School Board honors teachers with 1,000-book classrooms

Posted November 02, 2014 10:00 pm

School District 54

The District 54 School Board plans to visit 19 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 245 other District 54 teachers who had previously been recognized for achieving this milestone - for a grand total of 264 teachers.

Armstrong

Colleen Conway

Heather Walz

Blackwell

Kourtney Arreguin

Allison Bond

Beth Engelking

Amy Grelck

Jamie May

Laura Hyzy

Holly Larsen

Megan McCabe

Samantha Plaia

Susan Walsh

Collins

Shannon Hart

Eisenhower

Jessica Albers

Mark Shydlowski

Fairview

Michelle Mogilinski

Lakeview

Gina DeFalco

MacArthur

Iris Santiago

Rachel Niedospial

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