October 31, 2014
Superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools sits side-by-side with students
Reading Partners student, Dillon, has the privilege of having two tutors for one! Dr. Ballard is the Superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools and…
Growing a Passion for Learning
October 20, 2014
Autumn "BOOks" for Kids
October isn’t just about carving pumpkins, making costumes, and eating candy. At our reading centers, kids are digging into Halloween- and…
October 20, 2014
Twice a cancer survivor, this volunteer finds strength in tutoring students
Vivian Freeman-Young is a returning reading partner at Malcolm C. Hursey Elementary School in North Charleston, South Carolina, and she is serving…
October 20, 2014
Read, play, learn: Meeting the needs of our youngest readers
“I struggled through the alphabet as if it had been a bramble-bush; getting considerably worried and scratched by every letter.”
— Charles…
October 20, 2014
The new career pathway: Millennials committed to service
In her role as a site coordinator at Garden Place Academy in the high-need Globeville/Swansea community of Denver, Colorado, Kaitlyn Welden oversees…
October 11, 2014
Exciting times in the life of a Reading Partners site coordinator
I have always loved the idiom “a person cannot step into the same river twice.” Credited to the Greek philosopher Hericlitus, the sentiment…
October 8, 2014
"The Giving Tree"...What does it all mean?
by Sarah Balcazar
The Giving Tree is a mystifying story of a boy who asks a loving tree to give him everything, still has academics, religious scholars, parents, and…
