March 5, 2014 Budding Young Leaders Turned Reading Partners In Tulsa, Reading Partners teamed up with students in ten local high schools–hosting groups of high school aged volunteer tutors every Friday in…
February 27, 2014 Seasoned AmeriCorps Member Tells All Adam Hill volunteered as a Reading Partners’ tutor at Berkley Maynard Academy in North Oakland before he served as an AmeriCorps Site Coordinator for…
February 25, 2014 New York Students Hone in on Grade-Level Reading During my AmeriCorps year of service as Volunteer Coordinator with Reading Partners New York, I’ve had the unique opportunity to get to know all of…
February 21, 2014 National Service Take Two: Becoming a VISTA Leader Sylvie Lane is currently serving her second VISTA term of service as Reading Partners’ VISTA Leader. This post draws upon her experiences as a…
February 20, 2014 Top 10 Reasons to Spend a Year of AmeriCorps Service with Reading Partners AmeriCorps is a national service program supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) that provides opportunities for…
February 19, 2014 Literacy Intervention: Inspiring Students to Dream Big Ana and Israel’s Story Israel and Ana clicked from the very first time they met in October of 2012. Looking back, Israel says that he felt…
February 15, 2014 Jennifer & Rachel's Story: Everyone's a reader, some just haven't found the right book Jennifer, a third-grade student at Leonard Flynn Elementary in the Mission District of San Francisco, enrolled in Reading Partners in November,…
February 13, 2014 Corporate Volunteering: Great for business and great for students At the start of the 2013 school year, Reading Partners opened its doors to a new reading center at Carthay Elementary School. Usually opening a new…
February 11, 2014 Reading Partners Helps Grad Share Passion for Education The original blog post, “Reading Partners Helps Grad Share Passion for Education,” appeared on the CNCS National Service Blog on February, 11, 2014…
February 11, 2014 Miss Baltimore Focuses on Enriching the City Through Early Literacy Pageant “newbee” and Raven’s cheerleader, Amanda Ross, was crowned Miss Baltimore in 2013. She is a graduate of Morgan State University,…