Helping to Organize Book Drives to Book Sorting & Organizing to Sharing Books with Teachers

• Working with both community service liaisons and parent and student volunteers, we help to organize book drives in area schools and other community institutions to collect new and gently used books for children in grades K-6.

• If needed, we provide boxes as well as posters announcing the book drive. We can provide transportation for the books when the drive is over. Student volunteers play a major role in their school's effort and obtain community service credit in the process. Their help can also be vital at the Teacher BookShare event described below.

• We take those books to the teachers at Turning the Page's (TTP) Title 1 partner schools. These booksharing events are special events for the teachers and occur at a time they have chosen. The books are presorted and displayed so the teachers are able to browse and select the titles they want for their classroom bookshelves.

• As we perfect the process and grow, we foresee several Teacher BookShare events occurring each year for teachers in TTP's partner schools.