(Green Bay, Wisconsin) — Students at Chappell Elementary School will receive new books and educational supplies through a grant provided to the school by Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women. Chappell educators will use the $2,000 grant to purchase materials from First Book Marketplace, selecting the resources that best support the school’s unique needs.The Wisconsin Epsilon Chapter of Pi Beta Phi at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay nominated Chappell to receive the grant. Members have worked closely with the Green Bay Area School District since the chapter’s establishment in 2021, providing reading enrichment and sponsoring literacy-related activities for district students.
Wisconsin Epsilon Chapter President Jessica Egan said she hoped the grant would not only inspire a love of reading among Chappell students, but support the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. “We’re proud to support the school’s ongoing efforts to offer books with characters that are representative of their student body,” Egan said. “The school actively seeks books with diverse characters and authors that make it possible for students to see themselves and their experience represented in the stories they read.”...
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