FY 2012 Goals & Priorities
1) Enhance and Standardize Core Service Model
- Fundamental emphasis on parent engagement and education
- Utilize program partners in parent outreach efforts
- Incorporate new staffing structure
2) Leverage Additional Impact Through Community Integration and Commitment - Beacon Community Model
- Collaborate with community coalition committed to early literacy
- Measure effectiveness of Beacon Community Model in enhancing parent outreach efforts
- Explore potential to scale Beacon Community concept
Priorities
- Pursue a deep immersion strategy of changing liter
acy behavior in the home; - Measure the enhanced impact of our Beacon Community Model over our Core Service Model and identify key drivers of success;
- Translate the essence of the value we deliver into high impact communications;
- Strengthen development infrastructure.
“Becoming a strong reader begins at birth. The cornerstones of reading success—language, knowledge, and curiosity— should be cultivated from infancy, and in every setting.”
Source: Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success, Nonie K. Lesaux, Ph.D.