Nichole Folkman
2020
Hartsburg, IL
Hartsburg-Emden School District
Second Place Winner
$12,000
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Folkman’s innovative teaching idea, “Stags Read,” focuses on combining community and school resources to change access to books. The project will increase community reading and literacy by providing books to pre-school children, through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library; school children, through summer reading; adults, through Free Little Libraries; and book swaps at schools. Through this project Folkman hopes to create a community where everyone has easy and free access to books and create a space for implementing S.T.E.A.M. lessons into the curriculum.