Seattle teens are excited to help young readers succeed! This fall, Team Read received 490 reading coach applications from 8th graders and high school students.Teens completed applications that included an essay and reference signatures from their teachers, as well as...

In May 2015, the Team Read Board of Directors approved the 2015-2020 Strategic Growth Plan which was driven by our commitment to double the number of students we serve by 2020. The plan includes expanding Team Read in Seattle and in partnership with other districts....

What happens when 138 dedicated Team Read coaches gather in the same room? A great day of learning and sharing with teens from all over the city! The Team Read Return Coach training on Saturday, October 1 at the John Stanford Center drew together teens from all over...

Our 2016-17 Site Coordinators and Site Assistants recently met to plan for the upcoming school year. We asked a few of them to tell us what they're looking forward to most this year. Here's what they had to say:   I'm so excited for the new time-productive...

Team Read coaches earned high praise for their work with Seattle students this summer. Our teen coaches helped hundreds of students, working as classroom assistants in the Seattle Public Schools Summer Staircase program and at Seattle Public Library branches as...

To encourage students to read at home in addition to their tutoring sessions at local Seattle Public Library branches, each student receives a “book bag.” Although the book bag is a simple gallon-sized Ziploc bag, students personalize their bags however they like....

Ready … set … read! If you think the sprinting at the Summer Olympics is impressive, you should see the Team Read students in action. Students in the Team Read summer program are building their fluency skills in one-minute intervals with timed “reading sprints.” Team...

With guidance from Team Read staff and literacy specialists, Team Read alumni Jack Khuu and Teens in Public Service (TIPS) intern Robel Gebremichael are creating a series of training videos for new and current teen reading coaches. These videos will be easily...