Projects and Grants

Hear my Voice: A Reading Nook, Lending Library and Writing Club to Foster Literacy and Self-Efficacy, beginning Fall 2022
- Sponsored by Dollar General Literacy Foundation through the Youth Literacy Grant program
- Implementing with Girls Inc.
Books for Kids by Kids, Writing Club
Belle Forest Elementary School, Shelby County Schools, 2016-2019
Magnolia Elementary School, Shelby County Schools, 2019-2020
- UofM undergraduates enrolled in LITL 3001 served the community by acting as Writing Mentors in an after-school writing club
- Weekly meetings held to engage as a community of writers in a culturally responsive manner
- Fostered an understanding of ways to recognize and amplify the positive identities of elementary students
Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary Starkville School District, 2020-2021: Virtual Writing Club
- Collaboration between the UofM Center for Literacy Research and Practice, College of Education and a 4th grade class from Starkville, Mississippi
- Met weekly via Zoom to grow and develop as writers
- UofM undergraduates enrolled in LITL 3001 took up positions as writing mentors to support the 4th grade writers
- Virtual Writing Expos were hosted on Flip Grid
Campus Community Fund Community Grant
- Literature Circles: Shared Stories in a Virtual World
- Collaboration between the UofM Center for Literacy Research and Practice, UofM Honors College and 7th graders attending White Station Middle School in Memphis
Backpack Book Loans
- During Summer 2020 in response to the academic and economic trials of COVID-19, over 150 books were delivered to Memphis families.
Geeter K-8 School, Shelby County Schools, 2021-2022
- UofM undergraduates enrolled in LITL 3001 served the community by acting as Writing Mentors in an after-school writing club
- Weekly meetings held to engage as a community of writers in a culturally responsive manner
- Fostered an understanding of ways to recognize and amplify the positive identities of elementary students

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