Alexandria Tutoring Consortium Inc

ATC's  Vision:  Every child in Alexandria can read and succeed!

Our mission: To provide the foundation for future learning success by ensuring that children in the Alexandria City Public Schools can read at or above grade level by the end of third grade.

How does Alexandria Tutoring Consortium (ATC) make a difference?

ATC uses the research-based, UVA-developed "Book Buddies" program, which features twice a week, one-on-one tutoring with individualized lesson plans. Tutors are trained and given custom weekly lesson to follow. ATC employs five reading specialists to oversee the program, provide weekly lesson plans, and train the volunteers.

Impact of ATC tutoring

Excerpts from a volunteer's story of the impact of ATC tutoring for a first grader using our Book Buddies based program. 

FROM: "She worked diligently from the start but the mountain was huge .....One day in the late fall, she told me that she was working with me because she couldn't speak very well, or read or write very well - as though her fate was sealed!

TO: "This week we tried hand clapping again, and like a champ she handclapped a favorite rhyme. Not only did she do it, she memorized the verses so she could do it faster. She was beside herself with excitement! Home run!

TO: "This week, she will have reached grade level, and next week she told me, "I'm going to 2nd Grade."

Student results of ATC tutoring

In 2015-2016, 78.15% of first graders and 77% of kindergarteners tutored for at least 20 sessions demonstrated they had mastered grade-level literacy skills on Virginia's spring 2016 *PALS test. (*Phonological Awareness and Literacy Screening). The average change is guided reading levels was 5.68 (growth in first grade is expected to be 5 levels).  

There is no greater gift we can give a child than books and the skills they need to learn to read!

If children cannot learn to read by 3rd grade, they have a hard time reading to learn in 4th grade and beyond because a majority of the material is incomprehensible to them.

Research demonstrates that reading by third grade is an indicator of which children will graduate from high school prepared for further education, a career and citizenship!

Please donate to the Alexandria Tutoring Consortium so next year more kindergartners and first graders have the opportunity to learn the literacy skills they need to learn to read!

If you would like to tutor, please visit www.alexandriatutors.org for further information and to sign up to tutor for the 2017-2018 school year.

Questions?   atc@opmh.org                                                                    703-549-6670 ext. 119