Team Read staff members Rose Nakano and Alicia Rodriguez have been selected to participate in a peer cohort program sponsored by Youth Development Executives of King County (YDEKC). YDEKC is a coalition of more than 100 community organizations (including Team Read)...
Leveraging the Power of Technology for Reading Success
Thanks to a grant from Target Foundation, Team Read is studying how to use technology to enhance the 1:1 tutoring partnership at the heart of Team Read’s program model. Linda Braun, a consultant with deep and wide expertise in digital media and learning, is leading...
Meet our new Executive Director, Melissa Pailthorp
Dear Team Read Community, We’re thrilled to announce that Melissa Pailthorp will become the new executive director of Team Read, leading the organization forward in our efforts to help children reach reading success. We send this announcement with excitement for what...
April Read-a-thon Winners Celebrate Success
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...
Fourth Graders Build Skills and Confidence in Pilot Program
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...
More Students and Coaches will be Reading this Summer!
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...
Nearly 300 Students Graduate from Team Read This Spring
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...
Mariners Support Team Read Students in April
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...
Team Read Hires 150+ Local Teens for Second Semester
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...
Team Read Alumna Kiersa Sanders
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....
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