CCSD Board Members, Superintendent Hit Classrooms for Read Across America

Woodstock Wire Staff

School board members and the superintendent of the Cherokee County School District stepped out of their offices and into elementary classrooms this week, reading aloud to students as part of Read Across America Week, the nationwide literacy event held each year around Dr. Seuss's March 2 birthday.

Photos shared by the district show the visits were anything but ceremonial. One image captured a welcome screen reading "Welcome Mrs. Jordan" as a guest reader held up a picture book to a room full of attentive students. In another, a woman in a rocking chair read to children seated on a classroom rug, a scene that could belong in any Cherokee County elementary school on any given morning — except the reader happened to be one of the people who helps run the district.

The annual event, organized nationally by the National Education Association, uses the occasion of Theodor Geisel's birthday to put a spotlight on childhood literacy. For Cherokee County schools, that has meant bringing in guest readers whose presence signals to young students that reading matters to the adults in charge.

The district has not released a full list of which schools were visited or which board members participated beyond what the photos show, but the images suggest multiple campuses were part of the week's activities.

For the children filling those classroom floors and desk chairs, the message was simple: the people who run their schools think reading is worth showing up for.