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TeachingBooks Resources Available to 24 Million Readers with New Statewide Library Systems Added in 2021

eSchool News

With the addition of the new licenses, more than 24 million readers at over 55,000 schools, public libraries and higher education institutions can now access TeachingBooks’ curated educational materials. More than 55,000 schools and libraries have received more than 70 million unique investigations and searches since August 2020.

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How can we ease tensions around book choice and school libraries?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

My experience with the school library and book choice tension I have over 1,000 books in my American international Christian school classroom in southern Taiwan where I teach English Language Arts (8th), Yearbook (10th-12th), US History (11th), and British Literature (12th). Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students.

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Sora “Content Bundles” Feature Empowers Educators to Easily Reserve Digital Books for Specific Students

eSchool News

Create teacher-specific classroom libraries. Our secondary reading intervention teachers are excited about using Sora’s digital library to support and develop literacy in their English classes,” stated Javier Hernandez, ELA TOSA at Montebello Unified School District in California. “Our Reserve titles for upper grade levels.

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Making the Most of Distance Learning: 7 Tips to Share with Parents

Digital Promise

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Reading materials can include print or digital books, graphic novels, magazines, and online articles.

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3 ways to help give all students “information privilege”

eSchool News

“Access to an effective school library program is one example of information privilege. As I reflect on this challenge, I see three areas where public education can focus: Keep school libraries well-staffed. Public library access should be part of all students’ public school experiences.

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7 Ways to Get Teens Reading in a Smartphone Culture

Edsurge

The authors found that digital media has supplanted consumption of “legacy media” like books and magazines across racial and ethnic groups, gender, and socioeconomic status, so much so that “the percentage of 12th graders who read a book or a magazine every day declined from 60% in the late 1970s to 16% by 2016.”

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JournalTOCs and other “pushy” scholarly tools

NeverEndingSearch

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. Here’s a little current awareness tip. Microsoft Academic offers more that 150 million entities.

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