH3080
Date
2022
Contents
Single recording; 56 minutes, 13 seconds
Description
Frank Morse has worked as a volunteer tutor with the BoulderReads program since 2008. He discusses learning to be a reading, GED, and ESL tutor for BoulderReads. He describes the process, challenges, and satisfactions of tutoring by describing his work with various students. He praises the BoulderReads program and reflects on the similarities of teaching reading to children and to adults. He also
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