Sponsor A School

The rapidly changing COVID response has altered the educational system for the 2020-21 school year.  Unfortunately, retention loss, especially in language arts, is on the rise. 

The Summit County Reading Initiative will raise reading achievement for our regular target population of second-grade students. Also, we will include third-graders who were unable to complete last year's program or who lost grade-level reading skills because of the COVID-19 pandemic shut-down. 

Your donation will enable us to teach 72  students per school and provide our reading program at "no-cost" to both the students and school. Students who complete the program are on track to use their new skills to "read to learn" - an essential milestone for academic achievement.

Sponsoring a school will provide a full school year of programming that focuses on struggling readers who are performing far below English proficiency.   TLP's structured curriculum was co-developed with The Regents of the University of California. The game-based learning tool focuses on five essential reading components. Highly credentialed Master Teachers work with small groups of six students during a six-week program cycle. Student success is built around a fun, socially interactive, and lightly competitive environment that supports collaborative learning.

The 30-hour curriculum was vigorously analyzed by the Orange County Department of Education, Evaluation, Assessment, and Data Center. The Executive Data Summary concluded that the program participants realized significant reading skill gains of 76% to 129%, equivalent to 3/4 of a school year or seven months of classroom instruction.

We invite you to visit your sponsored school and attend our special graduations. This partnership is a great "corporate social responsibility" opportunity to involve an entire company and its employees. We welcome employee role models who will speak to our students about career goals and the importance of reading.