MISSION
The Indy Learning Team builds partnership to create opportunity through access to literacy. We accomplish this by:
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Empowering and investing in community members and programs
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Providing science-based explicit literacy instruction to catch-kids before they fail
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Building an infrastructure to deal with unanticipated needs and problems
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Creating low barrier of entry for students and families
PROGRAMS
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TILT Adira Reads Adira Reads is the infrastructure behind a sustainable literacy ecosystem — built for Pre-K through 8th grade. It integrates universal screener data with skills diagnostics, pinpoints exactly where each student's foundational skills break down, and builds a targeted scope and sequence within the curriculum a school already uses. Then it monitors progress in real time and adjusts the sequence as students grow — fitting it all into the instructional time a school actually has, for one classroom or an entire building, at scale. Learn More →
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1:1 Tutoring with a Reading Specialist: Intensive, individualized tutoring delivered by TILT's trained reading specialists using Orton-Gillingham and structured literacy methods. Designed for students who need targeted, high-dosage support to catch up and keep up.
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Book Lists & Story Times: Joyful, community-rooted literacy experiences led by TILT's beloved storyteller, Professor Watermelon. Curated book lists and read-alouds designed to spark a love of reading in every child.
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Communi-Tea Book Club (in partnership with Catch The Stars Foundation): A free, community-wide book club open to all — paired with book giveaways so every reader goes home with something to keep. Over 1,500 community members have joined us at the table.
IMPACT
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Over 3,000 1:1 tutoring sessions with with reading specialists in 2024
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TILT with Adira Reads supporting over 2,000 students
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Preschoolers in TILT's Pre-K pilot gained an average of 48.7 percentage points in letter-sound recognition in one year.
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Over 3,500 new books given away with Catch The stars.
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1500 people in Communi-tea book club
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Read or provided 732 Books to be read Aloud to students
Adira Reads pairs the universal screener data schools already collect with a skills diagnostic that shows exactly why a student is behind — then goes a step further, turning that insight into a targeted scope and sequence for every student, using the curriculum a school already has. As new data comes in, that sequence adjusts in real time, so the plan keeps pace with how students are actually growing.
The result isn't a report. It's a live instructional plan a teacher can run tomorrow — for every student in the building, not just the ones a team had time to review.
Partners
Catch The Star's Foundation
Professor Watermelon
Ace Prep Academy
Like A Lion
Enlace Academy
Global Prep Academy
Miracle Place
Allegiant Prep Academy
Marian County Public Library
Circle City Prep
Adelante Schools
Christel House Academy West
Mount Zion Academy
Coburn Place
East 10th Street UMC
Sunrise Christian
Central Christian Academy
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