It’s important for parents to read to their children. I always like to encourage that parents could read to their children anywhere. So if you’re at the doctor’s office, you can read to your children. If they’re taking a bath, you could read to them. And always read a bedtime story to them.
~ Kari Johnson, Youth Programming Librarian

It’s been a powerful tool breaking down the walls of this room. All the things that you see in my room, they’re important, we have to have them. But being able to take them out of this room on Safari and into different ways of researching or finding video or pictures. Those are powerful tools for these kids. So I’m really sold on iPads and I knew that I needed to have them.
~ Kathie Aschenbrenner, Granite Ridge Intermediate School

Students aren’t reading on grade level and that’s huge, and it has huge implications down the road, too. And so we know that this is such an area of concern for the local community that this is where we’ve put a lot of the effort at the organization. And so we have students that come to us who are reading behind 1 to 5 grade levels.
~ Jenny Brietigam, Reading and Beyond