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Brooklyn Library’s Adult Literacy Tutoring Program  This is some of what I learned during last month in Adult Literacy Tutoring. I encourage you to learn more as well.  Sooo I’m not exactly sure what I share on here anymore with my busy schedule. Since April 2022 I’ve been volunteering with my local library to help others with Adult Literacy. It didn’t always start out with them helping guide us with lesson plans for the month. In fact, it wasn’t until January this year that they helped out their tutors in this way.  Obviously, March was Women’s History Month, and the lesson plans in the tutoring program reflected that, but unfortunately I wasn’t around in March to help my students due to a family emergency, and short staffing on one week. On the last full week of March, the tutoring program started their spring break that lasts two weeks.  I did look up all that I could out of the lesson plans that were to be planned for the students as I’m a huge fan of Women’s His...

International Women’s Spread Kaylyn Gabbert

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Some of the lovely ladies in this year's spread asked me interview questions. I'm posting them in order of when I interviewed them. ^-^  Irene Lyla Lee : If your writing was a tool for the world what would you want it to be able to do? Kaylyn Gabbert : I would bring attention to the importance of mental health care, not as a health care worker, but as one who still suffers from depression, anxiety, and PTSD with love, support, and meds. I would also show people how it is to live with disabilities that heavily impact your life in multiple ways, but I would give others a safe place to talk about their mental health, disability, or otherwise stories they wish to share. They don’t have to share their name if they don’t want to. I also have a passion for education and the education system as how it should be. No matter what my passion is I always study up on it and share my personal experiences as well.  Molly W. : Throughout your interviews, have you noticed any common theme with ...