It’s not that I don’t like teachers. Teachers are the best. I used to be a teacher, too.
And it’s not that I don’t think teachers can’t choose great books for young people. Nor is it that I don’t value teacher-assigned, whole-class novels.
It’s just that I believe that young people should be able to choose their own books, ones that speak to them, that they’re curious about, that they want to read.
This is why the Kindle Classroom Project is built from the ground up entirely by students, entirely with the books they request on the KCP Website.
The process is simple: If a book isn’t already in the library, a student may request it, and then the all-volunteer book-buying team purchases the book within 24 hours. The next day, the book is on the student’s Kindle, ready to read.
The part part is that every book that a student requests is also made available to the 2,000 other students in the program. The book never goes missing, and never gets worn out, and there’s nothing teachers need to do to keep track of all these books that students read.
Instead, teachers can spend more time connecting their students to good books they want to read.
Let me know if you have questions about the KCP Library or the Kindle Classroom Project in general. Thank you for reading this post!