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Photo: from "Pandemic Preparedness for School Libraries," by Leanne Ellis, School Library Instructional Coordinator for the NYCDOE’s Office of Literacy, AIS, and Library Services, published on the AASL KnowledgeQuest blog.
CLN Workshops
CLN Workshops
The CLN work in SY2019-20 focused on the theme One Library, Many Communities.
After schools closed in mid-March, CLN meet online; after the scheduled March 31 workshop, we decided to meet every week.
Each link leads to that workshop's agenda and resource list.
@ New Visions for Public Schools, 205 E 42nd St.
@ The Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl.
@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd.
@ Brooklyn Public Library and the Interference Archive
@ online workshop
May 8
May 8
This meeting has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Please join our weekly workshops listed above.
2019-20 Librarian-Teacher Collaboration Grant
2019-20 Librarian-Teacher Collaboration Grant
New Visions for Public Schools, on behalf of the Astor Center for Public School Libraries, has awarded fourteen grants, totaling nearly $50,000, to promote librarian-teacher collaboration in secondary schools.
For three years, Astor Center has supported school communities and their libraries with grants that integrate the library’s resources into the classroom curriculum, increasing librarian-teacher collaboration.
Grant applicants were asked to address the following topics in their applications:
How the library can support teachers in implementing New Visions full-course high school curricula, free, online resources accessed by thousands of teachers each day (see curriculum.newvisions.org to learn more).
How to promote collaborative work among librarians and classroom teachers; awardee librarians will be expected to collaborate with classroom teachers in the planning, application, and enactment of the proposed grant activity.
How to generate support for students that extends beyond the 2019-20 school year.
Grant Awardees & Purposes
Grant Awardees & Purposes
August Martin Campus Library
Reopen a long-closed campus library
Bayside High School Library
Explore Global History through a book club discussing the Holocaust
Forsyth Campus Library
Develop an ELA poetry class and collection
Goldstein High School Library
Explore the Living Environment through a garden project
Gompers Campus Library
Use student filmmaking to explore Global History and the Middle Ages
Graphic Arts Campus Library
Record and analyze the weather as a tool to understand the Living Environment
Hillcrest High School Library
Develop and provide resources for an ELA unit supporting former English language learners
Humanities Campus Library
Allow students to experience literature and poetry as performance
Jane Addams Campus Library
Use a WWII virtual reality experience to explore US History
Kennedy Campus Library
Develop and provide resources for an ELA project providing focused support for learners of English as a new language
Martin Luther King Campus Library
Support a campus-wide writing center
Sunset Park High School Library
Explore the landscape through photography and writing
Wadleigh Campus Library
Explore US History in the Gilded Age through readers theatre
Westinghouse Campus Library
Modify 11th-grade US History resources for use in 7th- and 8th grade US History units
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