猫咪AV

For Immediate Release

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Aarika Riddle
Executive Director, 猫咪AV Silicon Valley
(650) 644-9156听听| 听aarika.riddle@readingpartners.org

READING PARTNERS SILICON VALLEY SEEKS TO INSPIRE 鈥楻ESOLUTIONS FOR READING鈥� DURING NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH

230 students are ready to be matched with volunteer tutors

Milpitas, CA — January 5, 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.”听– 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听听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.

A听, national nonprofit that mobilizes community volunteers to work one-on-one with struggling readers, 猫咪AV is determined to serve 820 students in Silicon Valley in the 2017-18 school year.听Currently, there are over 230 students at 14 local elementary schools waiting to be matched with tutors.听Now is the time for our community to make听Resolutions for Reading听to ensure that our students have the reading skills and confidence they need to be successful in school and in life.

鈥淥ur volunteers play such a critical role for the students they work with. In addition to improving literacy skills, our tutors also serve as mentors to their students which is a powerful experience for both parties,鈥� said Aarika Riddle, Executive Director of 猫咪AV Silicon Valley.

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

Redwood City School District

• Hawes Elementary School –听

• Selby Lane Elementary School –听

Sunnyvale School District

• Lakewood Elementary School –听

• San Miguel Elementary School –听

Mt. Pleasant Elementary School District

• Robert Sanders Elementary School –听

To learn more about volunteering with 猫咪AV, please email听volunteerSV@readingpartners.org听or call听(408) 945-5720.

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听, individualized literacy tutoring to nearly 45,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit听to learn more about our听, or connect with us on听,听,, and听.

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)