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1. Teen Read Week October 15-21, 2006. Teen Read Week is a national literacy initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) aimed at young adults. Customize your Teen Read Week celebration to meet the students' needs. The theme is -- Read for the fun of it: Teen Read Week. Visit http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenreading.htm for information.
2. "Copyright Issues in the Classroom and School Library" and "Creating and Maintaining Engaging School Library Websites" are two new online course beginning in October 2006 sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). Registration will start October 1, 2006.
3. Identify the FTE of certificated staff for the Core Data Report -- start now by talking to the principal or secretary of your building. Ask them how many FTE (Full Time Equivalent) are certificated staff. Example: Classroom teachers = 24 full time = 24 FTE + Music teachers one full time and one half time = 1.5 FTE counselor half time = .5 FTE -- adding those together 24 + 1.5 + .5 = 26 FTE. It is possible to have .25, .5, .75 in the FTE number. Don't wait until spring when things are more hectic to find this information.
4. Standards for Missouri School LMCs 2005 are available on the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education web site. I do not have any more print materials to mail. ..\standards\05standards.pdf Be sure to read the FAQ available for the standards too. http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/standards/standardsfaq.pdf
5. Remember to teach students how to use the Student Research Center available through EBSCOHost. The product is paid for by the legislature through the Secretary of State's Office. It is available free of charge if your district is a MOREnet customer. http://web.ebscohost.com/src/search?hid=19&sid=cc816c40-80cf-42ba-8e94-473b28f78714%40sessionmgr7
6. Kids Search is a combined search engine paid for by the legislature through the Secretary of State's Office. It is available free of charge if your district is a MOREnet customer.
Encyclopedia of Animals, offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys’ Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984
Newspaper Source, provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually
http://web.ebscohost.com/srck5/search?hid=11&sid=b50e1c0a-7b22-4061-bb6e-3ad88a93b81a%40sessionmgr2