ASCD SmartBrief 15 April 2026 by Kanoe Namahoe
The lights are low. Crickets are chirping. Inside the tents, light flickers, casting shadows on the walls. School librarian Shaye Miller smiles at the students, who are clustered excitedly around her.
“We’re at a campground with other schools,” she tells them in a hushed tone. “They have to go to bed — but we get to stay up past midnight, as long as we’re reading quietly with our flashlights.”
It isn’t a sleepaway camp — it’s the reading campground in the library at David Crockett Elementary School in Weatherford, Texas, outside of Dallas. Miller implemented the campground last fall, after the students finished the library orientation, to help them adjust to using the library and encourage them to read.
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