About Us
Our Mission
Reach, Inc. will improve reading skills, across ages, by hiring and training struggling adolescent readers to tutor students after school in District of Columbia elementary schools.
Our Model
Through an innovative and empowering after-school program, Reach, Inc. will teach necessary work skills, facilitate literacy instruction in a stigma-free environment, and provided a needed service in a resource-efficient manner.
We expect to see dramatic growth in literacy skills, for both high school and elementary school students, through a three-pronged approach:
- Training: On two days each week, adolescent tutors will be guided by licensed teachers in identifying appropriate content, gaining fluency in that content, and preparing learning activities appropriate for the elementary school students they tutor.
- Tutoring: On two alternating days each week, adolescent tutors will be supervised in tutoring elementary school students in the five core components of literacy development: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.
- Compensation: On a monthly basis, students will be paid for their work. They will be given a base stipend for meeting basic job expectations, and they will be eligible for significant monetary bonuses based on the tutor’s academic growth and the improvements demonstrated by the students they tutor.