BookSmiles Day

Last Friday, dozens of teachers working with BookSmiles distributed 12,000 books to 5,050 students in 13 schools reaching 5 districts. We teachers have mighty power when we band together to promote literacy outside of our schools, enabling our students to build robust home libraries.

The ball started to roll when Gina StMaur Foody initiated a book drive at Kingsway Regional middle school, yielding over 4,000 books. Renee Seabrook Hart, a teacher in Glassboro, arranged to have the books transported to her district, and from there she distributed to Clayton. Students in Vineland gathered thousands of books and BookSmiles, with the help of Jane Kreisworth Arochas, provided the rest!

Here are the receiving schools:
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Glassboro High School 
Thomas E. Bowe Elementary -Glassboro.
Rogers Elementary - Glassboro
Clayton Elementary
Lindenwold School #4
Lindenwold PreSchool
Wallace Middle School - Vineland
Sabater Elementary - Vineland
Mennies Elementary - Vineland
Little Lambs PreSchool - Vineland
Mastery Molina - Camden
Cooper's Poynt Elementary - Camden
Katz Dalsey Academy Camden