Wordplay 2025 Success!

We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who helped make Wordplay 2024 such a success.
First Place: Theatrical Trailers, The Paramount Theater
Second Place: Paint it Read, Certa Pro Painters
Third Place: Cool Cats in Scrabble Hats, CVille Scrabble Club
Best Team Name: The Vowel Movement, Individual Team
Best Team Costume: Glitteracy, Individual Team

With your support, we were able to raise over $36,000 in cash and $27,000 in in-kind donations. We made a Wordplay record of $8,000 in raffle sales! Wordplay 2025 had 43 teams in attendance and over 200 audience tickets sold! We are absolutely floored by the community support, and we can't wait for Wordplay 2026!

Photos from the event are now live! You can relive all the magical moments by clicking the link below.

Best Team Name:
The Vowel Movement

Best Team Costume:
Glitteracy

View Wordplay Pictures

Thank you to our 2025 Wordplay Sponsors

50+ Reasons to Celebrate Citizenship

Here are a few of the 50 students who have passed their citizenship interviews this year!

The last week of April marked our 50th student of the year passing their citizenship interview!

One of the key reasons our citizenship students thrive is because of our amazing citizenship class teachers! We are thrilled to welcome three new volunteer citizenship class teachers this spring! They all bring a great deal of enthusiasm to our program, in addition to their wealth of teaching experience.

Charlotte H. started volunteering with LVCA in September 2022 and has tutored ESOL and citizenship students with us. She enjoyed working with our student population so much that she has also been teaching ESOL classes at TJACE since 2023!

Linda P. is a retired elementary school teacher who has been volunteering with LVCA for almost four years. She has tutored ESOL and citizenship students, in addition to serving as a teacher for one of our conversation groups for the past 2 years.

Sue K. is a former high school English teacher who has been volunteering with LVCA since November 2020 – she survived one of our first (shaky!) attempts at conducting virtual new tutor training after COVID shut down our in-person tutor trainings. She has tutored both Basic Literacy and citizenship students during that time and is enjoying getting back to classroom teaching.

These three volunteers are all teaching sections of our civics class, where our students learn about history and government to prepare for the 100 civics questions which make up one part of the citizenship test. We are also thrilled to have two of our veteran citizenship class teachers, Nancy C. and Ali B., continuing with us and leading sections of our English for the Interview class. Ali started volunteering with us in January 2020 and Nancy has been volunteering with us since 2013 (you read that right!).

We are so grateful for two of our recent citizenship class volunteers who are moving on to new adventures. Loretta D. is graduating from UVA and heading to a new job in New York. She has volunteered with us since August 2022 as a tutor, citizenship class teacher and member of our Wordplay planning committee. Tulai R. found her way to us a year ago and after 6 months of tutoring, was eager to jump in with our citizenship classes as well. She is heading to law school this fall. Congratulations and best wishes to both Loretta and Tulai!

Our citizenship program is truly able to thrive because of the generosity of our wonderful team of volunteer teachers. Without their efforts, we would not be able to run multiple in-person and zoom sections of our classes and meet the needs of so many students.

Learn more about citizenship classes

Save the date: LVCA Annual Mini-Conference

Save the date! Our annual Mini-Conference returns June 28! This all-day event with presentations from educators and community organizations will leave you inspired and energized to continue supporting our community of students. Stay tuned for more details!

Change a life with literacy!

If you are interested in making a difference in an adult immigrant's life, consider signing up for new tutor training. We currently have over 35 students on our waitlist. Change a life today!

Upcoming Information Session:

Tuesday, May 20
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. or 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Zoom
Click here to register

Upcoming Training:

Saturday, June 7
9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Jefferson School City Center
Click here to register.

Visit literacyforall.org/tutors for more information. If you know of a business who might be willing to donate lunch for training, please reach out to Ellen.

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