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Liz Woody, Barbara Hammond, and Ray Oglethorpe travel the country to seek out best practices in literacy.
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TLA becomes a non-profit organization.
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Don Riefler and Ray Oglethorpe are the first two significant investors
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Barbara Hammond and Liz Woody create a partnership with Sue Curtis and Fran Adams to support literacy learning in the district
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Barbara meets Don Winkler, former head of Ford Financial, who connects TLA to Heidi Guber, co-creator of the Emergent Learning Process
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Sonday, a foundational literacy skills intervention program, launches in response to teacher demand
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First “breakthrough strategy” session (later becomes Emergent Learning) – breakdown leads to development of local Master Coach Program, rather than a partnership with University of Florida
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Social venture capital model launches with five TLA Founders
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TLA starts summer programs at Boys and Girls Club, GYAC, and Rosewood Magnet School to address “summer slide” learning loss as a key issue
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Annie E. Casey Foundation visit - TLA is invited to apply to the national Campaign for Grade Level Reading
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Fundations, a foundational literacy skills whole class program, launches at 3 schools
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Sue Curtis, former SDIRC Director of Curriculum, retires and agrees to join TLA staff, forging a powerful alignment between the school district and a non-profit organization
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Grant Team meeting for the National Campaign for Grade Level Reading leads to formation of Literacy Leaders
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TLA and Fran Adams co-create aspirational Moonshot Moment Goal
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IR Community Foundation convenes first Literacy Leaders meeting
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With funding from Impact 100, Fundations is expanded to five additional schools
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Community “Faces” campaign launches to engage business leaders, media, school district, and families with the Moonshot Moment goal
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Jamie Vollmer, author of Schools Can’t Do It Alone, shares the message that community is necessary for the success of the Moonshot Moment goal
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Professional facilitator is hired to manage Literacy Leaders
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First Pacesetter Award from Annie E. Casey Campaign for Grade Level Reading gives Indian River County national recognition for summer programs
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TLA re-imagines the Master Coach program with teachers to be a co-created model in a “breakthrough session” facilitated by Heidi Guber at United Way
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Moonshot Visioning Session in support of the Moonshot Moment includes 70 organizations exploring the five key buckets of need as identified by the Literacy Leaders
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Ed Foundation agrees to convene a coalition of partners to identify gaps and launch programs to address the challenge of K-Readiness
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Fundations launches in 3 more schools
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The re-imagined Master Coach program continues on school campuses with approximately 60 teachers
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Ready for Kindergarten pilots parent classes at Dodgertown Elementary
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Moonshot Sports launches to leverage the powerful relationship between coaches and athletes and to encourage reading and improved attendance with events such as the parade and Read Across the Field
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TLA takes IRA Principal Diane Fannin on a best practices road trip to help create a new vision for the school
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District restructures management team to initiate school reform and implement leadership training
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District invests in SAT10, a nationally normed assessment for students in K-2
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Ray Oglethorpe hosts school leadership visit to Vail Valley, Colorado to observe a successful afterschool/summer Power Hour program
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Funders take an interest in supporting K-Readiness Pilot Programs
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IR Community Foundation funds Moonshot Moment media campaign
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Indian River Academy hosts first Community-School Summit led by Heidi Guber
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Model Pre-K Classroom funded at Dodgertown – Collaboration of JICSL, JI Foundation, Ed Foundation, SDIRC
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TLA & Treasure Coast Elementary co-create first accelerated professional development for educators at TCE
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SDIRC and Ed Foundation launch pilot 4-year-old transition to kindergarten summer program (becomes STEP program).
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Indian River Academy staff trained in Conscious Discipline over the summer at the request of Principal Diane Fannin, with the support of IRC Enrichment Fund
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Teacher Training Lab launches at Gifford Youth Achievement Center (eventually becomes Moonshot Academy on school campuses)
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First Community-District Summit held with over 200 participants
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Fundations now in all 13 elementary schools
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Ready for Kindergarten parent classes expand at Dodgertown Elementary
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Schools apply to pilot Moonshot Academy after school programs
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Second Pacesetter Award from Campaign for Grade Level Reading
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Literacy and the Lagoon, an interdisciplinary literacy and science summer program, launches through a partnership with SDIRC, the Environmental Learning Center, and TLA, funded by private donors and Windsor Charity
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Story Tapestries professional Teaching Artists lead professional development (PD) workshops with follow up embedded coaching that connects PD to practice
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Master Coach program expands to 150+ participants and evolves into Literacy off the Page at the Museum as a partnership between TLA and the Vero Beach Museum of Art
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District leadership training at VBMA
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Ready for Kindergarten parent classes offered at Dodgertown and Fellsmere
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Advocate to school board for a new superintendent that supports the Moonshot goal
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Moonshot Academy launches at 3 schools and GYAC
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Advocate to County Commission for early childhood funding
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Doug Butler interviews community and school partners for a documentary to be released in 2016
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PBS News Hour Special Report features TLA and the Moonshot Moment
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K-Readiness Strategic Plan is developed from IRC Needs Assessment with support from JI Community Service League and other partners
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Smart Baby Ambassadors group created with more than 20 community partners to advocate for kindergarten readiness
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Big Brothers Big Sisters launch VPK program to catch kids up and engage parents
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First Kindergarten Round Up held at Indian River Mall to register students for kindergarten and STEP program
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First Kindergarten Readiness Summit held
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K-Readiness successfully lobbies county commission to increase funding to support children through community match
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Students demonstrate Literacy Off the Page strategies at Vero Beach Museum of Art during the TLA annual Gala
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Third Pacesetter Award from the Campaign for Grade Level Reading
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First Moonshot Principals Community Mentors meeting
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Literacy Leaders engage more community and school programs to create a summer learning group, making literacy a part of every camp involved
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Dr. Mark Rendell joins SDIRC as new superintendent
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$200,000 raised from donors to match the $200,000 Commissioner challenge grant through Children’s Services Advocacy Committee to support early childhood initiatives.
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Moonshot Moment celebrates National Summer Learning Day, reaching over 800 children to promote summer reading
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TLA makes the commitment to expand PD team to be able to provide ongoing, embedded support
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Kindergarten Readiness Collaborative is formed as a backbone infrastructure and hires two part time directors, applies for 501(C)3 status
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Museum places Moonshot Masterpieces, reproductions of works of art with literacy milestones activities, in all elementary schools and GYAC
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Parents as Teachers: new home visit program begins for families impacted by poverty to empower parents as their child’s first teacher
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Moonshot Academy Kick off 3 day summit for 4 schools - new superintendent Dr. Rendell speaks and gives his support
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Master Coach program and Literacy off the Page become Moonshot Institutes and continue to take place at the VBMA
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Barbara Hammond, Marshall Adams, and Shanti Sanchez present Moonshot work at Florida Museum Conference in St. Petersburg
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Moonshot Academy for students expands to a fifth school, despite growth constraints within schools
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Literacy Leaders forms Advocacy Committee
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Moonshot Moment focuses on early childhood providers and Pre-K teachers with Professional Development workshops and embedded coaching residencies throughout the year
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Kurt Wootton is invited to present to SDIRC Principals and Assistant Principals - “UP Campaign,” a unit planning initiative co-created by TLA and SDIRC is launched across all schools, K-12
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Moonshot Community Visioning Summit held at new SDIRC office, led by Heidi Guber, with Kurt Wootton and Don King, Creative Director and Event Producer
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Moonshot Advocacy interviews all School Board & County Commission candidates
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Moonshot Millions Pages Campaign launches, a community wide challenge to reach a million pages read as a community
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Moonshot Moment launches a bookmobile to keep children reading over the summer
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Moonshot Millions Celebration at the VBMA, a community wide celebration of our successful million pages goal completion
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Public Library offers parent education program redesigned by Sue Curtis and Susan Roberts
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First annual Moonshot Summer Institute funded by Impact 100 to be held third week in July for SDIRC educators
