The Augustine Project 
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Mission
The Augustine Project is an outreach ministry that trains volunteer tutors to provide free tutoring to academically at-risk, low-income students in Forsyth County. Tutors receive training in the Orton-Gillingham approach, which is a systematic, structured and multi-sensory method of teaching reading. This approach is research based and proven to help students who have difficulties in reading, writing and spelling.
Tutors agree to work with one student at an assigned school for at least 60 lessons of 45 minutes to one hour each, usually working two times a week. Students are selected by the schools based on criteria provided by The Augustine Project.
Currently 31 tutors are working with students at South Fork Elementary, Old Town Elementary, Cook Elementary, Brunson Elementary and Arts Based Elementary in Forsyth County. A 10-day training class is held each fall to train new tutors.
   
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2008 Board of Advisors
Elizabeth Allen
Henri Brown
Anne Butler
Becky Clingman
Woody Clinard
Haywood Edmundson, Chairman
Margaret French
Carson Howard
Stephen Inman, Treasurer
Marianne Meyer
Robin Richards
Barbara Safrit, Secretary
Kenneth Simington
Peggy Slater
Susan Uphoff
Trudy Winstead
Susan Woodall, Vice-Chairman
John Shields, Clergy Liaison
Ruth Prongay, Vestry Liaison
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