Reach Education Inc

Mission: Reach develops confident readers and capable leaders by preparing teens to serve as tutors and role models to younger students, resulting in improved literacy outcomes for both.

Program Model: Dramatic growth in literacy skills, for both high school and elementary school students, will be achieved through a three-pronged approach:

 

·      Training : Two days each week, our adolescent tutors are guided by licensed teachers to prepare appropriate lesson plans grounded in the five core components of literacy development: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.

 

·      Tutoring : On two alternating days each week, our adolescent tutors provide reading instruction to elementary school students in need of support.

 

·      Compensation : Our tutors receive a stipend for program participation.

 

Reach Incorporated now serves 250 participants at five program sites in the District of Columbia.

In addition to this core academic program, Reach runs a summer program focused on the development of leadership skills for post-secondary success. As part of that program, our teens have now published thirteen books that can be purchased through our partners, Shout Mouse Press.

Reach creates readers. Reach creates leaders. And, by lifting two populations through a single relationship, Reach is efficiently and effectively attacking DC's literacy crisis.