猫咪AV

For Immediate Release

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Lisa Bracken

Executive Director, 猫咪AV North Texas

(214) 390-2909聽聽| 聽Lisa.Bracken@readingpartners.org

READING PARTNERS NORTH TEXAS SEEKS TO INSPIRE 鈥楻ESOLUTIONS FOR READING鈥� DURING NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH

278 students are ready to be matched with volunteer tutors

Dallas, TX —聽January 8, 2018

“As a mentor to a 猫咪AV student, I want to have the same impact that my mentor had on me. My top priority is to build our students up into confident learners and to push them to their fullest potential.” –聽A 猫咪AV volunteer tutor

Each year, National Mentoring Month celebrates the power of mentoring relationships and calls for more people to play a supportive role in the lives of children. This January, 猫咪AV is sharing stories of mentorship from community volunteers, AmeriCorps members, and staff. The campaign is designed to inspire others to make聽聽in the new year by providing students in under-resourced schools with the tutoring and mentorship they need to become proficient readers by the fourth grade.

础听, national nonprofit that mobilizes community volunteers to work one-on-one with struggling readers, 猫咪AV is determined to serve 650 students in North Texas in the 2017-18 school year. Currently, there are over 278 students waiting to be matched with tutors at 13 of the 16 local elementary schools where 猫咪AV operates in North Texas. Now is the time for our community to make聽Resolutions for Reading聽to ensure that our students have the reading skills and confidence they need to be successful in school and in life.

鈥淲e are grateful to our community volunteers who play a pivotal role in the reading success of our North Texas children. Our research-based and proven reading model is designed for a tutor with any background to achieve success with lessons ready and classroom support available by our 猫咪AV North Texas team. We currently have 278 children on a teacher-referred wait list that are behind in reading that need your help. Please join our 猫咪AV North Texas tutor team today!鈥� –聽Lisa Bracken, Executive Director

猫咪AV volunteers utilize an easy-to-follow, individualized lesson plan each week in order to meet students at their level and help them make the critical transition from learning to read to reading to learn.

猫咪AV North Texas has an immediate need for volunteer tutors who can commit at least an hour a week to work with students in the following schools:

Tarrant County

Edward J. Briscoe Elementary School

Mitchell Boulevard Elementary

Maude Logan Elementary School

John T. White Elementary School

Dallas County

David G. Burnet Elementary School

Walnut Hill Elementary School

Stephen C. Foster Elementary School

Sudie L. Williams Elementary School

John F. Kennedy Elementary School

Mount Auburn Elementary School

Lumin Lindsley Park Comm. School

Eduardo Mata Elementary School

J. N. Ervin Elementary School

To learn more about volunteering with 猫咪AV, please email聽volunteerNTX@readingpartners.org聽or call聽(214) 821-4500.

About 猫咪AV

猫咪AV empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by engaging community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has provided聽, individualized literacy tutoring to nearly 45,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽聽to learn more about our聽, or connect with us on聽,听,, and聽.

Recently, 猫咪AV was recognized as a Best Practice Honoree during the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. The 2017 awards program honored 15 organizations for outstanding work in the field of literacy and implementation of best practices in literacy promotion.

猫咪AV volunteer tutors work with their students (photo credits: 猫咪AV)