Reading Partners became part of the Tulsa educational landscape in 2013, when we first began placing community volunteers in low-income schools to help kids master basic reading skills. Our one-on-one tutoring model empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by engaging community volunteers to provide individualized, personal attention to each student in our program.

Today, only one in four Oklahoma fourth graders is reading at a proficient level and 36% lack even basic literacy skills. By partnering with parents, teachers, public schools, and community leaders in Tulsa, Reading Partners is poised to address Tulsa’s significant achievement gap.

We’re working together toward a future where all children have the individualized support they need to become strong readers and lifelong learners.

Explore Reading Partners’ impact in Tulsa:

• 2019-20 impact & innovation report: Tutoring shortened by COVID-19
• 2018-19 impact report: Last full year of student progress results

By The Numbers

  92% of K-2 students developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read at grade level (2017-18)

28 Reading Centers (2019-20)  

1,303 Students (2019-20)

1,838 Volunteers (2019-20)