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Mission Statement
LearnUp is a nonprofit on a mission to reach and teach struggling readers in every community to read with confidence using our fast and proven structured literacy program.
About This Cause
We are teaching kids to read in about 80 hours. LearnUp Centers is an innovative start-up nonprofit on a mission to teach all levels and types of learners to read. LearnUp employs a multidisciplinary structured phonics curriculum with proprietary chapter books to empower students to practice new reading skills and concepts within a storybook environment. LearnUp’s programs take place in person at our reading clinic in San Francisco, virtually anywhere kids spend their time, and in-person and virtually in school districts. Our reading curriculum has been the best-kept secret in literacy over the past 20 years, on average increasing students’ reading by two grade levels in just three months. In contrast, most other reading programs take two years to achieve this growth. Moreover, it’s effective for all emerging readers regardless of age, level, learning difference, socio-economic background, mother tongue, or background knowledge. Our main programs include: --> One-on-one tutoring via distance learning --> We bring our program directly into the Boys & Girls Clubs SF clubhouses where many of the most underserved students spend their afternoons. --> We provide training to educators, paraprofessionals, and community volunteers in how to teach reading to all students. --> All LearnUp live tutoring programs are available virtually, allowing us to serve even the most difficult to reach students. --> LearnUp offers reading professional development and training courses online. They are self-directed via our digital platform. LearnUp Centers was founded in 2015 by Pascal and Virginie Rigo, whose son Oscar was in the 5th grade but reading at the 2nd grade level. Then Oscar met LearnUp’s Reading Director, Steve Tattum, who took Oscar from reading three years below grade level to reading at a high school. LearnUp has been transformational for the more than 500 students we have taught since our founding, as we have dramatically accelerated their reading skills (increasing their word fluency by more than 50% on average) and enabled them for the first time to find joy and success in reading. One student shared, “I like LearnUp because it makes me happy. I can read bigger words. And can read by myself.” One parent shared: "My 10-year-old started at a 2nd-grade reading level. To our amazement, he ended 7 weeks later at a 4th-grade level where he should be but more importantly with a love of reading. For the first time ever we have seen him pick up a book and read without being asked to do it." LearnUp partners with Steve Tattum to deliver his innovative structured literacy program to struggling readers wherever they may reside. Our outcomes are not just anecdotal, they are documented in LearnUp’s student evaluations and outcomes. Most significantly, parents of our students testify to the transformational outcomes they see in their children. While nothing is more powerful than a parent testimonial, the evidence is also seen in studies of how Tattum Reading has been used in schools, nonprofit programs, and by individual learning specialists.