Detroit Public Schools Community District
The district has implemented i-Ready as our K-3 Initial Screener/ Diagnostic Reading Assessment. It provides the data-driven insights that classroom teachers and school and district administrators need to determine exactly where to focus their instructional time to ensure all students are successful on assessments with rigorous standards.
Carleton Elementary School
The DPSCD Let's Read program is designed to support struggling readers in grades K-3. The program will train volunteers to work with student's unique needs as identified through literacy diagnostic assessments. Volunteers will work with a designated child in a one-on-one or small group setting and track their individual reading growth.
Beyond Basics Literacy Program
General Motors recognizes the importance of supporting literacy, especially in Detroit, through a $1 million donation to the Beyond Basics' Be The Solution literacy campaign. This investment will provide nearly 500 Detroit high schoolers the opportunity to participate in the nonprofit's literacy program.
Center for Success
Summer of Success- connect parents, students, schools and community partners to enrich the summer experience of our students by instilling routine with rigorous academic support.
RX for Reading Detroit
Non-profit children's literacy initiative sponsored by the University of Detroit Mercy.
St. Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center
Free series of four-week fundamental learning boot-camps running throughout the summer for eligible second through fifth grade to keep their minds sharp and ready in reading and math.
Bennet, Harms, Neinas, & Earhart Elementary Schools- Urban Neighborhood Initiatives
Participate in reading, social-emotional learning, math, STEM & enrichment activities everyday along with 1 on 1 literacy support with students.
Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency
Provides reading, writing and mathematics instruction for low income parents and their children ages six months to eight years old, with the objective of breaking the cycle of poverty and illiteracy and providing both adults and children with essential life skills. The program builds on existing resources and focuses on family/parent literacy, parenting skills and child development. The program is comprised of three components: 1) parents as learners, including GED, life skills instruction, employment training and goal setting; 2) parents as teachers, including literacy-based activities between parents and children; and 3) children as learners, including direct literacy instruction for children.
