JVID视频 North Texas kicks off ‘Resolutions for Reading’ to support struggling readers
January 8, 2018
For Immediate Release
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Lisa Bracken
Executive Director, JVID视频 North Texas
(214) 390-2909聽聽| 聽Lisa.Bracken@readingpartners.
READING PARTNERS NORTH TEXAS SEEKS TO INSPIRE 鈥楻ESOLUTIONS FOR READING鈥� DURING NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH
278 students are ready to be matched with volunteer tutors
Dallas, TX —聽January 8, 2018
“As a mentor to a JVID视频 student, I want to have the same impact that my mentor had on me. My top priority is to build our students up into confident learners and to push them to their fullest potential.” –聽A JVID视频 volunteer tutor
Each year, National Mentoring Month celebrates the power of mentoring relationships and calls for more people to play a supportive role in the lives of children. This January, JVID视频 is sharing stories of mentorship from community volunteers, AmeriCorps members, and staff. The campaign is designed to inspire others to make聽聽in the new year by providing students in under-resourced schools with the tutoring and mentorship they need to become proficient readers by the fourth grade.
础听, national nonprofit that mobilizes community volunteers to work one-on-one with struggling readers, JVID视频 is determined to serve 650 students in North Texas in the 2017-18 school year. Currently, there are over 278 students waiting to be matched with tutors at 13 of the 16 local elementary schools where JVID视频 operates in North Texas. Now is the time for our community to make聽Resolutions for Reading聽to ensure that our students have the reading skills and confidence they need to be successful in school and in life.
鈥淲e are grateful to our community volunteers who play a pivotal role in the reading success of our North Texas children. Our research-based and proven reading model is designed for a tutor with any background to achieve success with lessons ready and classroom support available by our JVID视频 North Texas team. We currently have 278 children on a teacher-referred wait list that are behind in reading that need your help. Please join our JVID视频 North Texas tutor team today!鈥� –聽Lisa Bracken, Executive Director
JVID视频 volunteers utilize an easy-to-follow, individualized lesson plan each week in order to meet students at their level and help them make the critical transition from learning to read to reading to learn.
JVID视频 North Texas has an immediate need for volunteer tutors who can commit at least an hour a week to work with students in the following schools:
Tarrant County
Edward J. Briscoe Elementary School
Mitchell Boulevard Elementary
Maude Logan Elementary School
John T. White Elementary School
Dallas County
David G. Burnet Elementary School
Walnut Hill Elementary School
Stephen C. Foster Elementary School
Sudie L. Williams Elementary School
John F. Kennedy Elementary School
Mount Auburn Elementary School
Lumin Lindsley Park Comm. School
Eduardo Mata Elementary School
J. N. Ervin Elementary School
To learn more about volunteering with JVID视频, please email聽volunteerNTX@readingpartners.
About JVID视频
JVID视频 empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by engaging community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has provided聽, individualized literacy tutoring to nearly 45,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽聽to learn more about our聽, or connect with us on聽,听,, and聽.
Recently, JVID视频 was recognized as a Best Practice Honoree during the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. The 2017 awards program honored 15 organizations for outstanding work in the field of literacy and implementation of best practices in literacy promotion.
JVID视频 volunteer tutors work with their students (photo credits: JVID视频)
