by Guest Contributor | Jul 5, 2017 | Media, Media 2015-2018
Kansas City Public School leaders are inviting individuals, nonprofits, and businesses to volunteer for the district’s new mentoring program that begins this fall. The goal of the new mentoring initiative is for each student in the district, almost 15,000 students, to...
by Guest Contributor | Oct 14, 2016 | Testimonial
Lokesh Ravichandran, Staff Software Developer with DST, is the Site Coordinator for Garfield Elementary. He has been instrumental in the growth and success of our team there. Today at Garfield we have 120 DST Readers – many of whom Lokesh has personally recruited! I...
by Guest Contributor | Apr 1, 2016 | Media, Media 2015-2018
At midday on any given Wednesday at King Elementary in Kansas City, the parking lot begins to fill. But the people arriving at the school are not children. These people, ranging in age from 25 to 70 are readers with Lead to Read KC, and they are coming to school not...
by Guest Contributor | May 31, 2015 | Media, Media 2015-2018
Every Tuesday during her lunch hour, Lynn Carlton has a standing appointment with a first-grader at Wendell Phillips Elementary in Kansas City. In addition to her job as an urban planner at HOK, Carlton is a volunteer with the Lead to Read program. On each visit,...
by Guest Contributor | Aug 13, 2013 | Testimonial
By S. Rauer, 4th Grade TeacherM.E. Pearson Elementary School, Kansas City Kansas I feel so lucky as a classroom teacher to have the Lead to Read readers come to our classroom. It is so important for my students to know that there are adults in their community who are...
