Who We Are

OUR MISSION

To leverage what already exists in school communities - talented, passionate adults - to build capacity and create fluent, motivated, self-confident readers.

OUR VISION

All children are ready and enthusiastic readers, regardless of their zip code and the resources available to their families; and the adults in their learning community–from teachers, to leaders, to paras, to parents–are given practical and effective tools for ensuring reading success.

We work directly with high-needs schools, their staff, and students, and aim to impact the broader community for years to come through capacity-building and intervention models.

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Literacy Trust is steadfast in our commitment to advancing equity in education. We believe that learning to read is a right that should be available to every child. We pursue our mission and vision with an unwavering commitment to providing access to high quality literacy education for all children in NYC.

We approach our work with a vision of promise and possibility. We believe it is critical to inspire a love of reading in every child and to empower every instructor with the physical and technological tools that are simple to use. We train, teach, and coach with a high-touch, strengths-based approach.

We approach partnership with an informed and evolving understanding of the diverse backgrounds and needs of the communities we serve, and specifically by every school, community organization, individual, and child who our teams support. We recognize the importance of providing responsive and targeted support to every partner we serve and begin that journey of learning from each partner’s starting point.

We are committed to making measurable impact in our partnerships. We use a well-defined program model, use data to drive student and program decisions, and measure our outcomes with rigor. We measure our delivery of resources such as professional development, book sets, literacy learning toolkits for school communities, instructors and students. We believe that human, physical, and technological resources have a measurable effect on equity, access, instructor ability, and student learning.

We are deliberate in our choices as an organization. We use research-based content and consider the infrastructure that must be provided for programs to work effectively. We measure our success by the outcomes of our work. We believe that being data driven and rigorous sets instructors, schools, and their students up for a positive and successful experience of program implementation.