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HIV Rollout Program Kickoffs
with reception on November 10, 2008 |
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Highlights from
Good Food + Good Reading + Good Health = A Better You, August 2, 2008
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Balloon Launch Highlights Need for HIV/AIDS Education |
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Award-Winning Author Jacqueline Woodson Meets with 150 Open Book Students |
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Young Writers Donated Over 200 New Books During Christmas
Gift of Reading Event at Tilden High School |
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Highlights of
Good Food +
Good Reading +
Good Health =
A BetterYou, 2007 |
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Lightbearer Gala
May 3, 2007 |
| Lester N. Coney, Executive Vice President, Mesirow Financial, Zoraida Sambolin, Anchor for NBC-Channel 5, Frances Odem, Senior Advisor, Williams Multiplex, and Louanner Peters, Deputy Governor-Illinois were year’s honorees at the Lightbearer benefit for the Institute for Positive Living’s Open Book Program... MORE... |
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Sharon Draper
Author Events |
Critically-acclaimed author and teacher Sharon Draper is pictured with (l-r) Gabrielle Erediauwa from Lawless Gardens, Stephanie Wilder and Markiysha Cunningham from Vernon Johns Academy during an Open Book Author Event on March 17, 2007 at Johns Academy 6936 S. Hermitage, in Chicago. The girls had just gotten their copies of Draper’s book Copper Sun signed. Copper Sun, inspired by a Draper’s trip to Ghana, isa story about 15-year-old Amari, a girl who has only one thing left—hope—after she being stolen from her village and sold to the highest bidder. More than 200 students, aged 9-14 participated in the event. Open Book is a program of the Institute of Positive Living. MORE... |
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Workshop Wraps Up Open Book Program
for 2006/2007 |
Jack Ryan, a performing artists at Open Book’s McCorckle Elementary School site and Schewidia Brassel, the after-school coordinator from Oglesby Elementary School participate in the end-of-the-school-year assessment workshop sponsored by the Institute for Positive Living’s Open Book Program on May 22, 2007 at Room 43, 1039 E. 43rd St. in Chicago. The workshop focused on achievements, challenges, and solutions. The Open Book Program is a multi-faceted after-school program for young adolescents that inspires the love of reading.
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| Open Book Gets A+++ Evaluation |
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| Coming Soon—The Open Book Story Slide Show |
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Sandra F. Johnson (left), the Literary Coach at Armstrong Elementary School and Jacqueline Prince (right), a parent whose son is a participant in the Open Book Program gave testimony to value of the Open Book Program during the symposium on the progress and evaluation of the Open Book Program on June 4th. Their verdict: Open Book g |
A PowerPoint presentation about the status of the Institute for Positive Living’s Open Book Program was presented during a symposium on the progress and evaluation of the Open Book Program that was held at the ABC TV Studios on June 4, 2009. The presentation by Laura Knight-Lynn, PhD of the Prism Community Institute highlighted the history of Open Book and its impact on the youth that it has served. According to Knight-Lynn, the Open Book Program is successful include its multiple sources of funding and the collaborative approach used by its staff and consultants. “This is one of the most collaborative programs I’ve ever worked with,” stated Knight-Lynn.
Glowing testimony about the value of Open Book was also given by Sandra F. Johnson, the Literary Coach at Armstrong Elementary School and Jacqueline Prince, a parent whose son is a participant in the Open Book Program at Armstrong. “Open Book is the greatest program I’ve ever been introduced to,” said Johnson, “and I’ve seen a lot of programs.” Johnson pointed out that her Open Book students became excited about reading and that this excitement was so infectious that parents, siblings, other students and even the principal and assistant principal want to read the same books that the Open Book kids are reading.
Speaking from a parent’s point of view, Prince lauded the Open Book program’s effect on her son. “I tried for years to get my son interested in reading without success,” said Prince. “Then one day I was driving the car home at night and noticed that my son was trying to read a book with the car light on.” The book was the one he was reading in the Open Book Program. Prince went to see Johnson for a copy of the book and to find out how Open Book was able to finally get her child excited about reading. She is now an Open Book Parent Volunteer.
A slide show of the PowerPoint presentation, “The Open Book Story: History, Evaluation, and The Future” will be available on-line soon
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| Lightbearer Benefit Gala 2009 |
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Three were honored for their support of programs that inspire the love of reading in children during the Eighth Annual Open Book Lightbearer Benefit Gala on June 11, 2009 at Macy’s Narcissus Room in Chicago. Each honoree received an engraved bookmark from Tiffany’s. Pictured (l-r) are Darlene Watkins, Institute for Positive Living Board President, Dr. Barbara Eason-Watkins, Chief Education Officer, Chicago Public Schools, Cheryl Pearson-McNeil, Senior Vice President Public Affairs & Government Relations, The Nielsen Company, Marrice Coverson, President, Institute for Positive Living, Senator John Cullerton, President, Illinois State Senate and Zoraida Sambolin from NBC-5 who emceed the event. Open Book is a program of the Institute for Positive Living.
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Author Event with Catherine Ingram |
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Open Book students from Gregory Elementary School are pictured with Catherine Ingram, author of Stop It Now Or REGRET It Later prior to getting their books signed during a Student/Author Event on Saturday, March 21, 2009, at Williams Multiplex,2710 S. Dearborn, in Chicago. Open Book is an after-school program of the Institute of Positive Living that inspires young people to love reading. Gregory is located at 3715 W. Polk St.
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| Author Event with Sharon Draper |
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Students from Armstrong Elementary School are pictured with award-wining author Sharon Draper just after getting their books signed during a talk-show style Student/Author Event on Saturday, December 13, 2008, at Gregory Elementary,3715 W. Polk St, in Chicago. The event attended by more than 100 Open Book participants featured performances and interview questions based on the best-selling books Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs: Shadows of Caesar's Creek and Romiette & Julio. Open Book is an after-school program of the Institute of Positive Living that inspires young people to love reading. Armstrong is located at 5345 W. Congress Parkway.
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