Train parents as one-on-one reading coaches through weekly family workshops¶

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Description¶

A core Springboard Summer strategy is developing parents as teachers: the program's stated goal is "Developing parents as teachers by training them to be effective one-on-one reading coaches at home." Each site offers four to five family workshops (four main workshops plus a potential make-up session), and Springboard sets a participation target of attending 80 percent or more of the scheduled workshops as sufficient for engagement and program success.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Weekly family workshops offered at each site, with home visits and make-up sessions to accommodate parents

Constraints¶

• In the evaluation, family workshop attendance showed no significant association with reading growth, which the report attributes to minimal variation because 88 percent of families met the target

Target Learners¶

• Parents and family members of rising kindergarten through fourth grade scholars

Target Learning Goals¶

• Effective one-on-one reading coaching at home
• Cultivating children's reading habits

Related Strategies¶

• Parent Workshops
• Family Literacy Programs
• Home-Based Literacy Support
• Provide parent read-at-home plans and home reading strategies for struggling readers

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Piccinino, K., Pepper, S. K., Salomon, H., Greenfield, S., McClanahan, W., & Robertson-Kraft, C. (2020). Springboard Summer Reading Program Evaluation Report. https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/summerslide