Ms. Godoy, Ed White Librarian, and the Krueger librarian have collaborated frequently. This year we collaborated for Hispanic Heritage Month. Both schools have similar cultures and student groups so we worked together on a research project related to the holiday Día de los Muertos. Students learned about the history of the holiday and other cultures that celebrate similar holidays and then used what they learned to create their own ofrendas and contributed to the school ofrenda.
As our 8th grade students prepare for STAAR, the librarian worked with one of the math teachers to create a breakout inspired game for students to review Pythagorean Theorem. Ms. Uriegas helped me create new problems for students to solve with the theme of Mario Kart. Students were tasked with beating the game by solving for different sides of a right triangle. We included a mixture of math and word problems so they would be STAAR ready.
The librarian collaborated with our 6 KSAT teachers as they began working on a large research project where students learned about homesteading. Students began the project by visiting an actual historical homestead. Then students started researching an actual homestead to build. The librarian compiled a Google Site for students to refer to for historical evidence, crop and climate information, and growing regions across the United States.
The librarian has been collaborating with 6th grade social studies teachers to create mini-lessons on media literacy to be used in her classes. We have been using the News Literacy Project’s Checkology lessons and some of their other resources as a guide for these mini-lessons. These lessons focus on students learning fact-checking skills and how to identify mis and dis-information online. We pair this with using some of our TexQuest resources throughout the school year.
The librarian began working with our AIM Project Based Learning classes as they implemented a new curriculum. The librarian introduced students to library resources that would help them research solutions for their projects. The librarian teamed up with our campus ITS to introduce Canva to our students as a tool to compile and present their projects once they were complete. The librarian provided space and planned days where our ITS could be available to offer additional support to students.
The collaboration the librarian is most proud of this year is our librarian collaboration to bring author James Ponti to NEISD middle schools. We planned this event over multiple months and with varying degrees of campus support. We all worked together to encourage and support each other throughout the process. Leading up to the event we were able to work with James to provide our individual campuses and students from varying socio-economic backgrounds with presentations that would be the most
impactful for them. At Krueger, James was able to share with students how he grew up with a single mother who had to support three children. He also shared his dislike of reading up until he was in college. He was able to share with students how the right books changed him into a reader which was a message a lot of our students were able to take to heart. He was also able to work with a small group of Krueger students with a heavy interest in writing and share his unconventional methods.