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How to Help

How to Help

There are MANY opportunities to prevent Jeffco's drastic budget cuts, but time is running out.  Helping 3A & 3B to pass will save school libraries ...

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Things Teacher-Librarians Do That People Don’t Realize

Things Teacher-Librarians Do That People Don’t Realize

Did you know that Teacher-Librarians are Teachers? • We plan and co-teach, with classroom teachers, units of study that align with Colorado State Standards. • We integrate ...

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Powerful Research on Student Achievement Scores!

Powerful Research on Student Achievement Scores!

The cover story for School Library Journal, September 2011 published new research done by Keith Curry Lance, an independent consultant working with the RSL Research ...

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Fighting for Jobs - Denver 9News Video

This video helps people understand the proposed budget cuts and how it will impact kids. It aired Dec. 16, 2011 [jwplayer mediaid="118"]

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“My Jeffco” PTA Photo Contest – Win an iPad or Kindle Fire

by Admin

Overview: Jeffco PTA is sponsoring a photo contest and has a few GREAT prizes to give away. To learn more and view entries, visit the Jeffco PTA Facebook Page. URL: http://www.facebook.com/JeffcoPTA/app_95936962634   Grand Prize: Your choice of either the iPad2 or new iPad from Apple up to $600. 2nd Prize: Kindle Fire Contest Instructions: Upload [...]

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April 11 Rally at the Capitol – Audio Interview with Michelle Patterson (PTA)

by Mike McQueen

 

Posted in :    Podcast
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We Want Full Time Teacher Librarians!

by Various Authors

An Elementary Student’s Plea   I go to West Woods Elementary and love my library! Mrs. Bader (our teacher librarian) has taught me and everyone else at our school so much! And I have checked out at least 100 books from my school library! Please keep our librarians full time! –Cort   Two Middle School [...]

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Full-Time Teacher-Librarians Critical Contributors to a Jeffco Distinguished Education

by Barbara Becker (1st Grade Teacher)

I would like to advocate to keep Rebecca Warner as a full-time teacher/librarian at Shaffer Elementary School. Besides being a 1st grade teacher, I have a K-12 Reading Specialist endorsement and am familiar with current research on what it schools need to do to produce students who are successful readers for life. Still Fulfills Traditional [...]

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Teacher Would Take a Pay Cut to Keep Full-Time Teacher-Librarian!

by Lisa Reed (Middle School Teacher)

At Evergreen Middle School we will be GREATLY affected by losing our teacher librarian. Makes Technology Accessible for Everyone   Our teacher librarian makes technology accessible for EVERYONE (including the most fearful). Support our Investment   With all of the money we have invested into technology over the past five years we cannont afford to [...]

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Moving Kids Forward in the 21st Century

Moving Kids Forward in the 21st Century

by Bonnie Mauer (Jeffco Teacher)

We Are Required to Teach Tech – We Need TL’s   I am writing in regards to the possible budget cuts to decrease teacher librarians in Jeffco.  I have taught in Jeffco for almost three decades and have seen many changes in our librarian positions.  Most importantly, the past few years have focused more on the technology [...]

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1st Graders Master Tech Skills

by Barb McCallister (1st Grade Teacher)

I am writing to you to express my concern about the proposed budget cut of reducing our teacher librarians to half-time positions in the elementary schools.   Impact of a Half-Time Teacher-Librarian   I am a first grade teacher at Campbell Elementary and this is our first year with a half-time teacher librarian at our [...]

Posted in :    Blog Posts, Library Stories, What Teacher Librarians Do
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Without Full Time TL’s, Will Jeffco Grads Be Prepared for Higher Education?

by Barb Everett (Jeffco Parent)

Concerned About Cuts in the Library   My name is Barb Everett and I have a daughter who attends Shaffer Elementary.  I am concerned about the most recent proposed budget cuts towards the Libraries in the school district.  I understand these cuts may or may not happen.  My hope is to express concern and bring [...]

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A Day in the Life of a Teacher-Librarian

by Donna Ostwald

  A Typical Day   7:30am-8:30am   Set-up, rehearse, broadcast daily TV news show with student News team 8:45am – 9:00am Read aloud to Kindergarten class about Martin Luther King Jr. 9:00am-9:45am Give lesson on researching with Jefferson County Public Library data bases to 4th grade class; assist class with research and taking notes in [...]

Posted in :    Blog Posts, Library Stories, TL, What Teacher Librarians Do
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From Ogre to Tech Savvy

by Kerstin Mueller (Jeffco Parent)

Times Have Changed   Remember visiting the school library as a child? Most likely you had one of two types of librarians: the “Library Ogre,” defender of books and organization reprimanding any student who even thought about picking up a book and not replacing it precisely where it belonged on the shelf, or “Ms. Sunshine,” [...]

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