Project LIT Community is a team of dedicated educators and students who work together to:

• Nurture authentic reading & writing identities by celebrating and promoting literacy every day

• Increase access to high-quality, culturally sustaining books (in both our classroom and community) that affirm and value all students

• Host Project LIT Book Club discussions that bring students, educators, families, and community members together

• Empower students to launch and lead school’s Project LIT chapter and serve as LIT leaders in their community

• Connect & collaborate with fellow Project LIT students, educators, and authors (locally, nationally, and globally)  

• Encourage students to read book of their choice (including Project LIT titles) during daily independent reading

• Facilitate lit circles and whole-class reads of Project LIT titles (among others)

• Design student-centered lessons & units featuring Project LIT titles (among others)

• Encourage students to create & publish stories, novels, poems, artwork, etc. of their own

• Create safe spaces to have courageous conversations as we strive to better ourselves and our communities

• Amplify voices and stories of students, educators, and authors of color

• Champion young people and books that reflect their lived realities, communities, and identities

• Rewrite the narrative about which texts and authors are deemed worthy of academic study

• Create as many positive literacy experiences as possible