More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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AHHHHHHH, September…How I love the beginning of a new school year in the library! I frantically put the finishing touches on the library’s monthly theme (WELCOME BACK) and mini displays (The Dot, apples). I check to make sure the Word of the Day (education) and Daily Wacky Holiday (National Ampersand Day - &) are posted. The books are standing tall and in order on the shelves waiting to be checked out. And then I woke up…in a panic!!! How am I getting books to students? How am I going to carry books to check out AND lesson supplies? Where am I putting the returned books that need to be bagged separately from everything else? As the Library Media Specialist, I will be required to provide all of the above and more. The question is how?
If the students cannot come to the library, the library must come to the students! Being a “Specials” teacher, I am lucky enough to see all the amazing students in the school. We always have a phenomenal time utilizing all the library’s available resources -books, activity centers, STEM projects…and learning about research and library skills in the process. How I can bring as much of the library to these extraordinary, inquisitive students that have missed and will miss so much? To teach library lessons I will be expected to go into the classrooms. For this, I must go mobile and bring the library to the students. This will require a medium/large sized book cart to house my mobile library. One shelf would need to be able to hold books. Another shelf for returned books that need to be quarantined ASAP (as per American Library Association & NYSED guidelines). There will need to be ample space for supplies for my lessons (e.g., construction paper,
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AHHHHHHH, September…How I love the beginning of a new school year in the library! I frantically put the finishing touches on the library’s monthly theme (WELCOME BACK) and mini displays (The Dot, apples). I check to make sure the Word of the Day (education) and Daily Wacky Holiday (National Ampersand Day - &) are posted. The books are standing tall and in order on the shelves waiting to be checked out. And then I woke up…in a panic!!! How am I getting books to students? How am I going to carry books to check out AND lesson supplies? Where am I putting the returned books that need to be bagged separately from everything else? As the Library Media Specialist, I will be required to provide all of the above and more. The question is how?
If the students cannot come to the library, the library must come to the students! Being a “Specials” teacher, I am lucky enough to see all the amazing students in the school. We always have a phenomenal time utilizing all the library’s available resources -books, activity centers, STEM projects…and learning about research and library skills in the process. How I can bring as much of the library to these extraordinary, inquisitive students that have missed and will miss so much? To teach library lessons I will be expected to go into the classrooms. For this, I must go mobile and bring the library to the students. This will require a medium/large sized book cart to house my mobile library. One shelf would need to be able to hold books. Another shelf for returned books that need to be quarantined ASAP (as per American Library Association & NYSED guidelines). There will need to be ample space for supplies for my lessons (e.g., construction paper,