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Literacy matters! REGISTER TODAY: https://buff.ly/38ekGxV to join me and colleagues in this important conversation on how we are working to improve literacy in Philadelphia’s diverse population.

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9 MORE DAYS OF VOTING! please like and share and follow our corresponding event page for your daily reminder to vote! #SFNeighborhoodAssist

We have great news we made it into the 200 finalists for the #SFNeighborhoodAssist and now we just need your help with votes! Choose the ten votes option and vote everyday until August 27! We know you got us Philly! Link in bio

Help our neighborhood win a $25K grant from State Farm Neighborhood Assist. Vote for Achieve Now to win the #SFNeighborhoodAssist $25k grant. We are counting on our community to help us bring it home! Vote here:https://www.neighborhoodassist.com/entry/2039393 Keep up with our ten day vote competition by pressing attend to our voting event! And like and share with your network to get us even closer https://fb.me/e/1fn1gkQbW

Hey we made it to the final round and now we need your vote! Help our neighborhood win a $25K grant from State Farm Neighborhood Assist. Vote for Achieve Now here: https://buff.ly/2VWpWnn #SFNeighborhoodAssist Like and Share!

Hey are you or anyone you know looking for web design freelance work? Achieve Now is looking for someone who can refresh our webpage. The content has been created we are just looking for your imaginative eye and your visual language building email us to be considered. Please share this with your networks. DM us with any questions! The work, of course, is remote. Happy Friday! . . . .... . . . #literacyjustice #phillydesigner See more

What an amazing year we had! Through the tough times and adapting to safety guidelines we were able to still birth such a wonderful curriculum that really empowered our students and coaches we are so excited to see where next year will bring us #literacyjustice #accessibilityforall

We are an organization that specializes in one on one coaching with young students, so over a year on Zoom, we have seen students who normally have: physical movement like; switching classrooms, playing at recess, eating lunch, and P.E., having a hard time staying still over Zoom all day. But kids staying still isn’t our goal, our goal is students becoming better readers, so how can we center that? Ask ourselves is their behavior disruptive to their learning or just a product humans beings having a human experience. Wishing you all a good hump day! A.N.

Hey Philadelphia, as we reflect on the 2020-2021 academic school year we would love to hear from our families and communities to ensure that we can continue to center the work that we do with the needs set by the people. Please answer our short survey: https://tinyurl.com/3f39tjek

Join us this Saturday for our Juneteenth Freedom Day March & our Art in the Park exhibit. A celebration you don’t want to miss! #JuneteenthPhilly Don’t forget to enter our Freedom Day Float House contest! For more information, visit our website.

Happy JAWNteenth! We hope all our families can celebrate the official ending of slavery when the last of the enslaved people heard about the Emancipation Proclamation. Here is a quick How-to guide on how to talk to children about Juneteenth: https://tinyurl.com/2p872cmd

When a word starts with the /k/ sound, how do you know when to use a c and when to use a k when you spell it? Use this handy rule when you're trying to spell words that start with the /k/ sound!

As our students, staff, and coaches get ready for their first virtual literacy sessions next week, we want to share some tips to help make any online learning impactful. Today, think about what your student can do to succeed even before they log on.

We're officially one week away from our first coach and student pairs starting their literacy journey together! We are so excited to start! Follow us for updates from our coaches, staff, and students.

Each Friday, we're going to highlight great books for each of the readers in your family. They might be books for the whole family to read together, books for early readers, middle grade reader recommendations or even books just for grownups. Today we're recommending a book to start conversations about big feelings with your family: Sweep... Written by Louise Greig Illustrated by Júlia Sardà Grade Level: 2-3 Everyone can sympathize with this book's protagonist, Ed. He's in a really bad mood. His bad mood keeps getter bigger and bigger. This book is perfect for cozy-ing up on a chilly fall day, and reminding ourselves that we can come out the other side of a bad mood. Visit Coping Skills for Kids for Resources to help kids work with their very big feelings: copingskillsforkids.com Support local black booksellers by purchasing the book here: unclebobbies.com Teachers, for a free Guide to using books about feelings and emotions in the classroom:https://buff.ly/2I7BsoA

Keep your literacy skills sharp with us. Gather the family (or the class) and play a fun phonics game! How to Play Rhyming Riddles: Swipe through until you get to the first clue. ... Read the clue as a family and try to figure out the answer. Swipe again when you have a guess to check your answer! Rhyming is a great way for early readers to practice isolating and replicating the sounds in words!

Keep your literacy skills sharp this school year with us. Gather the family (or your students!) and play a fun phonics game! Grownup Tip: Pre-readers and newer readers might say words that aren't real words when they are trying to rhyme. For example, they may say "nop" when trying to think of a word that rhymes with "hop." That's okay when you're playing this game together. This is proof that your learner understands the individual sounds in a word and is working to manipulate them. This a super skill when they're learning to read. Keep up the good work! For more information on phonemic awareness and how to help the readers in your family or classroom, visit our resources pages: https://buff.ly/2DuBc0R

Our long-term goal is to no longer be needed. Achieve Now is dedicated to transforming the educational system in Philadelphia to one that produces students who can read. We are guided by these core. values: Learning CommunityCare Success... Success By guiding students to mastery of program material, we will build confident students who possess the skills necessary for success, both academically and in life beyond school.

One of our board members, Pastor Carl Day, asked a pointed question during President Trump' Town Hall last night, and then appeared in this follow-up interview with Don Lemon. So proud of the work he's doing in Philadelphia--and, now, on a national stage!