One for the books Read On, Sonoma program is incentivizing kids to read—one cool prize at a time… By Janet Perry T here’s a new program in Sonoma County that is helping pull local students out of the reading slump that occurred during the pandemic. Students are showing great progress through the incentives brought to their personal reading
Florida, where the foundation is based. “We’re all just so excited to see the measurable and material gains of our student participants,” says Amaturo. Leisen says she loves working with Read On, Sonoma and believes the work to be hugely important to the success of local students. “I am a longtime Sonoma County educator,” Leisen says. “I was a teacher at Roseland [Elementary School]. I was the principal at Roseland. I’m now the director of learning support for Oak Grove Union School District. As we know, literacy drastically affects the trajectory of children’s outcomes in education and in career.”
goals by Read On, Sonoma. Michelle Leisen is the director of Read On, Sonoma and says with the help of the Amaturo Family Foundation and the Guy Fieri Foundation the program was piloted in local schools during the 2021-22 school year. Santa Rosa resident Lawrence Amaturo—publisher of NorthBay biz —was inspired by his family’s success with a similar program they supported in
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