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Stay in the know with your fellow volunteers, read the latest volunteer spotlight, and learn about current events happening in the Volunteer Nation.


Learning Ally Transforms Lives

 

Eilyn Davis and Mike Freeman have big smiles on their faces as they talk about Learning Ally.  Graphics have been added, making them appear as if they are wearing cartoon-style pink hats with cat and bunny ears, and pink headphones.  Audio-related icons are in front of Mike as if they are his microphone.  Between them are puffy, white, cloud-like words:  GOOD DAY


 

Mike Freeman, Superintendent Principal at Grant Elementary School in Redding, California, and Resource Learning Lab Teacher Eilyn Davis are BIG fans of Learning Ally!  Click on the link to watch this video and find out why:

https://www.facebook.com/grantschoolcougars/videos/2585783788103729/



 

Colorful graphic of celebratory confetti and streamers rising up from festive party hat-like cones

 

Metrics Update for this week:

  • Our readers increased to 196,219

 

  • We had 39,491 reading at frequency*

 

  • We had over 118 million pages read--an increase of 70% over last year for school readers!


 

Great work, everyone!  Let’s see what next week brings!


 

*at frequency = students are reading books multiple times during the school year, with a general target of thirty times (more for lower grades, less for upper grades).  Our data shows that most of these students read for at least 20 minutes each time.


Great Reading Games 2019 Wrap-Up


Great Reading Games logo: Blue circle around a purple disc, with a traditional loving cup and laurels in its center.  A blue star is on the main body of the cup, and a crown hovers over it.



 

For the expanded report, click here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-GXMUanzp7IMVCHii1NF74zhv8NAPJx-/view?usp=sharing


 

Highlights:

  • We had a 31% increase in school participation over 2018

 

Excitement is in the air as crowds gather in a school gymnasium, waiting to watch the live-stream event with author Kwame Alexander



 

  • We had a 62% increase in participating students over 2018

 

Resource teacher's classroom door celebrating the GRG achievements of and encouraging students in various grades


 

  • Schools participating in the GRG saw a 27% increase in reading activity compared to only 19% in schools that did not participate

 

Glowing smile on the face of one little girl as she proudly shows off her tablet with the book she is reading loaded onto it.  A little stuffed animal in her arms is listening to the book with her.  Caption:  This little sweetie has been coming to read every morning since the Great Reading Games started!


 

  • Students read nearly TWELVE MILLION pages during GRG19

 

Eyes wide with excitement, a young girl shows off her very full LINK bookshelf.  Caption:  Look at all my books!

 

 

  • Educators are saying: “...this is the ONLY intervention that has made a significant difference to so many kids...These kids FEEL like readers now.”


 

Logo with an open book inside a glowing light bulb; text: Innovations in Reading Prize, National Book Foundation: Honorable Mention