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Paraprofessional-to-teacher program celebrates new educators with support from Queen City Book Bank

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Participants and organizers of the PELEA grant program,
Participants and organizers of the PELEA grant program, a partnership with Hamilton County ESC that helps paraprofessionals earn their teaching licenses and TESOL endorsements.
Oxford and Beyond • Excellence and Expertise • Student Success

Paraprofessional-to-teacher program celebrates new educators with support from Queen City Book Bank

Participants and organizers of the PELEA grant program, a partnership with Hamilton County ESC that helps paraprofessionals earn their teaching licenses and TESOL endorsements.
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Miami University’s College of Education, Health, and Society recently celebrated participants in the PELEA grant program, a partnership with the Hamilton County Educational Service Center (ESC) that helps paraprofessionals earn their teaching licenses and TESOL endorsements. The program prepares educators to work across K–12 classrooms with a focus on inclusive, language-rich instruction. As part of the celebration, each of the new educators received a set of new, high-interest books to begin building their classroom libraries—thanks to a generous donation from the Queen City Book Bank. Katie Droder, a Miami alum and former teacher, curated the collection, reflecting the diverse needs of students in these future classrooms.

Collection of books stacked on a table
A vibrant collection of children's books from QCBB featuring fiction and nonfiction titles to build the new educators' classroom libraries.

Queen City Book Bank works in tandem with community partners to champion literacy development through tutoring, Little Free Libraries, literacy outreach, and book access. The organization strives to eliminate barriers to reading and ensure that the right books reach the children who need them most.

(AI tools Grammarly and ChatGPT 4.0 assisted in writing this article.)

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Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Inquiry College of Education, Health, and Society