July 1st, 1:15pm
Philadelphia Conference Center, Rm 204AB
Martin Wolske, Travis Faust, Miriam Larson

At our ISTE presentation, we invite you to participate in a systems analysis, a popular education activity where participants role play different stakeholder groups who might be invested in creating, supporting and benefiting from an afterschool program. What barriers to community-building and what common interests do these stakeholder groups bring to the table for our evolving afterschool program and for your collaborative spaces? 


Here's a link to our powerpoint presentation. 

Use the linked title above to add your thoughts about one of these five stakeholder groups:

• Students
  
• Parents
  
• Teachers
  
• Business leaders
  
• Polar Bears (and Other Creatures)
  
• Administrators
  

For your stakeholder group discuss:

• What are your group's motivations? 
  
• What goals might you have for an afterschool program? 
  
• What do you not want? 
  
• What divergent goals or motivations exist in your stakeholder group.

Were you at our ISTE 2015 presentation or did you stumble across this post and get interested? We created a google document for you to post your contact information, descriptions of collaborative spaces you are involved in, resources, and questions that you want to continue to discuss.  

June and the end of the school year are the perfect time to reflect on what has gone well and what we could improve in our community. Students, please take a moment to thoughtfully answer the questions in this survey. 

https://docs.google.com/a/u4sd.org/forms/d/1syLpk9v_JNtYhwNXjrhKjL8zxoFH-2AGusBx6-4BMCg/viewform?usp=send_form


If you are not a student but would like to give feedback to the Kenwood Librarian about programs, teaching, or materials, please email Ms. Larson at larsonmi@champaignschools.org. 

Encyclopedias are a great place to look for basic background information on most topics. Unit 4 subscribes to (pays for) World Book, an online resource created for students with expert-researched information. Try it out!

Buenos Dias! Goodmorning! 

We have shared a school building this year with the International Preparatory Academy, a bilingual Spanish/English School. This week in the library, first graders will be practicing Spanish greetings. Next week we will share our greetings with IPA students. We'll be using a great BBC resource to practice greetings with different animals. Click the button or the frog picture to link to the BBC website.

We live in a world where we grow up in communities with many languages and ways of greeting. Let's take this opportunity to learn from our neighbors!

Civil rights: “the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.” (Google)

Civil Rights Movement Leaders, The Fight for Racial Equality
Often we associate civil rights leaders with the fight for racial equity during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.


Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
These young people faced anger and violence. Their efforts inspired other young people across the nation.

Black Power by WILLTV
The black power movement included leaders committed to alleviating poverty, challenging  violent policing, and continuing to advocate for empowering education.

Civil Rights Resources at the Library of Congress
Lesser known civil rights leaders both black and white are given voice in this exhibit.

Places to Search for Biographical Resources

• World Book is our subscription encyclopedia and is a great starting point to search for information. 
  
• Biography.com includes advertisements but has thorough biographies with great picture content as well. 

Modern Civil Rights Leaders: Local Leaders and Beyond
Let us not exclude the people in any age, ordinary citizens who are our neighbors, friends and family, who have fought for freedom and equality. Today, those people are still speaking out against injustice, whether it is unequal treatment of gay people, unjust police violence, or environmental justice.

Modern Civil Rights Leaders by the LA Times
This article from the LA times describes a wide array of inspiring people leading us into the 21st century. They advocate for gay rights, environmentalism, prison justice, immigrant rights and much more. 

Gay Rights Activist: Harvey Milk
This article by the California Safe Schools Coalition begins, “Harvey Milk's political career was a major catalysts for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) civil rights movement.”

Social Justice Locally

• 2015 CU Social Justice Award - Read about local leaders who were honored this year for their activism and leadership.
  
• eBlack CU Publication on CUWiki - Read about the DifferenceMakers on our local wiki page. 

Want more still? Check out the library's African American History Symbaloo

There are some fantastic resources about animals for kids online. These two links have expert information about animals. Zoologists and other animal experts wrote the entries. Click on the title or picture to go to the website. 

WORLD BOOK ONLINE
This is an encyclopedia with information about animals and lots of other things. If you want to get to this site from home, ask Ms. Larson for our school district's password. 

SAN DIEGO ZOO
The San Diego Zoo has great information about animals, including some web cams where you can be a scientist observer of live animals!