Line4Line has expanded its efforts to support access to diverse books and art in the schools by offering curriculum development as well as professional development services for schools and community organizations.

Since 2021 Line4Line has partnered with the Big Buddy Program to curate books and develop activities for their summer Bookworm Reading Project. The curriculum, designed as weekly thematic units, combined leveled books for grades K-5 and with a creative activity kit of materials. As part of this program, Line4Line provided professional development training for Big Buddy Staff on reading and art making with children.

In 2021 – 2023 Line4Line has worked in EBR Schools with presented the Change the Narrative program to students at Merrydale, Capitol and Audubon Elementary. The CTN curriculum pairs art activities with books written by and about Black, Indigenous, People of Color to foster deeper cross-cultural awareness, support social emotional learning, and help students identify as readers and creative problem solvers.  

In 2021-2022 Line4Line developed arts integration lessons for 2nd and 5th grade students at Park Elementary. This project brought together ELA teachers with L4L educators to develop custom arts lessons that supported classroom curriculum.

Other partnerships including weekly creative literacy instruction to students at the Emerge School and Hope Academy from 2021-2023 and providing ongoing Out-of-School time creative literacy instruction to students at The Gardere Initiative and Front Yard Bikes.

The Line4Line team is able to develop custom literacy + arts integration lessons to support classroom educators or  community organizations who work with youth of all ages and abilities. We have the knowledge and skills to design lessons to energize your curriculum with books and making. To learn more about Line4Line’s Creative Literacy services  contact us.

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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create. –President Barack Obama”