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Stark School was chosen as the pilot school in Stamford to participate in this corporate sponsored literacy program administered by the Everybody Wins! Foundation in NYC and the Stamford Public Education Foundation in Stamford. UBS corporate volunteers partner with our Stark School students in a one-to-one lunchtime relationship. Once a week, each volunteer and their student meet in our Media Center to read aloud, eat lunch, and share conversation. We presently have nearly 100 students and an equal amount of volunteers involved in this program. Both volunteers and students involved come away with a pleasant and rewarding experience of sharing time and ideas, while our students develop better listening and vocabulary skills, our volunteers reinforce that reading is fun, and our students are exposed to new and interesting conversations with corporate volunteers about their work and travels.

This year our program is expanding and will be administered through the Stamford Public Education Foundation in conjunction with Everybody Wins! Perhaps your child would benefit from such a relationship.

Take a look at our students during a typical lunchtime session

Cornerstone Corner

Cornerstone Mission:
To ensure that all children reach an acceptable standard of literacy by third grade. To read, to write, to think critically, to reason, to analyze, and evaluate information, to communicate effectively in a variety of forms, and to inquire systematically into any matter.

June's Literacy Initiative for grades K-2 is
Monitoring Comprehension

for grades 3-5 is
Monitoring Comprehension