Please excuse the cross-posting.
We held our first Poetry Jam last Friday after school. We had over 100
people attend with about 16 music and poetry acts performing. We also
set up a student art gallery with drawings, paintings, photography, and
even some shop projects. I got a lot of help from our Leadership Class
so it went very smoothly and we got many complements. The audience was
great. We had no discipline issues and the kids left the library nearly
spotless. Our new principal was very impressed.
I want to thank everyone who shared their experiences with this type of
event on LM_NET and CalibK12. Special thanks to Linda Elliott, Library
Media Teacher at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico, CA. Her
workshop at the California School Library Association conference in
November had lots of great suggestions and motivated me to get to work
on something I had wanted to do for 3 or 4 years.
If you are thinking of trying something like this I highly recommended
it. It was a lot of work but it got many teachers from several
disciplines involved as well as lots of students. It was a great way to
end a week of standardized testing and a great way to display a lot of
hidden student talent.
I have a slide show from the event on our library's home page. Click on
the link in my signature below.
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Tony Doyle, Librarian
Livingston High School, Livingston, CA
tdoyle@muhsd.k12.ca.us
<Http://www.lhs.muhsd.k12.ca.us/library/index.htm>
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get
people to stop reading them."-- Ray Bradbury
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