Sentences with phrase «time school librarians»

Studies show that students from schools with full time school librarians and well supported library resources outscore students missing this important component.

Full - time school librarians linked to higher student reading scores.

James Allen is one of two full - time school librarians for Eminence Independent Schools and is the 2015 - 16 Kentucky Association of School Librarians president.

Working as both a part - time public and part - time school librarian I find the idea of having the public librarians «replacing» the school librarians ridiculous!

For example, schools fewer than 300 students must have either a half - time school librarian or a fifth - time school librarian with a full - time library assistant.

Since 2000, the NCES reports that more than 10,000 full - time school librarian positions nationwide have been lost, a stunning 19 % drop (Lance, 2018).

Not exact matches

A self - proclaimed book nerd and former school librarian, Anne currently spends her time mixing up her kids» names, tripping over the dog, and trying to convince the laundry to wash itself.

«If you look at the timing of this, we were withdrawn the day before the forum, which really has many people thinking that everything has been resolved in our favor when it hasn't,» said Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who helped lead the effort to save the school from closure.

But union contracts often limit how many hours a public - school teacher must be in the classroom: that's why a school may hire a substitute librarian rather than send everyone back to their homerooms when the full - time librarian is out.

At the time, the Houston Independent School District doled out money to schools for nonteaching staff members — like assistant principals, clerks, and librarians — based on a set of enrollment formulas that topped out at about 1,200 children.

The librarian and the music teacher at Krakowka's school have started a storytelling unit that can take up to three classes at a time, allowing those teachers to meet.

A: As the role and responsibilities of media specialists differ significantly district - to - district, the State at this time will not be providing highly specific guidance on evaluating school librarians.

Once upon a time, there was a school librarian who retired to care for aging family and to celebrate books and reading outside the classroom.

Similarly, the average percentage of students scoring Advanced in Writing is almost twice as high for schools with a full - time, certified librarian with support staff vs. those with a full - time certified librarian alone (16.7 % vs. 9.2 %).

Compared to teachers at schools with similarly renovated libraries — those renovated with state QZAB funds but without additional professional development funds, community partnerships, and modernized technology — teachers at Library Project schools reported more collaboration with the school librarian and were four times more likely to have their students use the library for research.

These one - week summer seminars, held at prestigious universities and historic sites around the United States are open to full - time K - 12 history, social studies, and English language arts teachers; community college faculty; school librarians; National Park Service interpreters and New Teacher Fellows (students about to graduate from college with a degree in history or education, who intend to pursue a teaching career).

Just fifteen years ago... high - poverty (MPS) schools were fully staffed with librarians, guidance counselors, full - time reading specialists, art, music and physical education specialists, program implementers, technology teachers, paraprofessionals, special education teachers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, speech pathologists, and classroom teachers with small classes that allowed them to provide plenty of individual attention to children.

At that time, Auer and other high - performing, high - poverty schools were fully staffed with librarians, guidance counselors, full - time reading specialists, art, music and physical education specialists, program implementers, technology teachers, paraprofessionals, special education teachers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, speech pathologists, and classroom teachers with small classes that allowed them to provide plenty of individual attention to children.

It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long - time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.

Public outcry over those changes resulted in retention of seven full - time teacher librarians who shared teaching responsibilities, provided information technology training and helped manage programs district - wide that assisted library clerks in each school.

As the school librarian, I spend time with every student, every single week and have seen the successes firsthand.

«There are far too few counselors, librarians, and other HHS staff to serve the needs of the District's 651,000 K - 12 students,» it said, adding that it was «particularly alarming that there is not a full time nurse at every school while a measles outbreak is right at the door of LAUSD.

According to ALA «NCES data reveals that approximately 8,830 public schools across the nation do not have a school library and for those schools that do have a library, nearly 17,000 schools do not have a full or part - time state - certified school librarian on staff.»

We share the facility with Monterey Trail High School Library giving our students access to two full - time librarians, one full - time library technician and one part - time technician.

For ten years, like all public schools in this period, it was starved of resources, for classrooms, lost counselors, had a part - time nurse for many years, and lost a library with a certified librarian.

Students receive support through after - school tutoring, access to an early childhood multimedia library staffed with a full - time librarian, and are encouraged to utilize online tools that promote interactive learning.

This project is overseen by the school librarian who volunteers her time to the project.

Sadly, there are still many schools lacking a full - time certified librarian, a loss often resulting from budget cuts or a lack of vision, despite many studies correlating an increase in reading and test scores with a thriving library program.

Both my sons are graduates of the Woodbridge school system now, but I can say both most definitely did use the librarian as a resource MANY times throughout their school years.

Time for school librarians to enrich the curriculum for students will be completely eliminated with the firing of the last three school librarians.

Nationwide, the school librarian profession has lost about 1 in 5 (19 %) full - time positions since 2000, translating to about 10,000 jobs.

The Texas Education Code establishes a state minimum salary schedule that Texas public school districts must implement for classroom teachers, full - time librarians, full - time counselors and full - time school nurses (RNs only).

When adjusting for enrollment and inflation, school funding has been cut in the following areas since leadership of the General Assembly switched hands in 2010 (a time period in which the state was already struggling to find resources as a result of the Great Recession): classroom teachers, instructional support personnel (counselors, nurses, librarians, etc.), school building administrators (principals and assistant principals), teacher assistants, transportation, low wealth schools, disadvantaged students, central office, limited English proficiency, academically gifted, small counties, driver training, and school technology.

April is National School Library Month, so now is the perfect time to share your appreciation for school librarians and the impact they have on student suSchool Library Month, so now is the perfect time to share your appreciation for school librarians and the impact they have on student suschool librarians and the impact they have on student success.

What this means is that students will continue to have access to full - time librarians at Tamalpais, Redwood and Drake High Schools at Tamalpais Union High School District, Marin County, California.

Connect with school administrators, community members, librarians and school literacy specialists to discuss the objectives for this event as well as logistics (e.g. location, date, time, promotion, etc.).

Please consider helping us continue to support school librarians across the country by starting a $ 5 per month donation or by making a one - time donation of $ 25 today.

There's time - travel from the back of a seedy hamburger joint, a love story between a «lanky librarian» from the 1960s and a fed - up high - school teacher from the present and, oh yeah, Jake's mission to try to stop a certain event coming up in November 0f 1963.

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Unfortunately, it isn't the first time I've heard a teacher quick to praise the new school librarian who is supposedly doing so much more than the former one, especially in the case of a younger person replacing an older person.

Given the once - in - a-decade opportunity that ESSA provides, now is the time for school librarian engagement in advocacy.»

Last May, as Nancy Everhart (at the time she was president of AASL) was finishing her Vision Tour of excellent school libraries around the country, she announced 100 things that students would miss if school librarians were...

Here is a timely — and time - saving — guide for teachers, librarians, and school media specialists who need to get quickly up - to - speed on podcasting.

As a high school librarian, I had a few of those moments, where a student became an avid reader at that age for the first time.

Subscribers to World Book eBooks receive 24/7 unlimited simultaneous access to the entire collection, enabling school librarians and public librarians to offer World Book eBooks at all times to all users ---- no holds or waiting.

Deb Kachel, a long - time instructor in the School of Education who was recently hired as an Affiliate Faculty Member in the K - 12 School Library Endorsement program, has been working with Keith Curry Lance, principal researcher at Library Research Service, Colorado, tracking school librarian positions sinceSchool of Education who was recently hired as an Affiliate Faculty Member in the K - 12 School Library Endorsement program, has been working with Keith Curry Lance, principal researcher at Library Research Service, Colorado, tracking school librarian positions sinceSchool Library Endorsement program, has been working with Keith Curry Lance, principal researcher at Library Research Service, Colorado, tracking school librarian positions sinceschool librarian positions since 2000.

At the same time, school librarians continue to serve their communities by linking children, young adults, and teachers with both the information they need and the skills to use it.

For example, students in Alaska's secondary schools with full - time librarians were almost twice as likely as those without them to score average or higher on achievement tests.

In schools with at least one full - time equivalent endorsed librarian, students averaged «significantly higher» CSAP reading scores.

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