Literacy Liberator Model and Fellowship

We are and must be solution builders. We know this because of our proximity to families — that’s what makes us different. Advocacy is necessary to implement, sustain, and scale but first and foremost we build solutions. That’s what’s needed.The Liberator Model is a solution that upskills parents and caregivers to be paid tutors and at the same time, provides high-dosage tutoring in some of the lowest-performing schools in our district. The Liberator Model is unique because it integrates both academic aspirations and socio-economic needs:

Literacy Liberator graphic with five core tenets.

Our Literacy Liberator Fellowship was featured in Dr. Kyla Johnson Trammell’s recent Superintendent Report, sharing how we are helping reach the district’s goal, set in the strategic plan, to hire 90 tutors and ensure strong readers by the third grade. This fellowship officially brings the district to this milestone — come June, there will be over 90 literacy tutors serving over 5,500 K-2 students in our schools that need them the most. We have hit this goal in year 2 of the district’s 3-year strategic plan. REACH is a co-chair for the plan’s “Read by 3rd grade” initiative. Collective leadership wins every time!

Next, we are building our model to focus on the performance and retention of this new talent pipeline. And we’re excited to partner with The Center on Reinventing Public Education, which will document lessons from our model for a national audience.

Watch this video with FluentSeeds Program Director Emily Grunt to learn more about how our Fellowship works.