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Student
launches
project to
help promote
literacy
Because of Flint Hill student Katherine Russo, a senior at Wakefield Country Day School, 21 first graders at Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C., will now enjoy receiving and reading 25 different books especially geared to their reading level throughout the academic year.
Russo had been following a series of articles in the Washington Post examining the crisis in the Washington, D.C., school system, and she decided that a program that could help instill a love of reading in young children might be one small way to help improve a student’s chances of success. After doing some research on the Bares Circle Foundation, a charity non-profit, Russo learned that its Reading Circle program was operating in schools in Arizona, Ohio and New York. It is based on the premise that encouraging a young child to read is “the most important way to improve that child’s entire life.”
Russo agreed. She contacted the foundation’s staff and asked if it would be possible to introduce the program to an elementary school in the Washington, D.C., area. They were thrilled that she was willing to take on such a project and offered to help in any way they could. Russo next determined how much money she needed to raise in order to sponsor a class for one year, set about raising the funds, and then sought to find a recipient school
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