THANK YOU!
Delray Reads Day 2016 was a huge success! THANK YOU to the nearly 300 readers who came out to read in every public elementary school classroom in the city.
ABOUT DELRAY READS DAY
Delray Reads Day is an annual community-wide event established in 2012 to support the Delray Beach Campaign for Grade-Level Reading by bringing community leaders and residents into area schools to learn more about how they can help schools and students. Our goal is to create long-term relationships between the schools and community members, and at the same time show our community's commitment to improving our students' third grade reading scores by 50 percent before the end of 2020.
Delray Reads Day began with a 7:30 am breakfast at Plumosa School of the Arts, featuring keynote speaker Marc Davis of the National Basketball Referees Association's TIMEOUT for Reading program and entertainment by Plumosa students. After the Delray Reads Day breakfast, readers proceeded to their assigned schools and spent 30-60 minutes in a classroom, reading to and talking with students.
DELRAY READS DAY AT BANYAN CREEK ELEMENTARY
FEATURED BOOK
This year's Delray Reads Day book was What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada, the story of one brilliant idea and the child who brings it into the world.
This year's Delray Reads Day book was What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada, the story of one brilliant idea and the child who brings it into the world.
ABOUT KEYNOTE SPEAKER MARC DAVIS
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Marc Davis is in his 20th season as an NBA referee. Marc attended the United States Naval Academy and Howard University. He was a member of the men's basketball team at both institutions, and played on the Navy lacrosse team.
As president of the NBRA board, Marc established TIMEOUT for Reading, a mentoring and literacy partnership with Scholastic Education where NBA referees take time out to read with students once a month, and the students receive books to add to their home libraries. TIMEOUT for Reading is designed to reinforce three fundamental principles:
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