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Situation
Wilkinson Junior High's reading leadership team is reading Steven Layne's //Igniting a Passion for Reading// because the motivation among Wilkinson students to read is dropping even as teachers and administrators add rewards.

Problem
Reading is a choice that many Americans (not just students) are choosing not to do. True, there are many more demands on our time than in the past. Technology is exploding and the desire to sit down with a book is decreasing along with it.

How do we motivate students who can read to read if their parents are not readers?

Solution
Not so much a solution, as a start. WJH's reading leadership team is using Igniting a Passion for Reading to ignite a passion among the staff. We started with the team and added online training for the rest of the staff with face-to-face coaching as requested.

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