Making Reading a Part of Children’s Lives

Over time, RLF has provided more than 600,000 books for teachers and their classrooms — new, high-quality, children’s books selected by teachers to address their particular students’ needs and interests.

Since its inception, the RLF has provided over 6,500 professional development awards and opportunities to Chicago public school educators from 463 Chicago public elementary and middle schools.

Impact

In a typical year, RLF conducts more than 1,200 hours of professional development for teachers and provides more than 60,000 new, teacher-selected books to enable teachers to implement best literacy practices.

In a typical year, an estimated 63,000 students in Chicago public elementary schools directly benefit from the RLF network. 

The RLF approach serves all children in a classroom and not just a small, select group of high or low performing students.

RLF is engages outside, independent evaluators to conduct on-going, formal evaluation to assess the outcomes of existing programs as well as to aid in the development of future programming.

© 2008 Rochelle Lee Fund