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📚🦖 One of Our Favorite Books to Read with Students! 🦖📚

"How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?" by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague is a fun and engaging favorite that always gets students smiling! 😊

Through humor and colorful illustrations, this delightful story helps children explore good habits, classroom behavior, and the excitement of learning.

Books like this make reading fun while helping young readers build confidence and a love of books. 💛📖

What's your favorite book to read with a child?

📚💛 Your Support Makes the Impact Possible 💛📚

Every child deserves the opportunity to become a confident reader.

At Education Connection, your donations help us:
✨ Coordinate volunteers and schools
✨ Recruit and train Literacy Partners
✨ Celebrate and appreciate our volunteers
✨ Provide book giveaways for students
✨ Expand our impact across Central Texas schools

Behind every Literacy Partner, every book shared, and every student encouraged is a community of supporters making it all possible. When you give, you're investing in children, literacy, and brighter futures. 📖

📚✨ Volunteer Need: Literacy Partners for the 2026–2027 School Year ✨📚

Are you looking for a meaningful way to make a difference in your community? 💛

Become a Literacy Partner and help a student build confidence, improve reading skills, and discover the joy of learning. Just 30 minutes a week can have a lasting impact! 📖

🌟 Join hundreds of volunteers who are helping students across Central Texas become confident readers and lifelong learners. 👉 Register today: https://www.education-connection.org/

Together, we can change a child's story—one page at a time. 📚💛

Join us in this movement.

As we step into a new chapter as an independent nonprofit, the need in our schools remains urgent—and the opportunity to make a difference is real.

This year, 2,563 students counted on consistent, caring adults to help them become confident readers.

Next year marks our 17th school year of serving children who are still struggling with one of the most foundational skills for their future.

📚 We can’t do this without you. You can make a difference through your:

✨ Time & Talent...Sign up to read with students starting August 2026 and help share the mission of Education Connection.

🙏 Treasure...Become a monthly supporter at $100/month. It costs just $100 to support one student for an entire school year—but the impact lasts far beyond reading.

👉 Join the movement today, Because when someone shows up, everything changes for a child.

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📚💛 Our Impact Starts with Our Volunteers 💛📚

The success and efficiency of Education Connection is made possible by our incredible volunteers who serve as Literacy Partners. Week after week, they show up to encourage, support, and inspire young readers across Central Texas. ✨

Just one 30 minutes a week can make a lasting difference in a child's life. 📖

🌟 Would you like to join our volunteer team? We'd love to connect with you and share how you can help students become confident readers and lifelong learners. 👉 Learn more and get involved: https://www.education-connection.org/

Together, we can change lives, one reader at a time. 💛

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." ✨📖 Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Every child's journey begins with someone who believes in them. As a Literacy Partner, your encouragement can help a student discover new possibilities, build confidence, and dream bigger. 💛📚

Thank you for helping young readers find their way, one page at a time.

Why does third grade matter so much?

Up through third grade, children are learning to read—building the foundation of literacy. But starting in fourth grade, everything changes. Now they are expected to read to learn across every subject: science, math, history.

If a child is not reading on grade level by that point, they are no longer just behind in reading—
they are behind in everything.

Students who struggle with reading in third grade are four times more likely to leave high school without graduating.

And for many children already facing challenges, those odds are even greater.

What happens in third grade doesn’t just affect school—it shapes a child’s entire future.
This is why we show up every week.

📬🐝 Stay Connected with The Buzzworthy Bulletin! 🐝📬

Want to hear inspiring stories, volunteer highlights, community impact updates, upcoming events, and ways to support literacy across Central Texas?

Subscribe to The Buzzworthy Bulletin, Education Connection's quarterly newsletter, and be the first to know what's happening in our schools and communities! 📚✨

💛 See the impact you're making
📖 Learn about volunteer opportunities
🎉 Stay up to date on events and celebrations
🤝 Discover new ways to get involved

👉 Sign up today and join the buzz! https://ow.ly/IBuB50Z5Uve

💛📚 Support a Child This Month 📚💛

For just $15, you can help a child build confidence, strengthen reading skills, and discover the joy of learning. ✨

Your gift supports Education Connection's mission of helping students read at grade level by the end of 3rd grade, creating brighter futures, one reader at a time. 📖

Every child deserves the opportunity to succeed. Will you help support a young reader this month?

👉 Donate today: https://www.education-connection.org/give-today/