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  • Whitmer High School
  • Toledo, OH
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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As a high school teacher, I often see the dim flicker of a light that once burned bright for so many of my students when they were in elementary school. I also see a weakness in their writing skills, reading stamina, and capacity to view all humanity. How do I help fix this? How do I re-spark that flame? After continually analyzing, reading, and discussing what best practices can improve apathy and increase writing, I think we are overthinking the solution. Read. I can't stop thinking about Barbara Tuchman's words "books are companions, teachers, magicians, and bankers of the treasures of the mind; books are humanity in print." I want to give my students all of that and more. Junior and senior year of high school is the last few years we have to leave our mark. I think if I can give them a library that they can call their own, one they can see themselves in, then we are one step closer. I plan to use a revitalized and relevant classroom library, curated with love and filled with current and classic mixed genres, as a pairing to a weekly reading program, mentor sentence grammar exercises, fun reading challenges, peer led book clubs, and cross curricular reading initiatives. I feel like so many literacy programs, book drives, and classroom libraries are geared towards elementary students, but I feel it is not too late and I want to provided the most engaging and exciting books from all genres possible.

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As a high school teacher, I often see the dim flicker of a light that once burned bright for so many of my students when they were in elementary school. I also see a weakness in their writing skills, reading stamina, and capacity to view all humanity. How do I help fix this? How do I re-spark that flame? After continually analyzing, reading, and discussing what best practices can improve apathy and increase writing, I think we are overthinking the solution. Read. I can't stop thinking about Barbara Tuchman's words "books are companions, teachers, magicians, and bankers of the treasures of the mind; books are humanity in print." I want to give my students all of that and more. Junior and senior year of high school is the last few years we have to leave our mark. I think if I can give them a library that they can call their own, one they can see themselves in, then we are one step closer. I plan to use a revitalized and relevant classroom library, curated with love and filled with current and classic mixed genres, as a pairing to a weekly reading program, mentor sentence grammar exercises, fun reading challenges, peer led book clubs, and cross curricular reading initiatives. I feel like so many literacy programs, book drives, and classroom libraries are geared towards elementary students, but I feel it is not too late and I want to provided the most engaging and exciting books from all genres possible.

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