Monday found us waiting for Allison Potter in the parking lot of the Middlesbrough Football Club Riverside Stadium - not a typical venue for either of us. Turns out that Allison’s organization, Middlesbrough Reading Campaign, is pretty serious about community partners and so is the Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation.

It started with college students…

Dr. Lynn Hall from SUNY Potsdam’s Department of Literacy and I headed to the UK on Monday to do some literacy research and speak at the UK Literacy Association Annual Conference. The path to this adventure is paved with relationships and a steady partnership between colleagues.