成人直播

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Laura Zachar

Senior Executive Director, 成人直播 Los Angeles Area

505-264-8803 聽|聽Laura.Zachar@readingpartners.org

INDEPENDENT, TWO-YEAR STUDY AFFIRMS STRENGTH OF READING PARTNERS PROGRAM IN THE LA AREA

Study results include an emerging insight that the early literacy nonprofit helps students improve both reading and social-emotional learning skills

(Pasadena, CA) January 15, 2019聽聽鈥� 聽成人直播 is proud to share the results of a two-year study conducted in the Los Angeles Area and across California by Child Trends, a leading national nonprofit research organization focused on improving the lives and prospects of children, youth, and their families. Most notably, the study found that students who participated in 成人直播鈥� evidence-based and community fueled one-on-one tutoring program not only showed gains in their reading skills, but also made聽.

EMERGING INSIGHT:聽83 percent of 成人直播 students improved their social-emotional learning skills by the end of the school year, making gains in social competence, persistence, self-control and reading engagement.聽.

Social-emotional development is critical for children because it helps them deepen personal skills like managing emotions, establishing and maintaining positive relationships, and making sound and safe decisions鈥攕kills that will benefit them throughout life.

Additional findings from the study include:

• 成人直播 was successful in recruiting and engaging students who needed reading support. In fact, 92 percent of the students served in California during the study period were reading below their grade level at baseline.聽.

• 成人直播 volunteer tutors upheld program fidelity and engaged in positive, supportive relationships with students. Eighty-seven percent of tutors had highly positive relationships with their students.聽.

• 成人直播 AmeriCorps members gained essential professional skills compared to national AmeriCorps alumni and nearly nine in 10 AmeriCorps members were very satisfied with their experience.聽.

鈥淎 particularly promising finding from this study is that positive relationships between students and their 成人直播 tutors led to improvements in children鈥檚 social-emotional learning,鈥� said Kelly Murphy, Deputy Program Area Director, Youth Development at Child Trends. 鈥淪ocial-emotional learning is important because it makes students better communicators and problem solvers, and helps them better manage their emotions鈥攕kills critical to their future academic success.鈥�

Child Trends鈥� study built upon findings from 成人直播鈥� two prior rigorous impact studies (听补苍诲听) by further exploring the characteristics and experiences of 成人直播鈥� volunteer tutors and AmeriCorps members, as well as providing a first look at social-emotional learning outcomes for students in the program. The study, which included all four 成人直播 regions in California (the Los Angeles Area, Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, and Silicon Valley), concluded in the fall of 2018.

鈥淭he findings around social-emotional learning are particularly exciting,鈥� said Laura Zachar, Senior Executive Director of 成人直播 Los Angeles.

The rich relationships our tutors build with students demonstrate the impact that 成人直播 makes beyond the improvement of reading skills.

成人直播 has a 20-year history of strong results nationally and since 2008 in the Los Angeles Area鈥攈ere are the LA results from the 2017-18 school year:

• 777 students were matched with over 1,100 community volunteers at 13 partner schools who delivered more than 31,000 tutoring sessions (an average of 40 tutoring sessions per student over the course of the year).

• Among 成人直播鈥� youngest students in the LA Area, 94 percent were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read at grade level.

• Based on survey responses, 100 percent of teachers reported 成人直播 is valuable to their school and 97 percent of volunteers were satisfied with their 成人直播 experience.

• Learn more about 成人直播鈥� impact in the LA Area聽.

National Mentoring Month offers volunteers an opportunity to support local students

January is National Mentoring Month, an ideal time for volunteers to get involved in programs that support today鈥檚 youth. 成人直播 aims to recruit and train nearly 1,300 volunteers in the LA Area this school year to serve as literacy tutors for 800 struggling readers. To learn more about 成人直播 or to sign up to volunteer, please visit聽.

For any and all media inquiries, please contact Laura Zachar, senior executive director of 成人直播 Los Angeles Area at聽Laura.Zachar@readingpartners.org.