by TeamReadUser | May 16, 2018 | Newsletter Archives
Wowza! Team Read students in Seattle and Highline read for more than 78,000 minutes in April. We are so proud of all our readers! The Seattle tutoring site with the best reading minutes per student ratio was tiny but mighty Dearborn Park! The elementary school (a new...
by TeamReadUser | May 15, 2018 | Newsletter Archives
Team Read 4 started with a question – what about the 3rd graders who aren’t reading at grade level at the end of the Team Read program? Can we do something more to help them? From that challenge, Team Read developed a new model centered around the essential one-on-one...
by TeamReadUser | May 15, 2018 | Newsletter Archives
Thanks to a $60,000 grant from the City of Seattle Department of Education and Early Learning (DEEL), Team Read will partner with Seattle Public School’s Summer Staircase program to provide a full-day experience for more than 120 students at Martin Luther King...
by TeamReadUser | May 15, 2018 | Newsletter Archives
This month, 295 elementary students in Seattle and Highline school districts graduated from the Team Read program. Students and teen reading coaches celebrated at their tutoring sites with pizza parties, diplomas, free books courtesy of Page Ahead, game tickets from...
by TeamReadUser | Apr 19, 2018 | Other
GiveBIG is May 9! This year, your donation will help provide important resources and materials for Team Read’s tutoring program, including: Leveled Reading Libraries ($3,000 per site) Treasure Chests Filled with Reading Incentives ($75 per site) Power Reader...
by TeamReadUser | Apr 17, 2018 | Newsletter Archives
April is traditionally our read-a-thon month at Team Read, and this year is no exception. Student readers across the city are setting reading goals for the month, adding up all the minutes they read at home, at school and at Team Read and competing for fun reading...
by TeamReadUser | Feb 9, 2018 | Newsletter Archives
Team Read recently completed training for new reading coaches to work in Seattle and Highline second semester. More than 150 new teens were recruited to work in the program. These new teens will join coaches already at our sites. “I want to be a Team Read coach...
by TeamReadUser | Feb 7, 2018 | Alumni Stories, Newsletter Archives
Job Title and Company Strategy & Operations Consultant, Deloitte Team Read Experience 2004-05: Reading coach at Whitworth Elementary and Hawthorne Elementary 2016-present: Team Read Board Member When I was 15, all of my friends were looking for a job....
by TeamReadUser | Feb 7, 2018 | Newsletter Archives
There are so many partners who help make Team Read a success, and Sara Baker is one of those “un-sung” heroes. Since our first meeting last spring to plan the expansion of Highline Team Read, Sara jumped in with ideas and suggestions for getting students from Mt....
by TeamReadUser | Jan 12, 2018 | Other
January 11, 2018 Dear Team Read Community, When I was hired in August of 2000 as Team Read’s Project Coordinator during the 2nd year of a 4-year “project,” I never imagined that I would spend the next 17 years engaged in the most rewarding, and important work of my...
