Council
President Wooden announces winner of the
2013
Summer Reading Challenge,
“Council President for the Day”
“Council President for the Day”
HARTFORD
– Council President Shawn T. Wooden today announced that Naiya
McGlamery is the winner of the Council President’s 2013 Summer Reading
Challenge. McGlamery, a resident of Regent Street, is a third grader at CREC’s
Reggio Magnet School of the Arts. She will serve as Hartford’s “Council
President for a Day” on December 9th.
In June, Council President Wooden,
in partnership with Mi Casa Family and Education Center and Rosen Publishing,
gave away 7,600 books to rising second and third grade students in
Hartford. As part of this initiative,
announced at Jumoke Academy Honors at Milner on the last day of school, Wooden
challenged the students to write a paragraph and draw a picture about why
summer reading is important to them.
“I launched this initiative to draw
attention to Hartford high illiteracy rate and to promote early reading as a
critical tool to address this issue.
Unfortunately, the educational achievement gap starts very early in our
children’s lives. ”
In addition to serving as “Council
President for a Day”, McGlamery has won a Kindle eReader and tickets to the Connecticut
Science Center. In addition to McGlamery, Mrs. Hickey’s entire class at
Kinsella Elementary School will also be recognized for their high level of
participation in the challenge. Each
participating student in the class will receive a ticket to the Connecticut
Science Center, which were generously donated by the Connecticut Science
Center.
“I am grateful for the many
educators, parents and students that supported this effort,” said Wooden.
“Young people like Naiya are proof that Hartford’s best days are ahead, and
that early literacy will be a huge part of our success.”
As Council President for a Day,
McGlamery will spend the afternoon of December 4th at City Hall, learning about
the roles and responsibilities of the Council President. She will join Council
President Wooden during his regular leadership meeting with Mayor Segarra,
Majority Leader Alex Aponte and Minority Leader Larry Deutsch. Additionally, she will work with Council
President Wooden to prepare for the evening’s Council meeting, which she will
ceremoniously open at 7:00pm. She and the Kinsella students will be recognized
at the Council meeting that evening.