Through our one-on-one coaching, Alice’s teaching has transformed and the impact is clear in her students’ results. By confidently implementing an effective reading program, she has seen her students’ reading rates soar.

Alice says, “For me, as a teacher, I have been impacted a lot. And that impact I got, I also impacted the kids as well.”

After years of attending school, the door to reading has finally been unlocked for Helen. Despite attending class on a regular basis, she struggled to grasp what was being taught, and she was too shy to approach the teacher to ask for help. So year after year, she went through the motions without ever learning how to read fluently. And as the years passed, it became more and more embarrassing for her to see how far behind she was falling.

But her 6th grade teacher changed it all.

We opened our initial library in 2018, and within the first year of operations, it was already clear that we would need more space. The community interest in our Library was growing each week, and our small room couldn’t accommodate all of the children who would come. We also knew that some day, we would expand our program into more schools and be more serving more children and teachers on a weekly basis.

So the dream for a bigger Center was planted in 2019,