Tutor Stories of Impact

For those who are not familiar with our work, the Literacy Lab is committed to creating a more just society through opportunity and access to education for those who have been most impacted by systemic racism and inequities. Through our amazing Tutors and Fellows we offer literacy intervention services to students in PK through 3rd … Read more

Principal Mark McCann was one of the first school leaders in Springfield, Massachusetts to invite The Literacy Lab into his school at Lincoln Elementary back in 2018. He recognized that some students were starting behind their peers or had gaps in their learning. Often these were students of color and students from low-income households. To … Read more

At the Literacy Lab, our Tutors and Fellows go above and beyond for the students we serve and for their fellow service members. Our educators continue to demonstrate inspiring resilience as they help students achieve literary excellence, despite the difficulties many of them have faced in their personal lives due to the Covid-19 pandemic. When … Read more

After a sports-related setback in high school, Diondre Ouzts found a new passion for empowering the youth in his community through education. When he learned he could no longer play football during his senior year of high school, Diondre admitted to losing his motivation for academics. His grades suffered as a result, and eventually, he … Read more

Feedback from our tutors, Fellows, and partner schools is a crucial part of how we measure our success as an organization and how we make improvements to our programming from year to year. Each quarter, tutors and Fellows share their feedback so that program teams can respond quickly to the needs the current cohort has … Read more

This school year, we expanded our programming into Danville, Virginia – a small city on the VA-NC border that has turned its focus toward improving reading proficiency for students in grades K-3rd. This goal shined a light on the educational inequities within the region, including the need for high impact literacy-focused partners in the city’s … Read more

This school year has been different in many ways, but what hasn’t changed is that Literacy Lab’s AmeriCorps tutors are connecting directly with students to provide individualized literacy support. Each day, nearly 300 AmeriCorps tutors log into their virtual tutoring spaces or don their PPE to lead students in duet reading, sing the alphabet song, … Read more

This school year has been different in many ways, but what hasn’t changed is that Literacy Lab’s AmeriCorps tutors are connecting directly with students to provide individualized literacy support. Each day, nearly 300 AmeriCorps tutors log into their virtual tutoring spaces or don their PPE to lead students in duet reading, sing the alphabet song, … Read more