The End of a Chapter

Creswell’s champion of children’s reading retires

CRESWELL – Laurie Swanson-Gribskov started Creslane Elementary School’s Intergenerational Reading Collaboration (IRC) about a decade ago, and she is retiring from the program with her legacy well established.

IRC is a reading program that works with Creslane students from kindergarten through third grade to enhance the students’ reading comprehension and literacy skills, and it seems to be working. According to the school’s end of year statistics, 95% of kindergarteners…