“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”-Voltaire Just a short note this month to comment on the warm feeling I experience every time I see pictures of children frolicking in the cool water of summer and their expressions of pure unadulterated
EDUCATION
March 2016 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – March 2016 A Note from Our ED I am thrilled to announce that San Antonio Youth Literacy will be participating in the San Antonio Regional Forum on Public
March 2017 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – March 2017 A Note from Our Executive Director “You can find magic wherever you look.Sit back and relax,all you need is a book.” -Dr. Seuss As many of
May 2017 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – May 2017 A Note from Our Executive Director “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss Yes, many of you will be reading this after having
June 2017 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – June 2017 A Note from Our Executive Director “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” -Aristotle June is flying by and we are
July 2017 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – July 2017 A Note from Our Executive Director “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
October 2017 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – October 2017 A Note from Our Executive Director “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.” -Tomie dePaola Well,
Executive Director’s Note- April 2016
As most of you know by now, I am leaving SAYL next week due to a family matter. As I look back over the last year I am proud of the transformation I have witnessed at SAYL. When I came on board I distinctly remember hearing every day from the SAYL staff, “Do
Volunteer Spotlight- February 2016
Please meet Richard Riley, our Reading Buddy of the month for February. Richard heard about the program from a fellow Reading Buddy, and as his first year to serve as a Reading Buddy at Cameron Elementary in SAISD, his passion and dedication towards his students shines out. Richard shows up early to his school
Executive Director’s Note- February 2016
We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel again as we move into the second semester. The shift in grade level improvement we have seen throughout the course of the year gives us the information we need to know the effort is worth it (see last year’s graph results