“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” – Maya Angelou For the past several years, San Antonio Youth Literacy has participated in The Big Give and will do so again in 2020. For those of you not familiar with The Big Give, it is a drive held annually for one
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Executive Director Note January 2020
“The horizon leans forward offering you space to place new steps of change.” ~ Maya Angelou By the time you read this we will have entered not only a new year but a new decade. Wow! 2020. Over at least the past five years, the community has been setting educational goals to reach
Executive Director Note – December 2019
“Mankind was my business… charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.” Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas” This month I have decided to dedicate my message to all of you who know what our “business” during our time here on Earth
Executive Director’s Note- October 2017
“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”—Tomie dePaola, Author of Legend of the Blue Bonnet and others Volunteers are signing up and being trained, teachers are busy assessing the kids reading levels to be sure to meet them where they are and
Executive Director’s Note- August 2017
“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
Executive Director’s Note- December 2016
Amongst all of the world strife right now, I find peace in the elementary schools, knowing San Antonio Youth Literacy is a strong, flickering light in the midst of it all. The other day I was at Arnold Elementary and the kindergarten class came into the cafeteria to practice for their holiday play