On February 28th, 2026, Reading to End Racism held a training at Bethany church in Montpelier. New readers worked with experienced readers to learn about choosing books and making a plan for reading and discussion in an elementary school classroom.
The training includes sharing and discussion, setting expectations, demonstration of an actual lesson, and choosing books. There were eight people getting the training for the first time, and as usual there was all sorts of interesting conversation and enthusiasm. In one day, we filled up most of the slots for our 7 upcoming school events. We will be going into most of the local town schools to read and would like to build up to doing the bigger city schools as we increase our volunteer base.
Three additional people were trained individually after this event, so that makes 11 newly-trained volunteers ready to go!
