Birthday:
November 7
Birthday:
November 7
Hometown:
Springfield, Illinois
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I am a librarian for five schools in Springfield, Illinois, serving grades K - 5. Budget cuts six years ago eliminated all of the elementary librarians. Last year, four of us were hired to manage five libraries each. Hope to have a website this year.
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Greetings Victoria,
I'm Mike McQueen, teacher librarian and founder of http://www.GettingBoysToRead.com. Like many school districts, we are in a financial crises. Our school board recently proposed to eliminate ALL 20+ middle school teacher librarians and also cut all 90+ elementary schools to half time. Since we are the biggest district in all of Colorado, we worry this will cause other districts to follow suit. We launched an online movement and are going to do our best to put up a good fight.
If possible, please visit our Facebook page and "Like" us http://www.facebook.com/SupportSchoolLibraries . Adding a positive comment and sharing with your friends would help our morale as well. The board finalizes the budget soon so your timely support would be greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Mike McQueen
Teacher Librarian at McLain HS
Lakewood, CO
Kathy
You may know about this already, but www.teachingbooks.net is a wonderful database that brings together web resources (and more) for most any children's/YA book you might be looking for. Our county has a subscription for the whole district. The rates are very reasonable. Check out the site. I'm sure you can set up a trial subscription. You'll love it! Hope this helps!
I'm a teacher librarian & recently started a community based blog for getting boys to read - http://GettingBoysToRead.com. Please send me a friend request if you'd like to network, share ideas, and learn more about getting boys to read.
Sincerely,
Mike McQueen
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