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Friday, January 29, 2010
Parent Training

During January, fourteen parents from who have children attending public schools in Hartford and New Haven, completed six sessions of computer training. Training covered computer hardware, software, word processing, email and Internet navigation.

These parents received a Certificates of Completion for attending the "Computers Can Be Fun" course. Within a few days after graduating, these parents also received a computer, which CfAL installed in their home.

We are thankful to these parents who have participated in our program and have committed to helping their children improve their education. Our next parent computer training classes will start on February 8th for English speaking parents and Febuary 9th for Spanish speaking parents.

For more information, please contact Curtis Hill, 203-410-3679.

Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Grant
We are grateful to The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation for awarding CfAL with its initial grant for the "Learning Math After School Can Be Fun" project.

The project is designed to improve math literacy of 3rd and 4th grade students, living in impoverished New Haven neighborhoods, who have failed to achieve minimum math standards, as defined by the New Haven Public School District and the Connecticut Mastery Test. Our goal is to improve math literacy of 70% of the participating students.

We plan to achieve this goal by motivating students to learn through a new, 30 hour, engaging computer-based process and math curriculum called “Learning Math After School Can Be Fun”, with special emphasis on multiplication and integers.

The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation grant funds will be used to create and conduct assessments, and perform a final evaluation of the project.

We are please that The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation is partnering with us; as together, we strive to improve children's education throughout New Haven.

Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wal-Mart Foundation Grant
We are very pleased to announce CfAL has been awarded a $1,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation. The grant will be used to support our parent computer program that gives computer training and refurbished computers to disadvantaged parents who have children attending CfAL's partner schools in New Haven. Through this grant, 8 parents will be given 9 hours of computer instruction covering, hardware, software, the Windows operating system, word processing, email, internet navigation and basic computer maintenance.

We are please that Wal-Mart is committed to helping strengthen communities and children's education.

Thank you ,Unilever, for supporting our important work of helping public school children improve their education.

Friday, December 11, 2009
AT&T Foundation Grant Award
On behalf of the CfAL organization, we wish to express our appreciation and thanks to the AT&T Foundation for awarding CfAL a $2,500 grant. The grant will be used to help expand our parent computer program at Science Park, and pave the way for more to gain DSL internet access in Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury.

Through the partnership with AT&T and the AT&T Foundation, families throughout CT's largest urban centers have access to a wealth of information that is readily available on the internet. Simultaneously, we are also helping to close the "digital divide" and extend learning beyond the classroom.

Thank you AT&T Foundation!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
New Web Address - CFALCT.org
To align our website address more closely with the name of the CfAL organization, we have added another address, which is CFALCT.org.

You can now access our website by using www.cfalct.org or www.eachchildlearns.org

Thank You!

Saturday, January 10, 2009
Minimum Configuration

Concepts for Adaptive Learning accepts computer systems, processors and monitors, that must be working, and meet the following minimum configuration level:

1. IBM compatible Pentium IV level systems, no MACs, that have processors running at 1.4 GHz or faster.

2. with 256 megabytes of memory (RAM) or larger

3. with a hard drive that is 20 gigabytes or larger

4. with a CD-ROM drive

5. For Monitors, they must be 17 inch and color, without cracked cases or scratched screens.

If you are a corporation or university and have refurbishable computers to donate, or have any questions as to whether the system you are considering donating meets these requirements, please contact Curtis Hill at 203-410-3679.

Thank you,