Specialized Literacy Professionals is pleased to announce the second annual Service Project Grant.
The goals of this service project grant initiative are to:
Submissions date for the grant will be announced at a later date for 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 grant will be announced at a later date for 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.