Azusa, City of (Azusa City Library)

The Azusa City Library will develop a unique library-led, community-driven program called Grassroots ESL through collaboration and partnering with organizations to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction throughout the community. Community partners are Neighborhood Homework House, Rosedale Community, Community HousingWorks, Dalton Elementary School, Lee Elementary School, Mountain View Elementary School, Gladstone Street Elementary School and the Azusa City Library. The partners will: 1) identify and document the current relationships and structure of Grassroots ESL - both as envisioned and as actually practiced, 2) collectively describe what the goal of equal ownership would look like, 3) identify the barriers to achieving that goal, and 4) create and implement a plan of activities to make that change. Throughout the project, the library will document the experience to produce a guide for other libraries to replicate this unique model of community-wide programming.