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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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library Stories, UncategorizedI 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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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library Stories, UncategorizedWe 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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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library Stories, TLI 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 [...]
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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library Stories, What Teacher Librarians DoConcerned 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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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library Stories, TLA 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 [...]
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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library Stories, TL, What Teacher Librarians DoTimes 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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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library Stories, TLValuable Teacher Our teacher librarian at Edgewater Elementary school is Michelle Hollandsworth. It is my opinion that she is an outstanding and valuable teacher in our building. Teaching Expertise Teachers and students benefit from her teaching expertise. I appreciate her knowledge and care as she uses TPR techniques (total physical response) to teach key [...]
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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library StoriesWithout our teacher- librarian our middle school would suffer greatly. Supplies Resources Our school librarian has helped teachers and students compile books and other research materials. She keeps our equipment in working order and has computerized a check-out for equipment and the computer carts. Trains Staff Our librarian has given the staff several [...]
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Posted in : Blog Posts, Library StoriesI am a Geography at Columbine High School. Two years ago I wanted to have my students do an outside reading assignment for my Honors Geography course. I went directly to our teacher librarian Juli Thomas for some help. I had the assignment idea, but Juli was able to help me add to it and make it better. Teacher-Librarians [...]
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