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Reading Partners Culture
AmeriCorps
Reading Partners Model
Reading Center Operations
Public Education
100
The Reading Partners slogan
"One Tutor. One Child. Infinite Possibilities."
100
The AmeriCorps slogan
Getting things done for America
100
The three levels of curriculum
Emerging Readers, Beginning Readers, and Comprehension Readers
100
The status of tutors before they start tutoring
Scheduled for tutoring
100
The section of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that provides funding to schools with high percentages of children from low-income families.
Title 1
200
The name of the organization before it was Reading Partners (not Book Buddies).
YES Reading
200
The number of hours an AmeriCorps Members serves in a full term of service.
1700 hours
200
Target students are this many months/years behind in their reading level.
6 months to 2.5 years
200
The lesson that students complete before they begin the comprehension reader's curriculum.
Rapid Reader
200
The tax that funds public schools in South Carolina (and California).
Property tax
300
The Reading Partners mission

Our mission is to help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results.



300
Three benefits of serving with AmeriCorps

A living stipend, medical insurance, Education Award, Loan Forbearance, childcare. (any of these 3)

300
The three AmeriCorps positions that operate in reading centers
Regional Site Coordinator, Site Coordinator, and Literacy Lead
300
The only reason second graders take the STAR R assessment.
When they master subdomain skills on STAR EL.
300
The landmark US Supreme Court case in which the court declared segregated schools are unconstitutional.
Brown vs. Board of Education
400
The number of Reading Partners sites in the country.
14 sites


SF Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Twin Cities, Charlotte, Tulsa, South Carolina, North Texas, Baltimore, New York, and Washington, DC.

400
The name of the federal agency that oversees and funds AmeriCorps programs.
Corporation for National & Community Service
400
The number of reading centers in the South Carolina region.
18 reading centers
400
All new tutors need these things done before they can start tutoring in our schools.

Background check, New Tutor Orientation, and sign the Tutor Code of Conduct.

400
The year that schools desegregated in South Carolina.
1963
500
The six Reading Partners organizational values.
Reading Matters, Big Challenges Are Our Thing, Volunteers Get Results, Data Drive Decisions, Together We Are Better, and Laughter Keeps Us Going.
500
This legislation created Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS).
The National Community Service Act of 1990
500
The number of total lessons in all 3 curriculum levels
167 lessons
500
All of the codes that are used in the student tab on the attendance tracker.
RT, ST, NT, SRP, MRT, MST, MSRP
500

A national trend where children and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds are disproportionately incarcerated, because of increasingly harsh school and municipal policies.

The School to Prison Pipeline.