Teaching Matters Awarded $120,000 to Begin “Early Reading Matters” Program

The Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education has awarded Teaching Matters a $120,000 planning grant to develop a new K-3 early education component of its teacher effectiveness program. Building upon our successful Teaching for Impact model that is already used in grades 3-8, Early Reading Matters will focus on improving literacy teaching and learning in these critical grades. “It’s crucial to make sure students have a good foundation if we want to equip them for success, and that means we’ve got to give their earliest grade teachers the right tools from the start,” said Lynette