Shared Values: What Families, Schools, and Community Members Want from a University-Based Reading Clinic

• In Event: Building Trust and Relationships Through Curriculum

Abstract

This research-in-progress examines the possibilities of a K-12 school, university, and community partnership around the re-imagining of a university-based reading clinic that truly utilizes the strengths and meets the needs of the context. Three participant groups students and their families, school personnel, and community members were interviewed to understand which resources they could offer and which they were looking for in terms of a space and/or tutoring programs that support strengthening literacy. Preliminary qualitative analysis of these three cases will explore where themes are distinct for each group and where they overlap in an effort to promote transparent discourse that contributes to the rebuilding of a reading clinic and the rebuilding of trust in public schools and universities.

Author

• Katherine Brodeur, Bowling Green State University