For love of reading

West University resident Meredith Dickson (pictured, center), a Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) teacher and member of Teach for America Houston, collected books to help instill a love of reading in young students. Along with first-year Teach for America Houston corps members Case Garza (pictured, left) and Caroline Norwood (pictured, right), Meredith worked to help a fellow teacher’s goal of providing high-quality children’s books for students who are non-native speakers and immigrants or newcomers to the United States. Meredith reached out to her Aggie alumni network and her sorority, Pi Beta Phi, and collected 1,500 books. Six hundred of the books were donated to the fellow teacher’s classroom, and Meredith plans to host a book drive for other Teach for America Houston teachers to distribute the rest.

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