Read To Succeed - Rutherford County

Vision for the Center:
The Family Literacy Center, a community collaboration, is an intergenerational literacy resource center where parents and children improve their literacy together.

Dr. Lon Nuell was a long time Board and Council member for Read To Succeed. During his 35 years teaching art at MTSU, and almost as many years on the Murfreesboro City School Board, he was outspoken in his belief in the importance of literacy and education for all. His legacy includes significant community work such as creating an International Folk Festival and organizing forums for instilling acceptance of diversity of culture and religion. When Dr. Nuell passed away on the eve of opening our literacy center, Read To Succeed staff and board voted unanumously to name it in his honor, The Lon Nuell Family Literacy Center.

Family Literacy Center Goals:
Expand access to literacy and education for adult learners and their families at the community level using the technology available. | Contribute to the educational well being of the whole family by increasing adult literacy skills. | Instill a love of reading as a life long learning process in parents and children. | Connect literacy to pathways for training, jobs, and higher education. | Promote collaborative efforts in Rutherford County to raise literacy awareness. | To provide supervised teaching opportunities for University students.

Examples of Literacy Center Activities:

1:1 tutoring for adult learners
Training sessions for literacy volunteers
Committee meetings
Parent & child workshops

From Broad Street (Murfreesboro Rd.), turn east onto Main Street toward M’boro City Square.
Drive around the Court House and continue one block east on Main Street. At end of first block,
Turn right (south) onto Spring Street.
At the end of the first block of Spring, just before you cross Vine Street at the traffic signal, the First Baptist Education Building is on your left.
Park anywhere in the first block of Spring St. or in the designated First Baptist Church parking spots in the Bank America parking lot on the right at the end of the Spring St. block.
Enter the First Baptist Education Building through the door on Spring Street facing the Bank America parking lot.
Proceed straight down the corridor to the first corridor on the left. Turn left. (at this point you will see direction signs to the LNFLC)
At the second hallway on the left off this corridor, enter the elevator and go up to the 2nd floor.
Exit the elevator, turn left and find bright yellow Room 210 on the left.