tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38796726998383867322024-03-15T18:09:48.106-07:00Eliterate LibrarianMy experiences as a high school librarian interested in engaging instruction, edtech, combating poverty, creating lifelong readers and a safe place for all students.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07786475320854134785noreply@blogger.comBlogger354125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-71574153559726486232019-04-29T06:51:00.000-07:002019-04-29T06:51:23.811-07:00SC TOY Finalist LessonI was thrilled to find out that I was a finalist for our state's Teacher of the Year award. I believe that I am the first librarian to ever receive this recognition in South Carolina. I'm so proud to represent school librarians and all teachers.<br />
Part of the competition is to have a lesson recorded for five minutes and a panel watches and asks questions about the lesson before judging. I knew exactly which lesson I wanted to have them visit to record.<br />
One of our SC YABA nominees is Glow by Megan Bryant. This book is about a girl who buys an antique painting at a thrift store. When she gets it home she realizes that it glows. She is intrigued and wants to find out more about the painting. Her story is interwoven with the story of a girl that gets a job painting the dials on watches for World War I soldiers. As the story progresses we realize that she is one of the Radium Girls.<br />
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For this lesson I created 8 different stations and had students complete as many as they could and submit a Flipgrid answer for each station. This activity is a #fliphunt. There are many other examples online. It combines a scavenger hunt with the Flipgrid tool.<br />
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The stations are below. You'll need black lights, black light flashlights, and invisible ink. I'm happy to share all the materials if you need them. You can see pics of the stations below including the three that were in the black light area for maximum glowing. It was a fun lesson. We're going to do it again next year with all of the Freshmen and they'll all be reading Glow. Megan Bryant has also agreed to Skype with us. Yay!<br />
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Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-13614118357254779352019-04-29T06:34:00.002-07:002019-04-29T06:34:54.082-07:0018-19 Literacy Service ProjectsThis year our book club participated in several literacy service projects.<br />
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Our Books and Barbers program gave away hair cut coupons and books for the first day of school. Our Books and Braids with Spearman Elementary went really well. Our students visit the afterschool program students, read to them, and braid hair or paint nails.<br />
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For midterms and finals I invited the SC Dog Therapy Group to our school. It was a huge hit and fun stress reliever.<br />
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We were so proud to give over 25 bags with new pajamas and a book for students in our area in need. This was our first annual Bedtime Story Pajama Drive. I look forward to doing it again next year.<br />
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Tomorrow we're going over to Wren Elementary to visit with a class that we've been reading Wishtree with and discussing on Flipgrid. We're going to plan our own Wishtree and tie our wishes onto the tree together. Here is our fabric scraps ready to go.<br />
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After seeing this idea on Twitter, I implemented it in the library. I already had this cart, but I went out and bought things that students frequently ask for like pencils, lint brush, sewing kit, deodorant, socks, band aids, etc. Now they can get what they need without embarrassment.<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-26838237877729111062019-04-29T06:25:00.000-07:002019-04-29T06:25:06.138-07:0018-19 Reading PromotionsThis year some of my favorite reading promotions has been:<br />
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1. Unwrap Your Next Read<br />
I created a Google Form with reading interest questions for our faculty and staff. Anyone that wanted to participate could take the survey and I would choose a book for them based on their answers. Then I'd wrap the book up for the winter holidays. They could take it home for the break and return it with a short review for a book display.<br />
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2. Skype visits.<br />
This year our Forensics class read Blood, Bullets, and Bones and Skyped with Bridget Heos. Our book club Skyped with Megan Miranda for The Safest Lies, Katie Kennedy for Learning to Swear in America, and we had Marie Marquardt visit us in person for her books. A visit with Tiffany Jackson fell through, but our students still enjoyed reading Monday's Not Coming.<br />
In addition to authors, we Skyped with the book club from Richland Northeast High School a few hours away. We talked about Speak and Hey, Kiddo. My students loved talking to a group at another school.<br />
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Next year we already have six Skype visits lined up for our state's Young Adult Book Award nominees!<br />
3. YABA Voting<br />
The Anderson County Election Commission came through for me again this year so that we could vote on real voting machines. I love combining their visit with promoting books and getting students registered to vote. It pairs nicely with the new Civic Engagement Center that I set up in the library with voting information, Selective Service information, legislators contact info and other government-related information. This project was even included in a book recently about addressing life skills in the library program.<br />
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4. March Book Madness<br />
This event is always fun because it gives me a chance to book talk and share new books with the students. I also love finding out which one they choose as the winner. Our school chose Fifth Wave as their favorite.<br />
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5. Summer Reading<br />
I've already visited our middle school to get our rising freshmen signed up for their summer reading. It was great sharing books with them and telling them about the importance of reading over summer break. These are their choices this year. I'll be working on rising sophomore sign up very soon.<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-4169447682368948382019-04-29T06:11:00.000-07:002019-04-29T06:11:20.714-07:00Awards and AdvocacyI have had the pleasure of serving as our district Teacher of the Year this year. That comes with many perks and responsibilities.<br />
One of the perks was attending the SC Teacher Forum in November. This was a great opportunity for us to network with teachers from all over the state, hone our leadership skills, and learn about the State Teacher of the Year process. My favorite part was the friends I made in those few days.<br />
I was also excited to hear from our current State TOY, our State Superintendent of Education, and the National TOY, Mandy Manning.<br />
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I was thrilled to find out that I was a recipient of the I Love My Librarian Award this year as well as the SC School Librarian of the Year. This has been a year of recognition and excitement. I wish every teacher could feel celebrated like this. It is what we deserve all the time, but don't normally receive.<br />
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I'm trying to use the platform I've been given to promote libraries and public education. I organized a Hill Day for our district's teacher forum. School teachers of the year, teacher cadets, and student middle school leaders visited our legislators in Columbia to share our concerns about school funding, teacher salaries, testing, mental health, and more. The Palmetto State Teacher's Association helped make it happen.<br />
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The Speak Up SCASL advocacy program has been going on all year this year with different themes each month. This has been a great way to highlight the amazing lessons and programs going on in school libraries across the state. #speakupSCASL #SCASLLeg<br />
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This year SCASL and the South Carolina Library Association planned a SC Legislative Day since NLLD corresponded with ALA this year. Three of the congressional visits took place in school libraries. It was a great day of advocacy.</div>
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I've been trying to preach the gospel of school libraries everywhere I go including our state's tech conference Edtech, the SC Library Association conference, Anderson County Council meeting, CERRA Teacher Fellows conference, and other speaking engagements. I've even traveled to Columbia to testify against a public education bill that would have been very harmful to public schools. In addition to speaking, I helped organize a SCASL member spotlight event for the School Library Month and made one for each of the librarians in my district.</div>
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In a few days, many of our state's teachers will be going to Columbia for a rally for education called All Out May 1st. I can't attend because of a school trip, but I wanted to contribute. I made a template for a letter to your legislator, a postcard to use to write your legislators, a voter registration card, and I organized a story time on the steps of the State House. I'm excited that the story time slots filled up quickly and the book choices look great.<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-32018645084214240712018-09-25T11:00:00.000-07:002018-09-25T11:00:28.037-07:00Clemson Flipgrid ConnectionOur partnership with the students in a Young Adult Literature course at Clemson University has begun. You can see a bit about the <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2018/04/partnering-with-adolescent-lit-college.html" target="_blank">inspiration here</a>.<br />
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Our first class connection has begun with Ms. Moye. One of her classes chose a book from this list.<br />
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The Clemson students have read these books and started posting questions in Flipgrid for our students to respond to. Each of our students took a pre-assessment about reading motivation and will be assessed after the discussion are complete to find out if their reading motivation was influenced by this project. Obviously, my hope is that these discussions encouraged our students to read, but I'm interested to see how they respond.<br />
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Since this group is well underway and actively responding, we've decided to start another class. They'll be choosing from these (plus The Sun is Also a Star and Bootcamp).<br />
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I look forward to hearing their contributions and responses on Flipgrid and seeing the results of the pre and post assessments regarding motivation. According to the Clemson faculty working on this project, there is a great deal of interest in this project because it hasn't been studied yet. I'll share the results here as we progress through this collaboration.Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-65652798870684103792018-09-20T06:14:00.001-07:002018-09-20T06:14:33.134-07:00Marie Marquardt Author VisitAs soon as I received the <a href="https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award" target="_blank">SC YABA nominee</a> list last year, I went online to investigate having an author from the list come to our school. I was excited to find out that <a href="http://www.mariemarquardt.com/" target="_blank">Marie Marquardt</a>, author of Dream Things True, Radius of Us, and Flight Season lived near Atlanta. I contacted her and we arranged for her to come have lunch with my book club, talk to our AP Human Geography classes, and give a keynote that would be open to the entire school.<br />
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Before her visit, I made this Elink to share other books related to refugees. </div>
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I also made a loo review of her books to advertise in the faculty bathrooms. You can see all of my loo reviews so far this year here.<br />
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Most of my book club members read Flight Season and a few read Dream Things True and Radius of Us. The AP Human Geography students read either Radius of Us, Dream Things True, or Refugee by Alan Gratz for part of their summer reading. They all were required to read Outcasts United. Those students had a lot of questions about immigration for Mrs. Marquardt.<br />
We enjoyed hearing about how her graduate research led her to start writing fiction about the topic she was studying and her inspirations for the characters in her books. We had a wonderful time talking to her. Several students stayed after to personally thank her and one of our ESOL students loved chatting with her in Spanish. Thank you for a great author visit!<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-14515592368229503712018-09-12T11:10:00.000-07:002018-09-12T11:10:22.544-07:00Summer Reading Update 2018You can read all about our summer reading program <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2018/04/summer-reading-2018.html" target="_blank">here</a>. We just had our freshmen summer reading discussion this afternoon and they went well. A few quotes from teachers:<br />
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The vast majority liked that I came over to the middle school to show book trailers and have them select and get the book before the year ended.<br />
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Our sophomore book groups required some adjustment. We could not figure out a way to meet face to face with the various schedules so we used Flipgrid to record videos and have the students respond in the topic for their book. Classes have been coming this week and I grossly underestimated how self-conscious the students would be to record themselves, even though the responses are not very personal. I'm going to have to meet with the teacher and re-evaluate before we plan for summer reading next year. I also had a hard time getting teachers to come in and record their initial video so I had to step in and do several myself. Not what I was hoping for!</div>
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-37069375725545724592018-09-12T10:43:00.001-07:002018-09-12T10:43:20.437-07:00Expedition EverestOne of my teachers is using the article, <a href="http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2047596,00.html" target="_blank">Blind to Failure</a>, in her classes and she wanted to build some prior knowledge before they read. I thought a hyperdoc might do the trick so I made this one using Google Drawings.<br />
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You can see the <a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/16IR-D9xSPRV1UBgABJCewYiNPH2N5eGvaXG1PnnFusI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">full Drawing with instructions and links to the side here</a>. You'll need to make and link your own Fligrid if you use this with students.<br />
The teacher will be assigning this in Google Classroom and making a copy for each student so that they can type the 3-5 things that they learned about Mt. Everest.Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-56469619892052544282018-09-12T10:33:00.000-07:002018-09-12T10:33:29.008-07:00Wren Read Book Club Service Project UpdateThe service projects for our book club have been going very well.<br />
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We had 9 haircuts donated for our <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-hair-raising-book-club-service-project.html">Books and Barbers program</a>. Seven went to one of our Title 1 elementary schools, where the guidance counselor gave them to families in need. Two stayed in our school, where they were given to students that wanted to participate in ROTC, but were unable to pay for a required haircut.<br />
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We handed out hundreds of books during our summer lunch program.<br />
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Our first visit for Books and Braids was also a success.<br />
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It was so much fun to read to the little ones and give them some one-on-one time and let them practice their read aloud skills. Our plan is to visit monthly.<br />
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Another idea in the works for next semester is working with the 5th grade at the elementary school across the street. We hope to read Wishtree by Katherine Applegate, discuss the book with the 5th graders using Flipgrid, and culminate with planting a wishtree of our own.Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-70633340857211065622018-09-07T11:58:00.006-07:002018-09-07T11:58:54.882-07:00Reading to Be a Better Writer<br />
My administration requested that I put together a professional development session on how reading can help with writing skills. Writing is our focus this year so I was happy to help out.<br />
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This is what I put together.<br />
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For our activity, I purchased picture books that relate to the content of each department. You can see <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NA0YWGOlixsFtlY0w_pNKCiSSkgUllTPZBj07nFVqOg/edit?usp=sharing">my notes and list</a> here. Using the BHH strategy from<a href="https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/disrupting-thinking-9781338132908.html"> Disrupting Thinking</a>, the teachers are asked to use these<a href="https://www.dollartree.com/Jot-160-pg-Neon-Icon-Sticky-Notes/p423668/index.pro"> sticky notes that I ordered from the Dollar Tree</a> and respond to each category.<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-44827148974648929192018-09-07T11:46:00.000-07:002018-09-07T11:46:08.370-07:00Library 101 CoursesAt the request of my Freshman Academy, I created 5 lessons for our newest students. These lessons are to introduce them to library services and policies and help address some of the most common mistakes seen by our teachers during research projects.<br />
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Lesson One: Introduction<br />
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This is my "orientation", although really it is just me introducing myself, library programs and lessons, and information about our book club. The lesson ends with a <a href="https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=discover-your-favorite-genre">genre quiz</a> so that students can easily navigate our genrified fiction section.<br />
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Lesson Two: Plagiarism<br />
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This lesson was inspired by this post on <a href="https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/preventing-plagiarism/">Cult of Pedagogy</a>. I saved an article from NewsELA called "How do owls see in the dark?". Each student is asked to read the article then take this <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hVauXFVlsvDc_IL6k7v9usnGd4bIqwfSea6rJ_VAgMo">Google Quiz</a>.<br />
We will review those questions after the quiz. Students will pair up and read another article from NewsELA and practice using the paraphrasing techniques in the Slides. I selected easy, non-controversial articles so that the focus was on plagiarism and paraphrasing and not reading ability.<br />
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Lesson Three: MLA Citation<br />
I turned my MLA citation into a <a href="https://www.goosechase.com/">Goosechase</a> game. You can find all of my <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10wutFH9XOIFm7DrPU1P02hf7maTMcdlMMAUOK9Obu8w/edit?usp=sharing">clues</a> here. This lesson should make citation a little more fun. If you have more questions about Goosechase, contact me.<br />
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Lesson Four: Research Tools<br />
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Students will learn about tools that should make research easier, like Destiny Resource lists and SC DISCUS. Students will use our state databases to research a topic of their choosing, practice paraphrasing techniques, and complete this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fVKJk1I1M0cuZwe4yb3j4JXV8X8Ldk_29K3-zoid0Hs/edit?usp=sharing">template in Docs</a>.<br />
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Lesson Five: Fake News<br />
Students will complete this <a href="https://sites.google.com/apps.anderson1.org/factorfictiondigitalbreakout/home">Fake News Digital Breakout </a>that I made with the help of my instructional technologist. They'll use sites like Factitious, Edpuzzle, and a news bias chart to solve the clues and break out. Contact me if you'd like to see all of the parts and pieces so you can make your own.<br />
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We've already started these lessons and they are going well so far. I'd love to hear how you help your freshmen adjust to high school.Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-79552712348928301712018-09-06T11:49:00.002-07:002018-09-06T11:49:49.338-07:00Banned Books Week 2018This year I put together a lesson for Banned Books Week. Luckily, teachers enjoyed the lesson last year so I already have some classes signed up for the lesson at the end of September.<br />
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The lesson starts with <a href="https://youtu.be/yyd2kII-8D4">watching this short video</a>.<br />
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Then students create a book selfie with a banned or challenged book (from a cart that I prepulled). I created a template in Slides to make it easy.<br />
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The second activity asks students to write a thank you tweet to an author of a banned or challenged book. Again, a template was made in Slides to speed up the activity.<br />
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Finally, students are asked to read<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HjeEQ_moYwwDR7hTmxcKiGfCcBN3sN8l"> this article</a> about a SC issue with censorship. Using Kami on their Chromebooks students will highlight important details. </div>
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At our opening ceremony, the award was announced and I was able to give a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16a7nOHV1msDus9YvzatGrp-Q8w6V8ealjGS_B5v6F7I/edit?usp=sharing">short speech</a> to all of our teachers and staff.<br />
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We were also honored with a luncheon where I was asked to speak to our school teachers of the year and support staff of the year.<br />
I started that <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11QOhvTmb0h3oZ_ohemEef88ZqdXmesHt4JU_j-JjszA/edit?usp=sharing">speech</a> off by reading I Am A Story by Dan Yaccarino and sharing a bit of my own teaching story.<br />
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I asked that each teacher share a story. I made <a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1KsqK6nJrVFSua3yVFBEW1INdZcOFbl82_MLbauGYZ8k/edit?usp=sharing">this with a few recommendations</a> and encouraged them to share the stories they selected on <a href="https://padlet.com/coxt5/ean2u9ougrpp">this Padlet</a>.<br />
A focus of both speeches is a quote I modified to fit the teaching profession. I made it into an image using Canva and Adobe Spark. I shared these with my school and all of our school teachers of the year so that they could share with all of their faculty as well.<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-30913006751535792012018-09-06T08:46:00.003-07:002018-09-06T08:46:39.670-07:00YAhooligans 18-19 1st quarter<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/09/yahooligans-1st-quarter-2017.html">posted</a> about our YAhooligans program in the past. </span><br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-19138782362089688082018-09-06T08:38:00.001-07:002018-09-06T08:38:50.787-07:00Let's Taco Bout BooksThis summer I challenged my teachers to read. All of the info can be<a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2018/05/whs-teacher-summer-reading-challenge.html"> found here</a>.<br />
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To celebrate the ten teachers that completed the challenge, we got together during a staff development day and Taco Bout Books.<br />
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I bought Klondike Choco Tacos and we all shared the books we read over the summer. We filled up a board with sticky notes of titles. One of my teachers read something from every category so she won a Book Nerd hat from Out of Print. This was a fun way to reconnect after the summer.Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-3000503641119095432018-06-28T16:08:00.001-07:002018-06-28T16:08:28.875-07:00Summer Book Giveaways 2018In an effort to stay connected with my students and teachers over the summer, I'm doing book giveaways on our school library Twitter and Instagram accounts. @wrhslibrary<br />
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Each week I post a question. Each student and teacher that responds is entered into the giveaway. I am using Name Picker Ninja to choose the winner.<br />
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Here are my <a href="http://anyflip.com/sole/uqxi/">questions</a>. I used Adobe Spark Post to create the images and Anyflip to put this together for sharing with you.<br />
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I'm using books that I've won on Twitter giveaways to offer this.<br />
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I decided to call it "Speak Up SCASL". My goals for this program is to bring more awareness about what school libraries offer our students and teachers, highlight our impact, and advocate for school libraries. I'm looking forward to implementing this program next year as part of our Legislative Committee's efforts.<br />
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I put <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bwEyuOdeK5HsNiEOafl0dYNS5gbc0KQw6wXXP8QgJg/edit?usp=sharing">this together</a> for our association's Fall publication. If you go to the link, you will also find where our current SCASL president noted the AASL standards related to each of the month's topics.<br />
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I made this graphic in Canva to advertise and share the program. I'll really push this on our organization's social media accounts as the summer ends, but I wanted to share it now so that others could do something similar in their state.<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-32883990948291165052018-05-16T05:01:00.001-07:002018-05-16T05:01:41.153-07:00Round Robin Booktalks for Summer Reading GoalsThis <a href="https://adventuresinhighschoolworkshop.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/prepping-for-summer-reading-encouraging-a-reading-community/">post</a> inspired me to put together a lesson for my students. I started the lesson with a booktalk of my own. Then I shared this <a href="http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/sites/default/files/pdfs/161501_bktlk_student_tips.pdf.pdf">Scholastic Booktalk Tip Sheet</a> and asked students to create their own 1-minute booktalk.<br />
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After writing up their talk and pulling up the book cover on their Chromebook, we lined them up face to face on either side of some short bookshelves so they could share and rotate.<br />
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This <a href="http://www.booksourcebanter.com/2016/04/20/hook-high-school-readers-this-summer/">post</a> also had several great ideas for summer reading. I incorporated some of the ideas in my lesson by reminding them why it is important, sharing my summer check out form, helping them plan in lesson above, and sharing my social media accounts, where I plan to do some book giveaways and book talks over the summer.<br />
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I altered the lesson a bit with my upperclassmen and added a moment to share reading memories, time to explore some Best of YA lists, and asked them to create a Summer Reading Bucket List graphic on Google Slides or Google Drawing.<br />
<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-64318963773826421602018-05-16T04:51:00.001-07:002018-05-16T04:51:55.017-07:00WHS Teacher Summer Reading ChallengeSummer reading is not only important for our students, but also our teachers. I've had some confess to me that they do not read so I wanted to give them a little push before the summer begins. It is so important for our teachers to have a rich reading life so that they can help our students create one.<br />
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I put together this Smore of Reading resources and shared the WHS Summer Reading Challenge with them. For the first ten teachers to commit to the challenge, I am putting together a prize pack inspired by others that I've seen on Twitter and Pinterest. The plan is either a reusable beach/summer inspired print bag or a plastic margarita style glass full of summer items like travel sunscreen, drink mix, Freeze pop popsicles, snacks, fliers for local summer reading events, public library calendar, our district summer lunch program, bookmarks, and pencils. I'll share the final product on Twitter when it is complete.<br />
I shared this Smore on Monday and I have 9 already committed to the challenge.<br />
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I started a book club this year and while small in number, we've done some really fun things. We've Skyped with Steve Schafer and had two author visits, Corrie Wang and Nic Stone. We handed out books at our Serteen Trunk or Treat and had students attend Read Up Greenville.<br />
During our latest meeting, we discussed service project ideas. We discussed doing a book fairy style book drop around the community, inviting community members and groups to join our discussions, planning <a href="http://www.scarymommy.com/teachers-books-and-braids-classroom-salon-promotes-literacy/">Books and Braids</a> with our nearby elementary schools, and collecting new pajamas and books around Christmas.<br />
The project we decided to work on first is one inspired by this news story.<br />
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We didn't want to burden one barber or stylist so <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MQp64R9qBdjQHrLHsxohbQZs6SdcUP8n">we wrote a letter</a> to distribute to local salons, beauty parlors, and barbers. As donations come in, we plan to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dx0wuUXx0WknNH_61Ql20lBvU3xcOrpI/view?usp=sharing">attach this coupon</a> we made on Canva to a hair-themed book. </div>
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We will distribute the books and coupons to our feeder area schools so that our guidance counselors can give them to those most in need for a Back to School haircut.</div>
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We just shared the letter today so we all look forward to hearing back from our community soon. If you'd like to recreate this in your area and need a copy of something I've shared, send me a tweet at @coxtl and I'll be happy to help.</div>
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When school starts back we plan to collect donations of new combs and hair ties so that we can start visiting elementary schools for Books and Braids. This was their favorite idea so I'm looking forward to getting that started next year. What service projects do you do?</div>
<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-68907033475775903722018-04-25T12:39:00.001-07:002018-04-25T12:39:25.690-07:00Summer Reading 2018<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Last summer I started a summer reading program called Wren Reads. You can see the posts <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/04/summer-reading-plans-2017.html">here</a>, <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/05/summer-reading-plans-underway.html">here,</a> and <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/09/wrapping-up-summer-reading.html">here</a>. It was a big success. After meeting with admin and English teachers we discussed participation. According to teacher feedback and an anonymous student survey, 90% read some or all of their summer book. We really wanted to increase those numbers. We thought there were two main obstacles keeping them from reading: 1. students didn't get their first choice of book or 2. students were not able to get a copy of the book. Based on these issues, we decided to arrange the sign up a little different. Instead of having the teachers choose a book and then cutting off sign up when the group is full, I chose 18 books, booktalked them, students signed up for their preferred book and then we asked teachers to take one of those groups. This allowed us to have multiple groups for the most popular books. To address access, I'm ordering as many copies as I can for check out and I am offering them the option of ordering from me because I can get them at a discount from my vendors. To keep that process easy, I looked at the prices and chose a price that was in the middle. Most books were $7 and a few were $8 and $11, so I set the price at $8 and I'll use some of my funds to cover any overage. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My admin thought that the program went so well with the rising Freshmen last year, that he asked me to offer it for rising Sophomores that were not in an Honors English course (those students already have assigned summer reading). I did give my teachers for the Sophomore group a little more say so in the book lists since this is their first time participating and I wanted to draw them in and make it a positive experience for them as well.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You can see the Sophomore book options <a href="https://elink.io/904e51f">here</a> and the Freshmen book options <a href="https://elink.io/935f7f6">here</a>. I love using Elink to curate and share these lists. My library intern put these together for me this year. Many of these books are also on our <a href="https://elink.io/92892ff">state award list</a> and some are just books that I loved and thought students would enjoy. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">For each list, I created a presentation for sharing. You can see them below. I have playlists on Youtube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlANfioJ-1_Wj-yqUQhxa_E0hGCZzgIYy">here</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlANfioJ-1_VRUCMeo8eJEXzqldMw8iSK">here</a>. Some of them are not the best and I skipped and just book talked them instead.</span><br />
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I met with the rising Sophomores a few weeks ago and the rising Freshman last week. Our middle school is across the street so I packed up a cart and walked over.<br />
<img height="200" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaqXV9HXcAE0UvP.jpg" width="150" /> I grossly underestimated how bouncy the road was and had to stop every few seconds to pick up books that I was dropping like breadcrumbs across the street.<br />
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We used Google Forms to collect the student's choices. In Sheets it makes it very easy to sort by class, class period, book titles, etc for ordering and planning purposes.<br />
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I made signs for each teacher to put on their classroom or office doors. You can find those below. In addition, I created a shared folder in Drive with book discussion guides for those available and a list of general book discussion questions to help the teachers that are nervous about leading the discussion in the Fall. I'm lucky enough to have volunteers from admin, office staff, and teacher assistants, in addition to classroom teachers.<br />
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Another change this year is that I created a Remind group for both levels. I used the Schedule feature to put in links, quotes about books, book trailer links, etc. You can see all of the posts in <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qgp1IR_XMr3OTAGoaYTEhS_spA2NICJ9r8cXrN7sopM/edit?usp=sharing">this doc</a>.<br />
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I'm planning a delivery day party for both groups where they'll receive their already checked out book or the book they ordered with a bow tied around it and a book mark inside with their name on it. I also made this Airhead graphic on which I'll tape a mini Airhead candy. I made those in Canva. We're going to take pics, sign up for the Remind group, play music and invite the local public librarian in to share details about their summer reading program. I'm hoping to turn this into a fun event instead of an assignment.<br />
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I'd love to hear about your summer reading plans. If you have any questions, find me on Twitter at @coxtl and I'm happy to share anything that I have.<br />
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<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-49149854758577913682018-04-25T11:45:00.000-07:002018-04-25T11:45:02.098-07:00Partnering with Adolescent Lit College Students<img alt="Image result for clemson tiger paw" 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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">This Spring I was able to see Penny Kittle, author of Book Love, speak. One of the takeaways for me was that she connected her students with college students for book discussions using Flipgrid. I loved this idea.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">After working with a nearby university on a book grant that didn't come through, I suggested that we try this. I was connected with a professor that teaches an Adolescent Literature course. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">We emailed a few times and spoke on the phone. I opened it up to our English teachers and had three people interested. We plan to have our students connect in October and again in November on Flipgrid as part of their literature circles. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">The college students are required to read The House on Mango Street, The Good Braider, If You Could Be Mine, The Hate U Give, and How It Went Down. They must also choose two or three from an optional list divided by theme. I went through the list to see which titles we had multiple copies of so that our students could read those along with the college students. This is the list:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Under the Mesquite-ordering 10 copies for a novel in verse unit</span></div>
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Long Way Down-4 copies</div>
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All American Boys- 4 copies</div>
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Boy 21 5 copies</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Monster- 29 copies **</span></div>
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Girl in the Blue Coat-4 copies</div>
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Salt to the Sea-3 copies</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Refugee 55 copies**</span></div>
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All We Have Left 4 copies</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Full Cicada Moon- ordering 10 copies for a novel in verse unit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Home of the Brave-ordering 10 copies for a novel in verse unit</span></div>
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Between Shades of Gray 4 copies</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda 31 copies **</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Wonder 21 copies **</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Out of My Mind 21 copies **</span></div>
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Turtles All the Way Down 3 copies</div>
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Every Last Word 4 copies</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 25 copies**</span></div>
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I'm considering different frameworks for discussion like the Book-Head-Heart framework from Disruptive Thinking, the conferencing questions on Penny Kittle's site, or other frameworks for helping the students compose their Flipgrid responses. What method do you and your teachers use?</div>
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Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-62065898092743859062018-04-24T15:12:00.001-07:002018-04-24T15:12:48.280-07:00Summer PD 2018Last year I created and facilitated a summer PD course on the importance of independent reading. You can find the <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/04/">details here</a>.<br />
I'm lucky enough to have a library intern right now and I wanted to do a student survey with her since I feel that they are a great insight for me into what the students need and want. So she created this <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/lWx3ManNYByH4MiW2">reading survey</a> for the students. Teachers posted in their Google Classrooms and we had over 450 responses.<br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can see the</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ktss037-GDzqz7laKW-wRoQEHzbu36AquYPJ6H2c1mI/edit?usp%3Dsharing&source=gmail&ust=1524693098390000&usg=AFQjCNE1v_KYBtuqWlfY3ptZdbE_Vmdkqg" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ktss037-GDzqz7laKW-wRoQEHzbu36AquYPJ6H2c1mI/edit?usp=sharing" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">raw data here</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. My intern, Miss Windsor, was kind enough to do a little data analysis on it, which you can</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gt7LNxcuV7hJ4UjzSmBifHYr56z2OZIyNnbQdUzRVxw/edit?usp%3Dsharing&source=gmail&ust=1524693098390000&usg=AFQjCNHDLBSoiQMpUo0g0KpDOV5_NsTMkw" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gt7LNxcuV7hJ4UjzSmBifHYr56z2OZIyNnbQdUzRVxw/edit?usp=sharing" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">find here</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. She is still sorting through it all. It is meticulous work. I also added some of my thoughts and comments on the side. Their responses prompted me to design another PD course for this year. It is obvious that there are areas we need to improve upon.</span><br />
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Here are a few things that stood out to me that I shared with my teachers so that we can use to try to reach our reluctant readers.</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">32% said they did not like to read. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When discussing the last book they read and enjoyed a good story/plot and interesting were the most frequent answers followed closely by it related to my life. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When discussing the reasons for abandoning a book, students most likely mentioned that the book was boring, confusing or a genre that they didn't like.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">45% reported that they read 0 days outside of English class.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When choosing a new book to read the top three answers were browsing in the library/bookstore, recommendations from friends, and movie adaptations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet 37% NEVER recommend a book to others.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For the majority of students, the last time reading was fun for them was in elementary school.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When asked what teachers can do to make reading more fun the answers in order were: choice of what to read, time to read in class, lit circles/book clubs in class, and encouraging a variety of genres.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The obstacles listed by the majority of students as preventing them from enjoying school reading were assignments attached to the reading and books were not relevant to their lives.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The most popular genres were action/adventure, mystery, horror, and fantasy.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I shared with our teachers in the hopes of encouraging them to participate in the summer PD I have planned called: Building Your Classroom Library. *I just couldn't think of a creative theme this time:) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Evaluate your classroom library. Teachers will open this <a href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1068161.pdf">PDF</a> of an article in Kami, read, highlight important details, and use pg 63-64 to evaluate their own classroom library. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Read a literacy PD book such as Disruptive Thinking, Reading Unbound, 180 Days, Book Love, Readicide, etc and respond on Flipgrid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Listen to <a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/classroom-q-and-a/1790-what-are-the-habits-of-lifelong-readers-how-do-we-instill-them">this Donalyn Miller podcast,</a> then use Soundtrap to respond to the podcast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Create a Donors Choose project requesting books that will address weaknesses in their classroom library. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As soon as the district approves the course, I will be anxious to see how many teachers (if any) will participate. Honest reflection is difficult, but I hope that by going on that journey together we can do what is needed to improve our practice and reach more students. I hope to help them improve and build their classroom libraries. Classroom libraries and school libraries go hand in hand. Access! Based on student responses, I feel that students need help choosing a book, something I can address when they come into the library. My intern and I plan to make some kind of handout/infographic to help with that. Students need to hear more book recommendations from teachers and peers. I can help teach book talking skills and continue to model and share when they visit me. It may be time to reevaluate the assigned texts in the room as well as looking closely at what type of assignments correspond with reading. We need to make time for reading in class and protect student choice. These are best practices frequently hailed in books and articles, but sometimes it means more when you hear it from your own students. At least I hope it will!</span></div>
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Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-78535644496308600672018-04-23T16:58:00.001-07:002018-04-23T16:58:03.756-07:00NLLD 2018Part of my responsibilities as Legislative Chair for SCASL is to attend the National Library Legislative Day in Washington, DC in May.<br />
I know from attending in previous years that it means more to bring my students' voices to the legislators than my own. I'm amplifying my students' voices by bringing "Why I Love My Library" postcards. I shared the template with our state librarian listserv and I have responses from 8 different school of all levels in different parts of our state. They are really sweet.<br />
I created a Fligrid for student videos responses to the same prompt. You can <a href="https://flipgrid.com/a3ccd9">see it here</a>. I have videos from five different schools. I've selected some of my favorites to feature. I created a QR code to the videos on a card that I'll be sharing with the legislative offices. I made the background in Canva and inserted the QR code, then I printed on cardstock to take with me.<br />
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Finally, I had an idea inspired by Flat Stanley. I'm going to be taking nine books with me to DC. One from each of our districts plus two for our Senators. I'm going to be documenting the book's journey to DC and to the legislator's offices. There I'll be asking the staff (we usually meet with staff, not the legislator) if they'll have the legislator sign the book then mail back (I'll provide stamped, addressed envelopes). Because we meet with staff, I thought this might be a good way to have something go in front of the legislator himself and he'll at least here that school librarians came and have us on his mind. It will also be fun for the students to watch the journey and learn about government, their legislators, and how advocacy and lobbying work.<br />
I opened this up on our library listserv and had volunteers from each district send a book to me. I've enjoyed seeing which books they selected to make the journey. I'll post pictures on Twitter and write an update after the NLLD event on May 7-8.<br />
<br />Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879672699838386732.post-28684502736667154632018-04-23T16:44:00.001-07:002018-04-23T16:44:19.986-07:00Poetry Picnic 2018I rejuvenated an idea that I used at my former library, the Poetry Picnic. Here is <a href="http://e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/03/poetry-picnic.html">my original post</a> with the site that gave me the idea.<br />
I changed some of the stations to adapt for high school and added a few more.<br />
You can find all the stations here:<br />
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I had several Freshman Academic Enrichment classes and one English teacher to sign up. The favorite station was Pop Sonnets. If you don't have this book, I highly recommend it. Here are a few pictures.<br />
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Some of their work was very thoughtful. I kept my favorites to put on display.Tamara Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917485388825803714noreply@blogger.com0