St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kelvin Adams begins most days by visiting classrooms throughout the District. On Tuesday, January 18, 2011, he encouraged all district leaders to do the same.
As part of Adams’ Superintendent’s Book Club initiative, each elementary school in the district hosted a special guest reader for the day.
Adams visited Gateway Elementary School and read to a group of third grade students. The book selection for the day was “of THEE I SING,” written by President Barack Obama. The goal for the day: pass along the joy of reading to SLPS students.
The Superintendent’s Book Club is a literacy initiative designed to heighten and build the joy of reading for SLPS students. It is funded by a grant written to serve St. Louis Public School students in grades K-5 in collaboration with the St. Louis Public Library, the St. Louis Public Schools Foundation, and Follett Library
Resources. Students will engage in the reading of powerful fiction and non-fiction texts four times this semester.
Students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5 will collectively read the same book, as well as an alternative text. The collective reading will allow classroom teachers to engage students in all SLPS elementary classrooms from classroom to classroom and from school to school.
