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The work to help all children “cannot be the schools’ responsibility, alone,” write leaders in the campaign by the United Way of Greater Kansas City, SchoolSmartKC and Turn the Page Kansas CIty. “It requires the collaboration of our whole community.”
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An early childcare industry that has long operated on thin financial margins is struggling to survive the pandemic. Early childhood educators warrant hazard pay and working parents are increasingly caught in a bind. And with important state aid expired, the situation is only worsening.
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It’s time for a reading check-up. It hasn’t been easy taking school work home and figuring out how to keep the learning going digitally. The danger of summer learning loss is greater than ever. Now there is an easy quiz, and ideas on how to catch up.
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Beginning May 15, thousands of parents are going to be expected to return to work without an answer to the question: who will watch my kids? Turn the Page KC has issued a call to action.
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Throughout the city, reading advocates like LINC partners Turn the Page KC and First Book are inventing ways to get essential books into the hands of children and support to their parents and guardians.
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Turn the Page KC and LINC celebrated with Kansas City civic leaders who predicted that young lives touched by the books will soar higher on the same literary fuel that propelled them to where they are today.
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Turn the Page KC’s Summer Reading Splash at the Sprint Center thrilled 2,000 children with new books, while outgoing Mayor Sly James took stock of the work still to be done as Kansas City chases its goal of every child reading at grade level by the third grade.
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Children from LINC programs will join some 2,000 children at the Sprint Center June 19 for the Summer Reading Splash extravaganza. Turn the Page KC and several partners put on the program to help keep children reading through the summer.
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Jonathan Fenske is the author and illustrator of “Barnacle is Bored”. He spoke with the students at Troost Elementary in the Kansas City Public Schools about the enjoyment of writing and drawing.
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Barbershops: another place where Kansas City is working to gets adults reading to children and books in kids' hands. Turn the Page KC, the Kansas City Public Library and LINC are cooperating to get men to reach out to kids by making free books available at several urban barbershops.
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Watch our video about the process of preparing 35,000 books for delivery to students this summer. Community volunteers and several organizations have helped to make this year's distribution a success.
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LINC and Turn the Page KC along with AmeriCorps volunteers traveled to the First Book distribution center in St. Louis to provide 5,000 books for area children -- part of a concerted effort to get more books in the hands of children in the community.
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Turn the Page KC and Mayor Sly James hosted a community conversation on August 25th aimed at advancing the “Talk, Read, Play with Your Child Every Day” campaign.
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Students in the LINC Summer School program at Attucks Elementary in the Kansas City Public Schools had a special reading event with Mayor Sly James from the City of Kansas City, Missouri.
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LINC distributed 27,000 books, one for every elementary student in the Center, Fort Osage, Grandview, Hickman Mills, Independence, and Kansas City school districts, along with select North Kansas City schools and two charter schools.
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Want to volunteer with a great organization and help Kansas City kids with reading? Our partners at Turn the Page KC are in the beginning stages of recruitment for the 2014-15 team of Americorps VISTAs.
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The National Mayors Day of Recognition of National Service was held on April 2. Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James read to students at Primitivo Garcia in the Kansas City Public Schools and he recognized the work of AmeriCorps Vista members that work on the Turn the Page KC literacy initiative.
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Center Elementary had a special guest for their Lights On Afterschool celebration. Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Sly James stopped by to read the book "Enemy Pie" to students.
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Primitivo Garcia School students design and write thank you notes in response to the May 21 First Book event. First Book donated 10,000 books to elementary schools in the Kansas City Public School District.
Watch video of the Day of Reading at Garcia, Rogers and Foreign Language Academy in the Kansas City Public Schools. With help from our local partners and FirstBook we distributed 10,000 books to every student in the Kansas City Public Schools.
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