Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center

Special thanks to Papa Johns Pizza for donating delicious pizzas for our last day of our teacher training! We appreciate your generosity! 🍕

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Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center is here to empower striving readers, encourage their parents, and equip their teachers. Contact us today to help your child or become a trained reading tutor in our community!

Email [email protected]
Call 828-624-2012

Day 3 of our orton_gillingham_academy training cohort was so impactful! Today we welcomed local students for our instructional lab- real teachers practicing real methods with real students. 👏👏👏

Special thanks for our guest speaker for sharing her experience implementing OG methods in the classroom. Her insight was so encouraging!

Stay tuned for more ✨magic✨ tomorrow!

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Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center is here to empower striving readers, encourage their parents, and equip their teachers. Contact us today to help your child or become a trained reading tutor in our community!

Email [email protected]
Call 828-624-2012

Special thanks to Crumbl for donating amazing cookies for our training this week. Our teachers felt extra special! 💚💙

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Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center is here to empower striving readers, encourage their parents, and equip their teachers. Contact us today to help your child or become a trained reading tutor in our community!

Email [email protected]
Call 828-624-2012

Our 2026 Orton Gillingham cohort is officially in session! We are proud to offer Catawba County teachers this opportunity. 👏🏻💙💚

Day 1 Highlights include:

✏️ The OG lesson plan
✏️ Effective teaching methods to help students grow
✏️ A dyslexia simulation to help teachers understand what their students may experience in the classroom

We can’t wait for another day of learning tomorrow!

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Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center is here to empower striving readers, encourage their parents, and equip their teachers. Contact us today to help your child or become a trained reading tutor in our community!

Email [email protected]
Call 828-624-2012

☀️ Friendly Reminder! ☀️ Reading Success Tutoring Center will be CLOSED July 27-30 for a scheduled summer break.

We hope families enjoy a restful week filled with sunshine, play, and maybe even a good book or two! 📚

Tutoring sessions will resume August 3. If you have any scheduling questions, feel free to reach out to our team!

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Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center is here to empower striving readers, encourage their parents, and equip their teachers. Contact us today to help your child or become a trained reading tutor in our community!

Email [email protected]
Call 828-624-2012

We are a proud community partner with Catawba County United Way! 💚💙

United Way Catawba County is excited to announce that it has recently finalized the list of nonprofits receiving 2027 grants through the agency’s main Request for Funding cycle.

The process started in February and recently wrapped up with the CCUW’s board voting to accept the recommendation from the Community Investment committee to fund $223,000 distributed to 15 programs from 13 agencies.

Collectively, these programs provide various assistance to individuals and families facing a crisis in Catawba County.

Agencies/Programs receiving funding include:
• Great Hickory CCM – Pharmacy program,
• Great Hickory CCM – Medical Clinic,
• Exodus Homes – Supportive Housing,
• American Red Cross – Disaster Cycle Services,
• Catawba County Partnership for Children – Parents as Teachers,
• The Salvation Army of Greater Hickory – Shelter of Hope,
• Patrick Beaver Learning Center – Augustine Literacy Tutoring,
• Adult Life Programs – Adult Day Programing,
• Shelter Home of the Foothills – Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault support services,
• Catawba Valley Healthcare – Primary Care Services
• Sipe’s Orchard Home – Teen transitional living,
• Catawba County DSS – Senior Nutrition Services,
• Habitat for Humanity – Home Repairs,
• Council on Adolescents – Lunch Buddy Mentoring,
• Council on Adolescents – Healthy Youth Education.

Thank you to all of our Community Investment Committee members for their time and leadership in this process.

Learn more about this United Way grant cycle at - https://www.ccunitedway.com/catawba-county-united-way-agency-portal.