Participating teachers get a new box of various graphic novels about once a month or so dropped off directly to their room for their students to borrow and enjoy.
This is a fairly easy and no-strings-attached type of program to promote literacy through the enjoyment of modern graphic novels. All you have to do is just manage a stack of books.
This might be particularly useful for your reluctant readers or the ones that simply like the "hi-lo" type of reading.
More information on the Hero Nation Program can be found here: www.heronationypsi.com
Learn more about the Comic Book Libraries program at www.comicbooklibaries.com
How Comics Help
As referenced in Black Comics: Politics, Race and Representation , according to American psychologists Richard Koestner, Joel Weinberger, and David C. McClelland, superheroes can have a significant impact on the young developing mind for both personality and identity development; specifically through the process of self-identification and cultural association with the fictional heroes. Simply put, comics can help us discover the hero within.
We’ve provided some links below to a few amazing TED talks delivered by educators and professionals who we really admire, that support utilizing comic books as literature:
Gene Luen Yang - Comics Belong In The Classroom
Illya Kowalchuk - How Comic Books Can Transform Student Learning
Michael Uslan - The Boy Who Loved Batman
About Hero Nation
Hero Nation is an organization in Ypsilanti, Michigan with the mission to help everyone discover the hero within through events and programs based in nerd culture that foster empowering, creative, and educational experiences for underrepresented and marginalized communities — including youth, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, women, and people with low socioeconomic status.
And more information on their book drive can be found here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/comic-book-libraries?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet