Pontiac READS!

Pontiac READS! Mission and Vision Statement

Pontiac READS! is a member of the National Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Our mission is to ensure that all children in the City of Pontiac read, write, speak, listen, and visually represent proficiently. Our vision is to invest in Pontiac children’s right to literacy access and equity by intentionally and explicitly providing community-wide support for literacy development from birth-grade 3.

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Pontiac READS! Structure and Processes

The Pontiac United Education Coalition (PUEC), a registered non-profit, has recruited literacy stakeholders from across Pontiac to form our local chapter of the Campaign Grade Level Reading (CGLR)–Pontiac READS! Collaboratively, educators, business leaders, not-for-profit organizations, and faith communities have come together to partner with parents and schools to support young children’s (birth-grade three) literacy development across Pontiac.

Pontiac READS! will focus on four goal areas, each of which research shows are critical to literacy success: summer learning, early literacy learning, school attendance, and health and wellness. Each of these goal areas will form a Collaborative that is composed of partners, subject experts, community stakeholders who will help navigate and drive planning for high quality program implementation using best practices. A Visionary Council will provide guidance and strategy for all CGLR collaboratives. Members include the chair of each collaborative, funders, and experts.

To implement the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, we will engage in the following with Pontiac READS! partner organizations:

Make available a full range of educational, professional and parent development opportunities;
Promote and recruit for GLRC events;
Organize community conversations to drive parent engagement and issue awareness;
Identify and support all GLRC stakeholders in implementing, and tracking program assessments and data collection;
Create a data organization and sharing system across programs and organizations who are GLRC stakeholders;
Analyze cross-program outcomes and develop data-driven goals for program revision and improvement to inform interventions at scale, and assure improvement and accountability; and
Amplify the Pontiac READS! partners and programs and celebrate success.

Partner organizations will participate in evidence-based practices, shared data collection procedures, and application of data analysis to drive program improvement to work collaboratively towards the goals of Pontiac READS!