Read Charlotte

We can improve early literacy in our community, together! Visit CommitTo80.org to get involved today.

We’re excited to share photos of our 2024 #CommitTo80 Campaign Kickoff event: https://lnkd.in/ejfR_tZF It was a wonderful, inspiring evening that left us feeling more grateful than ever to be doing this work with such amazing partners. We are all a piece of the puzzle for the children in our community, and together, we can improve early literacy. Thank you to everyone who attended, and to our speakers for the evening: Bobby French, principal of Pineville Elementary School, and Dr. Devonya Govan-Hunt, president of Black Child Development Institute Carolinas. We also want to thank Charlotte’s first youth poet laureate, Vanessa Hunter, and Charlotte’s first poet laureate, Jay Ward, for their powerful performances of spoken word poetry.

Do you know a Reading Hero? Help us recognize ordinary people in Mecklenburg County doing extraordinary things to improve children’s reading! Submit a nomination today: https://lnkd.in/gPirRc4m

Morris Costumes, the home of the #ReadTogetherCLT mural, is participating in Classroom Central’s 9 School Tools supply drive! The school supply drive runs all month, and helps make sure every student has the tools they need to succeed and feel confident in the classroom this school year.?From pencils and notebooks to backpacks and glue sticks, every donation makes an impact! We love seeing all the ways our community comes together, and are so grateful to have such an amazing partner in Morris Costumes!

Meet the Herrera-Kweman family, and hear their #readtogether story! Featuring Charlotte-area families and sharing their reading routines is one of our favorite parts of our #ReadTogetherCLT campaign, and we’re so excited to share this family’s story. Visit?ReadTogetherCLT.org?to learn more.

We love recognizing Reading Heroes in our community! Nominate someone you know who’s going above and beyond to help children succeed in reading: https://lnkd.in/gPirRc4m?

Read Charlotte is looking for a?Literacy Specialist?to join our team! Learn more about the role here:?https://lnkd.in/erU2H_6G

Do you know someone going above and beyond to see children succeed in reading? Nominate them to be a Reading Hero! Meet our past Reading Heroes and submit your nomination here:?

"Mrs. Lee empowers her students with the tools, compassion, and structure to believe that they CAN!"?a Bain Elementary parent said when nominating second-grade teacher Monica Lee as a Reading Hero. Read more about our latest Reading Hero here!

We’re so proud to share that our team presented at the Carnegie Foundation’s 2024 Summit on Improvement in Education last week! Their presentation, “Using Improvement Science to Adapt Evidence-Based Interventions,” focused on the use of improvement science principles to develop our Queen City Readers tutoring tool. Our team looks forward to this conference each year, and learns so much from each session. Presenting was truly a full-circle moment! #CarnegieSummit24