Light Lifting…Heavy Impact

Posted by admin on February 24, 2009 under Blog | Be the First to Comment

Greetings,

The saying goes: “many hands make light work”

I have been meeting with the staff at the John Winthrop elementary school in my neighborhood.

We have been meeting about taking initiatives to make it a community school. A hub where people from the community not just students can get resources and services. I have been asked to help.

So I thought of something that had a huge impact on my life that I’m sure probably affected you the same way. When i was a child both in school by teachers and at the Harriet Tubman House by a volunteer named “Brother Blue” I was read to.

It stimulated my imagination, increased my vocabulary, and made me love reading!

I would like to do “Storytelling Saturdays”: 2 hours of (snacks and reading) or (reading and then drawing an image from the story). I haven’t worked out the logisitics but I am open to suggestions. I would like to have men and women but definitely men. I would like to do like a 9:30a - 11:30a or there-a-bouts.

I would like to have small groups of children of no more than 10-15. Maybe 20. There are 4 months left in the school year and I would love to launch this by mid March. Ideally, if there are enough volunteers you would only serve 1 weekend, 2 hours a month. Imagine 4 of us being able to read to 80 kids. Imagine it spreading to other schools. Imagine it being cool to read. Imagine the impact it could have now and into the future.

Are you dreaming yet? Time for some action!