READING POWER RESULTS – 2012!!!!!

The tallies are in and School-Force raised over $229,000 from the 9th Annual Reading Power Read-a-thon in January 2012!! Also a record are the 1,610,741 minutes over the two week period! That’s almost 27,000 hours or over 1100 days or over 3 years of reading. Great job kids! A huge thanks to all the kids who read and all of your friends and family who donated. Many, many thanks to our district-wide Reading Power chair as well at the Reading Power volunteer teams at each school and the incredibly supportive principals and staff. It takes HUGE effort to make thisfundraiser such a great success! When you see them, please thank the chairpeople at your school for all their hard work! Check out the School-Force blog for photos of all the great Reading Power Dragons!

Reading Power is School-Force’s second-biggest annual fundraiser (after Annual Giving), and is the perfect opportunity to get family, neighbors, and friends involved in our children’s education! Thanks to the donations from extended family, friends, and neighbors, each of the district’s elementary schools have helped save classroom teachers’ jobs and other positions such as reading and science specialists and the upper-grade music instructors. Hitting a reading milestone earns a student a dragon scale to place on a display at their school and to enter into random drawings for small but much-sought-after prizes. Hundreds of children read their way into the “Thousand Minute Club.” For the first time in 2012, Ralston Middle School joined the elementary schools in the district for the Read-a-Thon! For questions, contact readingpowerchair@schoolforce.org.
MANY thanks to our business sponsors who have provided not only cash donations but coupons and gift certificates. Our sponsors for the 2012 Reading Power Read-a-thon included Jacklyn Kurth Orthodontics, Matheson Martial Arts, Milkshake Werks, Mistral Restaurant and Bar, and Pump It Up.  Don’t delay… get your nose in a book today!