Thanks to our friends at the Alcoa Foundation

As 2009 closes, so does our two-year partnership with the Alcoa Foundation.

Their investment in our literacy classrooms helped us provide three classrooms of low-income children with quality teachers and needed materials.

Our Literacy Coach, Kendra Andersen, worked regularly with the teachers in these classrooms, helping all three classes set a new standard of excellence on fall evaluations of learning environment. Each year, the children in our classrooms have shown marked improvement from fall to spring on standard assessment tools; this year, they started the fall assessment at a higher level than in years past. We have high hopes for spring!

Many thanks to Alcoa for helping to make our literacy program a success.

-Emily Kinzig