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Completion Ceremonies &

Ongoing Sessions

1-3

Meetings and Outreach 4–5

Taotao Tano-ta:

Beth B. Demapan 7

Schedules 8

January 2016

Volume 9 Issue 5

CNMI Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy Program is administered by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, in partnership with the

CNMI Public School System and the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library

JANUARY 2015

Team Motheread attends island-wide PTSA meetings & start of Elementary Schools cycles of

CERT & CPR/AED Certified

Team Motheread attends Parent Leadership Month

proclamation signing

Team Motheread joins Commonwealth

Diabetes Coalition

On January 25, 2016, CNMI Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy Program celebrat-ed another beautiful completion ceremony at your friendly Joeten-Kiyu Public Li-brary. Five parents participated in the Adult Course facilitated by Parent Trainer Bry-an Manabat. The parents who completed the class were as follows: Vivian Soh, Su Jung Kim, So Yang Kim, Sangwon Lim, and Heeseung Oh. A total of twelve children

participated in the children’s Story Exploring Class facilitated by (CONT. P2)

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Motheread exhibits at SVES 1st

Annual Canary Walkathon

FEBRUARY 2015

Motheread offers an ABE class at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library in partner-

ship with the Northern Marianas College

Motheread partners with Bank of Hawaii presenting a Financial Literacy Class at WSR & Oleai

Elementary Schools

Story Exploring Instructor Margarita Sugaste. The children who participated in this fun-filled class were as follows: Jii Lee, Dustin Hyun, Davina Chae, Tae Young Lee, Kyun Ha Ju, Jessica Yao Mu, Justin Yao Mu, Serim Woo, Sena Woo, Keziah P. Manabat, Alejandra P. Manabat, and Ronald P. Manabat. Since November 30, 2015, a series of 8 Motheread/Fatheread classes were conducted in the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library’s Chil-dren of Our Homeland Center. Highlights of this holiday season class include: Pacifica Insurance Underwrit-ers, Inc.’s friendship bracelet and distribution of a personalized bookmark highlighting our JKPL schedule and a distribution of the newly designed CNMI Motheread/ Fatheread incentive giveaways.

Story Exploring Instructor Margarita Sugaste poses with her students tale a mini break to smile for the camera durin their Story Exploring Class held at the Children of Our Homeland Center in the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library. Cheers and congratulations on a job well done!

MARCH 2015 APRIL 2015

Motheread Completion ceremonies at the

Elementary Schools & ABE

Motheread begins cycle at the Head

Start Centers &Youth Centers

Motheread conducts Infant

& Toddler Training

Motheread partners with Bank of Hawaii presenting a Financial Literacy Class at

San Vicente Elementary School

San Francisco de Borja (Rota)

Completion ceremony

ONGOING SESSION Where?? Sinapalo Elementary

School (Rota) When??? Saturdays @ 10am Who Can Join?? Adults and

Children 4+ years old Remaining Session Dates: January

16, 18, 23 & 30, 2016 February 6, 2016– Certificate

presentation

On January 30, 2016, Motheread/Fatheread ended their Fall Cycle at the Sinapalo Elementary School. There will be a scheduled Certificate Presentation ceremony for the families who have completed the Adult Course and the Story Exploring class on February 6, 2016. Parent Trainer Geraldine Dela Cruz and Story Exploring Instructor Charlene Cruz are facilitating this round of classes at the Sinapalo Elementary School. Motheread/Fatheread Assistant Coordinator Beth Demapan will be attending this event. Stay tuned for more exciting news and pictures of Rota’s Completion Ceremony!

Story Exploring In-structor Charlene Cruz conducts an activity with her class focusing on the books The Very Hungry Cat-erpillar by Eric Carle and Love You Forever to name a few. Can-did moments of chil-dren working on their activities were cap-tured during this Story Exploring Class.

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Angelina Yobech Parent Trainer

Amor Rabauliman Parent Trainer

Jaime Rahman JKPL Staff

MAY 2015

WYOC Informa-tional Fair @

JKPL

Sister Remedios Early Childhood Develop-ment Center hosts

Motheread completion ceremony

Motheread Completion ceremonies at Song Song

Head Start (Rota) and Tinian Head Start

JUNE 2015

JKPL Summer Reading Program lasts from June-

August 2015

Motheread attends

LMM Expo Tinian

Team Motheread/ Fatheread presents at the CPIC meeting at Oleai Head Start Center to over 30 families on January 20, 2016.

Team Motheread/Fatheread presents at the PTSA meeting at Cha Cha Middle School Cafeteria to over 100 families on January 20, 2016.

Team Motheread/Fatheread presents at the CPIC meeting at Tanapag Head Start to over 20 families on January 19, 2016.

Team Motheread/Fatheread presents at the CPIC meeting at William S. Reyes Elementary School Cafeteria for the Chalan Kanoa Head Start to over 30 families on January 15, 2016.

The Northern Marianas Humanities Council cordially invited the public to a special presen-tation by a visiting molecular anthropologist that will be held at 6pm in the Magalahi Room, Grandviro Resort on Saturday, Jan. 23.

In his talk titled “Researching the Origins and Genetic Distinctiveness of Chamorros: A Bi-Parental Analysis,” Dr. Miguel Vilar will explain how he uses DNA to learn about ancient patterns of settlement and migration in Micronesia, as well as inferring the impact of historic events, settle-ment and resettlement patterns, and demographic changes in the Marianas islands.

In his earlier work, Dr. Vilar presented research based strictly on the maternal lineage, showing that Chamorros were genetically distinct to other Oceanic and Southeast Asian populations, and were only distantly related to these groups.

In this new work he explains how patterns in the paternal lineages (Y chromo-some DNA) show similar results, while patterns in the rest of the genome add a historical dimension to ancestry, influenced by centuries of Spanish colonization and the more recent impact of American and Filipino influence on the islands.

Dr Vilar, a molecular anthropologist and science writer, currently serves as the Project Manager for National Geographic’s Genographic Project. His fieldwork has taken him to places throughout the Pacific region, East Africa, Mesoameri-ca, and the Caribbean.

In the laboratory, Dr. Vilar researches the modern genetic diversity of human populations from Micronesia, Melanesia, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

In addition to publishing articles in scientific journals and popular magazines, Dr. Vilar also writes the Genographic Project Blog for National Geographic Society website.

This presentation, free of charge and open to the public, is a part of the council’s ongoing Community Lecture Series which strives to offer information on a wide variety of topics of interest to the local community.

http://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/presentation-on-chamorro-origins-this-saturday/

FEBRUARY 2015

JULY 2015 AUGUST 2015

Motheread Completion

ceremonies at Youth Centers

Motheread exhibits in DYS Youth Empowerment Fina-

le at Minatchom Atdao

Motheread featured as special

guest to 120 children at JKPL’s summer reading program Typhoon Soudelor

and Champi devastate the CNMI

Motheread Completion ceremony at JKPL

On January 28, 2016, Moth-

eread/Fatheread Assis-tant Coordinator Beth Demapan attended the Parent Leadership Month Proclamation Signing at the Governor’s Office Conference Room. Over 50 families, supporters, partners, government agencies attended this event. February is Parent Leadership Awareness Month, and it is spon-sored by DYS.

On January 23, 2016, CNMI Motheread/ Fatheread As-sistant Coordinator Beth Demapan is pictured with Dr. Miguel Vilar, National Geographi’s Genographic Project Manager. Team Motheread emceed this Northern Maria-nas Humanities Event which had over 100 participants.

Using children’s literature as its basis, the Motheread/

Fatheread curriculum teaches essential literacy skills uti-

lizing real-life family contexts and adult roles. For a major-

ity of adult students, the role of parent is highly motivat-

ing. Therefore, the training helps educators learn how to

teach literacy skills that are essential both in the home and

in the workplace. Institute participants receive a Teacher’s

Guide that includes not only lessons designed for adults

that can be used in their classroom, but supplements that

parents can use in the home with their children, ages birth

through elementary-school For classes where adult literacy gains are measured, CASAS Competen-

cies have also been linked to each lesson. Participants completing Institute requirements will be

awarded 2.0 CEUs from North Carolina State University.

Training Topics

1. Teaching approaches and learning styles: individual assignments, small group work, lec-

ture, and discussion

2. Parents’ Role in Children’s Literacy Development: emergent literacy activities, reading

aloud, building vocabularies and concepts

3. Use of story: thematic analysis

4. Adult classes: use of parent education and literacy development curriculum, instructional

techniques, lesson planning, preparation, and presentations

5. Evaluation: authentic assessment, student goals, measuring student outcomes, using

standardized measures

6. Program implementation: start-up, recruitment and retention, program development, and

integration of curriculum into existing program structures and requirements

Training Fee $675 per person. Interested Agencies willing to sponsor individuals to the Motheread Institute, please

contact Program Coordinator Viola Deleon Guerrero at 235-7319.

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Motheread volun-teers for Karidat, U4S, American

Red Cross, CORE, CARE

SEPTEMBER 2015 OCTOBER 2015 Motheread celebrates Hu-

manities Month: Governor’s Awards, Valentine Sengebau

Poetry Contest

Motheread conducts profes-sional develop-ment class for

JKPL staff

Motheread volunteers island-wide labor day cleanup

Beth Demapan is the Assistant Coordinator of the CNMI Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy Program, and has been with the Program since 2010. She has served with Motheread first as a volunteer Certified Parent Trainer in 2010 and then in 2013 was recruited to be a full-time Assistant Coordinator. From the very beginning of her employment with the Motheread® Program, Beth demonstrated a passion and love for literacy. Beth holds a Bachelors in Arts in Classics with a concentration in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature and languages from the prestigious Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. With this love and passion for providing literacy to diverse/socio-economically underserved populations of the CNMI, she very cheerfully and enthusiastically motivates all around her to enjoy and appreciate our Pro-

gram, and what we do for the community. She constantly sees ways of improving and moving forward our Program. The Motheread/Fatheread® Family Literacy Program serves the whole CNMI as the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s signa-ture literacy outreach program. We serve over 800 families every year, providing 6,400 hours of literacy to the CNMI. We oversee, assist, and supervise 33 volunteer Parent Trainers and Story Exploring Instructors, who are teachers, day care providers, private busi-ness owners, administrators in their full-time jobs. Beth is instrumental in that she ensures that our Trainers and Instructors are re-minded of their schedules, have participants attend their classes, substitute as a Trainer when they are unable to attend, advertise, and market our Program. She is a Team Player and is an essential part of our office Team of 3 individuals, which we share space at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library (CNMI State Library). She writes, photographs, records, designs, edits, and publishes our monthly newsletter online and emails it to our partners. She has upgraded and redesigned our newsletter from 4 pages to 8 pages. This invalu-able piece of information also serves as a monthly reporting of our Program events to the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. And that’s not all, as of January 2016, she has currently completed the publishing of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library’s newsletter, defunct for 5 years. She researched and interviewed all the JKPL staff and services since November 2015. It encompasses a 20-page quarterly

newsletter documenting and highlighting the programs, services, and staff of the CNMI State Library. Because of her can-do attitude and love for the library, the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library’s Acting Executive Director Erlinda Naputi personally asked her to spearhead reviving the Friends of the Library. She has created fliers, facebook page, gmail account, led meetings, and is now on a general fundraising membership drive to actively recruit more friends. During our Parent Trainers and Story Exploring Instructors meetings, Beth Demapan is in charge of our statistics portion, and other statistical portion for submittal to our partners and the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. She documents on Excel every registration and evaluation form that we give out to our participants for our Program. She inputs and records all this immense data using Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet, pivot tables and graphs charting our progress, status, and future goals. She inventories our Motheread/Fatheread® library which holds 1862 books and 116 titles (Adult and Children’s curricu-lum), and personally contacts those outstanding book holders to retrieve the titles. She assists our Team in reordering, cataloging, and maintaining our Motheread® library. On a personal level, Beth Demapan takes her love for literacy and shares it with her family. Growing up on Saipan, family is very close-knit. She enlists the help of her mother Rita Barcinas Demapan, an educator herself, her partner Gilbert Birnbrich, and her daughter Alexandra Birnbrich to participate and as-sist with our Motheread Program. She is fully supported by her work-family (Motheread Team) and her nuclear family in all that she does. Thank you Beth Demapan for all the hard work and commitment you do for the Motheread Program. We are blessed to have you on our team!

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Taotao tano’-ta: People of the Island encompass a collection of local leaders, individuals, and groups from the CNMI

whose vision, wisdom and skill have made an enormous impact in the lives of the people of the Commonwealth in many

ways. These are progressive local leaders that showcased exemplary leadership roles in public service, community build-

ing, and undertakings that benefited the CNMI as a whole. Taotao tano’-ta are Individuals & Artisans that promoted and

represented the CNMI local culture and traditions through the arts of healing, music, crafts, dances, culinary, and language

enhancement in the Commonwealth and beyond the Pacific. These are also groups and innovative individuals that contrib-

uted generously in the development of agriculture, fishing, education, health, law, religion, public safety, and good govern-

ance in the Northern Marianas Island. Their untiring efforts to lift the Commonwealth to prosperity leaves no question of

their true leanings; that is for the betterment of the CNMI.

Beth Demapan Motheread/Fatheread

Assistant Coordinator &

Certified Parent Trainer

NOVEMBER 2015

Motheread participates in the Northern Marianas Coalition

Against Domestic and Sexual Violence DanDan Village Walk

Motheread participates in JKPL Trunk or Treat

& LMM Fair @ Hopwood

Motheread attends proclamation signing

National Diabetes Month

Motheread celebrates com-pletion ceremony for GCDC & Stanford village outreach

Motheread participates in

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies,

and Daddies Fair

Motheread®, Inc. is a nationally acclaimed private, non-profit organization that combines the teaching of literacy skills with child development and family empowerment issues. Parents and children learn to use the power of language to discover more about them-selves their families, and their communities.

Motheread® offers classes for both the adults and children. In adult classes, participants learn to be story readers, writers, and tellers in a group structure that supports their own sense of worth and ability. These classes are appropriate for all adults, regardless of reading ability or prior educational experience. By teaching the “why” of reading rather than just emphasizing the “how”, clas-ses encourage parents to be reading role models for their chil-dren. For children, Story Exploring provides a structured envi-ronment for learning reading, critical-thinking, and problem

CYCLE DAY TIME START DATE VENUE PARENT TRAINER/SEI

1 Wednesdays 5:00 pm January 20, 2016 Kagman Elementary School Celine Romolor-Route/Jocelyn Eusebio

2,3 Tuesdays 5:30 pm February 9, 2016 San Antonio Head Start &

Chalan Kanoa Head Start

Bryan Manabat/Ignacia Reyes &

Lilia King/Margarita Sugaste

4,5 Wednesdays 5:30 pm February 10, 2016 Oleai Head Start &

JMR Head Start (Garapan)

Celina Foreman/Joelyn Varona &

Celina Foreman/Evangeline Espanola

6 Wednesdays 5:00 pm February 10, 2016 Tanapag Head Start Beth Demapan/Margarita Sugaste

7,8 Thursdays 5:30 pm February 11, 2016 Kagman Head Start &

Dan Dan Head Start

Elenita Arriola/Jocelyn Eusebio &

Nolyn Villagomez/Ignacia Reyes

Schedules for interested Private Schools and Organizations/Agencies could be arranged by contacting Viola Deleon Guerrero, Beth Demapan, or Bryan Manabat at Tel:235-7319/989-8542/783-7678 or E-mail:

cnmimotheread@gmail.com or visit our website at https://sites.google.com/site/cnmimothereadfatheread/

THE CHILDREN OF OUR HOMELAND CULTURAL CENTER/LIBRARY

Library Hours

Tuesdays-Fridays (10:00 am-6:00 pm) Saturday

(9:00 am-4:00 pm) Closed on Mondays, Sundays, and

Holidays If you are interested in becoming a Friend/Supporter of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library, please stop by the CNMI Motheread/Fatheread office in the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library and fill out a registration form. There will be a $5.00 membership fee assessed. Cash Only. Call 235-7319, text 783-7678, or email marianaslibraryfriends@gmail.com for more information. Thank you!

DECEMBER 2015

CNMI Motheread/Fatheread®

Current & Upcoming Session

Motheread publishes JKPL newsletter

Motheread assists with Friends of

JKPL

Saipan Parent Trainers and Story Exploring In-

structor’s Meeting

Motheread conducts 21 Day Fix/Public workout for JKPL

Motheread plans, as-sists, and celebrates with partner JKPL’s

24th anniversary

Motheread creates tribute

banner for Gov-ernor Eloy Inos

MRFR partners with PIU to have chil-dren’s friendship bracelet activity