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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Patrick Henry Celebration
TULSA Reads Millions

7. My Robertson
Reading Log
TULSA Reads Millions

8. Early Childhood Reading Log @ Patrick Henry Elementary

9. Involve parents!

10. “Book Bags” for the youngest readers.

11. Large rotating classroom collections or “Satellite Boxes”
McKinley Elementary

13. Teacher Reading Chart: Foster Middle School

16. TULSA Reads Millions

17. Model Reading: Teacher Door Sign @ Whitney Middle School

18. Memorial Celebrated

19. Family Literacy Nights
Clinton Middle
School

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

24. Reading Support is Only Part of the Support for Rigor!

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

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

28. 21st Century Learning Skills
Everyone a teacher!
Everyone a learner!

29. Web 2.0 Training by Students for LMS & Students

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

33. 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

34. 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

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

36. 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

37. Your Library

38. 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

39. 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

40. Schools Developing Their Own Plans
Counting:
Words
Minutes
Pages
Books

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

42. 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

43. 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.

44. 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!

45. 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