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We are okay

LaCour, Nina


Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that's been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love.
Date Published:2020

Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that's been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love.

Date Published:2020

The juice box bully- : Empowering Kids to Stand Up for Others /

Sornson, Robert


Pete has a hard time fitting in at his new school, but he soon learns that bullying and tolerating bad behavior are not in keeping with Mandell Elementary's "Promise."
Date Published:2010

The digital citizenship handbook for school leaders : fostering positive interactions online /

Ribble, Mike,


The big picture -- Introduction : digital ethics and citizenship -- Just citizenship why do we need the 'digital' -- The 'new' 9 elements and S3 framework -- Planning your digital citizenship program -- Policy guide -- Digital citizenship in the classroom -- Administrator's guide -- Educator's guide -- Student voice -- Elementary school -- Middle school -- High school -- Outside of K-12 -- Digital citizenship in teacher & leader preparation -- Beyond the educational community -- Spreading digital citizenship internationally? -- What's next for digital citizenship -- Appendix A: ANPC template -- Appendix B: Family contract -- Appendix C: Progression chart. In today’s schools and districts, just saying znoy to bad technology practices is not enough. This leadership posture can take the form of extreme blocking and filtering of websites, providing little access to devices and declining to integrate digitaltools and resources into learning out of fear of what else a student might do. Such a mindset can also lead to adults choosing not to engage -- or being unable to engage -- in conversations when students share stories about what a peer did online or throughthe latest app. Digital citizenship curriculum needs to be taught at two levels at once -- horizontal (the world immediately around students) and vertical (connecting to the rest of the world). This book provides education leaders a strategic road map thatdemonstrates how to incorporate these concepts into the curriculum so that digital citizenship isn’t just zone more thing,y but is threaded into the DNA of how educators teach and work. The book provides a five-year-plan for developing a digital citizenshipprogram in your school; covers such topics as digital ethics and leveled approaches to digital citizenship; walks through the digital citizenship responsibilities and opportunities inherent in various roles, including library media specialists, classroom educatorsand special ed teachers; and offers strategies for spreading digital citizenship internationally and explores the future of digital citizenship. --Publisher.
Date Published:2019

The big picture -- Introduction : digital ethics and citizenship -- Just citizenship why do we need the 'digital' -- The 'new' 9 elements and S3 framework -- Planning your digital citizenship program -- Policy guide -- Digital citizenship in the classroom -- Administrator's guide -- Educator's guide -- Student voice -- Elementary school -- Middle school -- High school -- Outside of K-12 -- Digital citizenship in teacher & leader preparation -- Beyond the educational community -- Spreading digital citizenship internationally? -- What's next for digital citizenship -- Appendix A: ANPC template -- Appendix B: Family contract -- Appendix C: Progression chart. In today’s schools and districts, just saying znoy to bad technology practices is not enough. This leadership posture can take the form of extreme blocking and filtering of websites, providing little access to devices and declining to integrate digitaltools and resources into learning out of fear of what else a student might do. Such a mindset can also lead to adults choosing not to engage -- or being unable to engage -- in conversations when students share stories about what a peer did online or throughthe latest app. Digital citizenship curriculum needs to be taught at two levels at once -- horizontal (the world immediately around students) and vertical (connecting to the rest of the world). This book provides education leaders a strategic road map thatdemonstrates how to incorporate these concepts into the curriculum so that digital citizenship isn’t just zone more thing,y but is threaded into the DNA of how educators teach and work. The book provides a five-year-plan for developing a digital citizenshipprogram in your school; covers such topics as digital ethics and leveled approaches to digital citizenship; walks through the digital citizenship responsibilities and opportunities inherent in various roles, including library media specialists, classroom educatorsand special ed teachers; and offers strategies for spreading digital citizenship internationally and explores the future of digital citizenship. --Publisher.

Date Published:2019

Classroom Bullying Prevention : Pre-K--4th Grade, Children's Books, Lesson Plans, and Activities.

Heath, Melissa Allen


Featuring 20 selected bully-themed children's picture books, this teacher-friendly resource book offers lesson plans and activities to assist educators in strengthening bystander support against bullying.
Date Published:2013

Developing Number Concepts, Book 3: Place Value, Multiplication, and Division

1/31/23.


Make number concepts come alive with hands-on activities that help young children see and feel math! The books in the Developing Number Concept series provide everything teachers require to meet the range of needs in their classrooms and ensure success for all students. Concepts are developed through both teacher-directed and independent activities. Because children learn at different rates, the activities are "expandable," making it easy for teachers to differentiate their instruction. The program is ideal for math intervention programs. Each chapter of each book includes Chapter Overview, Goals, Analyzing and Assessing Needs, Classroom Scenes, About the Activities, Teacher Directed and Independent Activities, Blackline Masters. Activities from this series are aligned to the assessments results from Assessing Math Concepts enabling teachers to target their instruction to the needs of each student. Book 3 focuses on the concepts of place value, multiplication and division. See below for additional resources to make implementing the program even easier including pre-printed activity cards for the station activities, manipulative kits, spinners, and dice.
Date Published:1999

Make number concepts come alive with hands-on activities that help young children see and feel math! The books in the Developing Number Concept series provide everything teachers require to meet the range of needs in their classrooms and ensure success for all students. Concepts are developed through both teacher-directed and independent activities. Because children learn at different rates, the activities are "expandable," making it easy for teachers to differentiate their instruction. The program is ideal for math intervention programs. Each chapter of each book includes Chapter Overview, Goals, Analyzing and Assessing Needs, Classroom Scenes, About the Activities, Teacher Directed and Independent Activities, Blackline Masters. Activities from this series are aligned to the assessments results from Assessing Math Concepts enabling teachers to target their instruction to the needs of each student. Book 3 focuses on the concepts of place value, multiplication and division. See below for additional resources to make implementing the program even easier including pre-printed activity cards for the station activities, manipulative kits, spinners, and dice.

Date Published:1999

AAC Visualized : A Visual Guide to Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

12/8/22.


Everyone should have a voice! Learn how to best support those in your life who are nonvocal or have limited speech. Whether you are brand new to AAC or aim to expand your learner's overall communication skills, we have step-by-step visuals to guide you! With more than 20 visualized skills, an approachable overview of AAC, and a collection of templates & tools, you will be ready to support your AAC user! .
Date Published:2022

Everyone should have a voice! Learn how to best support those in your life who are nonvocal or have limited speech. Whether you are brand new to AAC or aim to expand your learner's overall communication skills, we have step-by-step visuals to guide you! With more than 20 visualized skills, an approachable overview of AAC, and a collection of templates & tools, you will be ready to support your AAC user! .

Date Published:2022

Leading With a Lens of Inquiry : Cultivating Conditions for Curiosity and Empowering Agency /

Vance, Jessica, 10/3/22,


Typical models of training and professional development focus on telling. It’s a model that far too often trickles down to classrooms where the traditional way of "doing school" limits the way educators teach and students learn. Fortunately, there is a better way to learn: through wonder, agency, and inquiry. FromLeading with a Lens of Inquiry administrators, educational instructors, and peer leaders learn how to cultivate learning spaces that ignite curiosity and inspire critical thinking in adult and student learners alike. Educational Coordinator and Instructional Coach Jessica Vance shares her hands-on experience as an inquiry leader in this powerful and thought-provoking book. Outlining the six dispositions of an inquiry educator and then modeling the inquiry mindset, she provides leaders with practical and effective ways to bring learner voice, reflection, and better learning experiences to professional development—and to the classroom. Lead with a lens of inquiry to spark curiosity in every learner.
Date Published:2022

Typical models of training and professional development focus on telling. It’s a model that far too often trickles down to classrooms where the traditional way of "doing school" limits the way educators teach and students learn. Fortunately, there is a better way to learn: through wonder, agency, and inquiry. FromLeading with a Lens of Inquiry administrators, educational instructors, and peer leaders learn how to cultivate learning spaces that ignite curiosity and inspire critical thinking in adult and student learners alike. Educational Coordinator and Instructional Coach Jessica Vance shares her hands-on experience as an inquiry leader in this powerful and thought-provoking book. Outlining the six dispositions of an inquiry educator and then modeling the inquiry mindset, she provides leaders with practical and effective ways to bring learner voice, reflection, and better learning experiences to professional development—and to the classroom. Lead with a lens of inquiry to spark curiosity in every learner.

Date Published:2022

Time Timer - Pocket


Assistive Technology Loan Library item === This is a 60-minute timer that provides a visual indication of the passage of time. A red dial decreases in size as time passes. There is not an auditory signal when the timer ends. Website: www.timetimer.com.
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Time's memory

Lester, Julius,


Booklist, February 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Kirkus Review, April 2006. Kliatt, March 2006. Publisher's Weekly, March 2006. School Library Journal, May 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2006. Wilson's High School Catalog, November 2006. Ekundayo, a Dogon spirit brought to America from Africa, inhabits the body of a young African American slave on a Virginia plantation, where he experiences loss, sorrow, and reconciliation in the months preceding the Civil War.
Date Published:2006

Booklist, February 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Kirkus Review, April 2006. Kliatt, March 2006. Publisher's Weekly, March 2006. School Library Journal, May 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2006. Wilson's High School Catalog, November 2006. Ekundayo, a Dogon spirit brought to America from Africa, inhabits the body of a young African American slave on a Virginia plantation, where he experiences loss, sorrow, and reconciliation in the months preceding the Civil War.

Date Published:2006

Wildfire : a novel /

Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)


Iowa Teen Award 21-22. Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp. Finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.
Date Published:2019

Iowa Teen Award 21-22. Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp. Finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.

Date Published:2019

One hundred hungry ants

Pinczes, Elinor J


One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies, but stops to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred, cause them to lose both time and food in the end. Feature in Reading Rainbow Everyday Mathematics Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 2.9 ATOS Book Level: 2.6 AR Interest Level: LG AR Points: .5 AR Quiz: 19476EN Reading Counts Level: 4.5 Reading Counts Points: 1 Lexile Measure: 650 Lexile Code: AD (Adult Directed).
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One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies, but stops to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred, cause them to lose both time and food in the end. Feature in Reading Rainbow Everyday Mathematics Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 2.9 ATOS Book Level: 2.6 AR Interest Level: LG AR Points: .5 AR Quiz: 19476EN Reading Counts Level: 4.5 Reading Counts Points: 1 Lexile Measure: 650 Lexile Code: AD (Adult Directed).

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Craig & Fred : A Marine, a Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other

Grossi, Craig


In 2010 Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine Recon in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on patrol, he spotted a young stray dog 'with a big goofy head and little legs.' Fred not only stole Craig's heart; he won over the Recon fighters, who helped smuggle the dog into Camp Leatherneck. Fred eventually made it to Craig's family in Virginia, where months later, it was Fred's turn to save Craig's life.
Date Published:2018

In 2010 Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine Recon in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on patrol, he spotted a young stray dog 'with a big goofy head and little legs.' Fred not only stole Craig's heart; he won over the Recon fighters, who helped smuggle the dog into Camp Leatherneck. Fred eventually made it to Craig's family in Virginia, where months later, it was Fred's turn to save Craig's life.

Date Published:2018

Two Jelly-Bean Holder


Assistive Technology Loan Library item === Metal plates holds and separates two jelly bean switches to assist access. [Switches not included].
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Fish-- finned and gilled animals

Slade, Suzanne


An introduction to fish that discusses physical features, habitats, eating habits, reproduction methods, and more; and includes a scientific classification chart, quick facts, a glossary, and a list of print and Internet resources. Part of the "Amazing Science: Animal Classification" series. Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 4.4 ATOS Book Level: 4.2 AR Interest Level: LG AR Points: .5 AR Quiz: 131529EN Lexile Measure: 750 Lexile Code: IG (Illustrated Guide) Guided Reading Level: N Fountas & Pinnell: N.
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An introduction to fish that discusses physical features, habitats, eating habits, reproduction methods, and more; and includes a scientific classification chart, quick facts, a glossary, and a list of print and Internet resources. Part of the "Amazing Science: Animal Classification" series. Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 4.4 ATOS Book Level: 4.2 AR Interest Level: LG AR Points: .5 AR Quiz: 131529EN Lexile Measure: 750 Lexile Code: IG (Illustrated Guide) Guided Reading Level: N Fountas & Pinnell: N.

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Dolphins

Riggs, Kate


Describes the appearance, behavior, and habitat of dolphins and features a folktale that explains the friendly demeanor of dolphins. Part of the "Amazing Animals" set. Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 2.8 ATOS Book Level: 2.9 AR Interest Level: LG AR Points: .5 AR Quiz: 150504EN DRA: 28 Guided Reading Level: M.
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Amplify Desmos Math Curriculum Sample - Grade 6


This Grade 6 curriculum sample is a comprehensive middle school program designed to foster mathematical curiosity and collaboration for every learner. It features a student-centered, problem-based instructional model built on the Desmos interactive platform to build a deep conceptual understanding of ratios, rates, and algebraic expressions. This evaluation sample provides a flexible digital-first experience with integrated print components, focusing on a guided path toward mathematical modeling, procedural fluency, and independent critical thinking for middle school students.
Date Published:2026

This Grade 6 curriculum sample is a comprehensive middle school program designed to foster mathematical curiosity and collaboration for every learner. It features a student-centered, problem-based instructional model built on the Desmos interactive platform to build a deep conceptual understanding of ratios, rates, and algebraic expressions. This evaluation sample provides a flexible digital-first experience with integrated print components, focusing on a guided path toward mathematical modeling, procedural fluency, and independent critical thinking for middle school students.

Date Published:2026

Bound by ice : a true North Pole survival story /

Wallace, Sandra Neil


LEXILE 1050 NONFIC. https://www.teachingbooks.net/ql34wqr. Provides an overview of the 1879 American expedition to the find the North Pole that ended in disaster. Information for the narrative pulled from journals and letters from the crew as well as official documents and archival records from the time. Includes photographs and a map. http://www.mackinvia.com/6091272 .
Date Published:2022

Connecting students to STEM careers-- : Social Networking Strategies

Cole, Camille


Provides teachers with technological ways to find STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) professionals around the world who are willing to interact with their students.
Date Published:2011

The bridge of death

Atwood, Megan.


LEXILE AD530 FIC. Best friends Jinx and Jackson suspect a ghost may be responsible when several popular students decide to harm themselves by jumping off a local bridge. https://www.mackinvia.com/3147524 .
Date Published:2016

20 fun facts about centipedes

Elkin, Matthew


This title uses a format to explore the world of the centipede. It breaks down the common misconceptions about these "hundred-legged" creatures, explaining their predatory nature, their venomous capabilities, and their unique anatomy. The book features high-definition photography that allows students to see the "legs" and "forcipules" (pincers) up close without the "ick" factor of a moving bug.
Date Published:2013