Service Learning Meets the Common Core

Since 2010, the Global Book Hour has partnered with Wegmans Stores to promote family literacy and global awareness through the use of high quality children’s literature. As GBH moves to a second location at a West Side laundromat, the program is using innovative approaches to prepare teacher candidates, children, and families for the Common Core. This poster will document how this unique PDS partnership has been aligned with the CCLS and how teacher candidates have broadened their understanding of culture and diversity to respectfully interact with a diverse population of children and caregivers, along with learning the skills involved in introducing, reading and completing follow-up activities in literacy.