Just a note to cheer you up for Easter 🙂
Our SGA officers have been interviewing all the school board candidates before elections and have been doing an amazing job – as said by one of the candidates:
“Today I had the honor and privilege to sit down in a podcast and answer questions from the Student Government Association(SGA) at Woodbridge High School about the upcoming school board election. To say I was impressed would be an understatement. This amazing group was so professional and demonstrated remarkable leadership and wisdom beyond their years. I left today’s interview and podcast feeling lighter than I have in a while about the future my kids have to look forward to. In closing, I was also fortunate enough to get a private tour of what I feel is one of the best high school’s that I have ever seen. Our community is truly blessed.Special thank you to Librarian Harry Brake and SGA Advisor Bradley Walker for having me come in today!”
While people often credit me like above, don’t be fooled.
I simply direct students to opportunities and put them in touch with them, parents, community members, educators all drive home the skills they need, even on the rough days, to make them capable 🙂. The librarian and library takes the curriculum and molds it into a new possibility.
Our students yesterday represented public and school libraries and Librarians ALL OVER DE. We have 5-6 Senators that asked to visit our school library in the next few weeks and see our school, having these students give them a walk through. That says alot about the values you instilled in them as students- it goes beyond our schools. Images here from the day, I was blown away seeing them advocate and lobby these legislators. AND Ms, McGill was AWESOME sharing opportunities and the desire to continue to find ways to represent civics taught in school and how we find ways to connect outside of school.
Third, the podcasts the students have been doing are AMAZING. The number of people listening to them has skyrocketed and we have three new ones coming out in the next few days. We are working with a new camera that allows us to create virtual tours of spaces, our school library being the first of many in the state. VERY exciting.
| Due Knowledge • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters– Public to School, School to Public Librarianship – This is a podcast tying together the public and school librarianship connections. Led by Donna Carter and Harry Brake. This episode utilizes a cell phone interview, WITH the snowball microphone, in place of using JUST the cellphone as the microphone in the last podcast – do you notice the difference?podcasters.spotify.com |
As April approaches – and this is National Library Month, see the attached for the GREAT things students are doing – and tell/write/call your legislators that ALL schools in DE deserve to have a library AND a trained librarian where they can put their creative juices to the test. Where they can decompress. Where they can thrive.
Delaware State Representatives. https://legis.delaware.gov/Chambers/House/AssemblyMembers
Senators
https://legis.delaware.gov/Chambers/Senate/AssemblyMembers
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