Support Early Literacy at Lanier High School Today!
The Lanier Library is requesting donations to purchase developmentally-appropriate titles to use during weekly storytime with parenting students and their infant and toddler children.
Currently, Lanier High School has 14 teen moms, 4 teen dads, and 6 pregnant students, who receive support through coordinated services including; Strengthening Relationships/Strengthening Families, Project HOPES, and Armstrong Community Music School. Lanier’s Child Development Center currently cares for 7 toddlers and 7 infants, all of whom have a student parent at Lanier High School.
Your donation will help buy books in support of the following at Lanier High School:
- Early childhood literacy and language development
- Vocabulary expansion
- Social-emotional development of the parents and the children
- Parent-child bonding
- School readiness
- An early love of books and learning
Lanier High School is also accepting gently-used children's books.
Gently-used children book donations will be accepted at Lanier High School's front office, located at 1201 Payton Gin Rd, Austin, TX 78758.
Can't make it to the school? Contact librarian Emily Hersh at 512-414-7433 or at emily.hersh@austinisd.org, to make other donation arrangements.
