Bigger Masks Get the Job Done
After a winter break, a snow week, and a few additional days to let the COVID positive rate fall a bit more, ATC tutors are back in the schools and ready for business. 99 students were tutored last week while this week, over 150 children got to work with their Book Buddies learning to read. The kids are resilient, eager to learn, and truly happy to be back at school. The tutors are intrepid and dedicated to making sure Alexandria's youngest learners have a solid reading foundation. An enormous THANK YOU goes to Book Buddies volunteers and coordinators who made this month's successful return to tutoring possible.   
ATC Expands To 11th School
After a ten-year hiatus, ATC is THRILLED to return to Mount Vernon Community School. Tutors and students met this week and instantly got busy sorting words, writing, and reading. ATC is tutoring nine first graders, hopefully expanding to more children next year. Veteran Book Buddies Coordinator Stephanie Harris is leading the program. ATC now serves 11 of 14 ACPS elementary schools.
ATC was honored and grateful to be welcomed to the school with a generous donation from the Mount Vernon Community School PTA. Thank you, #mvcspta!!
Annual Giving and Lions Donors Break Record
This year's Annual Appeal and Lions for Literacy campaigns raised $90,000, shattering the prior record of $55,000. ATC is grateful to every donor contributing to this success. More kids than ever need help, and you stepped up. You make it possible for struggling readers to get the boost they need, when they need it, so they don't find themselves in third or fourth grade unable to read and watching their peers sail past them. We join our Jefferson-Houston friends (in photo above) in saying THANKS!!
Tutors Still Needed
ATC is still in need of tutors at John Adams, Patrick Henry, Mount Vernon, and William Ramsay schools. If you know of someone who'd be great at helping a child learn to read, please refer them to ATC Executive Director Lisa Jacobs at ljacobs@alexandriatutors.org
Questions? Contact Lisa Jacobs at ljacobs@alexandriatutors.org
323 S. Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-549-6670 x119
Fax: 703-549-9425
Email: atc@opmh.org



Lisa Jacobs, Executive Director