Congratulations to TTC Adult Ed Grads -- the 3rd Largest High School Graduating Class in Bennington County!

The Tutorial Center recently celebrated the graduation of 72 adults who earned their adult high school diploma or high school equivalency GED certificate this past year through our Adult Education and Literacy program, “Learning Works”.

This represents the third largest graduating class of all the high schools in Bennington County this year!

These students represent the wide range of learners for whom Adult Education and Literacy programs exist: young high school dropouts; single parents; laid-off workers; job seekers of all ages; foreign immigrants; employees needing a diploma to gain a raise or promotion; individuals on court probation or parole; etc.

We applaud each and every one of them for this significant accomplishment in their life, and hope to hear from them as they walk through the doors of opportunity this educational accomplishment will open. As one of this year’s graduates puts it:

“ For many years I struggled trying to make a better life for myself. I could not gain better employment because I did not have a high school diploma, or any educational skills. Earning my adult diploma is the first step to a new beginning, a brighter tomorrow filled with endless possibilities.”

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8-Year-Old TTC Student Wins Reading Rainbow Young Writers Award    TTC applauds tutoring student Zach Morse, who recently won Third Grade Honorable Mention in the Vermont state competition of the “12th Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest” for a short story he wrote as part of his tutoring at our Manchester Center learning center. The contest is a national competition held by the highly-acclaimed PBS children’s literacy series Reading Rainbow intended to encourage story writing and illustrating in children of grades K through 3. Nationally, over 40,000 students submit stories to the contest. As a grade-level winner, Zach has had the chance to read his story – “Lost in the Desert” – during a broadcast of the Reading Rainbow TV show. The show will be rebroadcast periodically over coming months. He will also be honored at story-reading events at bookstores in Vermont. Congratulations to Zach and his exceptional tutor, Leigh Perham, for this outstanding accomplishment! Click here to read more!

Zach Morse , 8, of Bondville, Vt., won The Reading Rainbow contest with his story Lost in the Desert, the tale of a boy who is seperated from his parents while on a camel expedition in Egypt.

	Student Mural Documents Truly Inter-Disciplinary Learning  As the culmination of the year at The Tutorial Center, Ebonnee Wilson and her tutor created a colorful room-sized mural to illustrate Ebonnee’s learning discoveries in art, literature, film, music, sports and history. Click here to read more!
Ebonnee Wilson shown working on the music section of her multi-wall mural at the Manchester Tutorial Center.

2006 Vermont State Word Power Champion

On Monday, March 20th, Ryan Levandowski, a 6th Grade student from Lothrop Elementary School in Pittsford, Vt., won the Vermont State Championship of the 2006 Reader's Digest Word Power Challenge. The annual competition, hosted by The Tutorial Center, took place at the Holiday Inn in Rutland, Vermont.

In April Ryan travelled to Orlando, Florida to represent Vermont in the Word Power National Championship There, national finalists competed for thousands of dollars in scholarships and other prizes.

Congratulations to Ryan Levandowski and all of the students who participated in this year's Word Power Challenge!