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Paradise Valley Unified highlights Volunteer in Paradise program that sends trained community volunteers into classrooms
Summary
Paradise Valley Unified District described its Volunteer in Paradise program, which provides eight hours of training to community volunteers who assist teachers and pull first graders for reading sessions.
Paradise Valley Unified District outlined its Volunteer in Paradise program, which provides eight hours of training to community members who then work in classrooms to support students and teachers.
The program pairs volunteers with teachers based on volunteers' interests and teacher and student needs, and volunteers typically assist directly in classrooms or in short pull-out reading sessions for early grades. Volunteer 1, a volunteer with Paradise Valley Unified District, said, “Volunteer in Paradise is a homegrown program that provides opportunities for community members to come into our school district and support our students and teachers. Basically, what our volunteers do after we provide them with 8 hours of training is they go into the…
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