Board honors teachers with 1,000 books
Posted by Terri McHugh on Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
The District 54 School Board plans to visit 20 teachers across the district to praise them for filling their classroom libraries with more than 1,000 books.
A significant body of research states that the more children read the better readers they become. As part of our district’s Literacy Task Force, we learned that experts recommend that every classroom should have 1,000 books in order to meet the wide range of abilities and interests of the children. While some of our classrooms already have a significant number of titles, many do not. With this in mind, we embarked on a campaign to fill the bookshelves in each of our rooms.
Although District 54’s SuperKids: Powered by Books Committee has been hard at work fund-raising to buy books for teachers, many of the teachers being recognized have assembled these large classroom libraries on their own – by purchasing the books themselves, scouring garage sales, purchasing Troll and Scholastic book orders, receiving some as gifts, etc.
These teachers listed below, join 195 other District 54 teachers who had previously been recognized for achieving this milestone – for a grand total of 215 teachers.
Armstrong
- Madeline Ryan
Blackwell
- Betsy Brantner
- Deb Davis
- Tracy Fowler
- Marsha Hoshko
- Adrianne Stephenson
- Katie Zordan
Collins
- Lauren Lewis
- Ellen Pape
- Rhonda Starr
- Eric Wiklund
Churchill
- Judy Stewart
Enders-Salk
- Esther Ortloff
Fox
- Chris Duncker
- Deb Moon
Link
- Lauren Legner
Keller Junior High
- Jen Chamberlin
- Judy Johnson
MacArthur
- Cristina Gonzalez
- Kristine Wahlund