#100ReasonsENHE: Celebrate with Us!

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#100ReasonsENHE is our 2016 social media campaign to celebrate all the ways that East Nashville Hope Exchange has made a difference for parents and children in our neighborhood and beyond. Check out our #100ReasonsENHE below, then add your own reasons that you and your family love ENHE on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #100ReasonsENHE! Thank you for celebrating with us this year!

​#100ReasonsENHE
  1. Free Summer literacy program for at-risk children.
  2. Pre- and post- assessments to measure results.
  3. Success is due to 50% instruction 50% relationship.
  4. ENHE works with the whole family!
  5. ENHE starts young before the Achievement Gap gets too big.
  6. Because every summer low-income children lose 3 months of reading skills, this is called the “summer slide”.
  7. Children get free breakfast and lunch every day of the summer program.
  8. The monthly workshops during the school year build a community around literacy.
  9. Children love doing cheers and chants every day during the summer!
  10. Arts and Humanities projects help children create meaning in the world.
  11. Children get a book to take home every day of programming.
  12. ENHE makes learning fun!
  13. Parents learn tools to help their children comprehend what they read.
  14. Currently 79% of the children at the schools ENHE targets are not proficient in reading.
  15. Reading is the foundation for all learning!
  16. Every career requires you learn to read well.
  17. Children learn about Nashville in their weekly field trip!
  18. Daily Guest Readers are great role models.
  19. ENHE is a place where we exchange ideas, giving each other hope.
  20. Children get to have waterplay once a week in the summer!
  21. Because a literate future is a future worth participating in.
  22. Literacy opens doors in life!
  23. Strong foundation in language leads to more meaningful personal and business relationships.
  24. Helping children read is the most meaningful way I can give back to my community.
  25. Reading proficiency shouldn't be determined by race or economic class.
  26. Workshops include Search Institute’s research - proven 40 Developmental Assets.
  27. Teachers are certified and use best practices in literacy.
  28. During the summer program, students get at least 250 minutes of concentrated literacy a day!
  29. During the summer, children get to work on projects connected to our theme, ‘My Family, My Community, My World.’
  30. Right now only 79% of the students at ENHE’s target schools are proficient in Reading/Language Arts.
  31. ‘It Takes a Village.’
  32. ENHE uses a special formula:  50% instruction, 50% relationship when doing it’s work.
  33. Literacy is all about the 3Rs: read, read, and read.
  34. Children make new friends during the program!
  35. Families make new friends during workshops and learn from each other.
  36. Children from low-income families have a 30 million word gap by the time they turn age 3.
  37. MNPS can’t do it all - the district needs strong partners in the community.
  38. In the most prosperous country in the world, many of our children are not learning to read well.
  39. "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." — Victor Hugo
  40. "Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." — Lemony Snicket
  41. "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." — Margaret Fuller
  42. "The things I want to know are in books." — Abraham Lincoln
  43. “Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school." — Beverly Cleary
  44. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." — Dr. Seuss
  45. “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.” ― Beatrix Potter
  46. “With opportunity the world is very interesting.” ― Beatrix Potter
  47. “There's so much more to a book than just the reading." — Maurice Sendak
  48. "If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books." - Roald Dahl
  49. "All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen." - Roald Dahl
  50. "Keep looking up. There may be a rainbow waiting for you." — Eric Carle
  51. ENHE student: “I love Hope Exchange because we’re like a big family.”
  52. ENHE student: “I love Hope Exchange because we get to read a lot.”
  53. ENHE student: “I like Hope Exchange because we get to read Elephant and Piggie books.”
  54. ENHE student:  “I love Hope Exchange because it helps you learn how to read books.”
  55. ENHE student: “I love reading books because they inspire me.”
  56. ENHE parent: “I love hope exchange because it teaches responsibility.”
  57. ENHE parent: “I love hope exchange because it helps the kids with the resources they need to become a productive member of society.”
  58. ENHE parent: “It helps low-income families who need help during the summer.”
  59. ENHE parent:  “ENHE employs skilled teachers who have a passion for seeing children grow academically.”
  60. ENHE helps single parents:  in 2015, 73% of ENHE’s children were from single-parent households.
  61. ENHE’s theme, ‘My Family, My Community, My World,’ helps children to take ownership of their place in the world.
  62. Family literacy workshops happen once a week in the summer and once a month during the school year.
  63. In the summer, students get 1.5 hour of individualized reading group instruction. (5:1 student/teacher ratio!)
  64. Our children are not learning to read and we CANNOT be okay with this!
  65. ENHE’s mission is to strengthen literacy of at-risk children in East Nashville.
  66. ENHE’s vision is ‘Reading For Life.’
  67. ENHE is passionately committed to delivering high quality programming.
  68. The average child growing up in a low-income family has only been exposed to 25 hours of one-on-one reading.
  69. 82% of America’s fourth graders who are reading below-grade level are from low-income households.
  70. Among those who reach adulthood with the lowest level of literacy proficiency, 43% live in poverty. Among those who have strong literacy skills, only 4% live in poverty.
  71. "These kids are going to be the leaders of future Nashville." -Ketch Secor
  72. "It's so important to support these kids right now." -Ketch Secor
  73. "You're supporting the next generation of scholars" -Ketch Secor
  74. "It all starts right here with the Big Payback" -Ketch Secor
  75. "Encourage reading with young kids. It's the very beginning of learning." -Ketch Secor
  76. "A lot of folks want to make a difference but they don't really know how to." -Ketch Secor
  77. "Particularly here on the east side where there are a number of kids just having a tough go of it." -Ketch Secor
  78. "Hope Exchange offers them the inside track they need." -Ketch Secor
  79. "Hopefully, one day, [they will] matriculate with the top scholars in the state." -Ketch Secor
  80. "What we take in is what we put out." -Ketch Secor
  81. "It's important to practice real stewardship with literacy and young kids" -Ketch Secor
  82. ENHE parent: “ENHE has increased my child’s love for reading.”
  83. ENHE parent:  “ENHE offers a variety of activities to help keep your child engaged while learning to read.”
  84. ENHE student: “ I love reading books because they have adventures.”
  85. ENHE parent:  “I like ENHE because its focus its focus is on teaching literacy with children.”
  86. Children must learn to read before they can read to learn.
  87. ENHE offers low-income children a 6 week literacy program for only a $30 registration fee.
  88. Classrooms have two teachers and only 15 students.
  89. ENHE makes family engagement a priority because the parent is the #1 teacher.
  90. More than 1 in 3 children arrive in kindergarten w/o the skills necessary for lifetime learning.
  91. Those who are not reading well by third grade are 4 times more likely to drop out of school.
  92. We live in a ‘post-segregation’ era yet one school on Woodland ave is  83% white and 78% are proficient in reading/language art; at the other end of the street, and another school 1 mile down the road is 83% black and only 14% are proficient in reading/language arts.
  93. ENHE serves K-4th grades, when building literacy is building a foundation for the rest of a child’s life.
  94. ENHE’s goal is to serve 100 children in 2016.
  95. ENHE serves low-income families:  in 2015 97% of ENHE’s children were from low-income families.
  96. A typical ENHE summer program day includes at least 250 minutes of literacy.
  97. ENHE students enjoy the Wishing Chair Productions puppet show and a Nashville Ballet performance every summer.
  98. ENHE is passionately committed to building relationships with children, families, teachers and the community.
  99. ENHE is passionately committed to championing a life of success for all children.
  100. 61% of low-income families have no age-appropriate books in their homes.
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