By: Librarian Molly Technology certainly has its benefits and we here at TILT use it as a tool to help make literacy accessible to all children. We cannot and would not want to put the genie back in the bottle as far as technology goes, yet we still place great value on time honored literacy tools–namely reading aloud to children.  We are reading about several current studies that point to the fact that an increasing number of children are not being read aloud to. The School

Josefa Beyer, TILT Reading Specialist B told me that at his previous schools, teachers rushed him. When it came to reading, they just would not slow down for him. Wise words. How many classroom teachers are given the time or training to find out why one child does not read as expected. And how many have the resources to teach a struggling student individually, day after day? I met B when he was 14 and in seventh grade. He could not blend even very short words. He guessed and

10 years ago this December, I co-founded TILT with the mission to bringing access to literacy to all children. This mission was born out of a 3 generation literacy journey. My grandfather, daughter and I are one of the many children told we were not smart- not capable because of early literacy struggle. Over the past 10 years, TILT has built a team of highly trained reading specialists, librarians and story tellers, and launched the revolutionary Adira Reads system which uses

Demonstrating Scalable, High-Impact Instructional Support in Just Four Weeks Overview Over a four-week instructional cycle during Summer...

The Indy Learning Team received a $30,000 grant from   Glick Philanthropies  to expand Expansion of TILT Tech with Adira Reads . Glick...