How can you help prepare teachers for the future? Begin by mentoring a member through a sponsorship and demonstrate your commitment to ensuring all students have a knowledgeable, skillful teacher. An effective teacher appreciates and is highly committed to the task of helping all teachers find success and gratification in their own work. We must find effective ways to support the teacher who enters the profession, often full of potential, passion, optimism, and energy and help them stay there. One way to meet this challenge is through a well-structured organizational vehicle such as your local council and the Kansas Reading Association. Through sponsoring a new member you will be assisting him/her in finding the success and gratification in his/her own work. You will be providing the new member access to the wisdom and experiences of highly skilled teachers in your council and KRA. You will be supporting new members in developing their own craft. Over two hundred studies have shown that the only factor that creates student achievement is a knowledgeable, skillful teacher (1). Don't hesitate; sponsor a new KRA Member (2). Simply fill out the membership form, enclose $15.00 and become a sponsor today! The new member will receive all the benefits of KRA and a card acknowledging your commitment to KRA and the teaching profession.