On a recent Thursday evening, after a long day of work, over 100 Cleveland Metropolitan School District teachers showed up (virtually) for their students. “You had us at ‘free books!’” one teacher exclaimed, while the group expressed appreciation and shared ideas for how to engage their students with the new Cleveland School Book Fund books…
Susan Conrad discovered her gift for teaching at the local ice rink during her teenage years. “I was a figure skater growing up, and I worked at the ice rink, she says. Teaching ice skating was one of her favorite responsibilities, and she enjoyed working with the small skaters. Her path became clear: “From there,…
During their recent coronavirus response efforts, leaders from both Cleveland State University and Cleveland Metropolitan School District found ways to quickly put high-quality books into the hands of Cleveland elementary students (kindergarten – fourth grade) who unexpectedly found themselves learning at home when Governor Mike DeWine announced the extended closure of all Ohio schools on…
“I’ve always loved working with children, and it felt like the right thing to do,” Susan Haag says enthusiastically about answering her call to teach. Haag works for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District as a Title I educator and reading specialist for kindergarten to fourth-grade students. With 30 years of teaching experience, Haag is confident…
Mark your calendar for our next education event: Professional Development + dinner + new books for your classroom! February 27, 2020, 4:30-7:00 pm Snow Road Library 2121 Snow Rd, Parma, OH 44134
Send your CMSD scholars in grades PreK-4 off to Winter Break with a bag full of books in a special Cleveland Schools Book Fund backpack! Cleveland Schools Book Fund wants to help you fill a bag of books to build home libraries. How? Visit our Book List – Paperbacks Follow the instructions for Home Library…
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. – Thomas A. Edison How do great inventors come up with ideas? How do we help our students think like an inventor? Inventing is problem solving … and characters in books are a great way to learn about problem solving and inventing solutions!…
Schools out and if you’re like me, the idea of children losing some of the precious reading strategies they’ve worked so hard on all year concerns me. The “summer slide”—a reference to the trend for students to lose some of the gains made during the previous school year—happens during the summer months when kids are…
Welcome to the new and expanded Cleveland Schools Book Fund website! We are so excited to share this with you! This marks a new era for the Cleveland Schools Book Fund! The Cleveland Schools Book Fund began with the simple, yet profound commitment to insure that each and every student in the Cleveland Metropolitan Schools…
2019, a new year and time to reflect on ways to increase your student’s learning. Let’s start by rethinking how you use your Cleveland Schools Book Fund classroom library. The authors of Every Child a Super Reader (Pam Allyn & Ernest Morrell) recommend changing classroom libraries at least three times a year. By dusting off…
