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Reading Futures Receives Innovation Grant from Accelerate
We are delighted to announce that Reading Futures will receive a $150,000 Innovation Grant from Accelerate, a national nonprofit working to make high-impact tutoring a standard feature of the American school day.
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The Real Teachers of Reading Futures
There was a moment, in the run-up to our summer pilot, that Liz Kline and I started thrashing on what to call our teachers. Call them tutors? Call them interventionists? Then one day we realized we were trying too hard. They’re teachers!
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Pilot Results Are In!
We saw real growth in basic reading skills on clinical assessments, with students and parents citing increased confidence and interest in reading.
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A Reading Future for Every Child
Three months in, we have our first two pilots up and running! We are serving 1st through 3rd grade children around the country, delivering virtual small-group intervention for 50 hours over five weeks.
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Launching Reading Futures
I’m launching a company called Reading Futures. We’ll work from first principles — delivering evidence-based, high-intensity intervention for children with indications of dyslexia in the early grades. When their young brains are still plastic, when the right intervention and the right interventionist can create a reading future. Every child deserves one.