Lynette Guastaferro | Source | CEO at Teaching Matters

Teaching Matters is a national professional learning organization that is dedicated to increasing teacher effectiveness. One of Teaching Matters’ key initiatives, Early Reading Matters, is focused on closing the reading gap by second grade. We partner with the school to ensure that a child has three consecutive years of effective reading instruction in those critical early years. We do this by ensuring there is a systemic approach to how teachers teach reading, monitor student reading progress, and collaborate to learn and improve. Early Reading Matters is in 34 public schools in New York City, and it began about four years ago.