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A Special Thank You from Summer Leadership
Just
wanted to take a few minutes this morning to tell you have much I enjoyed being
with members of the Arkansas Reading Association this past Saturday morning.
Over the years I have spoken to hundreds of organizations from almost every
area of society but your organization stands at the very top of my list. Your
organization, literature, quality of presentations and the general tone of your
meeting was outstanding.
I
know you are helping and encouraging lot of children to become lifelong
readers. Only God know the quality of the seeds I planted at your meeting for
our Bookcase for Every Child project. Time will tell but I felt very good
about the prospect of some projects beginning in some communities as a result
of my being there.
When
you think about all the various factors involved, a quality, personalized
bookcase and some books, plus adults reading to low-income children, I believe
you will agree we have developed something truly unique.
God
bless. Let me know if I can be of further service,
Jim
Jim Davidson
Syndicated Columnist & Founder
Bookcase for Every Child
Congratulations to Eva Arrington, on winning the National Outstanding Math and Science Teacher award. Read the offical news releaseabout Eva Arrington – teacher at Drew Central, former president of SEARK Reading Council, and active ARA member. We are so excited for her!
Studies and Research Grant Winner Announced
Congratulations, Sherri Seigrist, the 2011 recipient of the ARA Studies and Research Grant. This project is aimed at raising the literacy of boys in Arkansas.
Regional Meeting
Agenda
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International Literacy Day
From Summer Leadership 2010:
"Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia, the children's novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery, and the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer. His new novel, The Illumination, is forthcoming in February 2011. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and he has published his stories in such venues as The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. Recently he was named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised."
Here is Kevin Brockmeier's Top 100 children's books
Leadership Workshop Agenda 2010
See Highlights of Summer Leadership 2009
