Bookelicious for Districts & Administrators
The first step to improving literacy across your district is having a partner who understands that personalization is key. Your challenges are unique, and you need a unique solution to help address them. Bookelicious offers an ecosystem of products and services that improve reading motivation and engagement. These tools, customized to the specific needs of your students and your community, are specifically designed to drive more reading, which improves test scores.
Our team will work with you to assemble the right mix of professional development sessions, school and classroom library refreshes, author events, student choice and voice programs, and more, to get your students excited about reading. Read on to find out why Bookelicious is the perfect literacy partner for your district.
Bookelicious & Federal Funding
Federal funds are available for schools and school districts looking to help students succeed academically, but accessing these funds isn’t always straightforward. Each funding source has different requirements for how funds can be used, as well as different criteria for who is qualified to receive those funds.
At Bookelicious, we work alongside schools and districts to help craft powerful applications to fund literacy packages that simultaneously meet their needs and satisfy federal and district requirements.
ESSER Funds
Bookelicious offers a wide range of products and services that address the goals outlined in the ESSER fund guidance while providing teachers and students with a fun and unique literacy experience. Our team can help you craft a literacy solution to respond to the ongoing challenges faced by students post-pandemic, including tools to combat learning loss, and provide mental health support, teacher training, and more. Check out our ESSER Funds page to learn more.
Title I Funds
One of the US Department of Education’s criteria for schools receiving Title I funding is the development of policies and the provision of services to engage parents and families. Bookelicious understands the difference that a strong home-school relationship can make in fostering a love of reading and has developed products and services that are focused on strengthening this relationship.
Title III Funds
Title III funds are available to provide supplemental services and resources specially designed to help English learners improve their language proficiency and achieve in school. English learners are among the fastest-growing populations in schools today, and we can help you build literacy programs that engage with parents and address the special needs of English learners.
Professional Development & In-Person Events
To create a successful and effective literacy ecosystem, it’s important that every educator understands the necessity of helping students build a strong literacy foundation. Literacy touches every aspect of the educational experience. Engaging and accessible professional development can help educators develop and strengthen that understanding. Bookelicious offers a variety of in-person and virtual professional development opportunities for all budget levels.
In-Person Professional Development
Bookelicious’s resident book-joy spreader and author, John Schu, is as passionate about inspiring educators as he is about inspiring students. He offers two, 90-minute sessions designed to inspire your teachers and administrators. One session is focused on sharing the best new books that can easily be incorporated into your school culture to increase reading motivation, stamina, and growth. The second session focuses on the affective elements of story and how they can inspire and connect readers.
Free, Virtual Professional Development
Every year, Bookelicious partners with renowned literacy experts such as the Bring Me a Book Foundation, JoEllen McCarthy, Jennifer LaGarde, and more to put together a schedule of free, online events that address a wide variety of literacy needs. These events cover everything from how to run classroom book clubs to new book recommendations to how to strengthen the home-school reading connection.
Book Collections
At our heart, we are a children’s bookseller. We are passionate about ensuring that all students have access to new, exciting books that they want to read. To that end, we offer a variety of options from full library revamps to smaller book bundles that address specific topics and needs. Our team will work with you to find the best combination of products to help make your school libraries a joyful place for students.
Library & Book Room Refresh Collections
Our curators have created a wide variety of book collections that you can pick and choose from to give students and teachers exciting book options in the classroom and the library. And we can use your students’ bookmoji data to help select a variety of books for your classroom or library that are sure to appeal to your students, because they reflect your students’ own choices. All of the books in our collections have their BISAC codes and Library of Congress subjects attached, to help you assess if they will work within the framework of any state or local laws pertinent to your community.
Topic Specific Book Collections
We offer a variety of 10-, 20-, and 30-book collections that can be used as bite-sized revamps on specific topics important to educators and students. We currently offer collections on kindness and empathy, Latín heritage, and that feature books that are Spanish/bi-lingual.
Choice & Voice Program
Our Choice and Voice Program is not a set collection of books curated by our expert curators. Instead, it’s a program that’s tailored to the specific interests of your students, and the needs and budget of your district . This program allows students to choose their own books that they are able to take home. Our Choice & Voice Program is designed to inspire students to read more books and to strengthen the home-school connection.