Final Countdown!

4 Days!

96 Hours!

5,760 Minutes!

345,600 Seconds!

When the countdown hits zero, we will have completed Reach's first tutor training session. Like Reach's students, we will never be perfect, but we will be prepared. It's very easy to feel overwhelmed at this moment - to worry about student attendance, teacher contracts, and instructional materials. But, at this moment, that serves little purpose.

In the coming weeks and months, there will be bumps in the road. But, after a full year of planning for this moment, we are ready. We are ready to learn what works, discover what could be improved, and watch our students grow. We will see tutors discovering their own potential to create change, and we will see students learning to love reading. We will see tutors get excited about their first paycheck, but we will also watch as they become proud of their progress and the growth of the students they tutor. In the end, to them, their progress will become more important than their pay.

Our tutors will enter our program with a history of poor performance and the associated questions about their own academic ability. The journey through which we will produce proud and proficient readers will be challenging, but we will get there. That journey starts now.

Thanks, as always, for reading.

Mark