Literacy and Service Recognition Award for Students

IRA’s Literacy and Social Responsibility Special Interest Group (L-SR SIG) is pleased to announce a new Literacy and Service Recognition Award -- thanks to Alma Flor Ada and Isabel Campoy for generously providing seed funds.

What makes this award unusual is that recipients are students (K-16+) nominated by teachers and/or librarians to be honored for exemplary community service that relates to the purposes of the L-SR SIG:

To study, understand, and promote high-quality programs which foster community service, participatory citizenship, social responsibility, appreciation for diversity, environmental stewardship, and caring behavior that occurs within the development of literacy across the curriculum.

Award winners are recognized at IRA’s annual convention as part of the L-SR SIG Program. Additionally, winning students/programs are featured on our website!

Join us to celebrate the work of our youth serving our communities. Guidelines for submission for the Literacy and Service Recognition Award are available as a pdf file for you to download. You will be asked to submit contact and program information, including a short essay that describes the project and particularly the impact the nominee/program has made.

All materials should be sent (via email and/or regular mail) to the Awards Chair of the IRA Literacy and Social Responsibility Special Interest Group by January 15, 2013, for the 2013 Literacy and Service Recognition Award. You will receive confirmation of receipt of materials via email and will be notified about results of committee review by March 1, 2013.

We encourage you to download a flyer describing the award program and to share it with teachers and librarians you know who might be interested in submitting a nomination to highlight the work of one or more students in their school.

If you have questions, please contact the Awards Chair, Denise Stuart, via email (dstuart@uakron.edu).

Thank you for your interest and support!

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