Job Title: EntrepreneurReading Coach: 2001-2004 (Bailey Gatzert Elementary) Team Read Board Member: 2010 - 2013 As a teen, Kacie volunteered as a Team Read reading coach to elementary school students before earning her BA in Communications from Seattle Pacific...
As Team Read approaches our 25th anniversary next fall, we’re thrilled to have a passionate and dedicated alumna leading the organization into the next chapter, helping Team Read reach even more young readers and teens in our community. Chance Hunt, President...
Team Read will be serving many more students during the 2021-22 school year, with several new sites in Seattle, Highline, Tukwila, and beyond. You can support this growth and help expand Team Read’s libraries by purchasing books from our Amazon charity list or making...
Over the past couple months, Team Read has added two staff and welcomed three new board members to our team. “We are super excited to have such dynamic and skilled individuals joining our board and staff!” said Executive Director, Melissa Pailthorp. “We’re growing...
During the 2020-21 school year, Team Read provided 40 hours of one:one reading time for hundreds of 2nd-4th grade students online after school. We saw them develop powerful connections with their teen reading coaches and become stronger, more confident readers. In the...
We are thrilled to announce Team Read will be partnering with Tukwila School District (TSD) beginning this fall to provide one:one reading tutoring support for 2nd and 3rd grade students at Cascade View, Tukwila, and Thorndyke Elementary Schools. Earlier this year,...
Team Read launched our 2021 summer program on July 6th. Many of our Seattle-based coaches and readers who worked together during the school year opted to continue their partnership for five weeks of virtual programming. Team Read’s core program included five different...
Team Read coaches and twin sisters, Aurielle and Danika, joined the program this year to earn community service hours, while also sharing their passion for reading and literature with young students. And, as we recently discovered, they are budding writers and...
I applied to Team Read because I thought it was a good way to get more involved with the district. I didn't have much experience working with elementary students either, so I thought it would be an interesting job. Now that this year is coming to an end, my biggest...
We’ve had so many amazing pairs working together this year in Team Read, and thanks to our dedicated teen coaches, many students are now reading at grade level (or higher)! “Kalie has worked as a coach for a couple of years and is fantastic,” says site coordinator...
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