Forbes – Staff Writer
“With fewer than 20% of Milwaukee’s third graders reading proficiently, cradle to career partnership Milwaukee Succeeds wanted to test the effectiveness of a promising strategy: literacy coaching for teachers. To test this strategy, Milwaukee Public Schools, Northwestern Mutual, and other local organizations came together to create a literacy coaching program for K-2 teachers in two schools. After just three months, many students working with the newly trained teachers doubled their reading progress. Next year, the school district is expanding the program to five schools. If similar results are achieved in these schools, coaching support for teachers will likely be expanded to reach more students. Milwaukee Succeeds is one of over 60 collective impact partnerships engaged in the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network. Partnership staff and leaders in these communities are passionate about measurement, aiming to constantly learn and adapt across all programs and services working to improve educational outcomes. They rigorously measure and continuously improve their work, making small tests of change and scaling interventions that data shows provide results for kids.”(more)