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Michelle Collier

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READING PARTNERS ANNOUNCES OUTSTANDING EARLY LITERACY RESULTS IN 2017-18 ACADEMIC YEAR AND ISSUES CALL FOR MORE VOLUNTEERS IN 20TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR

San Francisco Bay Area Regional Metrics Reflect National Trend

Oakland, CA — September 27, 2018–猫咪AV enters its 20th anniversary year of recruiting and placing reading volunteers in schools, with new data that shows 81% of students in the program regionally met or exceeded their literacy end-of-year growth goals in 2017-2018. The early literacy nonprofit is on a mission to recruit more volunteers and partner with more schools as it plans to also celebrate two decades of increasingly successful community partnerships.

鈥淭oday鈥檚 data continues a trend that underscores what we know: children鈥檚 literacy is a problem that we can solve,鈥� said Karine Apollon, CEO of 猫咪AV. During the 2017-18 school year, 猫咪AV mobilized and placed more than 12,000 volunteers in 200+ schools across the country. In the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes schools in Oakland and San Francisco, 猫咪AV placed 1,424 volunteers in 30 schools.

鈥淲ith metrics like these–our priority is to use every opportunity we have to ask people to find one hour a week to tutor a child in a school and help build on these encouraging numbers,鈥� said Aarika Riddle, Executive Director of the SF Bay Area region of 猫咪AV.

Each September 猫咪AV issues national and regional impact reports, and highlights from the San Francisco Bay Area region include:

• 100% of teachers who responded to an end-of year survey say 猫咪AV is valuable to their school.

• 87% of K-2 students mastered key foundational reading skills needed to read at grade level.

• 96% of volunteers are satisfied with their 猫咪AV experience.

• Nearly 1,500 K-3 students were matched with volunteer tutors at 30 schools.

• K-3 students received more 46,000 tutoring sessions or an average of 31 tutoring sessions per student last year.

• Discover details about 猫咪AV鈥� 2017-18 national impact .

Fourth grade is a critical year for students; it鈥檚 when they stop receiving literacy instruction in class because teachers assume they have made the switch from 鈥榣earning to read鈥� to 鈥榬eading to learn.鈥� In fourth grade, struggling readers begin to fall further behind in all subjects, not just reading, and the opportunity gap widens.

猫咪AV focuses on helping students to read at grade level by the fourth grade because students who do not, are four times more likely to drop out of high school (Source: The ).

鈥淲e must make the connection between the economic disparity among students based on where they live and reading proficiency, 鈥� said Riddle. 鈥淓arly literacy is also 聽a social justice issue,鈥� she said. Today, with the help of AmeriCorps volunteers, 猫咪AV volunteers have delivered more than 1.5 million one-on-one tutoring sessions nationwide over the last 20 years.

In the 2018-19 school year, 猫咪AV has a goal to recruit 1,670 volunteers–retirees, students, employees with flex time who can spend one hour a week reading to a kindergartner, first-, second-, or third-grade student.

The 2017-2018 impact reports are made possible through the generous participation of thousands of community volunteers. Details on 猫咪AV volunteer program live here.

 

About 猫咪AV
For 20 years, 猫咪AV has empowered 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 mobilized nearly 55,000 community volunteers to provide , individualized literacy tutoring to more than 50,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit to learn more about our , or connect with us on , ,, and .

 

猫咪AV tutors and students (Photo credit: 猫咪AV)