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The Leadership Institutepresented by Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc.

Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc. receives significant funding from the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County.


• Established in 1989 to promote and achieve literacy in Palm Beach County

• Annually serves more than 25,000 adults, children, youth and families

• Distributes 70,000 new books to children


After School Programs2002-03• Children’s Services Council asked the

Literacy Coalition to create a reading program for afterschool settings

• After School Reads was selected as the program name


• KidzLit was chosen as the curriculum as it was research based and correlated to the Florida Sunshine State Standards for Reading

• Initially the program served 7 sites


• In 2004, After School Reads became an enhancement under Prime Time Palm Beach County

• Since then more than 60 afterschool programs have participated in After School Reads


The core model includes:• training afterschool practitioners in

reading strategies• modeling effective techniques• conducting observations• retraining as needed• creating classroom libraries


• Evenings are based on the Florida Partnership for Family Involvement in Education model around a common theme and book

• Snacks, materials, books, art activities and prizes are given to families attending

• Now annually, 15 Family Reading Nights


• Since 2010, KidzMath and KidzScience have been added to KidzLit in the After School Reads Program

• All 3 programs follow the Common Core Standards


• In 2011-12 After School Reads served 2,500 children through Family Reading Nights and the training, observations and modeling given to 300 practitioners at 25 sites

• More than 17,000 books were distributed to local afterschool programs


• In 2011, Prime Time asked the Literacy Coalition to train staff on how to teach anti-bullying strategies to children using children’s literature

• Turning Bullies into Buddies was developed and now serves 16 sites with a dynamic literature based curriculum


• In 2012, After School Reads and Turning Bullies into Buddies transitioned from being enhancements to being Expanded Learning Opportunities


Thank you for your interest in literacy!