Middle School Summer Challenge
My duties
In the spring of 2018, AAPS administration moved to add a certified librarian to the middle school summer school program. It was my responsibility to develop the library program in collaboration with all ELA teaching staff. We worked together to assess needs of our students and align curriculum standards to develop fun and engaging learning activities for rising 5th through 8th grade students.
We had tremendous success! To highlight our work, I collected data to present to the school board identifying points of pride.
2018 ELA Summer Camp: By the Numbers
Brand new books given away in the book buffet: 622
Number of books each student could choose: 6
Involvement in Flipgrid: 235 videos created, 2464 views of videos created
Miles walked on field trips: 5.6
Adobe Sparks created: 81
Total minutes spent independent reading at school: 59,670
In the spring of 2020, we had to immediately transition to planning for an online middle school summer program experience. This involved shifting all learning experiences to online synchronous and asynchronous opportunities into our new district-wide online LMS, Schoology. This involved extensive training for all teachers, developing protocols for presenting information in a 100% digital format. Not only did we need to adjust our lessons and resources to an online experience, we had to engaged in all this planning remotely. We rose to the challenge and provided a thoroughly engaging program for all students for 4 hours during each day of the two week program. In addition to assisting in the coordination of delivering all of our lesson resources digitally, I coordinated the ordering and distribution of all print novels that students chose from a curated list to engaged with in online books clubs throughout the session.
In the spring of 2018, AAPS administration moved to add a certified librarian to the middle school summer school program. It was my responsibility to develop the library program in collaboration with all ELA teaching staff. We worked together to assess needs of our students and align curriculum standards to develop fun and engaging learning activities for rising 5th through 8th grade students.
We had tremendous success! To highlight our work, I collected data to present to the school board identifying points of pride.
2018 ELA Summer Camp: By the Numbers
Brand new books given away in the book buffet: 622
Number of books each student could choose: 6
Involvement in Flipgrid: 235 videos created, 2464 views of videos created
Miles walked on field trips: 5.6
Adobe Sparks created: 81
Total minutes spent independent reading at school: 59,670
In the spring of 2020, we had to immediately transition to planning for an online middle school summer program experience. This involved shifting all learning experiences to online synchronous and asynchronous opportunities into our new district-wide online LMS, Schoology. This involved extensive training for all teachers, developing protocols for presenting information in a 100% digital format. Not only did we need to adjust our lessons and resources to an online experience, we had to engaged in all this planning remotely. We rose to the challenge and provided a thoroughly engaging program for all students for 4 hours during each day of the two week program. In addition to assisting in the coordination of delivering all of our lesson resources digitally, I coordinated the ordering and distribution of all print novels that students chose from a curated list to engaged with in online books clubs throughout the session.