Boost Your Teaching: How to Meet Teachers’ Needs with an Early Literacy Collection

When I was a first-grade teacher at a Title I school on the east side of Michigan, I often spent time with the media specialist and librarians at the local public library trying to find a wide range of books to use for interactive read-alouds that also connected to science or social studies content and standards. I would walk away with many engaging recommendations and titles that made my heart sing. Not to mention the incredible relationships I came to foster with those talented and knowledgeable librarians! I tapped into these resources because I knew my classroom library collection wasn’t robust enough, the provided science and social studies curricular resources were not always high quality or were missing, and getting funds to cover the cost of new resources was sometimes a challenge.

Develop Deeper Relationships with Your Students and Boost Academic and Social Emotional Learning

If you’re like us, meeting the needs of every single student in your classroom is a challenge. Not only do we struggle to find the time and energy to meet their needs, the landscape of good teaching and learning is constantly evolving and it’s hard to keep up. For us, we could see the promise in personalized learning and the pedagogical theory behind it, but it always seemed impractical to implement in a classroom. So when we saw The Modern Classrooms Project make personalized learning practices relevant and practical to teachers, we knew it was something special.