Using the Resources Within Reach

Your school librarian is a fantastic resource for helping you find just the right books to impact your students' learning in a positive way. He/She spends hours a day doing the work that you don't have time to do! Simply let your librarian know what you're looking for and set up a short appointment to go over what they've found for you. Supplemental materials, like books, can make learning rich and powerful.

Pepper offers many courses that help you utilize resources within your reach. Our ELA101 "ELA101x Resource Library Purposeful Text Selection to Supplement Core Materials" is example of this. Check out a short clip on our YouTube site.

The School Librarian and Common Core--A Critically Important Role!

In the information age, the school librarian is arguably one of the most important roles in any school. Because Common Core has the goal of helping students become intelligent, engaged, critically aware readers and interpreters of information, the library can be a fantastic hub where students can make connections across subjects and deepen and broaden the concepts and learning tools they get in their classrooms.

This paper, a joint effort of the education reform organization Achieve and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), aims to help school librarians think about how they can play a transformative role in their schools as part of the transition to Common Core State Standards.

Classroom teachers also can benefit from the information in this brief, since it is through meaningful collaboration with librarians that schools can "cooperatively break the isolation of the traditional classroom."

CLICK HERE to download the full PDF text of the brief!