~Post by Meghan G.
As part of our mission to foster a love of reading in Austin and actively engage young readers in our community, BookPeople is so pleased to announce we’ll continue to partner with Austin ISD’s Office of Academics to develop in-depth curriculum tie-in resources that bring great books to life for Austin students.
We launched our program together with AISD and local author Shana Burg during the 2013-2014 school year to build on Burg’s novel Laugh with the Moon. Together, we created art, social studies, and music units and connected students in classrooms from 40 schools with Malawi pen pals. The program culminated in a special event at BookPeople that connected Austin student ambassadors with a select group of pen pals via Skype. This rewarding program showed us how much could be gained by working together.
This year we had the great fortune to collaborate with a large committee from AISD’s…
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