Neighbor to Neighbor wants to know how we will staff our libraries. Here's what I said.
5. The majority of the public schools lack a library
and/or librarian. What will you do to change this?
a. First and
foremost, we need to focus on teaching our kids to read. A child learns to read, then reads to learn. Currently Lynn's 3rd grade reading proficiency rate, per the 2012 MCAS, is 41% with scores ranging from 25% at Harrington to 76% at Sisson. Let's staff our libraries next. I would like to fund a practice based,
scientifically proven, peer reviewed, structured, sequential, phonological
approach to reading and spelling, such as the Wilson Reading System and have this program available district wide. The
Superintendent has hired a public relations firm to combat blogs like Stanley
Wotring's. We are not in need of PR firms. We are in need of reading
specialists.
b. Reach
out to the community. Ask for volunteers from the PTA, Church Groups, retired
teachers, School Improvement Council Members, and local businesses to man our
schools’ libraries.
c. Plan
a reward trip for children whose parents volunteer in the library a specific
number of days in a school year.
d. Organize
frequent trips to the Lynn Public Library.
e. Look
into creating a mobile library to service all the elementary schools and alternate this with trips to the Lynn Public Library.
f. Investigate reading specific grants like Holyoke's $100,000 grant: “Reading is Power: Holyoke Can Do It.”
Stats taken from http://uneducacion.blogspot.com/2013/03/lynns-3rd-grade-reading-proficiency.html and http://uneducacion.blogspot.com/2013/03/lynn-3rd-grade-reading-proficiency-rates_4.html
Italicized portions added after questions were submitted to N2N.
No comments:
Post a Comment