We wanted to incorporate things that the students were learning about in their classrooms and tie in their reading material. We also wanted to bring in diversity and use themes that were universal around the world in the murals that Claudette was designing.

He's secretly after the reading coming to my house to meet the students.

Look, we have over a thousand students reading below grade level, ... This is a viable program and helps with comprehension. We will do it again next summer.

The idea of the traverse wall is to give the students that feeling of being challenged with climbing, but if they get nervous, they just have to step down. They are never more than 3 and a half feet off of the floor and there are 8 foot wide mats underneath them.

Its win-win. The non-profits benefit and the students benefit.

If a child scored a 300 in reading last year and the score improved to 350 this year, the child and their parents would each receive the increased difference between the two scores in tickets to use as cash in an auction of many large-ticket items at the beginning of the next school year. The kids may use their tickets separately or combined with parents' to bid on items such as big-screen televisions, bicycles, DVD players and more.