Campaign for Grade Level Reading: The Funder Action Series, Part 2 

School Readiness

Join us for the second webinar, of a four-part series, that will explore the Campaign for Grade Level Reading Initiative and its core community solution areas.  The second webinar will cover: 

Community Solution Area: School Readiness

Too many children start school already far behind their peers and never catch up. Especially for low-income children, this readiness gap predicts a persistent achievement gap and diminishes prospects for reading on grade level by the end of third grade.

This webinar is for funders interested in learning about the Campaign’s efforts to increase the number of children ready for school with a focus on parents and health to address early literacy, social-emotional-cognitive skills and the health determinants of early school success. The session includes a discussion of how leading-edge technology can be used to support parent success in ensuring that children are ready for school.

To ensure that low-income children are benefiting from the instruction they need to read proficiently by the end of third grade, many funders are supporting efforts to improve school readiness. They are funding programs that address barriers to school readiness, such as chronic health problems, timely recognition of developmental delays, early literacy, parent engagement and they are urging grantees to use school readiness as a metric as a predictor of student success.

NY Funders Alliance and Philanthropy New York’s Education Working Groups invite you to learn about the National and State Campaign for Grade Level Reading as a funding framework.  

Explore issues such as: 

• What are the key proof points of the Campaign?
• How are funders playing a crucial role in the Campaign’s ongoing efforts nationally and locally?
• What does the latest research say about the social-emotional-cognitive skills and the health determinants of early school success?
• What strategies are working to increase school readiness and overcome systemic barriers to the achievement gap?
• Concrete examples of how funders are helping to increase school readiness and improve reading scores as a measure of success in school improvement

The webinar series will cover:

An introduction to the Campaign for Grade Level Reading

The Campaign is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low-income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship. The Campaign focuses on an important predictor of school success and high school graduation—grade-level reading by the end of third grade. Launched in 2012, the Campaign is an expanding Network of more than 200 national and international communities. The communities, including many in New York from Buffalo to New York City, are hard at work implementing ambitious plans to address three challenges to students’ reading success that are widespread, consequential and amenable to community solutions: 

• The Summer Slide: Too many children lose ground over the summer months.

• The Readiness Gap: Too many children from low-income families begin school already far behind.

• The Attendance Gap: Too many children from low-income families miss too many days of school.

Featured Speaker 

• Yolie Flores, Senior Fellow, Campaign for Grade Level Reading

Designed for

All interested funders, especially those with a current or potential focus in early child, families or education. 

Registration: Required by February 5.

Members: To register yourself and/or a colleague at your organization, click on the link below. You will receive webinar log-in details on Friday, February 5. 

Non-Member Funders: Please email register@philanthropynewyork.org

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