Welcome to the LIT Center at McClymonds High School
🔥February is Black History Month🔥
Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff,
To celebrate Black History Month, check out these collections and resources:
Sora Collection: Celebrating Black Joy, History, and Excellence. Here’s an email you can send to teachers to share this collection.
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Became Malcolm X
Black Artists on Sora (but not Michael Jackson, James Vanderzee, or Alma Thomas). To use, make a copy and update content to work for you.
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The McClymonds Library Learning Commons:Â A beautiful space staffed by a highly qualified professional who has developed a strong library program aimed at engaging scholars to become skilled users of information and technology, foster academic growth and information literacy. Most importantly providing Mack scholars regular opportunities to READ, explore, collaborate, create, think critically, problem solve and have fun!Â
MACK Cafe: A space for students, parents and the community to have hot or cold beverages, relax, visit and share enjoyable time. Bookshelves house new books in prepublication form, giveaway books, magazines and information on nutrition and food.
The Merritt College/McClymonds High School Africana Center, based on the Merritt College Africana Center, houses the historic African American collection of books from the McClymonds Library, state of the art presentation materials and four interactive modules for use by teachers and students with content developed by Dr. Siri Brown of Merritt College. The space honors alumni and the history of McClymonds High School through art and artifacts.
The MakerSpace Classroom facilitates the exchange of ideas, collaboration and innovation where students create projects and foster a curiosity for creating. We believe that STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math) is not a series of disparate disciplines, but rather is the language we use to shape the world around us. We believe that young adult-led, hands-on projects are one of the best ways to learn the language of STEAM. We believe in the inspiring mentorship of creative professionals and enthusiastic teachers. Our mission is to help our Mack Scholars develop both the confidence and competence to change the world.
McClymonds Scholars and Staff
Open Hours for Students and Staff:Â
Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM and during lunch
After School Hours:Â
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 3:30Â PM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday and Friday 2:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Mack Scholars are welcome anytime during class hours with a pass from their teacher.
Teachers and Staff can schedule space in the LIT Center (Library Commons, Mack Cafe and Mack Makerspace and Africana Center) during school hours for their classes.
Instructions for making a reservation:
Check the LIT Center calendar for availability. If your date and time is available, email Leah Jensen at leah.jensen@ousd.org to indicate day, time, space, number of participants, resources needed. Resources include printed materials, Audio Visual support, supplies, and customized workshops facilitated by the Librarian, Ms. Jensen. If you need resources and/or workshops, please indicate you need a consultation in the email
In addition to the space, I also provide personalized workshops. Example workshops include:
Book Talks for pleasure reading
Research strategies (advanced search techniques, databases, boolean operators, creating an essential question for research, use of online catalog)
Plagiarism, citation and paraphrasing
Evaluate information for validity and reliability including bias and misleading information
Information seeking strategies using Advanced Google Tools
Digital Citizenship and Cyber Safety
Multimedia tools for projects and presentations such as Chat GBT, Canva, Infographic tools, Google Suite Tools
Once I receive your email, I will email you a confirmation and add your reservation to the calendar. If needed, I will meet with you ahead of time to personalize resources and workshops.
Please note that your reservation time may be shared with other classes.