No Child Left Behind

ADVOCACY PLAN - SUGGESTED COMMUNITY PROJECTS

√  Establish and staff an after-school tutoring program. Seek out former teachers and experienced tutors to assist the program.
√  Adopt a school or class and provide them with school-related gifts such as book-bags, pencils, notebooks or anything else they need.
√  Run for school board.
√  Attend Parent Teacher Association meetings and stay involved.
√  Make donations to PTA events like silent auctions and raffles.
√  Offer to make a special presentation on the role of citizens in public policy.
√  Host a Story Book Christmas - a book signing event with a national children's book author; admission one children's book (given to children in the hospital over the holidays).
√  Participate in HOSTS (Help One Student To Succeed) - one-on-one tutoring to children entering first grade with literacy experience.
√  Host an "Hour of Reading Power" - Republican officials and local club officers serve as "celebrity readers" and give books to children attending the event (3-6 years old, must be accompanied by an adult).
√  Participate in the Dictionary Project - providing dictionaries to third graders.
√  Host a Reading Challenge Ice Cream Party - a reading party for one classroom. Each student could receive certificates of excellence and choose a book to keep.
√  Host a READ-A-THON.
√  Sponsor a "Little Red Bookshelf" in family court - books free to children waiting with parents to resolve family legal issues.
√  Sponsor a paperback box library at a local elementary school with no due dates or fines and no check-out. Students can use the books as long as they want.
√  Create "Special Beginnings" packages - books and/or booklets teaching new mothers the importance of reading to their children, to be distributed by nurses at local hospitals.
√  Make books with matte board and wall paper for elementary kids to write their own words, poems or stories, to be dedicated to their mothers.