Readingteam Patton
GARDNER EDGERTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 231. Gardner Edgerton USD 231 serves the communities of Gardner and Edgerton in the southwest corner of Johnson County, Kansas. For the duration of the Coronavirus Health Emergency, the Municipal Building is closed to the public and most public meetings will be held online with participants at remote locations, connected by conferencing software provided by WEBEX. The Reading Team The Reading Team helps children at high risk of reading failure, by providing nurturing lessons and activities so they can succeed in school and in life.
Join Us
Readington School is changing the way we train and groom children by providing help at the point of need. If you are passionate at teaching and you are really young at heart, then we are looking for you.
Working in Readington Schoolis highly rewarding and fulfilling for a passionate teacher/staff.
Benefits include:
- International Trips
- Allowances
- Good pay for your labour
- Recognition and appreciation
- Promotions
- Other perks … etc
Readington school is opportune to possess an extraordinarily professional highly committed and talented group of teachers and support staff who are central to what makes our school such a successful community.
Interested and qualified teaching and non-teaching applicants who wish to be part of our success story may schedule an appointment to speak with the HR Administrator or submit a CV to: hr@readingtonschoolng.com
If you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
— Tomie dePaola*
The Reading Team’s literacy programs serve children from Pre-K through fifth grade at six locations in Harlem.
The Reading Team does not charge a fee for our programs.
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*American writer and illustrator who created more than 260 children's books, such as Strega Nona. He received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his lifetime contribution to American children's literature in 2011.
Our literacy-intensive environment features a high adult-to-child ratio, is caring and supportive, and accommodates diverse learning styles and needs. Our programs use essential and interdependent instructional elements to build key literacy skills and concepts in support of Reading Team children.
From September through June each year, our Preschool Program serves children ages three to four from six neighborhood day care centers and Head Start programs, equipping them with important early literacy skills and concepts needed for success in elementary school.
Preschool - Main Site
Twice a week, four-year-old preschoolers come to our main site in groups of 40-45 and spend 90 minutes engaged in conversation, letter and word games, singing and dancing, and storybook reading.
Preschool - Satellites
We also deliver preschool literacy instruction twice a week, from 30 minutes to 60 minutes, at three neighborhood child care centers that serve children ages 3 and 4.
Reading Team Patton High School
During the school year, the Reading Team’s’s remarkably successful After-School Program serves children in Grades K-5 from 17 elementary schools at our main program site in Central Harlem and at Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School in West Harlem. Students participate for three hours every school-day afternoon.
Reading Team Patton Elementary School
Each day, children receive a healthy snack or a hot meal, homework help, and a rigorous program of lessons and activities that enable them to overcome their obstacles to successful literacy development.
Every year, 80% or more of Reading Team children in Grades 3-5, pass the New York State English Language Arts Exam. By contrast, barely 30% of children in Harlem and 50% of children citywide pass this exam. which is administered annually to students in Grades 3-8 in the state.