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313Reads’ ultimate goal is to transform Detroit’s early literacy landscape through a collective impact and literacy justice approach in order to support all Detroit children in reading at grade level by third grade.
We are working toward population level change for grade level reading through systemic changes in literacy equity, as measured by an increase in the number and percentage of children reading at grade level and meeting measurable, on-track literacy goals and metrics that translate to school-based literacy outcomes. Our goal is to achieve 3% growth annually once the foundation is laid.
Working together to change early literacy and language systems.
The coalition consists of a Systems Table, a Coordinating Council, an Early Language and Literacy Table, a Summer and Out-of-School-Time Learning Table, and ad hoc Action Teams who develop strategic goals and work to achieve them. This structure ensures that our work is democratically determined and communicated between grassroots efforts and systemic players in order to create the literacy and language systems Detroit’s students and families deserve.
This is our collectively developed strategy to make those changes.
Impact literacy skills
Goal: Significantly impact the literacy skills and achievement of young children in Detroit
Strategies:
Align work across diverse partners
Goal: Engage diverse partners and align work at community, district, city, state, and national levels to serve our city’s children ages 0-8 with coordinated third grade reading efforts
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Build population level impact
Goal: Build population level impact through citywide aligned literacy assessments, data sharing, evaluation, and data mapping
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Serve as an early language and literacy resource
Goal: Serve as an early language and literacy resource to diverse partners and the larger early literacy community in growing and integrating the knowledge and skills for early language and literacy programming that is evidence-based, data-informed, culturally sustaining, and grows literacy equity
Strategies:
Support enrollment and attendance
Goal: Support diverse partners in citywide aligned strategy for increasing enrollment and attendance rates in early childhood education
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Seek collaborative funding
Goal: Support collaborative, equitable, and adequate funding with diverse partners for early language and literacy resources, programming, assessments, and professional learning
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Grow literacy equity and justice
Goal: Grow literacy equity and justice in collaboration with communities and diverse partners at multiple levels
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