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2017-2018 End of Year Celebration for

Prayer & Thoughts: Nancy Brieger

Restoration Covenant Church Old Town Elementary Literacy Partner Coordinator and Literacy Partner, Coach, Pastor Liaison

Education Connection Overview: Amy Hagen, LMSW

Education Connection Executive Director

From 45 literacy partners in 1 school in 1 district in 2010-11 to 966 Literacy Partners & Mentors in 80 schools in 9 districts in 2017-18 across greater Austin.

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Education Connection Growth

For the 2017-2018 school year…

Across 9 school districts in greater Austin there are 966 volunteers in 80 schools serving 2192 students

• That’s 493,200≈

volunteer minutes read

• 343≈ days of reading
• 6 ½ continuous days of

24 hours of reading

District # of Literacy Partners # of Schools # of Students Austin ISD 116 11 251 Del Valle ISD 6 2 15 Lake Travis ISD 106 6 216 Leander ISD 340 26 836 Liberty Hill ISD 18 3 50 Manor ISD 8 3 20 Marble Falls ISD 33 2 65 Pflugerville ISD 15 2 32 Round Rock ISD 300 25 679 LPs in all Districts 942 80 2164 Mentors in LISD 24 28 Total Impact 966 80 2192

Many thanks to our 18 faith-based sponsors for

• ur 25 RRISD schools and

all our 300 volunteers!

School: Sponsor: Berkman RRISD EC Core Team Bluebonnet Central Baptist Church Brushy Creek HCBC Brushy Creek Cactus Ranch HCBC Brushy Creek Caldwell Heights HCBC Brushy Creek Callison First United Methodist RR Double File Palm Valley Lutheran Elsa England HCBC Brushy Creek Forest Creek RRISD EC Core Team Forest North HCBC Lakeline Gattis The Fellowship RR Great Oaks Gateway Herrington (pilot) Redeemer Church School: Sponsor: Johnson Wells Branch Community Jollyville Great Hills Baptist Live Oak Anderson Mill Baptist Old Town Restoration Covenant Community Christian Church Pond Springs Gateway Purple Sage HCBC Lakeline Robertson ACF Round Rock Spicewood Hope Presbyterian Teravista HCBC Brushy Creek Union Hill RR Christian Church Voigt Grace Presbyterian Wells Branch RRISD EC Core Team

Heath Frazer

Great Oaks Elementary Principal

Kay Gurley

Robertson Elementary School Coordinator – Intervention Teacher/Dyslexia Specialist

Angela Holcek

Elsa England Elementary - 2nd Grade Teacher & 2018 Teacher of the Year

Kent Schooler

Spicewood Elementary Literacy Partner Coordinator and Literacy Partner from Hope Presbyterian

Lisa Greinert

RRISD Director of Community Education & New Programs, Great Oaks Elementary Literacy Partner

I think that everyone does an amazing job with consistency, communication, efficiency. Everything seemed to go very smooth from what I was able to

• see. You have great volunteers!

It is wonderful to see how quickly it has grown in our district!

Cathy Laws

RRISD Education Connection Director

Great Oaks & Teravista Elementary Literacy Partner, Wells Branch & Berkman Literacy Partner Coordinator

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RRISD Survey for Literacy Partners

Student Improvement

96% of all literacy partners noticed improvement in some

• r all of the students they worked with this year!

building confidence…improved reading skills…enjoy time together… one-on-

• ne attention…working on sight words…students love when we read to them

as much as they like reading to us…wish we could read longer…reading at or above grade level

70% to 100%

• f RRISD literacy

partners want to participate again next year.

Yes for all students I work with

65 61%

Yes for some students I work with, no for others

37 35%

No for all students I work with

2 2%

RRISD Teachers Agree

97% responded YES that all or some of their students improved their reading confidence/effort 95% responded YES that their students benefitted from the Literacy Partner program academically, socially, and/or emotionally . Teacher Comments: I feel the program as a whole is an invaluable tool to helping less confident

• readers. (Great Oaks)

I absolutely love the Literacy Partners

• program. A lot of my students do not

read at home which makes progress very difficult to achieve. Having reading partners come in every week increases my students' accuracy, comprehension, fluency, and love of reading. (Voigt) Having literacy partners are beneficial to the improvement in my students confidence in reading. (Johnson)

Have you noticed an improvement in your students' reading confidence and effort?

Yes for all students 73 69% Yes for some students, no for

• thers

30 28% No for all students 3 3%

Teachers say…

• We would love to see more Literacy Partners at Berkman! If there is any way to

recruit more volunteers, that would be great! (Berkman)

• I'd like to have a cozy reading spot dedicated to reading partners' time (Double File)
• I heard them sometimes and was so impressed with their teaching skills. I was so

grateful for their support. My student had a lot of circumstances in first grade that prevented him from the same opportunities to learn. This year he's in a stable situation and has had other problems clear up and has just blossomed!(Live Oak)

• Thank you for taking time out of your busy lives to read with our kiddos. They love it

and we love you! (Old Town)

• The reading connection partners are wonderful, and truly enjoy what they do. I can tell

that they join us because they truly want to make a difference for our children. Great partnership to have!(Spicewood)

Literacy Partners tell us…

• It has been great working with my two students; we all look forward to our time on
• Fridays. Their teachers were good about letting me know if the student was absent, and

whenever we had no school on Friday, we were usually able to find another time that

• worked. I love seeing them build confidence and getting to know their sweet
• personalities. Will definitely volunteer again next year! (Joe Lee Johnson)
• Thank you for giving students like us the opportunity to work with these young kids, and

have a chance to help improve their reading skills. Working with Literacy Partners has been very enlightening for me. (Pond Springs McNeil Student LP)

• I really enjoyed the experience. I think my students grew in their literacy this year. I

think the one-on-one attention was really valued by one of my students and that made the whole experience very special. (Callison)

School Coordinators and Principals share…

• Three of our volunteers returned from the previous year and are committed to their
• kids. One new volunteer has been amazing and I expect will probably return. The

volunteer really needs to believe that they are making a difference and are valued. They need to feel appreciated. (Gattis)

• We appreciate the investment in our learning community demonstrated by our Lit

Partners! The students enjoyed meeting with their partner along with the growth made in their reading skills! (Forest North)

• More literacy partners. (Berkman Principal)

Everyone is a Recruiter!

NEXT STEPS

Pray and ask God if He would have you return to serve next year with Education Connection. In August, go to www.education-connection.org and complete the Education Connection Registration form then… Complete the online application and background check to register as a District volunteer. (By law, this needs to be done new each year.) Fall training will be in September. Be willing to make a weekly 30-minute commitment to serving from October 2018 - May 2019. Begin recruiting your friends, neighbors, and co-workers to join us!

Thank You

for impacting the life of a child!

Get Your Books!

▪ Literacy Partners please be sure to

pick up 1 book per student that you read with! These books are to be given to the student(s) you read with at your campus celebration.

▪ Literacy Partner Coordinators

please be sure you pick up books for your LPs who could not attend today!