Start @ Your Library! Tulsa Reads Millions! Rigorous Curriculum Partners 21st Century Skills & Tools

Why a Million Words? Amount Counts! Out of School Reading 5th graders, achievement testing 90th percentile: read 40 minutes/day 2.3 million words a year 50th percentile: read 12 minutes/day 600,000 words a year 10th percentile: read 2 minutes/day 50,000 words per year

How Much is a Million? Read 20 minutes @ school & 20 minutes @ home daily. Read 25 fiction and nonfiction books & materials equivalent to 1,000,000 words. Read or Listen to 4 picture books each day.

Patrick Henry Celebration TULSA Reads Millions

My Robertson Reading Log TULSA Reads Millions

Early Childhood Reading Log @ Patrick Henry Elementary

Involve parents!

“Book Bags” for the youngest readers.

Large rotating classroom collections or “Satellite Boxes” McKinley Elementary

Teacher Reading Chart: Foster Middle School

TULSA Reads Millions

Model Reading: Teacher Door Sign @ Whitney Middle School

Memorial Celebrated

Family Literacy Nights Clinton Middle School

School-Wide Culture of Reading Jones Elementary School Book Character Day

Reading Support is Only Part of the Support for Rigor!

College & Career Ready! What it looks like! Higher order questioning & discussion Critical thinking & analysis Extensive reading and writing Deeper curriculum

Focus Walk An active work place Classes, groups & individuals doing research Students using print & technology Librarians & teachers co-teaching

21st Century Learning Skills Everyone a teacher! Everyone a learner!

Web 2.0 Training by Students for LMS & Students

Critical 21st Century Skill Set Searching 80/20 Questioning Evaluating Synthesizing Collaborating Creating Critical 21st Century Skill Set Metacognition!

Seven Survival Skills for Teens Today Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Collaboration across Networks & Leading by Influence Agility and Adaptability Initiative and Entrepreneurialism Effective Oral & Written communication Accessing & Analyzing Information Curiosity and Imagination

Upgrade the Curriculum to include 21st Century skills & tools! Costa & Kallick Develop 16 Habits of Mind Curriculum Mind Shifts: From knowing the right answers …to knowing how to behave when answers are not readily apparent From transmitting… to constructing meaning From external evaluation …to self assessment Persisting flexibly questioning & problem posing creating imagining innovating striving for accuracy and precision gathering data through all senses metacognition

Shared vision for learning! AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner Inquire & think critically Draw conclusions Share knowledge Pursue personal growth

Deborah Meier “The question is not, Is it possible to educate all children well? But rather, Do we want to do it badly enough?... “ Children should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other peoples’ ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on this most complex world.” Legendary inner-city principal. Charter schools in NY & Boston

Start @ Your Library

Students in poverty get 90% to 99% of what they read from the school library. If they are not checking out books from your library, they are not reading at home! Remember: Access = Reading=Achievement

Supporting the 25 Book Read! LMS Role Teacher Role Salesperson Reading advisor & coach Planning team member OR leader Classroom collection manager Reading Total Manager Cheerleader & Model Reader! Read Aloud! Salesperson Reading advisor & coach Planning team member OR leader Classroom collection organizer Resource Expert (selection & purchasing ) Cheerleader & Model Reader! Read Aloud

Schools Developing Their Own Plans Counting: Words Minutes Pages Books

Lettie Albright, Tapping the Potential of Teacher read-alouds in middle schools. Journal of Adolescent & Adult literacy 48:7 April 2005

Read Aloud to ALL Students “The single most important activity in building knowledge required in eventual success in reading.” National Commission on Reading, 1985 Reading aloud a variety of materials increases understanding of content as well as engagement & inquiry into ideas. Albright, 2002; Roser & Keehn,2002 Reading alternate and multiple texts can circumvent some of the problems of relying on textbooks. Guthrie & Davis, 2003

Read-Aloud: Student Perspective Teacher read-alouds were one of the most preferred reading activities….seen as “scaffolds to understanding..teacher made text more comprehensible” Ivey & Broaddus, 2001 Students selected teachers reading aloud in an exciting voice as one of the few activities they found to be motivating. Study of aliterate 7th graders, Beers, 1990.

Co-Teaching Library Media Specialist & Classroom Teacher Powerful Planning Teacher’s Subject Content Objectives LMS Research & Information Objectives Powerful Teaching Improved Student Achievement When two professionals plan and deliver a quality learning experience, the odds of success are doubled!

Teacher Playing an Active Role Collaboratively planning and teaching with LMS Coaching active learners/not grading papers Assisting students in selecting books Reading to students and with students --Modeling reading Learning -- using -- teaching with technology