Holiday Book Parties

In December, Philadelphia School District calendars are peppered with things to know: choir concerts, class parties, pajama days. But for a few hundred students in West Philadelphia, Dec. 12 and 13 were reserved for after-school book parties organized by Community School Student Partnerships (CSSP).The Community School Student Partnerships offers those extra helpers. Housed in the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, the program is organized by a board of 10 Penn students who coordinate the placement of more than 120 fellow Penn student mentors across six university-assisted community schools in West Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea Elementary School, Andrew Hamilton School, Benjamin B. Comegys School, William L. Sayre High School, Paul Robeson High School, and West Philadelphia High School, where they are embedded both in the classroom and in after-school programs throughout the year.

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