SMART
Irvington School is an active participant in the SMART program. SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) is an early literacy program founded in 1991 and run by the Oregon Children’s Foundation. The SMART premise is that every child can learn to read, and the job of educating Oregon’s children belongs to all of us. SMART works because it provides kids with the two things they need most to learn to read: adult attention and books. Each SMART volunteer reads with two children for a half-hour each, one hour a week during the school year. SMART also gives participating students two new books each month to take home, keep, and read with their families. The SMART Coordinator for Irvington School is Donna Hughey, dhughey@getsmartoregon.org. For more information or to sign up to volunteer visit http://www.getsmartoregon.org.
Irvington school volunteers make it happen!
PTA coordinates parent involvement at school but you are in charge of what you’d like to do. Not all families look the same and not all volunteer roles are the same and both can change from year to year. If you had 10 hours to share with our school this year, what would you like to do? Together many hands make light work and our community grows. Best of all your child will see you actively involved in his/her future.
