by Angela Pritchett | Mar 13, 2023 | Children's Development, Media, Media 2023, Statistics
In a James Elementary first grade classroom, students are paired off with adults, quietly reading or working on sight words. Their mentors are volunteers with Lead to Read KC, an organization working to increase the literacy rates in young students. Read at Northeast...
by Pauly Hart | Feb 3, 2016 | Organization Updates
“I’m saving you money!” That’s the conclusion I came to recently when I was talking with a group of employees at a local company about becoming Readers for Lead to Read. Many of the employees said their lunch hour is often spent shopping on the internet or dropping...
by Sarah Gaikwad | Sep 22, 2013 | Organization Updates
Its always about leadership. Two leaders who work at Burns and McDonnell, Doug Dietrich and Tom Anderson took the first step, engaging with some hungry readers in KC’s urban core with Lead to Read KC last school year. Tom Anderson heard about Lead to Read at his...
by Guest Contributor | Nov 30, 2012 | Children's Development
By David Williams With this being my 3rd year of participating in Lead to Read, I can’t help but smile thinking of the smiling young faces as we walk into the classrooms each week. But I also think about how the children’s reading abilities progress from the beginning...
by Guest Contributor | Nov 30, 2012 | Organization Updates
By Jeff Oddo In April of 2011 I invited Lynn and Jean Rundle to speak to City Wide Maintenance staff about the Lead to Read program, which was just completing its trial year. The first year trials had shown test score improvements in participating students, and the...
