It's a Surprise TwitterParty!

Anne Mazer & Erin Dealey invite you to a Surprise Twitter Graduation Party for Riley! (Shhhh!)

Join us in celebrating Riley C's graduation from high school. (***Not mentioning her full name for fear a Google alert will spoil the surprise!)

This wonderful young woman has grown up before our eyes here on Twitter. Help us celebrate her success and blast her with good wishes for her future!

Important: We request that all who participate do this with the utmost respect for our graduate. We are purposely avoiding all personal details of her graduation/college choice in respect to her privacy. She knows nothing about this surprise or the suggestions below.

WHEN: Wednesday, June 1st (She is already done with school so we picked our own date.)

WHERE & HOW:

Before June 1st: Share the DM message we sent to you to anyone you think might want to participate. (Please DM only!)

On June 1st: Send our graduate your Best Wishes using one or more of these hashtags: #CongratsRiley or #Classof2011Riley or #HappyGraduationRiley

Further Options for June 1st (Please do not do these ahead of time!)

• Bloggers: Write your grad wishes on your blog, and Tweet with above hashtag(s). Topic suggestions:

*a mock Valedictory address in her honor

* Literacy and Our Graduate

* Book reviews about graduation or literacy

* Your own (positive, inspirational preferred) grad memories

• Don't have a blog? Add any of the above as a comment on this blog and we will pass them on.

• Donate to a Literacy nonprofit of your choice.-- As you know, Riley C has worked hard to promote literacy, including a nonprofit she started in 2007 : http://linkbylink.org/1.html Now run by RC and her brother, the goal of this program is to "help end the cycle of poverty by providing education opportunities" in the US. Please visit her web site and follow the links to her literacy program.

OR...other sites include:

http://www.rif.org/ Reading is Fundamental (RIF) is the nation's largest nonprofit children's literacy organization, serving 3.5 million children annually at 17,000 locations. In recent years, RIF's volunteer corps has grown nearly 10 percent, to 240,000. RIF involves children in reading-related activities, encourages families to participate in their children's education, and enables children to select free books.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/index.cfmThe Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, serves children from birth to age 14 and their families and caregivers.

http://www.firstbook.org/ First Book's primary objective is to distribute books to children participating in community-based tutoring, mentoring, child development and family literacy settings. First Book also works with national literacy partners such as America Reads to provide new books to children most in need.

http://www.blogger.com/goog_1334775112 The International Reading Association is an organization whose members include classroom teachers, administrators, parents, reading specialists, psychologists and students. The Association has more than 90,000 members in 99 countries, and the group issues more than 100 print and non-print publications. The association's professional journals include The Reading Teacher, Reading Research Quarterly, and Reading Online, an electronic literacy journal.

If you would like to receive a reminder email of this on JUNE 1st, send a quick email to erin@erindealey.com (Subject: Riley's Surprise) or DM your email address on Twitter to @erindealey.

Thanks!