Checking Out Books!

Hello Teachers
This week we begin checking out library books to our 6th, 7th and 8th grade students! The process is still being streamlined by Library Services - so for now - I am manually entering both students (by ID numbers) and some of the DDS books which can not be scanned.
 It's slower - but we can do it!

- so let's start sending down DDS students at about 5 at a time to browse for a book they would like to read and get them started!

Book Ideas

Hello Teachers!
Please email me with book selections you would like to see in the library. As I build my book order for fall I welcome your suggestions! Just a title is enough. I have already heard that more graphic novels would be great. Done!
Let's make it a goal to get all our middle school students reading!
Kathleen

Resources

Hello DDS teachers!

I want to share a couple great and free online resources available for your lessons and students.

1.    The Choices Program through Brown University

https://www.choices.edu/

About Choices

The Choices Program is a program affiliated with the Department of History at Brown University and works to increase access to high-quality curriculum content and strengthen education about history and current events in secondary schools in the U.S. and beyond by collaborating with leading scholars to write curriculum materials and provide teacher professional development.

Our Work

Relies on up-to-date historiography;

Tells an inclusive, responsible history, while also encouraging students to challenge and grapple with this history in the ways that historians do;

Provides teachers with high-quality, carefully researched curriculum content that is used in all levels of high school classrooms and some middle schools.

Our Curriculum

The core of the Choices Program is our full-length, award-winning curriculum units that include student readings, lesson plans, and activities to accompany and complement the readings. Student’s readings and teacher resources are written by the Choices writing team and approved by scholars. Student readings and lessons reflect up-to-date historiography and equip students to develop the skills necessary for historical thinking, understanding, and writing. Choices currently offers units for U.S. History, World History, Current Issues, and Geography, as well as many electives. Curriculum units are available in print, Digital Editions, and PDF formats.

Additional Resources

Each year, the Choices writers produce up to a dozen free, online lessons addressing current events as part of our Teaching with the News series. Choices has also produced more than 1,700 free, online scholar videos that are 2-4 minutes in length (see Scholars page). Each features a scholar or practitioner discussing topics related to his or her research or work in language that is accessible to high school audiences. These free videos complement the Choices curriculum units.

Choices also conducts a variety of professional development workshops to equip teachers to integrate Choices materials into their classrooms. In addition, onsite professional development is conducted with school districts that contract with the Choices Program.

Program Reach

Choices resources are used annually by an estimated one million students representing all fifty U.S. states as well as by students in about two hundred international schools. In recent years, our paid curriculum materials were used in approximately 8,000 high schools in the United States.

2.    Annenberg Learner

https://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html

Annenberg Learner funds and distributes more than 100 multimedia courses and workshops to help teachers keep current on the content they teach. Professional development resources provide teachers with research on the most effective teaching strategies along with their connection to national education content standards, and examples of these principles applied in real classrooms. The video components are paired with extensive Web sites that include online texts, course and workshop guides, and extensive background information to enhance the learning experience. Using these resources, teachers can learn from experts, other teachers, and even students who reveal their unique interpretations of the content.

Teachers also can earn graduate education credit using these resources through Colorado State University for a low tuition fee. We also make the resources available at no cost to individual learners through our Web site, Learner.org.

Thanks for checking in!

Kathleen

DDS library year begins!

Dear Denver Discovery School Teachers

The library looks organized and inviting due to the gifted efforts of the Swigert Librarian Sallie Shultzabarger and the DPS Library Services Team.

Thank you!

Monday, August 19^th we begin the new school year with our 6^th grade students and happily the DDS library is part of the wonderful scavenger hunt that has been planned for them.

Thursday, August 22, DDS library orientation presentations are being scheduled all day. 

Each session takes about 20 minutes and teachers should email me (Kathleen Kavet) to sign up for a slot. 

Currently the 9:40 to 10am slot is taken.

Starting the week of August 26^th the DDS library should be ready to accommodate checking out books to any 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grade students during the following times:

·       Monday 7:50 to 11:15.

·       Tuesday 7:50 to 11:15.

·       Thursdays all day until 3:30.

During these times teachers may bring down their classes (please arrange beforehand) or send down up to 5 students at a time, with a pass, to check out books.

(Except for afterschool) – students must have a signed, timed and dated pass from their teacher. Passes must also contain the name of the student(s) … no generic passes please.

Teachers – please let me know if you are working on a special research project, and you would like me to pull books that apply and cart them for use by your class.

Thank you, and see you all in the library!

Kathleen

   

More Books!

We have more books that have arrived and are filling the shelves for DDS library students. Many of those books are for YA ... "Young Adult". Very exciting!
Thank you DPS Library services!
Kathleen

Welcome to the DDS Library Blog!

Hello Denver Discovery School!

This blog will serve as a communication resource about happenings with and about the DDS Middle School Library. Please (school) email me directly with any questions and concerns. 

My schedule in the DDS Library:

Monday’s 7:30am to11:30am

Tuesday’s 7:30am to 3:30pm

Thursday’s 7:30am to 3:30pm

I will occasionally be in the library for evening events such as Back to School Night.

We are in the process of setting up a schedule for class library orientation meetings beginning in August.

Thank you!

Kathleen Kavet