About STAIR

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

25th Anniversary
STAIR Affair
Cocktail Party and Auction
March 25, 2010, 7:00 pm until 9:30 pm
Held at the home of Anne Montgomery and Anne and Bill Grace
2525 St. Charles Ave
Honorary Co-Chairs: Louellen & Darryl Berger
Denise and George Shinn

STAIR AFFAIR SPONSORS

Oh, the Places Readers Go!

Entergy Charitable Foundation

     

Where the Readers Are
Versabar, Inc.

 
Cloudy With a Chance to Read
Louellen and Darryl Berger
City of New Orleans , Mayor C. Ray Nagin
Real Estate Tax Group, LLC
Patrick F. Taylor Foundation

 
The Very Hungry Reader
Kent Mitchell (in loving memory of Jean Wilson Mitchell)
New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association
Poydras (Louisiana) LLC
Poydras Properties LLC

Goodnight Reader
The Hon. and Mrs. Christopher J. Bruno
Patricia and Vernon Brinson
Edison Chouest Offshore
Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith, APLC
Ms. Lauren Geraghty
Anne and Bill Grace
iBERIABANK
Jones Walker
LaFete News
Sydney and Ken Lawder
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mayer
Sherri and Eric O’Bell
Phelps Dunbar LLC
Cathy and Hunter Pierson
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Piner
Rebowe & Co., CPAs
Perrin and Mary Grace Rome
Mr. & Mrs. John Stockmeyer
WDG Architects Engineers
Kathleen and Terry White
Whitney National Bank

During the 2009-2010 school year, STAIR is operating 29 tutoring sites serving 250 students from over 30 public elementary schools in Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes. More than 300 volunteers participate in our program each year.

Over the last 24 years, STAIR's trained volunteers have tutored more than 5,000 public school children who qualify for the program. Volunteer tutors work one-on-one with second graders to improve their reading and language skills. These students are in danger of academic failure and need this extra help to succeed. Students and tutors meet after school Monday through Thursday or on Saturday morning at sites around Orleans,  Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes. STAIR depends on support from the community to provide this service at no cost to the student.

STAIR to Success: With the 2008-2009 school year, STAIR began relying on testing scores furnished by all of its participating schools who test the children using the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS). The DIBELS measures were developed based on the essential early literacy components discussed in both the National Reading Panel (2000) and National Research Council (1998) reports to assess student development of phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, and fluency with language. For the 2008-09 school year, both fall and spring DIBELS test scores for each STAIR child were obtained from the schools to determine the success of our program.  On average STAIR students’ scores in Oral Reading Fluency increased more than 94%!

Populations Reached: Recommended by their teachers, STAIR students are 7-9 year old second graders. Nearly 70% are African-American boys and girls living below the poverty level in our community.