成人快播 Los Angeles Area kicks off ‘Resolutions for Reading’ to support struggling readers
January 9, 2018
For Immediate Release
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Laura Zachar
Senior Executive Director, 成人快播 Los Angeles Area
505-264-8803聽聽| 聽Laura.Zachar@readingpartners.
READING PARTNERS LOS ANGELES AREA SEEKS TO INSPIRE 鈥楻ESOLUTIONS FOR READING鈥� DURING NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH
300 students are ready to be matched with volunteer tutors
Pasadena, CA —聽January 9, 2018
“As a mentor to a 成人快播 student, I want to have the same impact that my mentor had on me. My top priority is to build our students up into confident learners and to push them to their fullest potential.” –聽A 成人快播 volunteer tutor
Each year, National Mentoring Month celebrates the power of mentoring relationships and calls for more people to play a supportive role in the lives of children. This January, 成人快播 is sharing stories of mentorship from community volunteers, AmeriCorps members, and staff. The campaign is designed to inspire others to make聽聽in the new year by providing students in under-resourced schools with the tutoring and mentorship they need to become proficient readers by the fourth grade.
础听, national nonprofit that mobilizes community volunteers to work one-on-one with struggling readers, 成人快播 is determined to serve 720 students in the Los Angeles area in the 2017-18 school year. Currently, there are over 300 students at 13 local elementary schools waiting to be matched with tutors. Now is the time for our community to make聽Resolutions for Reading聽to ensure that our students have the reading skills and confidence they need to be successful in school and in life.
鈥淥ur volunteers are a fundamental part of our work and we couldn鈥檛 do it without them!鈥� says Laura Zachar, Executive Director, 鈥淓very time I visit one of our schools, the excitement that students have when they open the door and see their tutor is magical!鈥�
成人快播 volunteers utilize an easy-to-follow, individualized lesson plan each week in order to meet students at their level and help them make the critical transition from learning to read to reading to learn.
成人快播 Los Angeles Area has an immediate need for volunteer tutors who can commit at least an hour a week to work with students in our聽.
To learn more about volunteering with 成人快播, please call聽(213) 399-8599聽or email聽Chloe.Oliveras@
About 成人快播
成人快播 empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by engaging community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has provided聽, individualized literacy tutoring to nearly 45,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽to learn more about our聽, or connect with us on聽,听,, and聽.
Recently, 成人快播 was recognized as a Best Practice Honoree during the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. The 2017 awards program honored 15 organizations for outstanding work in the field of literacy and implementation of best practices in literacy promotion.
成人快播 volunteer tutors work with their students (photo credits: 成人快播)
