成人快播

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Brooke Rivers

Executive Director, 成人快播 Twin Cities

(612) 281-1558聽聽| 聽brooke.rivers@readingpartners.org

READING PARTNERS TWIN CITIES ANNOUNCES STRONG 2016-17 STUDENT IMPACT RESULTS AND A NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Award winner to lead the early literacy nonprofit as it seeks more community tutors in Minneapolis and Saint Paul in 2017-18

(St. Paul, MN) October 4, 2017聽— 聽Brooke Rivers, a 2011 winner of the Catalytic Leader of the Year award by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, has recently taken over as the Executive Director of 成人快播 Twin Cities. Rivers started her career serving two terms as an AmeriCorps VISTA member where she developed a passion for service and a belief that anyone has the ability to change the world. Rivers subsequently spent eight years on the College Possible leadership team鈥攂oth in the Twin Cities office and as part of the national team鈥攄eveloping and leading College Possible鈥檚 College Program. Most recently, Rivers served as Program Director of 成人快播 Twin Cities where she has overseen strong growth within the region. Rivers holds degrees in anthropology, Spanish, and English literature from Bethel University in Saint Paul.

Rivers is taking the helm at 成人快播 Twin Cities as a new program year is about to get underway. During the 2016-17 school year, 成人快播 continued to build on its history of successfully advancing early literacy in the Twin Cities region. A national nonprofit organization, 成人快播 collaborates with community volunteers and local public schools to provide students in under-resourced schools with the proven, individualized reading intervention they need to read at grade level by fourth grade. 成人快播 collaborates with teachers and principals at local public elementary schools to identify students reading behind grade level and provide them with personalized literacy instruction in a dedicated 鈥渞eading center鈥� space at their school.

鈥淲hile there is no doubt that Minnesota faces a stubborn achievement gap challenge, proven interventions like 成人快播 can help significantly narrow the divide in both opportunity and achievement,鈥� said Brooke Rivers, Executive Director of 成人快播 Twin Cities.

2016-17 school year results were strong

Each year, 成人快播 issues student impact reports for the national organization and for each of its 14 respective regions across the country. The impact reports for the 2016-17 school year have recently been posted on聽聽and include the following highlights.

• In the Twin Cities region:

  • 462 students were matched with 550 community volunteers at 11 partner schools who delivered a total of 16,502 tutoring sessions over the course of the year.

  • Among 成人快播鈥� youngest students in Twin Cities, 90% mastered key foundational reading skills needed to read at grade level.

  • Based on survey responses, 100% of principals report improved school-wide reading progress, 98% of teachers report 成人快播 is valuable to their school and 95% of volunteers were satisfied with their 成人快播 experience.

  • Learn more about 成人快播鈥� impact in Twin Cities聽.

  • Learn about 成人快播鈥� national impact聽.

Calling all volunteers for the 2017-18 school year

Nationwide, only one in five low-income students is reading proficiently by the fourth grade. Tragically, this translates into nearly nine million low-income elementary school students who are unable to use reading as a foundational skill to power their learning in all other subjects in school. On a local level, as highlighted recently in the聽: 鈥淔ive years ago, Minnesota set an ambitious goal of cutting the achievement gap in half by 2017. But in the four years since it introduced a tough new reading test, the gaps in results between white and minority students statewide have barely budged in reading and math.鈥�

Reading is, quite simply, a necessary platform for all future learning. Without developing the reading skills needed to read on grade level, kids don鈥檛 have an equitable chance to succeed in school or in life. Students who can鈥檛 read by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out of school or not earn a high school diploma.

In the 2017-18 school year, 成人快播 aims to match over 700 community volunteers with 600 struggling readers in Twin Cities. By tutoring a student one-on-one for as little as an hour a week, volunteers can make an impact that can quite literally alter the course of a child鈥檚 educational experience and life.

In the most recent end-of-year tutor survey, one of 成人快播 Twin Cities鈥� tutors commented, 鈥淚t sounds clich茅 but I learned as much about myself as a person as my student learned this year; we are both successful and determined learners! We enjoyed getting to know each other and working hard. You can’t say that about most other hours you’ll spend in a week.”

The impressive student results highlighted in the 2016-17 impact reports are made attainable by the generous participation of thousands of community volunteers. To become a volunteer with 成人快播, please visit聽听迟辞诲补测.

A 成人快播 volunteer tutor works with a student (Photo Credit: 成人快播)

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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, or connect with us on聽,听, and聽, to learn more.