Our mission
The Methuen Literacy Partnership empowers our diverse community to champion literacy as a shared responsibility. Through collaborative action, family engagement, and equitable access to resources, we work together to ensure every child develops strong reading skills that open doors to lifelong learning, opportunity, and success.
How we’ll work
Community-Driven Discovery: For the next several months, we are conducting listening sessions, stakeholder mapping, and needs assessments to ensure Methuen’s literacy strategy is shaped by the real experiences of children, parents, and educators across the city.
Equity-Focused & Evidence-Based: Our approach will align evidence-based programs, family engagement, book access, and community activities with a clear focus on ensuring all children, regardless of background, receive the support they need to succeed.
Collaborative Leadership: This is Methuen’s campaign—rooted in partnership and shared action.
Our Next Steps
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Phase 1: Listen & Learn (Sept - Dec 2025)
The first steps of building out a comprehensive campaign strategy is to focus on engagement and alignment. The Methuen Literacy Partnership will be hosting community meetings, facilitate vision setting, and build partnerships. We are looking for people to help identify the needs of Methuen and share your input.
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Phase 2: Plan Together (Winter 2025-26)
The next steps hone in on collaborative action. This emphasizes developing joint initiatives, sharing resources, building capacity, and defining success together. All strategies will be evidence-based while focusing on community outreach, policy advocacy, and shared measurement systems for greatest success rates.
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Phase 3: Act & Implement (Spring 2026)
After community needs and opportunities are identified, strategy and roles are defined, this next step will work on creating pilot programs to address the needs of Methuen students and families, collecting data, developing impact assessments, and creating continuous improvement processes.
WE NEED YOU!
Recognizing that literacy challenges require a whole- community response, we unite families, schools, community organizations, and local leaders around the shared belief that reading proficiency is a fundamental right and community responsibility.
With established partners including the Nevins Library's literacy programs, Methuen Public Schools' recent curriculum adoption, and strong municipal support, the initiative builds on a foundation of community commitment while expanding reach and coordination.
Contact us
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