The document discusses strategies for creating a dynamic school library that is at the heart of the learning community. It recommends that librarians work closely with teachers and senior managers to develop library provision that supports teaching and learning. Effective school libraries have well-trained librarians who collaborate with staff, promote independent learning and reading, and help evaluate the library's impact on student achievement.
Learn more about how we are transforming the educational landscape by providing affordable and accessible educational material to student both locally abroad.
In this report we cover:
- Key stats and figures around the impact of our textbook donations to East Africa
- Stories and quotes from our partners
- How used textbooks are turning libraries into learning hubs
Learn more about how we are transforming the educational landscape by providing affordable and accessible educational material to student both locally abroad.
In this report we cover:
- Key stats and figures around the impact of our textbook donations to East Africa
- Stories and quotes from our partners
- How used textbooks are turning libraries into learning hubs
In an open discussion format, participants will gain valuable insights gleaned from Kelly Gallagher’s acclaimed book, Readicide. Are we killing reading in public schools? If so, how? What can we as educators do about it? How do we get students motivated and interested in reading? Come for this important reflective discussion about the current reality of reading in our schools and how we have the power to initiate change and support students to help them become readers.
Slides from my SLANZA presentation outlining some of the excellent ideas for promoting reading for pleasure that I discovered during my scholarship trip to the UK in Feb/Mar 2017.
Making a lasting connection with your school communitySenga White
Workshop presentation given at the SLANZA (School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) in Wellington, July 2013 looking at What are the effective ways to promote library services and programmes to your wider school community?
How do you market these to your teachers or your parent community?
When you've created the opportunity, what should you tell them?
And once you've made those precious connections, how do you build on them and water the seeds you've planted?
7 Tips for an ESSENTIAL School Library Program: How to Remain Indispensable in Tough Budget Times
Use these tips and other leadership strategies to help you develop an effective library program that impacts student achievement and makes you an indispensable school librarian.
In an open discussion format, participants will gain valuable insights gleaned from Kelly Gallagher’s acclaimed book, Readicide. Are we killing reading in public schools? If so, how? What can we as educators do about it? How do we get students motivated and interested in reading? Come for this important reflective discussion about the current reality of reading in our schools and how we have the power to initiate change and support students to help them become readers.
Slides from my SLANZA presentation outlining some of the excellent ideas for promoting reading for pleasure that I discovered during my scholarship trip to the UK in Feb/Mar 2017.
Making a lasting connection with your school communitySenga White
Workshop presentation given at the SLANZA (School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) in Wellington, July 2013 looking at What are the effective ways to promote library services and programmes to your wider school community?
How do you market these to your teachers or your parent community?
When you've created the opportunity, what should you tell them?
And once you've made those precious connections, how do you build on them and water the seeds you've planted?
7 Tips for an ESSENTIAL School Library Program: How to Remain Indispensable in Tough Budget Times
Use these tips and other leadership strategies to help you develop an effective library program that impacts student achievement and makes you an indispensable school librarian.
Many IT operations teams are used to managing infrastructure manually or with simple one-off scripts. This manual work and lack of verifiable behavior results in many issues and in uncertainty. In software development, Test Driven Development (TDD) is well recognized for improving design, increasing code quality, and allowing refactoring and better knowledge sharing.
Similar benefits can be gained in infrastructure projects when infrastructure is treated as code, driving that code development with tests. Configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet allow infrastructure to be easily described as code and provide a complete support to introduce and run tests. This can allow development and operations teams to collaborate and confidently deliver working infrastructure code.
Employment Issues in Mergers and AcquisitionsMark Stansbury
A look at common employment-related issues that come up in mergers and acquisitions, and a few ways to deal with them. Begins with a brief overview of M&A and basic deal structures.
CEI-112G is the next wave of electrical interfaces. OIF members presented to the 2017 Design Con community on where the technology for electrical interfaces is headed.
Savings are nice, but learning is nicer: Libraries linking open textbooks wi...Sarah Cohen
With Marilyn Billings, UMASS Amherst.
This presentation will make the case for how open textbooks and OER can foster collaboration between instruction librarians, scholarly communication librarians, and faculty in order to advance access to course content, improve student learning, and continue the crusade for saving students money on course content.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Creating a Dynamic Library at the heart of your Academy
1. Creating a dynamic library at the heart of your academy Laura Taylor and Pauline Guiney Librarians, Academies Lead Practitioners for Librarianship City of London Academy and Capital City Academy
4. is at the heart of a school learning community. It can provide a flexible place for learning where project work, individual study and group research can take place. [It] can provide young people with the means to freely pursue subjects which fully engage them, and promote wider reading. Good libraries can also support teachers in adopting a broad range of teaching strategies. Charles Clarke Improve your library: a self-evaluation process for secondary school libraries (DfES 2004) A dynamic school library : ‘ It is important for headteachers, senior managers and librarians to work together to develop library provision that benefits the whole school and it’s pupils’ Miriam Rosen OFSTED’s Director of Education Good School Libraries; Making a Difference to Leaning (Guardian 21/3/2006
10. “ The school library is ideally placed to bring reading for pleasure to life” Paul Kropp “The Reading Solution” 1995 Strategies: Create a Reading Culture
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14. Very Poor Literacy Costs of crime Health Costs Educational costs: special needs support Educational costs: behaviour, exclusion, truancy Cost of unemployment and low wages
43. A Hotlist of Book Websites www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listbookwebla.html A Hotlist of Word Games www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listwordgamla.html Boox – new website www.readingagency.org.uk/projects/children/boox.html
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46. Information literacy is the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate and effectively use that information for the task in hand. National Forum on Information Literacy, USA 2005 The school library offers learning services, book and resources that enable all members of the school community to become critical thinkers and effective users of information in all formats and media. IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto STRATEGIES: INFORMATION LITERACY
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Editor's Notes
Introductions- qualifications, experience, credentials Aware I am talking to a cross-section of school library colleagues with a range of experience and knowledge. Perhaps we could all briefly introduce ourselves:- where we are from, how long we have been working in school libraries and one thing we have done to promote reading . How many from public libraries? How many in first year of working in a school? So These are some things I have tried in my 3 schools. Share ideas – SLA, sln, , etc etc conferences I have attended over the 30 years I have worked in libraries Aim of this session is to give you some practical ideas to take back with you, and I ‘d like you all to think of maybe 1 thing you will think about implementing or investiagting on your return to school
