1. hobbies and interests
2. reading

Thank you for supporting Homework Hotline!
Here’s what we did with your investment.
10,064 sessions of one-on-one tutoring Aug. - Dec. 2014
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2,873 hours of tutoring.
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4,277 students.
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92% successfully finished the assignment and reported understanding the concept.
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66% were able to prove mastery of a new topic by successfully working a question independently.
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14% spoke a home language other than English.
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2,475 calls came from parents, or students and parents together.
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33,450 children received Sonic Drive In Multiplication Flashcards.
Language Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,079
Math. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,496
Call It Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730
Social Studies/Geography/History . . 294
Spanish/other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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 475,000
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 School District
Nashville/Davidson .....................5,697
Bedford ............................................39
Cheatham ........................................72
Coffee ..............................................48
Dickson..........................................182
Franklin Special .............................116
Giles ................................................49
Grundy.............................................58
Lebanon Special..............................47
Macon..............................................43
Montgomery...................................341
Maury.............................................167
Murfreesboro City............................87
Putnam ............................................38
Robertson ......................................215
Rutherford......................................822
Shelby..............................................57
Smith ...............................................89
Sumner ..........................................536
Warren ...........................................127
Wayne .............................................54
White ...............................................73
Williamson .....................................230
Wilson............................................396
Private Schools .............................123
Others............................................358
Calls by Grade
K-1 ...................................................88
2.....................................................260
3.....................................................857
Call It Reading 3rd grade ...........1,334
4..................................................1,492
Call It Reading 4th grade ................93
5..................................................1,548
6 ................................................1,546
7..................................................1,373
8 ...................................................497
9.....................................................365
10 .................................................373
11 ..................................................146
12 ...................................................85
GED ..................................................3
College ..............................................4
Scott Newman, president
Genus
Mark Hill, vice president
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Henry Coffey, treasurer
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Hume Fogg High
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ILY
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TSU - Office of Equal Opportunity &
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Metro Public Health Department
Martha Craig Daughtrey
US Court of Appeals - 6th District
Jane Fleishman
Oasis Center
Stephen Henry
MNEA
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Harwell, Howard, Hyne, Gabbert &
Manner, PC
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The Elephant Sanctuary
Adam Landa
Harpeth Capital
Homework Hotline
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Nashville, TN 37209
615.298.6636
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Community Volunteer
Tim Pierce
Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate
School of Management
Gracie Porter
Please help Hotline
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Metro Nashville Public Schools
Michelle Wilcox
4805 Park Ave., Nashville, TN 37209 ( 615.298.6636 ( 888.868.5777 ( www.homeworkhotline.info
We couldn’t do it without you!
Thank you for your donations. June - December 2014
Adrianne Archie, B. Crisman Arnold,
Barbara Asbur, Ayers Foundation, Irwin
Venick & Jeanne Ballinger, Megan Barry,
Sophia Bearmon in memory of Dr. Harry
Beamon, David & Lindsay Beasley, Belmont
University, Bemis Company Foundation,
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& Meryl Kraft, Shelly & Trish Krizelman, Sally
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Charitable Fund, Z & Diane Manas, Al &
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in memory of Coach Jim Wilson, Target, The
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Thetford, Pam Todd, Cal Turner Family
Foundation, United Way of Dickson County,
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VanDevender, Joyce Vise, Mary Walker,
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III, Williamson County Board of Education,
Wills Foundation, The Honorable Thomas
Wiseman, Gary & Judy Witkin, Keri Wolfe,
Dr. Aldorothy Wright, Saeed Moharreri &
Tatiana Zadora, Wendy Kurland & Mark
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Donations made in honor of others
In honor of Lady and Billy Bird
Mary Beth Ikard, Kay & Larry Felts,Carol
Ann & Tommy Wilson, Gerald & Donna
Nicely, Shirley Zeitlin.
In honor of Scott Newman
Pat Snyder & Bobby Garfinkle,
Max & Denise Rothschild, Jeanne Fagadau,
Woon Yen and Guy Prall,
Dr. & Mrs. Stewart Perlman.
In honor of Sally Levine
Leigh & Hunter Atkins, Vincent Durnan,
Dr. Dale Farran, Betsy & Know Walkup
In honor of Judi Fox
Richard Kleiner & Ann Gordon,
Karen Goldsmith
In honor of Jane Fleishman
Molly Miller, Barb Clinton
In honor of Alison Forte
Tom & Beth Deweese, Tristan Hill & Aubree
Johnson Hill.
In honor of Delores Cook
Jennifer Waggoner
In honor of Annette Askind
Mr. & Mrs. Aubrey Harwell
In honor of the Orville Bignall Family
Kenneth D Haynes
Carol Mode in honor of Lanie Gannon.
Evan & Audree Saltmarsh in honor of
Madison & Owen Saltmarsh.
Pam & Jim Terrel lin honor of Sammy Swor.
Our wonderful volunteers
Avan Ahmad, Khalid Al-Omary, April
Chamnanphong, Victoria Cohen-Crumpton,
McKenzie Cole, Becca Dedert, Jack Forte,
Brittan Gilmore, Emily Hall, Nidal Halwani,
Ahnre Hayes, Daniel Hong, Seoyoung
Hwang, Yostena Khali, Mahvish Khan, Lilie
Mai, Anyssia Martin, Hadley McCammon,
Leyla Mohammad, Naomi Morse, Elisabeth
Nguyen, Lorne Obedala, Parth Patel, Dipen
Patel, Hana Sadun, Gona Sadun, Angelica
Wright, Michael Zheng, Nash Zhou.
Belmont University Volunteers
Bruche'a Bivins, Shannah Boucher, Valerie
Fraser, Rose Lang, Zara Latif, Amber Lowe,
Madeline Kriegel, Courtney Rainwater,
Kaitlin Stodard, Yasmin Telwar, Elisa
Tidmore, Maggie Troutman, Cam Zein-Elden
Call It Reading
Marq appears, at first glance, to be a great reader. He fluently reads at his grade
level. But that is deceiving because Marq can read the words but doesn’t
understand the sentences or the story. While his fluency tests at 100%, his
comprehension reaches only 40%. His tutor Mr. Groom has a few strategies for this
great kid. For each story, teacher and student take turns reading the parts. They
use voices and expressions to bring characters to life. Then they discuss the story
at length. What happened? Why? What happened next? Why did the girl do that?
What is hibernation? Then Mr Groom asks Marq to read the story to his mom.
Only then is Marq ready for an assessment.
It’s been a hard slog. Marq hates the “easy” stories at his reading level. He wants to
read the ones with lots of words and pages and ideas. It’s tricky to find materials for
students who feel like third graders but read like kindergarteners. Mr. Groom tailors the
instruction to capitalize on Marq’s strengths and interests as he simultaneously
provides remediation to address the deficiencies.
Marq is just one of 64 children currently in Call It Reading. Each of our reading
specialists works with just eight students. They call each one twice a week for 30
minutes. It’s not easy. Children in high poverty neighborhoods face a host of extra
challenges. Marq has had six phone numbers in four months. His mother has
changed his tutoring schedule four times.
At Call It Reading, each child gets the specific, individualized attention and instruction
to meet his or her needs. It’s working! Marq and the other 63 children are all making
progress. While some still struggle at the lowest levels, others have charged ahead,
and every student is reading. Marq just finished the 224-word Moose on the Move,
with a comprehension score of 98%.
National studies show that children who could not reading at the beginning of fourth grade rarely graduate high
school. Most will struggle with poverty, under- or unemployment, increased incarceration, and a host of poor health
outcomes for the rest of their lives. Learning to read makes the difference. Your support underwrites the teaching
time, phones and computers, two new stories each week, prizes, school supplies, dictionaries, and much more.
Thank you!
Call It Reading Results - August - December 2014
o Third graders have completed 1,319 sessions of reading remediation by phone and passed 174 assessments.
o 20 fourth graders who graduated from Call It Reading last year have read aloud to volunteers 93 times.
o 64 third grade children are currently enrolled in Call It Reading and have had at least three hours of reading
remediation. Of those, 57 students have received five or more hours of reading remediation, 43 students have
received 15 or more sessions (7.5 hours), and 19 have completed nearly 15 hours of lessons.
o Many students started at Level D or below (kindergarten level reading). Every student has passed at least one
Running Record assessment and made at least some progress. 38 children have reached Level G (first grade
reading). Two children have already soared into Level M - a second
grade reading level.
o Every child will receive at least four hardcover books to keep.
More than 200 have already been given.
o All students are offered a hardcover children’s picture dictionary.
o 32 students received backpacks loaded with school supplies.
o 64 parents received family literacy kits to help them help enjoy reading
with their children.