I attended the Mid-South Reading and Writing Conference in Birmingham this
past weekend. It was wonderful! I heard many great speakers, including
Melissa Forney, who was so funny and talented. I plan to order her books on
teaching writing for my library's professional collection.
One of the keynote speakers was Dr. Stephen Krashen, of Whole Language
fame. In the middle of his speech he stopped and said he wanted to stress
one thing...that if schools really wanted to increase the reading scores, the
most proven way was to improve the school library by having a certified
librarian and lots of quality, up-to-date BOOKS! He gave statistics to
support his statements and the audience (of mostly teachers) applauded over
and over again. It made me proud to know that someone thought so highly of
our profession. I went (onstage) afterwards to thank him and when I told him
I wanted to shake his hand because I was a librarian...he hugged me!
It was a great day to be a librarian:-)
Jeanna Dennis, LMS
C.F. Hard Elementary
Bessemer, AL
Simon827@aol.com
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