The Hector Mission: Faster reading progress for every student
How to See Faster Results
The Hector Trust has been created to help teachers get better results in less time. Around 25% of UK 11-year-olds cannot pass a functional reading assessment, which means a lot of effort is being wasted.
So, how is a “smart” reading intervention different and better? The first step in a smart intervention is to identify all the causes of frustration for an individual student. Then you have to deliver the right solution to each specific cause of frustration through a simple “individual intervention plan”.
Our expectation is 5-15 months of progress for each month of intervention, for every student.
Train for Change
Would you like to learn this new approach that will save you and your colleagues hours and hours of frustration?
We have been developing it since 2008. and it is now getting dramatically better results than conventional approaches from the last century. We can even demonstrate that for you, by running smart interventions for five of your students.
It is quick and easy to learn how to do this in a few weeks. If this sounds exciting, click the link below to find out more:
Review of our training:
“The course is fantastic. It will really broaden your knowledge to what the child is having difficulty with and why. Without knowing that, you cannot effectively help them.”
Christy Bailey, St Marks School
Academic Research
We developed the knowledge we can share with you while developing the Easyread System. The processes we have developed were testing in a randomised control trial in six London schools. A published peer-review journal article found that 8-year-old children caught up two years in 120 short daily lessons (about 30 instructional hours). Read more about it here. With older children we find the progress is even faster.
Read our book
You’ve seen children falling behind with their reading even though they’re brilliant at other things in life. The first essential step is to understand why they are struggling. Then the solution is often obvious and quite fast.
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A word from our founder
”Currently a staggering one in four children cannot read confidently. And I know how that feels because I was one of them! We estimate from OECD data that around a further 30% of children are held back from achieving their full potential by weak literacy skills. We have spent the past decade perfecting new methods to change those terrible numbers forever and I hope you will let us share the knowledge we have gathered during that journey. I can promise that it will save you a lot of frustration and change the lives of the children you are working with.”