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Homework Hotline Annual Report 2014-15
15,764 sessions of free one-on-one tutoring
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12,706 sessions of regular tutoring
77 sessions of Beat Math tutoring
2,981 sessions of Call It Reading intervention
5,697 students
93% successfully finished the assignment and reported understanding the concept.
68% were able to prove mastery of a new topic by successfully working a question independently.
625 children spoke a home language other than English.
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Call It Reading students gained an average of 1.4 grade levels in reading!
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2,684 calls came from parents, or students and parents together.
33,898 children in 349 schools received Sonic Drive In Multiplication Flashcards.
Language Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,553
Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9,600
Call It Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,981
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,133
Social Studies/Geography/History . . . . . .392
Spanish/other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
With Homework Hotline,
students tackle new concepts,
complete challenging
assignments, learn to read,
and gain academic skills.
Homework Hotline helps
students achieve and thrive one assignment at a time.
Students who get the help
they seek return to school
better prepared and less
discouraged.
Since 1990, Hotline teachers
and volunteers have
answered more than 493,702
calls. Bilingual assistance is
available in English, Arabic,
Kurdish, Somali,
Spanish, and Swahili.
4805 Park Ave., Nashville, TN 37209 ( 615.298.6636
( 888.868.5777 * www.homeworkhotline.info
14-15 Board of Directors
By District
Cheatham .......................................86
Davidson/MNPS .........................9,488
Dickson..........................................289
Franklin City ..................................173
Maury.............................................231
Clarksville/Montgomery .................409
Murfreesboro .................................121
Robertson ......................................361
Rutherford...................................1,159
Smith .............................................146
Sumner ..........................................750
Warren ...........................................168
White..............................................113
Williamson .....................................355
Wilson............................................565
Private Schools .............................195
52 other districts .........................1,055
Calls by Grade
K-1 .................................................140
2.....................................................349
3..................................................1,281
4..................................................2,375
5..................................................2,415
6 ................................................2,149
7..................................................1,866
8 ...................................................698
9.....................................................544
10...................................................524
11...................................................228
12...................................................140
Other..................................................8
Call It Reading second grade..........15
Call It Reading third grade .........2,630
Call It Reading fourth grade ..........336
Beat Math 6th grade........................77
Scott Newman, president
Genus
Mark Hill, vice president
Tandem Realty
Henry Coffey, treasurer
Sterne Agee
Student Representatives/Secretary
Hadley McCammon
Hume Fogg High
SCARLETT FAM
ILY
FOUNDATION
Mahvish Khan
Angelica Wright
Martin Luther King High
Orville Bignall
Tennessee State University
Anne Brandt
Community Volunteer
Tiffany Cox
TSU - Office of Equal Opportunity &
Affirmative Action
Ashley Daugherty
Corrections Corporation of America
Martha Craig Daughtrey
US Court of Appeals - 6th District
Jane Fleishman
Oasis Center
Stephen Henry
MNEA
Barbara Holmes
Harwell, Howard, Hyne, Gabbert &
Manner, PC
Mary Beth Ikard
Homework Hotline
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Community Volunteer
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The average gain for Call It
Reading third grade students
was 1.4 grade levels!
Total tutoring sessions.............2,981
Total calls in 2013-14 ..................2,539
Total calls in 2012-13 ..................1,555
Third graders completing year ........65
Fourth graders completing year .......20
Avg. number of lessons 14-15 ......33
Avg. number of lessons 13-14 .........31
Avg. number of lessons 12-13 .........23
Successfully completed assessments
.......................................................510
Attrition rate in 14-15..................22%
Attrition rate in 13-14 ....................23%
Attrition rate in 12-13 ....................31%
Phone issues are the largest factor in
the attrition rate. Children often do not
having access to a phone during the
appointment time; his or her phone
service is cut off; or there are limited
minutes available on parent’s phone.
At Call It Reading
, our teachers w
ere desperately
trying to reach an
d teach children
like third grader
Brianna. Her first
week in August,
Brianna
struggled to get
through the kind
ergarten text,
“Frog is Hungry.”
As with many of
our reading remed
iation students,
afterschool lesson
s didn’t always fit
with her
grandmother’s sc
hedule or her av
ailable cellphone
minutes. These
students rarely ha
ve home phone
service, so Call It
Reading teachers
call many
times and many
numbers to locate
each.
For Brianna, the
little prizes were
all that motivated
her at first. She
loved the Hello Ki
tty pen and the
flower tattoos. Sh
e needed school
supplies and a
dictionary, and w
e sent them happ
ily.
In December, Br
ianna’s grandmot
her pulled her
out of the progra
m. Our reading
director begged
Grandma to chan
ge her mind or at
least give a
reason.
More than a mon
th later, Brianna
and her dad
called, pleading
to be reinstated.
We were just
able to wedge he
r back in. Briann
a finished the
year with 48 tuto
ring sessions an
d nailing both
fluency and com
prehension for “R
andolph and the
Lion,” an early se
cond grade text.
This was an
improvement of
a full grade level!
Call it Reading: reading Remediation by Phone
sponsored by
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Community Enhancement Fund
Call Turner Family Foundation
Delek Fund for Hope
The Memorial Foundation
Thank you for your donations 2014-2015
Adrianne Archie, B. Crisman Arnold, Barbara
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& Mrs. Mitchell G Johnson, Mary Loventhal
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West Nashville, Deborah Kondis, Keith & Meryl
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Carol Ann & Tommy Wilson, Mary Beth Ikard,
Donna & Gerald Nicely,
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Jennifer Waggoner
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Laura Bell, Molly Miller
In honor of Alison Forte
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Beth & Tom Deweese
In honor of Judi Fox
Karen Goldsmith,
Ann Gordon & Richard Kleiner
In honor of Lanie Gannon
Carol Mode
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Becca Dedert – MLK, 3.65 GPA, AP
with Honors. Becca volunteered more
than 100 hours with Homework Hotline
and the Call it Reading Program. She
participated in the German American
Exchange Program, Model UN, and
MLK Swim Club, Beta Club, National
Honor Society, National Science Honor
Society, and the German Honor Society.
She volunteers with her church, was a Counselor in Training at
The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center in North Carolina,
and holds a job at The Produce Place. Becca received a full
QuestBridge Match Scholarship to attend Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut where she hopes to major in
international studies and film studies.
Nidal Halwani - MLK, Diploma with
Distinction, AP Capstone. Nidal
volunteered 100 hours for Homework
Hotline. He is co-president of the Red
Cross Club and a member of Mu Alpha
Theta, a math honor society. Nidal plans
to attend Tennessee Tech University and
plans to be a heart surgeon.
Emily Hall, Nashville School of the Arts,
3.8 GPA, Honors Diploma. Emily
volunteered for 100 at Homework Hotline.
She also volunteered for Hands on Nashville
and Second Harvest Food Bank. Emily is a
member of National Honors Society and
sings in the NSA swing band. Emily won a
Metro Nashville Retired Teachers
Association Scholarship and an academic
service scholarship at MTSU where she will study to be an
elementary school teacher.
Yostena Khalil - MLK, 3.2 GPA, AP with
Honors. Yostena 100 volunteered more than
100 hours with Homework Hotline. She
also volunteered for two summers as a
pharmacy assistant at the Veterans Hospital.
She is a member of the National Beta Club,
Model United Nation, and Fellowship of
Christian Athletes. She will attend the St. Louis College of
Pharmacy.
Hadley McCammon - Hume-Fogg,
Diploma with Honors and Distinction.
Hadley is the co-captain of her crosscountry team and runs track & field.
She has completed advanced
coursework in English, math, science,
and history and was the editor-in-chief
of the yearbook. Hadley will attend
Reed College in Portland Oregon to
study physics and education.
Naomi Morse - Hume-Fogg, 4.1
weighted GPA, AP with Honors. Naomi
volunteered for 100 hours with
Homework Hotline. She also has
volunteered at the Frist Center for the
Visual Arts, and works at the The
Produce Place. She ranked in the 94th
percentile on the National Spanish Exam,
and hopes to continue her love of foreign
language in college. Naomi plans to
major in arts or design at UT Knoxville.
Hana Sadun - MLK, 3.5 GPA, Diploma
with Distinction. Hana volunteered with
the Kurdish Girls Achievers Youth Group,
Ronald McDonald House, visited
orphanages and nursing homes. She
participates in Beta Club, school band,
Anime Club, MLK Muslim Student
Association, Common Core, and MLK
Beautification Committee. She won a
Lipscomb University scholarship and
hopes to become a surgeon and open free
clinics in third world countries.
Michael Zheng - Overton, 3.96 GPA.
Michael volunteered 160 hours at
Homework Hotline. He is a member of
the Future Business Leaders of America
and National Beta Club. In musical theater,
Michael acted in four productions
including “Hairspray.” He works daily
after school at his parents’ restaurant,
Dragon Garden. Michael redesigned
Overton’s Academy logos, designed IT
apparel and made videos to promote the
school. Michael won the Scarlett Family
Foundation Scholarship which he will use to study computer
science at UT Knoxille.
Anyssia Martin - Middle College
High, 4.3 weighted GPA. Anyssia
will graduate from high school
already having earned 54 hours of
college credit including all nursing
school prerequisite courses. She
completed 100 hours of service
with Hotline and Call It Reading,
interned with the Comprehensive
Pain and Neurology Center, and
works at Waffle House. She plans
to be a Nurse Practitioner
specializing in Gerontology, hopefully in her own practice to
provide, “A pleasant environment for all of my patients.” She
will attend University of Memphis.
Hotline Volunteers Rule the World!
Middle school students who attend schools in low-income areas are failing math. Many
missed the foundational math skills essential to completing complex and increasingly abstract
math.
This coming fall, Homework Hotline will pilot a new project, Beat Math, to provide intensive one-onone math tutoring by phone given by certified, highly-qualified math teachers.
Beat Math will offer twice-weekly 30-minute tutoring sessions along with incentives for effort and
achievement. Each participating student will be assigned to a single teacher and consistent
schedule so that mentoring relationships are developed along with math skills.
Sixty-four Metro Nashville Public School students will be invited to 15 or more sessions per
semester of intensive math tutoring. Students must be from low-income families and have scored
“below basic” or “basic” on TCAP or other mandated assessments.
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Instruction will be completed by phone. This allows students to work without stigma,
eliminates the need for transportation, and reduces costs.
Teaching stations are equipped with a computer and server-based integrated databases.
Students with computer access can have tutoring via Stoodle, an online whiteboard that
allows teacher and student to work together on math problems.
What will they learn?
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144 multiplication math facts in five minutes (Skills practice on multiplication facts will be
used as a part of each lesson.)
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Understanding place value from hundreths to millions
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Subtraction with regrouping
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Addition with carrying
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Rounding to the nearest tenth; one’s, ten’s, hundred’s place
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Recognizing numbers including common fractions on a number line or pie chart
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Adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators
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Division of two and three digit numbers with remainders
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Converting decimals to fractions
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Compare whole numbers, decimals & fractions using the symbols >, <, and =
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Find the unknown in single-step equations
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Understanding basic units in measurement, time, and temperature.
Students who master these concepts will be moved to higher-level topics
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Identifying basic geometric objects (2 and 3 dimensional)
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Solving for a one-step equation in a word problem
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Plotting numbers in the first quadrant of a coordinate plane
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Determining perimeter and area of regular polygons
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Solving a multistep expression using order of operations