Literacy Fellowship
Created by Educators to help improve literacy outcomes in underserved schools and classrooms.
Applications for the 2025-2026 Literacy Fellowship Team will open in February 2025.
The Leaders Readers Network’s Literacy Fellowship was established in 2019 to improve literacy experiences for students and families in underserved schools and communities. TLRN Literacy Fellowship members actively work in their schools and communities to provide diverse and culturally relevant books for students at underserved schools across the United States.
Each year, we conduct a national search for educators who are dedicated to ensuring literacy is at the hallmark of each student’s success.
Educators receive a free diverse classroom library, lesson plans, service project opportunities, brand new books for their students to take home, and build community with other teachers in their grade level.
2023-2024 Literacy Fellowship member, Adrienne Mims
with a set of brand new books, titled, Sulwe by Lupita Nyong.
Through the Literacy Fellowship, Educators:
Engage classrooms to serve their community with brand new books to help increase reading engagement and improve literacy skills at underserved schools.
Receive free service projects to implement on National Days of Service: 9/11, MLK Day, and Global Youth Service Day.
Mentor older students on their campuses to participate in monthly read aloud experiences with younger students.
Participate in the Books that Build Character Project
“I am incredibly grateful for the impact that The Leaders Readers Network has had on my teaching, student learning, and family literacy engagement. The books provided by TLRN have enhanced literature in my classroom, bringing diversity to the books in my classroom library and in the hands of my students.”
Nichole Sills | Canyon ISD
“As an elementary school librarian working at a Title 1 campus, the partnership that we have with The Leaders Readers Network (TLRN) has been invaluable. TLRN has provided our students the opportunity to receive free books, cultivating a love of reading and book ownership. This collaboration helps to instill the importance of service and working toward a greater good as well.”
Linda Moore| Northside ISD
“TLRN has facilitated the distribution of books in both English and Spanish greatly expanding the options for reading materials to my students, and also reinforcing a love for reading in all of my students. A huge Thank you for the work that TLRN does in promoting literacy among schools and communities, specially at schools like mine, where students typically lack opportunities to immerse in literacy beyond school hours.”
José Ramos-Villicaña | Dallas ISD
