The Madison-Oneida BOCES School Library System received multiple grants to support educational initiatives: 1) They received $4,114 from the Community Foundation of Oneida & Herkimer Counties and $500 from the New York Library Association to purchase adaptive toys for special education. 2) They received a $20,000 grant from the Library of Congress to provide training for teachers to develop lesson plans incorporating primary sources and the Common Core standards. 3) A $500 grant from the Walmart Foundation supported field trips for students to a Teen Book Festival to promote reading.

1. Center of Instructional Support &
School Library System
(CIS & SLS)
Grants 2011-12
COLLABORATIONS

2. Adaptive Toys – Community Adaptive Toys – New
Foundation of Oneida & York Library Association
Herkimer Counties Foundation Robert Barron Award =
= $4,114 $500
Teaching with Primary Teen Book Festival
Sources – Library of Field Trip – Walmart
Congress grant = $20,000 Foundation Facilities
grant = $500

3. New adaptive toys from the Community Foundation of Oneida
and Herkimer Counties & the New York Library Association
NYLA
New York Library
Association
CIS & Special Education

6. Molly Creedon

15. Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the
Library of Congress

17. The Madison-Oneida BOCES School Library System received a $20,000 grant
“Ignite the Common Core with Library of Congress Primary Resource
Documents”.
Participating teams from:
Vernon, Verona, Sherrill CSD, Rome CSD, and
New York State School for the Deaf

19. Primary source examples

22. The grant is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with
Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg (Pa.)
University and in part by the Madison-Oneida BOCES School Library System.

24. The project will allow teams of school librarians and teachers to
receive training and hands-on experience in developing lesson
plans that incorporate the inquiry process, the Common Core
Learning Standards and primary sources.

25. In addition, teams of pre-service teachers from Syracuse University
and Utica College will participate in the project.

27. Teen Book Festival – Walmart Foundation grant
Participating districts:
Camden, New York State School District, Oneida, &
Vernon, Verona, Sherrill CSD
SLS & Career and Technical Education

29. http://www.teenbookfestival.org/

31. Student comments:
Are you glad that you came on the TBF fieldtrip?
Yes; it was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am surely going again
next year.
What was the best part of the day?
Meeting new friends and meeting real authors!

33. Student comments:
After attending TBF, what authors/books are you now interested in
reading or following that you didn't know about before?
I’m now interested in reading bullying books and holocaust books.

35. Student comments:
Did attending TBF give you any ideas about your own future
career?
Yes. Seeing all of these authors, getting to meet them, and
getting to hear them speak and talk with them, gives me a
deeper incentive to write. I want to be standing where they
are someday, speaking to kids about reading and writing
and helping them to succeed in life.

37. Student comments:
Any other things you would like to tell us about the day?
Definitely keep the idea for next year. Everybody enjoys it so
much, and it is a wonderful opportunity!
Thanks so much! It was one of the best days of my life.

39. Student comments:
What could be done to improve the day?
Can you really make the day any better than it was? :)