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In 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 play-ers at their school this spring! The program runs from September 2015 – March 2016.

Interested in receiving more program information for the 2016-2017 school year? Visit redskins.com/readingwaitlist

2015—2016 Redskins Read Program

Check out the 2015-2016 Redskins Read Honor Roll below!School Name School District School Name School District

Aiton Elementary School District of Columbia Public Schools Lake Arbor Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Alfred Kiger Savoy Elementary School District of Columbia Public Schools Lamont Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

John Burroughs Elementary School District of Columbia Public Schools Lewisdale Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Leckie Elementary School District of Columbia Public Schools Magnolia Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School

District of Columbia Public Schools Mattaponi Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Patterson Elementary School District of Columbia Public Schools Montpelier Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Raymond Education Campus District of Columbia Public Schools North Forestville Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

The Walker Jones Education Campus District of Columbia Public Schools Northview Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Saratoga Elementary School Fairfax County Public Schools Overlook Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Banneker Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Phyllis E. Williams Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Catoctin Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Pointer Ridge Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Creightons Corner Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Potomac Landing Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Forest Grove Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Princeton Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Frances Hazel Reid Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Rockledge Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Frederick Douglass Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Springhill Lake Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Guilford Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Valley View Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Hamilton Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools Whitehall Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Meadowland Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools

Rolling Ridge Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools

Seldens Landing Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools

Sterling Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools

Steuart Weller Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools

Sugarland Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools

Sully Elementary School Loudoun County Public Schools

Accokeek Academy Prince George’s County Public Schools

Andrew Jackson Academy Prince George’s County Public Schools

Apple Grove Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Ardmore Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Beltsville Academy Prince George’s County Public Schools

Cora L. Rice Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Doswell E. Brooks Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Edward M. Felegy Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Gaywood Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Glenridge Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Greenbelt Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Heather Hills Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

High Bridge Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

Highland Park Elementary School Prince George’s County Public Schools

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The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation is a proud to partner in Junior Achievement of Greater Washington’s Finance Park in Prince George’s County. The new 13,500 square foot center offers an innovative and dynamic ecosystem where students experience the challenges of mak-ing real-life financial situations. Students work on tablet computers and are led by volunteer role models from the com-munity, following Junior Achievement’s unique 14-lesson, in-classroom curriculum

taught by their classroom teachers. More than 9,000 PGCPS students will visit the center each year.

The Redskins Charitable Foundation sponsored the Career Center. Once the students have completed the experience, they enter the Career Center, and through an interactive system learn about different careers and the education and experi-ences they will need in order to achieve their goals.

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A large portion of the club level at FedExField turned into a makeshift dentist’s office on Saturday, Aug. 22, when the Washington Red-skins 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, pro-vided its participants with a variety of goods and services, such as dental exams, school physicals, eye exams, hair-cuts and brand new school

Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation Hosts Inaugural Back To School Fair

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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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 Foun-dation, 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 com-ing here will get everything they need.”

From the dentist’s chair to the bar-ber’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 re-ceived two tickets to the Redskins-Jaguars preseason game Sept. 3 at FedExField.

Manning the backpack station at the

event was two-time Super Bowl cham-pion Ravin Caldwell. The former Red-skins 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 Chari-table Foundation’s partners who helped out at the inaugural Back To School Fair, too, including the Kellar Family Founda-tion, 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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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

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The Redskins locker room at FedEx-Field 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, transforma-tive 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 Red-skins 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 El-ementary 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.

Redskins Players, Wives Aid Annual Skins Santa Shoppe

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Those that attended – linebackers Houston Bates , Ryan Kerrigan and Trent Murphy, running back Alfred Morris , wide receiver Jamison Crowder , special-ists Dustin Hopkins , Nick Sundberg and Tress Way, safety Kyshoen Jarrett and of-fensive 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 awe-some 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 wrap-ping 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 cup-cake, supplied by Amphora Bakery. While waiting in line, Way kept the excitement going by squeezing some icing into will-ing mouths.

“Watching these kids and the excite-ment 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

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 pres-ents…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 experi-ence with them as well, so I’m excited, definitely.”

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