The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

What is
a Bright Spot?
Bright Spots are schools and programs nationwide using innovative and proven strategies to help low-income children read at grade level by the end of third grade. They use intensive instruction and parent engagement, as well as efforts to combat lack of school readiness, summer learning loss, and chronic absence, to assure kids are proficient readers when they leave the third grade.

The Campaign highlights these efforts because they work – in large urban centers, mid-size cities and isolated rural areas, for families of every racial and ethnic group, and in schools and communities where most children qualify for free and reduced priced meals. The majority of kids served by these schools and programs are meeting reading proficiency standards for their respective states.

Some Bright Spots are elementary schools where students are thriving in a reading-infused culture, while others are programs, in and outside of school, that engage teachers, staff, parents and community members in supporting student learning. All Bright Spots have high expectations for kids, an intense focus on results, and lots of support for students, parents and teachers.

If you want to suggest a Bright Spot for the Campaign, please email Carole Thompson, the Campaign’s chief administrative officer, at: cthompson@gradelevelreading.net.