UWGN-2024 AnnualReport - Flipbook - Page 18
For 12 years, Raise Your Hand has partnered with school administrators, teachers
and volunteers to implement tutoring in six counties across Middle Tennessee.
Through this partnership, 昀椀 rst through eighth grade students struggling in math
and reading receive targeted intervention toward long-term academic success.
1,341
35%
77%
80%
children served
enrollment increase
of students improved
of students improved
from 47 different schools
from 2023
their reading
comprehension/
foundational reading skills
their math skills
Read to Succeed is a comprehensive early childhood learning model that builds
academic, social and emotional skills from birth to age 5. UWGN provides local centers
with systems of support to ensure that children are meeting their developmental
milestones to be ready for kindergarten. Ten child care locations across the region
are Read to Succeed sites, including the new, soon-to-open St. Mary Villa Child
Development Center.
90%
92%
1,000
met overall
developmental goals
met social-emotional
goals
children served
93%
90%
3,311
met literacy goals
met math goals
training hours provided
to early childhood professionals
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