{"id":12973,"date":"2019-12-26T01:27:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T06:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internsdc.com\/?p=12973"},"modified":"2019-12-26T01:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T06:27:47","slug":"be-a-hero-volunteer-with-reading-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/be-a-hero-volunteer-with-reading-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Hero: Volunteer with Reading Partners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Become a Reading Partner today!<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingpartners.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reading Partners<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>is\u00a0a nonprofit organization that recruits and trains community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring to students who are struggling with reading. Tutors use a research-based curriculum, and program staff regularly assess students to benchmark and monitor student progress.<\/p>\n<p>Devoting\u00a0<b>just one hour each week<\/b>\u00a0to a student can make a tremendous impact. Last year, 99% of Reading Partners\u2019 DC students improved their rate of learning in reading, and 90% narrowed their achievement gap. This year, Reading Partners is partnering with 11 local district and charter elementary schools and is opening opportunities for 600 students living in economically disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up to\u00a0be\u00a0a Reading Partner, please fill out the form found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/info.readingpartners.org\/volunteer-in-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0If you have any questions, please call\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%28443%29%20794-2225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(443) 794-2225<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or email Senior Program Manager, Chelsey Fortin at <a href=\"mailto:chelsey.fortin@readingpartners.org\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">chelsey.fortin@readingpartners.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become a Reading Partner today! Reading Partners\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit organization that recruits and trains community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring to students who are struggling with reading. Tutors use a research-based curriculum, and program staff regularly assess students to benchmark and monitor student progress. Devoting\u00a0just one hour each week\u00a0to a student can make a tremendous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-tips","category-internship-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}