Learning through Books, Media and Technology

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1996 Administrative Leadership Award for Library Media Services

1996 President's Award Winner

1996 Technology Award

Editorial: Learning Comes in Many Languages

From Cave Writing to Computers

A Theme's the Thing

Primary Languages, Primary sources on the Internet

Update on a Model Library Media Program

Limited? There Are No Limits

A Bilingual Student Population

Cooking Their Way to Literacy

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Update on a Model Library Media Program

Hoover High School

A library science student training another student at the circulation desk.

Picture a high school of 3,000 students, half of whom qualify for free/reduced lunch, 36 percent of whom receive AFDC, and half of whom are limited English proficient because they come from homes where one or more of 63 different languages are spoken.

Now picture a high school of 3,000 students where the average daily attendance is nearly 99 percent, where more than 35 percent of ninth through eleventh graders score in the top quartile of CTBS scores, and where 84 percent of graduates go on to college.

Can these be the same school? Yes. Somehow, Hoover High in Glendale is pulling off this remarkable achievement, and Joyce Brace, the library media teacher featured in last year's Good Ideas for her arts-related programming, is a major contributor to the effort.

Some of her strategies?

• Enroll 36 students, most of them bilingual, in her library scienceclass and train them to teach theirpeers to utilize library media services in whatever language works.
• Develop primary language collections in Spanish, Armenian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog, so most of the ELD students can read books in a language they understand.
• Collaborate with ELD teachers to group and color code the English language development library recreational reading by level to facilitate student access. Do follow-up orientations for ELD students. Subscribe to six newspapers, only three of which are in English.
• Continue coming up with new ideas, such as LITES (Leaders in Technology Education), a training program in which students learn to install, troubleshoot, and build computers. And expand the network to include local resources.

At Hoover High, there seem to be endless good ideas!

• Herbert Hoover High School (Grades 9-12; enrollment 3,000)
  651 Glenwood Road, Glendale 91202; (818) 242-6801
  Theresa Saunders, Principal
  Joyce Brace, Library Media Teacher
  Glendale Unified School District