Our kids must continue to have access to healthy meals, safe environments, and educational opportunities so they can keep learning while school’s out. That’s why Get Georgia Reading Campaign for Grade-Level Reading partners have again teamed up to bring our kids GeorgiaSummer.org. Read More
Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP) has teamed up with GPB Education to distribute 3,500 backpacks filled with learning activities, school supplies, and information on how to access GPB Education and PBS Kids content. Read More
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) is creating its own CGLR Playbook for the more than 350 communities participating in the GLR Network. Read More
Help your child's "reading brain" by diving into the Community Scope and Sequence used by The Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center, the Pre-K Center for Marietta City Schools and nine other early learning centers in the City of Marietta. Read More
The statewide Mayor’s Reading Club, a new literacy program created by Georgia City Solutions, a nonprofit arm of the Georgia Municipal Association, began with a handful of mayors and has grown to more than 50 mayors participating from across the state. Read More
Truly a one-stop-shop, the new Readiness Radar layers together early childhood data that once existed in several different places onto a single, easy-to-use online platform. Read More
The Cherokee County School District has kicked off a month-long literacy campaign to get kids reading. Read More
Students spearheaded a book drive as a service-learning project, and the Deal Center proudly donated 100 books from our internal collection and another 100 from personal donations made by staff, family, and friends. Read More
It’s time for winter break at schools throughout Georgia—but it’s also the time for communities to start collaboratively planning ways to increase access to healthy meals, safe environments, and books and educational opportunities during the summer months. Read More
The Community Scope and Sequence was created by the Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center and connects the Georgia Pre-K learning standards to a curriculum that builds and develops the "reading brain," all based upon brain science. Read More
Sometimes one conversation can create a seismic shift in strategy. That’s what happened when Rhonda Fuller attended a peer-to-peer presentation in Troup County after stepping into the role of executive director for Meriwether County Family Connection in 2017. Read More
Funding from Coaching for Literacy enabled Emmaus House, in partnership with the Get Georgia Reading—Campaign for Grade Level Reading, to transition the program to meet the educational and socio-emotional needs of K – 3 children, funding critical supplies, training, books, and literacy kits. Read More
“Spinach to Win It” is a statewide celebration coordinated by Georgia Organics to get kids eating, growing, and participating in spinach-themed activities. Read More
A growing body of research is focusing on the importance of streamlining and improving coordination in the transition from early education settings to the public school system. Read More
Baldwin County School District Superintendent Dr. Noris Price was named the 2022 Georgia Superintendent of the Year by the Georgia School Superintendents Association. Read More
Themed kits filled with books and activities are distributed to Paulding County families through the My Little Library Program led by Get Paulding Reading. Read More
2Gen Innovation Grants are intended to help communities develop strategies for reaching out to student parents, who face substantial hurdles to achieving economic security. Read More
The Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy and the Get Georgia Reading Campaign are pleased to release the grant application for the 2022 Collective Impact Grant initiative. Read More
Driven by the motivation of increasing access to books to improve reading achievement, Cobb Collaborative set and met a goal of installing 21 Little Free Libraries across Cobb County in 2021. Read More
Get Troup Reading, a Get Georgia Reading Campaign community, and the Troup County School System hosted children’s book author, Super Bowl-winning football player, and UGA alumnus Malcolm Mitchell to Troup County. Read More