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Classroom Grandparents Eagerly Return for a New School Year

Classroom Grandparents and school staff celebrate the start of a new school year, preparing to mentor and support students across Tampa Bay classrooms.

A new school year means new opportunities to encourage, mentor, and inspire young learners. Across Tampa Bay, Classroom Grandparents are returning to schools eager to support students through reading, mentorship, and meaningful one-on-one connection. From greeting families on the first day to preparing backpacks filled with educational supplies, these volunteers are helping children begin the school year feeling excited, supported, and ready to learn.

Classroom Grandparent volunteers return to local schools to support students, teachers, and families at the start of the new school year.

The fall season brings the start of a new school year, and our Classroom Grandparents are thrilled to get back into the classrooms to help teach children to read. Check out the photos below of our ecstatic classroom volunteers on their first day back to school. They are so happy to be meeting students, parents, and teachers, and helping pack backpacks filled with fun educational supplies for our Readers in Motion families! We wish them a very successful school year filled with fun and lots of learning!

Classroom Grandparents volunteers reunite with teachers and fellow volunteers as they return to Tampa Bay classrooms for a new school year supporting student literacy.

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Amy Manning

Amy Manning

Outreach and Communications Manager

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