Club Activities and Speakers

Reading Partners - By The Numbers

 90%of Reading Partners students in Silicon Valley increased their rates of literacy learning.

 

24 READING CENTERS 

1,100STUDENTS SERVED

1,180VOLUNTEERS 

 

Despite Silicon Valley’s booming job market and influx of international talent, disparities in literacy achievement are growing. Only 59 percent of third graders in Santa Clara County and 55 percent of third graders in neighboring San Mateo County read at a proficient or advanced level, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. In Silicon Valley, where those without a high school degree will earn a median income below the federal poverty line, the stakes for learning to read are high.

Reading Partners was founded in the Silicon Valley in 1999. Since then, Reading Partners has been successfully providing volunteer-led, one-on-one literacy tutoring to K-5 students in three counties across Silicon Valley. We currently operate reading centers in twenty schools in Sunnyvale, San Jose, Redwood City, Hayward, San Mateo, Mountain View, and Atherton.

Our Club hopes to partner with Taryn Kearns and Reading Partners to continue to improve Reading and Literacy in our Neighborhood.

Let’s let everyone know how much fun it was!

Charlie, Robbie and Denise reading with the young’uns at Sunday Friends.

We also were tasked with preparing the lunch break food—we had potatoes, bell peppers, and onions to cut and cook into a hash, and about 12 kids to help us.  They earned points for their help.
We don’t seem to have any pictures of that activity, which is too bad, because it was a lot of fun, and the kids are so earnest.  Also, we had to arm them with knives, which was very exciting, at times.

Raul Lozano from Valley Verde

Raul enlightened all of us with his sustainable and self sufficient Organic Gardening Program for many under privileged families, done in their own backyards - Working with the families and training them to not only fend for themselves, but to be mentors for new families - Planning  a micro business model to help them execute a very successful green house business selling saplings at various nurseries was indeed inspirational to listen to.