School Board honors teachers with 1,000-book classrooms

Posted October 31, 2016 11:00 pm

School District 54

The District 54 School Board plans to visit nine teachers across the district in November to praise them for filling their classroom libraries with more than 1,000 books.

A significant body of research states that the more children read the better readers they become. As part of our district's Literacy Task Force, we learned that experts recommend that every classroom should have 1,000 books in order to meet the wide range of abilities and interests of the children. With this in mind, we embarked on a campaign to fill the bookshelves in each of our rooms.

Although District 54's SuperKids: Powered by Books Committee raises funds to buy books for teachers, many of the teachers being recognized have assembled these large classroom libraries on their own - by purchasing the books themselves, scouring garage sales, placing Scholastic book orders, receiving some as gifts, etc.

These teachers listed below join 270 other District 54 teachers who had previously been recognized for achieving this milestone - for a grand total of 279 teachers.

• Brenda Rengers from Armstrong Elementary School

• Angela Fitzpatrick from Hanover Highlands Elementary School

• Elise Koverman from Hoover Math & Science Academy

• Allison Nagy from Hoover Math & Science Academy

• Megan DeRoo from Lakeview Elementary School

• Jessie Horcher from Lakeview Elementary School

• Karmen Johnson from Lakeview Elementary School

• Crystal Rizzo from Lakeview Elementary School

• Trisha Masella from Stevenson Elementary School

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