Specialized Literacy Professionals Service Project Grant.
The goals of this service project grant initiative are to:
Submissions date for the Service Project Grant is May 15, 2024.
For more information on applying, please follow the instructions here.
The goals of this service project grant initiative are to:
- initiate, extend, or expand existing university-, school- and/or community-based literacy projects
- support literacy-focused trainings for parents and other community members, and/or professional learning opportunities for teachers, specialists, and other school-based professionals /or parents
- increase access, equity, and diversity efforts related to literacy instruction and/or literacy materials
- expand literacy intervention work.
- align grant work with the SLP mission (http://www.literacyprofessional.org/) and the 2017 Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals (https://literacyworldwide.org/get-resources/standards/standards-2017)
Submissions date for the Service Project Grant is May 15, 2024.
For more information on applying, please follow the instructions here.
2023 SLP Service Project Grant Winner
Shelly Landreth and Acelia Lozano
Project Title: Using the Tejas Star Reading List to Shine a Light on the Benefits of Bilingualism
The purpose of this project is to provide bilingual books to expand a bilingual teacher’s classroom library, to share current resources with the teacher for using the books, and to co-plan and present a parent literacy night focused on the Tejas Star Reading List (TSRL) and techniques for sharing the books with their children, including reading aloud.
Shelly Landreth and Acelia Lozano
Project Title: Using the Tejas Star Reading List to Shine a Light on the Benefits of Bilingualism
The purpose of this project is to provide bilingual books to expand a bilingual teacher’s classroom library, to share current resources with the teacher for using the books, and to co-plan and present a parent literacy night focused on the Tejas Star Reading List (TSRL) and techniques for sharing the books with their children, including reading aloud.