History

 

Started in 2004 at the request of the Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent of Schools, Roberta and Clay Klein started a fund at the Desert Community Foundation and asked the pastor of their church for his assistance in recruiting volunteers. Father Howard Lincoln of Sacred Heart Church readily agreed. The District had been using English speaking volunteers to the extent, they could get them to go into the schools in the district that had no English speaking people in the community. Roberta asked the Superintendent if he would provide buses if they could recruit volunteers who were fluent in English through churches and other organizations.

 

Read With Me was born and now brings volunteers from seven churches to five different schools. The schools are all in areas of high poverty with a majority of the parents untrained in academic English. They love their children but cannot help them with English.

 

In 2013, Read With Me received a Golden Bell Award for English Acquisition from the California School Board Association. We believe the program is totally replicable in other areas that face similar challenges in providing tutoring and mentoring for disadvantaged children in a classroom setting.

 

What we do

In the classroom, the teacher assigns individual volunteers to selected students to listen to them read, assisting them with pronunciation and comprehension. The mentor/tutors are typically retired part-time Coachella Valley residents, some with special skills who help specific students go beyond the basic.

 

 

Read With Me

A Golden Bell award for English Acquisition by the California School Board Association.
 
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We are accepting new and returning volunteers.  We ask that you live here in the Coachella Valley either part-time or full-time to be a volunteer.
Volunteers can be on campus when fully vaccinated. We will have in-school and after-school programs, some with Zoom, others in person. We hope to be on campus in the fall and will offer busing from some locations. More details to follow.
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    • OUR HISTORY

      • HOW DO WE DO IT?
    • VOLUNTEER

    • BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR

    • EVENTS

      • 2021 RWM Volunteer of the Year Article
      • 2021 Volunteer of the Year Video
      • 2020 READ WITH ME LUNCHEON
      • 2020 READ WITH ME ANGELS
      • 2018 READ WITH ME LUNCHEON
      • 2017 DONOR APPRECIATION BRUNCH
      • 2017 READ WITH ME LUNCHEON
      • 2016 READ WITH ME LUNCHEON
      • 2015 READ WITH ME LUNCHEON
    • BOOK DISTRIBUTION

      • INCLINE VILLAGE
      • JOHN KELLEY
      • LAS PALMITAS
      • MOUNTAIN VISTA
      • OASIS ELEMENTARY
      • PALM VIEW
      • SAUL MARTINEZ
      • CATHEDRAL CITY
      • MARIPOSA ACADEMY
      • VAN BUREN
      • VALLEY VIEW
    • PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS

      • CATHEDRAL CITY ELEMENTARY
      • JACKSON ELEMENTARY
      • JOHN KELLY ELEMENTARY
      • LAS PALMITAS ELEMENTARY
      • MECCA ELEMENTARY
      • MOUNTAIN VISTA ELEMENTARY
      • PALM VIEW ELEMENTARY
      • PETER PEDLETON ELEMENTARY
      • RICHARD OLIPHANT ELEMENTARY
      • SAUL MARTINEZ ELEMENTARY
      • OASIS ELEMENTARY
      • VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY
      • VALLE DEL SOL ELEMENTARY
      • VAN BUREN ELEMENTARY
      • INCLINE ELEMENTARY
      • MARIPOSA ACADEMY
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