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titles to meet the needs of the Common Core State Standards and Scope
&Sequence. The other high schools are reviewing and selecting titles during the
Summer 2012 in preparation for greater alignment to the Common Core State
Standards and increased use of non-fiction titles in 2012-13.
3. Achieve equitable book room inventories at all elementary Equity purchases for K-5 and 6-8 book rooms were made in 2011-12. These funds
schools, targeting grades 3-5 non-fiction areas to align with the targeted schools with books rooms that were most in-need. Selections made for
Common Core State Standards.
the 3-5 books rooms specifically targeted non-fiction while many selections for the
6th grade books rooms helped to increase the reading choices in non-fiction.
4. Increase library inventory commensurate with languages Library inventory was funded district-wide by the Common School Fund at $14.95
spoken in MMSD.
per student and distributed by enrollment at each site. Library selection, evaluation
and inventory depend on the needs of each school site and were determined by
each school's library media specialist. Each librarian places in their library
collection materials commensurate with languages spoken as determined by
language need at their school and available publications. Some district online
products also included materials translated in other languages (Gale Virtual
Reference Library, Encyclopedia Britannica in English and Spanish versions,
Tumblebooks, Pebble Go and BookFiix).
5. Increase library and book room inventories of culturally All librarians focus on collecting culturally relevant materials in their library
relevant materials.
collection as it meets the needs of their schools each year. Book room inventories
are done at the discretion of the IRTs at each school. Work is being completed
with librarians in the Language Workshop Committee (April- June) to identify
mentor texts that are culturally relevant.
6. Increase library inventory to support dual language immersion Nuestro Mundo's library collection was funded an additional $5,000 in 2011-12
sites.
from Common School Funds to begin to develop the new, separate collection at
the school's new location.
7. Increase selection of leveled reading materials for secondary. See responses to #1 and #2 above.
8. Pending positive pilot evaluation results, implement Achieve 3000 was made available to select middle schools during 2011-12 that
Achieve3000 in targeted secondary schools to support dual had unique learning situations. The 2011-12 secondary sites included Toki 6th
language immersion.
grade; Wright, Cherokee and Sherman developmental bilingual classes; MMSD's
secondary dual language immersion sections at Sennett and the alternative sites
at SAIL, Metro Jail, and Metro Huber. The DLI classes demonstrated growth in
Spanish literacy.
Due to the high per student cost of this program annually, sustaining Achieve 3000
is being re-considered for more targeted use in 2012-13. Sites will include
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