Anyone else think it’s pretty cool when your profession gets a “shout-out” from CNN? Public libraries (and school libraries for that matter) find themselves in high demand when things go south in the economy. Here’s an article that looks at how this wonderful establishment is helping Americans get back on their feet. From Cnn.com: [...]
I did not believe it would ever happen. Our Book Truck Guy strolls in: “I’ve got some books for you.” Ms. G looks at his empty hands for a moment, puzzled. She’s thinking, “So. . .where are they? I don’t see any books? Why would you tell me you have books when you don’t have [...]
Roses are Red Violets are Blue We write ‘em and read ‘em Our new Poetry Crew! Over 50 students showed up for yesterday’s lunchtime Poetry Reading in the library; and not just a bunch of GATE kids, either. We had a group of 6th grade boys laugh at all the mentions of love, 8th grade [...]
My assistant principal recently asked for a list of high interest, relevant books for our very diverse student population. This list features some of the best books out there, passing both Librarian Review and kid approval.
Long Beach Unified has just published the results of a comprehensive budget survey, designed to help identify priority programs as huge budget cuts loom. There were almost 6200 responses and among the top results were elementary and middle school libraries. Here are the results broken down for middle school: This tells me a few things [...]
Image from Wikipedia We just finished our annual history extravaganza! For the past three years now, one very awesome 7th and 8th grade History teacher, Mr. Algie, and I have spent a week attacking a huge problem: how to get 175 teen-agers to write a decent research paper. Here’s how we do it.
A few of the latest Libraries to have made headlines. Councilwoman Gerrie Shipske (District 5) wants special district assessment to fund Long Beach library system. She makes several good points about the benefits of public libraries, but I’m not sure how crazy I am about relying on specialty groups for funding. Sounds a little “iffy.” [...]
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“Omigod! I would totally kill for her API!” We had an interesting discussion at our faculty meeting yesterday morning: if we could have any intervention to raise student achievement, what could it be? “Raising student achievement?” This is Edu-code for test scores and everyone knows it. And I had an epiphany. I know a great [...]
In a few weeks I’ll be presenting at the annual TRLD Conference (Technology, Reading, Learning and Diversity) in San Francisco. The title of my presentation, session 2309, is “A is for Access, Create an Inclusive Library with Universal Design” This is a similar presentation I gave to the Long Beach Teacher Librarians, focusing on what [...]
I read just about every new novel that comes into our library before the kids get hold of it. The Orca Sounding series offers high-interest books about topics teens will actually be interested in, but written at 3-5 th grade reading levels, making these short and relevant novels accessible even to struggling redaers. Here are [...]
