猫咪AV Tulsa reaches 36% more students, empowering children and communities to thrive
September 20, 2022
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Brenna Peterson
Senior External Relations Manager, 猫咪AV Tulsa
(713) 208-9694 |聽brenna.peterson@
Local nonprofit鈥檚 2021-22 impact results show critical support for students, schools, and communities
TULSA, Okla. – September 19, 2022聽聽鈥� As highlighted over the weekend on聽, 猫咪AV has continued to provide critical literacy support to students, schools, and communities despite COVID-19 variants having created major disruptions in schools. In fact, the nonprofit provided literacy tutoring to 36% more Tulsa-area students in the 2021-22 school year than the year before.
鈥淭he previous years of school interruptions have impacted the already existing inequitable educational opportunities for students. At 猫咪AV, we provide high-quality individualized literacy instruction for students in the Tulsa community that transforms lives.鈥� – Robin Emerson, 猫咪AV Tulsa Interim Executive Director
2021-22 results show that 猫咪AV continued to positively impact students
Each year, 猫咪AV publishes reports highlighting student performance for the national organization and for each of its 12 respective regions across the country. The Impact & Innovation reports for the 2021-22 school year have recently been posted on聽聽and include the following highlights in Tulsa.
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863聽students received 12+ sessions of one-on-one tutoring
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26,223聽total tutoring sessions were delivered to those same students
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15%聽of sessions were delivered online via 猫咪AV Connects
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872聽community tutors supported students
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98%聽of volunteers were satisfied with their experience
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2,167聽additional students received take-home books and literacy packets
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Learn more about 猫咪AV鈥� impact in Tulsa聽.
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Learn about 猫咪AV鈥� national impact聽.
In addition to reaching a lot of students, 猫咪AV Tulsa achieved impressive student performance. In 2021-22, 70% of all 猫咪AV students finished the year meeting or exceeding their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals, while 70% of K-2 猫咪AV students were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read and grade level.
鈥淲e鈥檝e continued to see positive outcomes. Last school year, 89% of the students involved in 猫咪AV experienced measurable growth.鈥� – Courtney Rodebush, 猫咪AV Tulsa Program Director.
Heading into the new school year, 猫咪AV Tulsa anticipates needing approximately 1,300 community volunteers to support students’ literacy development. Follow聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in investing one hour a week to help empower a student through reading.
猫咪AV also gets help from AmeriCorps members to train and provide ongoing support to literacy volunteers. Please聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in becoming an AmeriCorps member at 猫咪AV.
A volunteer tutor and a student in a reading center engaging in 猫咪AV鈥� traditional tutoring program (Photo Credit: 猫咪AV)
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About 猫咪AV
For over 20 years, 猫咪AV has helped empower students to succeed in school and beyond by engaging community volunteers to provide聽, one-on-one literacy tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has mobilized over 75,000 community volunteers to provide more than 2.5 million individualized literacy tutoring sessions to more than 70,000 elementary school students in nearly 470 under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽to learn more about our聽and our聽online program innovation, or connect with us on,,, and. 猫咪AV is a proud聽service partner and has been endorsed by聽The New York Times.
