At the March Board of Education meeting, Helen Keller Principal Julie Simpson shared how the school is creating engaging opportunities that inspire students to read, write, and connect with books.
This year, Keller has focused on building a strong culture of literacy through schoolwide experiences that bring students, staff, and families together.
Highlights include:
- Book Blast, which helped place more than 1,500 books into students’ hands so they could build their own home libraries
- Family Reading Night, where more than 250 students and family members gathered for an evening of interactive reading activities
- An all-school read-aloud of Charlotte’s Web, bringing classrooms together around a shared story and culminating in the school’s first all-school field trip to see the play
- A fun Masked Reader Assembly during Read Across America Week, where staff members read aloud in disguise, and students tried to guess their identities
Through these creative programs and shared experiences, Helen Keller Elementary continues to spark a love of reading and writing while strengthening learning across the school community.
