The Buis Book Foundation

06/12/2026

This needs to happen more frequently.

06/10/2026

Encouragement for extending reading time to middle and high schoolers.

During my first year as a fifth-grade teacher, I taught a student who had moved from the Dominican Republic three weeks before school started. She spoke very little English and I spoke no Spanish, so I started by teaching her question words: who, what, where, when, why. She picked these up quickly.

05/31/2026

If educational leaders had listened to teachers ten years ago, they would have known that moving to digital was a poor decision.

https://apple.news/AWECIYEO1TKymMCjEW-fusQ

05/22/2026

Absolutely true.

05/17/2026

All packed up for the first of two book giveaways this week. Tomorrow, we’ll be at Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy in Atlanta Public Schools, and on Thursday we’ll be at Kimberly Elementary School also in APS.
The students will be choosing seven books to read over the summer.
We already visited Britt Elementary School in Gwinnett County on May 1st.
“If we want students to read more, we must give them books they want to read.”

04/17/2026

The Buis Book Foundation will be at three schools (Britt ES on May 1st, Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy on May 18th, and Kimberly ES on May 21st) to give each student seven books of their choice to read over the summer. If you are in the Atlanta area and interested in volunteering, please send me a message. Below are just some of the boxes of books the students will be selecting from.
Thanks!

02/24/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AbtLy3jF8/?mibextid=wwXIfr

02/18/2026

And this is what The Buis Book Foundation is all about - creating readers at the earliest possible age.

02/01/2026

Books make life better.

01/24/2026

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of The Buis Book Foundation today - it looks like the weather will cooperate.