Read and Rise

The role of families is vital to ensuring that children enter kindergarten possessing the knowledge and skills to be reading ready. Teaching families the importance of reading together and providing them the tools to do so are key steps in ensuring academic success for all students.

Through a partnership with Houston Area Urban League and school districts across greater Houston, we are cultivating a community of engaged and empowered parents in our schools through the use of the Scholastic's Read and Rise program. Read and Rise is designed to address parent/caregiver and children's literacy development by modeling activities that will foster emergent literacy skills and equipping families with the tools to support early literacy development.

Read and Rise Community Impact

80

School Communities

5

District Partnerships

2,800

Families completed 6-week program

Story of Impact

Families receive certificates for completion of Read and Rise.

What people are saying…

“The Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation and the Houston Area Urban League have built a collaboration, a partnership where we're offering Read and Rise in many schools and communities across the greater Houston area because it is a major solution that pulls families, schools, and communities together all around Literacy development.”

— John Robinson, Houston Area Urban League Director of Education

“Read and Rise has emphasized to parents the importance of literacy for their children’s lives and for our community and given them the skills and tools to foster reading development in the home."

— Maria Solis, Farias Elementary Principal

Story of Impact

Parents at Farias Elementary engage in a Read and Rise session instructed by John Robinson, the Director of Education & Youth Development at Houston Area Urban League.

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