Read-a-Rama Online Educator Training
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Take your storytimes and youth programming to the next level!
Using music, movement, field trips, arts and crafts, community exploration, and STEM and children’s books, Camp Read-a-Rama has been growing passionate, life-long readers for 16 years. They now offering asynchronous professional development trainings for teachers, librarians, and other educators to introduce best practices for igniting a passion for reading.
Camp Read-a-Rama currently offers three learning pathways:
Leadership
This learning path is intended for appointed Site Directors and Program Facilitators (although those roles may be combined) who will lead the planning and execution of your organization's implementation of Read-a-Rama programming. In addition to the 11 content-rich courses included in this learning path, the leadership path also includes live onboarding and launch planning sessions. You can register for a cohort up to the week before the onboarding live session.
Upcoming cohorts take place:
- August 1 - October 30, 2026
- October 1 - December 10, 2026
Program Staff
This learning path is intended for program staff who will participate in camp activities at your organization's implementation of Read-a-Rama programming. You can register for a cohort up to the last Friday of the month it begins and still have eight (8) weeks to complete the learning pathway.
Upcoming cohorts take place:
- August 1 - October 30, 2026
- October 1 - December 10, 2026
Counselor-in-Training (CIT)
This learning path is intended for CITs (ages 14-17) who will participate in camp activities at your organization's implementation of Read-a-Rama programming. You can register for a cohort up to the last Friday of the month it begins.
Upcoming cohorts take place:
- August 1 - October 30, 2026
- October 1 - December 10, 2026
About Camp Read-a-Rama
Camp Read-a-Rama is a non-profit that uses books for children as the springboard for all program activities. Camp Read-a-Rama champions children’s literacy because it is the cornerstone of opportunity. They support children especially in historically under-resourced communities to develop the critical ability to read by third grade. They envision a future in which every child has access to the programs, high quality books, and the community support they need to develop strong reading skills. They are committed to fostering a nation of readers, one child and one book at a time.