By Denise Roberts, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on December 22, 2015
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Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
Embracing Our Differences (EOD) is a not-for-profit organization that uses the power of art and education to expand consciousness and open the heart to celebrate the diversity of the human family. It accomplishes this through an annual…
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By Beth Duda, Director, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on December 21, 2015
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The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading participated in Community Youth Development’s (CYD) Gingerbread Festival in early December. Our entry was one of 153 gingerbread creations on display for a festive weekend at the Westfield Sarasota Square Mall.
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By Beth Duda, Director, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on December 17, 2015
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School Readiness, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a series featuring Vroom. “The foundation for successful society is built in early childhood,” so says Dr. John Shonkoff of The Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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By Denise Roberts, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on December 10, 2015
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A favorite Buddy the Elf quote is: “I thought maybe we could make gingerbread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice-skating, and maybe even hold hands.” We can do most of these things at the Community…
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By Richard Conard, MD, Director of Bradenton's Remote Area Medical Event
on December 8, 2015
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Health.
Editor’s Note: Richard Conard, MD served as director of the Remote Area Medical (RAM) event in Bradenton, which the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading was proud to support. The Healthy Readers Initiative of the…
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By Beth Duda, Director, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on November 25, 2015
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Health.
Author’s note: Through funding by The Patterson Foundation, the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading had a booth at the Remote Area Medical Clinic in Bradenton, Florida. The Healthy Readers Initiative…
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By Beth Duda, Director, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on November 23, 2015
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Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading participated in the Hispanic Fall Festival on Sunday, Nov. 7 at St. Jude Catholic Church. Suncoast team members and youth volunteers from St. Jude assisted attendees in downloading the…
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By Beth Duda, Director, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on November 20, 2015
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School Readiness.
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a series featuring Vroom. The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is a communitywide effort to help children, especially those from low-income families, achieve reading proficiency by the end of…
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By Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
on November 18, 2015
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Attendance, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
During the summer of 2015, the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading began working with the School District of Manatee County and Sarasota County Schools to reinforce and accelerate the important work they had begun…
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By Hedy Chang, Director of Attendance Works
on November 16, 2015
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Attendance, Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
I wanted to say thank you so very much for this opportunity to see first-hand the work that is emerging from the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. What an impressive effort to bring together these two communities—Manatee and Sarasota—to…
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