School Board honors teachers with 1,000-book classrooms

Posted November 03, 2011 11:00 pm

School District 54

The District 54 School Board plans to visit 20 teachers across the district 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. While some of our classrooms already have a significant number of titles, many do not. 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 has been hard at work fund-raising 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, purchasing Troll and Scholastic book orders, receiving some as gifts, etc.

These teachers listed below, join 195 other District 54 teachers who had previously been recognized for achieving this milestone – for a grand total of 215 teachers.

Armstrong

Madeline Ryan

Blackwell

Betsy Brantner

Deb Davis

Tracy Fowler

Marsha Hoshko

Adrianne Stephenson

Katie Zordan

Collins

Lauren Lewis

Ellen Pape

Rhonda Starr

Eric Wiklund

Churchill

Judy Stewart

Enders-Salk

Esther Ortloff

Fox

Chris Duncker

Deb Moon

Link

Lauren Legner

Keller Junior High

Jen Chamberlin

Judy Johnson

MacArthur

Cristina Gonzalez

Kristine Wahlund

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