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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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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Our Library is Always Busy Picture a library in your school where students stand behind a red line waiting to be called to check out their two library books. Now picture a library where there are two, maybe even three classes checking out library books at their reading level, on computers researching a project, [...]
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Value of a Full Time TL I have been a parent at Stein Elementary for the past 4 years. I cannot even begin to tell you the value I have found with the teacher librarians at our school. My children are both avid readers and always find their interaction with Mrs. Schiele engaging. She [...]
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The Value of Full Time Librarians Christy Yacano, former Teacher Librarian at Campbell Elementary, was a huge asset for our school. Christy met with classroom teachers routinely throughout the year to look at ways to co-teach lessons. Her expectation was that we would collaborate and integrate some form of technology into each of our [...]
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As we come together to discuss cuts which will have the least impact on student achievement, I want to express my unwavering support for funding full time librarians at every school. Go-To Person for Curriculum Our teacher-librarian, Tammy Langeberg, is an essential member of each K-6 team in our building and is our [...]
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I could not imagine a school functioning without a teacher librarian. I cannot even begin to list all of the things she does for our school but I do know our school is better because she is here. We would not be at the place we are at with technology without her. Teaches Tech to [...]
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