Every fall, Team Read recruits and trains hundreds of teenagers to work as one-on-one reading coaches with elementary students in Seattle and Highline. This year, we had 130 teens return to the program to coach again at local schools.  We also had more than 500...

The Seattle Public Schools bell time change means earlier start times for the majority of elementary schools and later start times for middle and high schools. This seemingly simple change presented a new challenge for Team Read because our model has been built on...

Team Read at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is expanding to serve 4th graders. The curriculum being piloted for this new program has been in development for the past year. Like our program for 2nd and 3rd graders, it is focused on helping students who are reading...

Year Round Support Team Read has an established, successful school year program that is the foundation for our summer work. Access to Reading Materials Team Read provides books for use during each session and is able to provide free books to youth during the summer...

Joan Dore is a legend in the Team Read community. Joan was working at Seattle Public Schools in 1997 as the district’s Reading Programs Manager, and she played the leading role in developing the Team Read concept. Joan also went on to serve on our Board of Directors,...

Team Read recently welcomed five new members to our Board of Directors: Charles Fleming, Sharon Griggins and Laura King. We now also have two ex-officio members, Cathy Thompson from Highline Public Schools and Kathleen Vasquez from Seattle Public Schools, who were...

As we wrap-up the final stages of our 2016-17 after school program evaluation, we are excited to share some preliminary data and feedback with the Team Read community! More than 90% of site coordinators, site assistants, reading coaches, and parents agreed that...

Former reading coaches and their friends and family are invited to donate books for Team Read's new lending library, which features fun, high-interest books that students can borrow to practice reading at home. Research shows the amount of time children spend reading...

Following the successful launch of our pilot program at Hazel Valley Elementary last fall, we are thrilled to announce that Highline Team Read is expanding! This year we will be welcoming Midway Elementary and Mt. Rainier High School to Highline Team Read. Midway will...