Overview

Reading Partners will begin working with schools in New York City starting in fall 2011.

Each on-campus reading center operates in a converted classroom or a library. Every reading center is staffed by a Reading Partners Site Coordinator to work with the school staff, understand student needs, and guide volunteer tutors.

In the 2011-12 school year in New York, Reading Partners will:

• Offer one-on-one tutoring to 300 students

• Recruit 325 active volunteer tutors

• Serve 7 partner schools

Reading Partners New York Mailing Address:

Reading Center Calendars

• Achievement First Brownsville (Brownsville, Brooklyn)

• Democracy Prep (Harlem, Manhattan)

• Metropolitan Lighthouse Charter School (Soundview, Bronx)

• PS 33 (Queens Village, Queens)

• PS 154 (South Bronx)

• PS 188 (Lower East Side, Manhattan)

Staff

Program Managers:

JASON MARTINEZ

Program Manager, New York

Born and raised in the South Bronx, Jason earned his Bachelor's Degree in both Theatre and Sociology at Northwestern University. It was during his four years at N.U. that Jason learned the value of education and community. After graduation, he took his educational aspirations further by becoming a Senior Corps Member with CityYear Chicago: a non-profit organization working with urban youth in a school setting. In 2005, Jason returned to New York City where he worked as a NYC Teaching Fellow and earned his Master’s of Science in Urban Education from Mercy College in 2007. After six years working as a Special Education teacher, Jason joined the Reading Partners team in 2011. Email Jason: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

TIFFANY ZAPICO

Program Manager, New York

Tiffany Zapico in a native of New Jersey and has a B.A. from Montclair State University. In 2006 she joined AmeriCorps NCCC and completed two terms focused on disaster relief, youth development, and environmental restoration in California, Oregon, Utah, Mississippi, and Louisiana. After spending a year on Teach For America staff in Washington D.C. as an Executive Assistant she joined the national teaching corps in New Orleans, LA. Tiffany has worked as an elementary and high school special education teacher and interventionist in resource, self-contained, and inclusion classrooms in public and charter schools throughout New Orleans. She was one of ten candidates selected nationally to cultivate strong relationships with local leaders in politics, business, media, faith-based, and the service community to promote national service through a non-profit called ServeNext. Tiffany is very excited to be a part of the first year of Reading Partner's NYC as she gets to combine her two passions, service and the fight for educational equity. Email Tiffany: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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