2015—2016 Redskins Read Program Check

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2015—2016 Redskins Read Program
n an effort to make reading more
fun for elementary school students,
the Redskins Charitable Foundation
created the Redskins Read Program
focusing on a playbook for students
to study the Xs and Os of reading!
The Redskins Read Playbook provides
monthly prompts that encourage students
to critically analyze a book(s) of their
choice, focusing on different areas of the
story (e.g. characters, setting, plot). This
supplemental learning tool, supplied to all
participating schools at no cost to them,
incentivizes 4th and 5th grade students by
providing monthly prizes and the chance
to host a Redskins event with current players at their school this spring! The program
runs from September 2015 – March 2016.
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Aiton Elementary School
District of Columbia Public Schools
Lake Arbor Elementary School
Prince George’s County Public Schools
Alfred Kiger Savoy Elementary School
Lamont Elementary School
John Burroughs Elementary School
Lewisdale Elementary School
Leckie Elementary School
Magnolia Elementary School
Martin Luther King Jr
Elementary School
Mattaponi Elementary School
Patterson Elementary School
Montpelier Elementary School
Raymond Education Campus
North Forestville Elementary School
The Walker Jones Education Campus
Northview Elementary School
Saratoga Elementary School
Fairfax County Public Schools
Overlook Elementary School
Banneker Elementary School
Loudoun County Public Schools
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary School
Catoctin Elementary School
Pointer Ridge Elementary School
Creightons Corner Elementary School
Potomac Landing Elementary School
Forest Grove Elementary School
Princeton Elementary School
Frances Hazel Reid Elementary School
Rockledge Elementary School
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
Springhill Lake Elementary School
Guilford Elementary School
Valley View Elementary School
Hamilton Elementary School
Whitehall Elementary School
Meadowland Elementary School
Rolling Ridge Elementary School
Seldens Landing Elementary School
Sterling Elementary School
Steuart Weller Elementary School
Sugarland Elementary School
Sully Elementary School
Accokeek Academy
Andrew Jackson Academy
Apple Grove Elementary School
Ardmore Elementary School
Beltsville Academy
Cora L. Rice Elementary School
Doswell E. Brooks Elementary School
Edward M. Felegy Elementary School
Gaywood Elementary School
Glenridge Elementary School
Greenbelt Elementary School
Heather Hills Elementary School
High Bridge Elementary School
Highland Park Elementary School
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The Washington Redskins Charitable
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The new 13,500 square foot center offers an
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Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation
Hosts Inaugural Back To School Fair
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The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, with the help of Catholic
Charities, on Aug. 22 hosted its inaugural Back To School Fair at FedExField.
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By Andrew Walker
Redskins.com
A large portion of the club
level at FedExField turned
into a makeshift dentist’s
office on Saturday, Aug. 22,
when the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation,
with the help of Catholic
Charities, hosted its inaugural
Back To School Fair.
The Back To School fair,
designed to give low-income
children a central place to be
completely prepared for the
upcoming school year, provided its participants with a
variety of goods and services,
such as dental exams, school
physicals, eye exams, haircuts and brand new school
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supplies and backpacks.
As they watched their two children
– Arndre, 10, and Paris, 7 – finish up an
exam with one of the many dentists on
hand, Tiarra Price and Collin Edwards
of Maryland said they were incredibly
appreciative of the opportunity to take
part in the event.
“I think it’s so nice what they’re doing,”
Price said. “Because a lot of people don’t
have health insurance or might not have
the money to get school supplies, so I
think this is a great event.”
Jane Rodgers, executive director of the
Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, said the inaugural Back To School
Fair was built around the opportunity to
provide dental services to children who
otherwise might not get the chance to
have a cleaning, X-Ray or a baby tooth
extraction in the near future.
“Dental is the No. 1 thing children
living in challenging circumstances or
poverty don’t have access to or they don’t
have insurance for,” Rodgers said. “And
we all know our smile is of our calling
card, so we want to make sure the kids
have a great smile. So that was the No. 1
thing we started with, and then we built
backwards off that, so a child that’s coming here will get everything they need.”
From the dentist’s chair to the barber’s chair, the children also had the
chance to get a free haircut courtesy of
Hair Cuttery – because, as Rodgers said,
there’s nothing better than “going back
to school with a fresh haircut” – as well
as a gift card for a free pair of shoes, new
socks courtesy of Under Armour and a
nice, new colorful Redskins backpack
accompanied by every essential school
supply for the upcoming year.
The participating families also received two tickets to the Redskins-Jaguars
preseason game Sept. 3 at FedExField.
Manning the backpack station at the
event was two-time Super Bowl champion Ravin Caldwell. The former Redskins linebacker, a fixture at Washington
Redskins Charitable Foundation events
throughout the year, said “what they’re
doing for the community is great, and I
will always continue to support them.”
“The whole event – if you go down
there and see what they’re doing with
the dental and back-to-school stuff – it’s
amazing,” said Caldwell, who joined
fellow Redskins alums Jeris White, Dan
Ryzcek, Clarence Vaughn, Darryl Pounds,
Darnerien McCants, Tyronne Drakeford,
Chris Draft and the Washington Redskins
Cheerleaders at the event. “They do a
great job, and I’m proud to be a part of it.”
Rodgers said she was appreciative of
all the other Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation’s partners who helped
out at the inaugural Back To School Fair,
too, including the Kellar Family Foundation, Children’s National Health System,
Coca-Cola, Columbia Lighthouse for the
Blind, the National Center for Missing
and Exploted Children, TeamSmile and
University of Maryland School of Public
Health.
But the relationship the foundation
has with Catholic Charities, especially,
helped make the event an over-the-top
success.
“We see them as a group that really
serves our most vulnerable in society,”
Rodgers said. “They serve thousands of
young people, as well as adults, in the
area. So we came together to join forces
to identify things that they might have
access to that we didn’t, and they’ve been
an incredible partner.”
The ultimate goal for the Back To
School Fair, Rodgers said, is to make it
an annual event to serve, at a minimum,
400 children each year.
“And as we continue to bring on
more partners, we’ll continue to grow
this event to serve more children and
hopefully make a deep impact in the
community,” she said.
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Redskins Players, Wives Aid Annual
Skins Santa Shoppe
Welcoming 200 local elementary school students to FedExField, the
Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation on Dec. 15 hosted its annual
Skins Santa Shoppe along with several Redskins players and wives.
By Jake Kring-Schreifels
Redskins.com
The Redskins locker room at FedExField functions in a variety of ways during
the football season. Mostly, it is a place to
change clothes, a place of meditation, of
focus, of frustration and exhilaration, and
it can all be quite smelly.
So it was quite a surprise for the 200
local elementary school students visiting
the stadium Monday, Dec. 15, and quite
frankly for the players, too, to see the same
locker room serve in another, transformative way – as Santa’s workshop.
“Usually when I come in here it’s a
different switch that gets put on in my
head,” safety Kyshoen Jarrett said. “But
right now, I’m feeling all nice and warm
and fuzzy inside.”
It was hard not to feel that way. Cleaned
up and decorated with Christmas colors,
tables of toys and stuffed animals and filled
with some holiday music, the locker room,
filled with active Marines, welcomed the
elementary students, who filed in group
by group to greet Santa Claus and rush
to a locker with their name above it and a
gift beneath it.
It was the biggest surprise and lasting
impression of the annual “Skins Santa
Shoppe,” put on by the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, which took
on an expanded and highly entertaining
format this time over years past.
Along with teachers and chaperones,
children from Thomson Elementary
School and Cleveland Elementary School
arrived at FedExField for the first shift
of the day, later followed by Ardmore
Elementary School and Apple Grove Elementary School. A meal awaited them
as well as several Redskins players and
Redskins wives, who sat and talked over
lunch and then assisted with their assigned
groups on the stadium’s club level.
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believe that is going to make their year, not
even their day, their year,” she said. “I’m
excited for them because they’re excited.”
“The Charitable Foundation does such
a good job of finding these schools that
really need our help,” said Kiersten Allen,
wife of Redskins President Bruce Allen.
“Each one of the [students] didn’t know
what to expect, so watching them go to
each station, and they’re just so excited,
they can’t imagine that they actually get a
gift at the end as well.”
As they unwrapped their gifts – many
of which were action figures, books and
board games – students raced over to show
Santa and collected a candy cane, a sweet
end to a sweet day.
“Seeing the kids open up their presents…it’s just a great feeling,” said Jarrett,
who had never had an opportunity like this
as a kid. “I’m feeling that type of experience with them as well, so I’m excited,
definitely.”
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Those that attended – linebackers
Houston Bates , Ryan Kerrigan and Trent
Murphy, running back Alfred Morris ,
wide receiver Jamison Crowder , specialists Dustin Hopkins , Nick Sundberg and
Tress Way, safety Kyshoen Jarrett and offensive lineman Arie Kouandjio – joined
in helping with the arts and crafts tables,
the photo booth and the cupcake making.
“I think the most important way to
give is your time and your efforts, to allow
and show people that you care,” Morris
said. “We all have a form of influence and
we have to do what we can to utilize that
influence for the best. That’s why we’re
here, just hope that they pay it forward.”
Morris was one of many players asked
about his favorite Christmas songs, his
favorite foods and what a regular day is like
in the NFL. In just those couple of hours,
eating and interacting, Morris was happy
to provide an experience that the students,
many of whom come from underprivileged
backgrounds, rarely got.
“I was these kids once upon a time,”
Morris said. “Just to come out here and do
this especially around the holidays is awesome because I remember times growing
up we didn’t have presents under the tree.”
Each group visited a different station
before rotating to the next. The activities
involved gluing together Popsicle sticks to
make Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
photo frames. Another one included wrapping players in red and white streamers
to decorate each of them as Santa Claus.
The final station allowed students to
create their own holiday-themed cupcake, supplied by Amphora Bakery. While
waiting in line, Way kept the excitement
going by squeezing some icing into willing mouths.
“Watching these kids and the excitement that they have, and then being so
thrilled to see Santa, to be able to be a part
of a little kid’s Christmas like that,” Way
said, “you can’ t beat that.”
For Danielle Peterson, a technology
teacher at Apple Grove Elementary, many
children at the event weren’t just thrilled
to spend time with Santa, but to see their
favorite players, as well.
“I know that we have several who are
definitely diehard Redskins fans and I
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