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Spearheaded
Senate Joint Resolution No. 409 designating the fourth week in
October as “Read aloud to a Child Week”. The patron of the
resolution was Senator Benjamin J. Lambert, III and the resolution
was passed unanimously by Virginia Senate and House of Delegates.
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Has established a daily
spots during the school year on both CBS-CH.6 WTVR in Richmond and
CBS-Ch.3 WTKR in Norfolk morning news highlighting pictures drawn by
children while adults read to them.
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Have established ten
schools, nine elementary and one middle school in Central Virginia
that have thriving Read Aloud Virginia programs.
Students at one of our RAV schools have listen to over
1,000,000 pages for the 2001-2002 school term!
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Have gone from an idea to
a thriving non-organization with a RAV Board of twenty-five active
board members.
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Has produced two public
service announcements the second of which stars The Governor of
Virginia Mark Warner and his daughter Eliza.
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Has participated in
offering over $150,000.00 in $2,500.00 mini-grants to start read
aloud programs throughout the state of Virginia. (Tazewell County
has developed one of these mini-grants into a countywide Read Aloud
program involving all of their community by dividing up their county
into 10 segments and initiating read aloud in schools, community
centers, etc.)
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Has developed brochures,
bookmarks, read aloud book lists, and promotional tapes to help
engage the public in this activity.
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Has developed a mascot,
Einstein, our state bird who is loved around Virginia.
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Has held one conference
on read aloud and had 1,500 participants around Commonwealth attend
and take this movement back to their community.
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Set our second
conference, Capital Literacy Celebration for Oct.17-19, 2002
at the Landmark Theater with over 3,000 guests expected.
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Has partnered with the
Va. Pediatric Society, Va. Librarian Association, The Va. Academy of
Sch. Psychologist, The Va. PTA, TheaterVirginia, The Va. School
Board, VCU/School of Education, and the Va. State Reading
Association.
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Has done five ‘Train
The Trainer’ workshops around Virginia through the leadership and
oversight of The Library of Virginia.
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Has had a statewide
public awareness billboard campaign to advertise the importance of
reading aloud to children up to 16 years of age.
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Has established our
secondary education ‘listen aloud’ program in at least two
juvenile detention centers and one middle school.
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Has established a
Shoney’s coupon reward system for adult/child who participate in
Central Va. and in Hampton Roads (Western and Northern Va. are next).
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