Our Strategy & Priorities
Convene, fosters collaboration, and fill gaps with aligned data driven research and strategies in order to build the capacity of supportive systems in early literacy in St. Louis.
EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION
Connect with early childhood partners to share knowledge and best practices, strengthen program delivery. Improve direct impact on kindergarten readiness.
PRE-K - THIRD GRADE
LITERACY SUPPORT
Convene, support, inform, foster collaboration, and increase supply of tutors and demand of tutoring programs for the STL Tutoring Collaborative members.
Build and sustain Turn the Page STL relationship with St. Louis Promise Zone school districts.
Understand the needs of school districts and connect them to resources and literacy supports
OUT OF SCHOOL TIME
LITERACY SUPPORT
Provide our "hour-of-literacy-a-day" program & high-impact tutoring in summer and afterschool programs.
Fill the literacy gaps including “Everyday Places & Spaces” in under-resourced communities in St. Louis.
Provide books and literacy resources at community events for families.
Bi Annual Literacy Forums
Our Roadmap
Bi Annual Literacy Forums
Schools, libraries, nonprofits, funders, clergy, elected officials, businesses, tutoring organizations, summer camps, media and families came together at Turn the Page STL’s inaugural Literacy Forum at the Delmar Divine on November 19, 2025. We shared our community’s literacy bright spots, best practices, and resources. All provided input into our strategic plan to collaboratively work together to ensure all children in the St. Louis community are reading proficiently.
With the overwhelming response at the inaugural forum, Turn the Page STL hosted a second collaborative Literacy Forum on April 22, 2026. We shared St. Louis’ literacy bright spots; a literacy landscape analysis of the St. Louis community; local, state and federal literacy legislation; and AI and other technology to support the teaching of reading, along with a phenomenal presentation about collective impact work.
As we plan our third biannual Literacy Forum for the fall, 2026, we would need your input, expertise and attendance at the event. If interested in receiving an invitation to our next Literacy Forum, and/or provide input into improving literacy in our community, please complete the following: