Love 2 Read Inc.

There's a moment every reader remembers: the first time you picked up a menu, scanned the choices, and ordered exactly what you wanted, all by yourself. No one reading it to you. Just you, the words, and your decision. That's the moment captured in the photo above. Madeline Adams, daughter of Love 2 Read co-founders Andrea and John Adams, is doing exactly that at The Dolphin Bar & Shrimp Grill, weighing her options with the kind of quiet confidence that comes from truly independent reading....

Poetry has a way of saying what a lesson plan never could. When I teach the SIM Possible Selves Learning Strategy (KU-CRL: SIM) with my students, I love springboarding into poetry, especially the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and the poets who carry its legacy forward today. Preparing for this first post in that vein, I want to share some of my own wonder as I trace one thread through this poetry of hope: the recurring image of a caged bird, and a door. A note on the poems below: as...

There's a particular kind of magic that happens along the Indian River each summer, tucked into the old-Florida fishing cottages of Jensen Beach. It's the sound of a boat horn blaring across flat blue water. It's dozens of feet slapping down the sand and through the shallows as paddlers race to their boards. It's friends, old and new, cheering each other around bright white, impossibly puffy turn buoys that look more like abstract wind-catching art installations than actual course markers....