The Indy Learning Team

This is our third school year since launching TILT Adira Reads. As our community of partner schools has grown, so has our investment in listening to the educators who use Adira Reads every day and building their feedback directly into the platform. As we head into this school year, let us reintroduce ourselves and share a few of the updates. Susan Appel and Christina Kelley Why we developed Adira Reads TILT Adira Reads was founded to build systems that bring access to literacy to every...

We're Expanding to 50 Pre-K Classrooms This Fall We're so excited about these results that we're expanding — and thanks to a generous funder, we're able to offer implementation grants that cover much of the cost for the first 50 pre-K classrooms that join us this fall. Interested in Bringing This to Your Classrooms? We'd love to walk your team through a live demo of the daily instructional routine and the tracking that supports it — and talk through whether your pre-K program is a fit for one...

At East 10th Street UMC Preschool, four-year-olds are reading words. Not just recognizing letters — actually reading. And it happened in a single school year, with just ten minutes of targeted instruction a day. The preschool's director didn't set out to overhaul her literacy approach. She started from a familiar place: there isn't room for one more thing. "I often think I can't take on a new initiative because we're already doing so much," she said. "What I appreciate about Adira Reads is...