Getting off to a good start in reading is critical to children’s academic success.  The non-profit organization Reach Out & Read prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together.  They work with pediatric health care providers to incorporate pre-literacy counseling with families into their well-child visits and to provide new books at each of those visits.  To date Reach Out & Read has served over 4.2 million children annually.

Reach Out & Read Alabama is a non-profit partner of the Alabama Association of School Boards (AASB).  At the recent AASB 2014 Spring Academy Conference “LEADERSHIP for Delivering a Highly Effective Staff,” LEAN Frog awarded a Kindle e-reader to door prize winner Mr. Verrazano Davis , Board of Education member at Midfield City Schools and ten (10) books for Mr. Davis to donate to Reach Out & Read Alabama.  LEAN Frog thanks Mr. Davis, Midfield City Board of Education and Reach Out & Read Alabama for their examples of effective leadership and for their commitment to literacy promotion.

For further information about Reach Out & Read visit their website at www.reachoutandread.org.  For Reach Out & Read Alabama, you may contact Polly McClure, R.PH. at 205-223-0097.

 

Headquartered in Huntsville, AL, LEAN Frog’s mission is to help public schools succeed through increasing the value they deliver to students, parents and communities while fully engaging employees, reducing costs, and building a spirit of continuous improvement.