While Indianapolis Public Schools currently has an accomplished group of professional educators, the need for additional teachers is always great. The Indianapolis Teaching Fellows is an aggressive campaign to recruit local and committed professionals, community members, and recent college graduates to become teachers, joining us in our efforts to close the achievement gap – so… Read More Indianapolis Teaching Fellows
Rainbow of Reading : Creating lifelong readers in Indiana, the annual conference of the Indiana State Reading Association, is scheduled for Sunday, March 2 through Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at the Indianapolis Convention Center . The conference is packed with exhibits, concurrent sessions, and highlighted speakers talking on a variety of topics related to reading.… Read More INDIANA STATE READING ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE: LIFELONG READERS
One Indiana school is just waiting to be recognized and rewarded… do you know which one? The Indiana State Reading Association honors an Indiana school – public, private, or parochial – each year with the Exemplary Reading Award. The award recognizes that school’s development of an outstanding school-wide reading program. The award-winning school will receive… Read More NOMINATIONS WANTED FOR “EXEMPLARY READING AWARD”
Dr. Donna L. Gilton, associate professor of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island has written Multicultural and Ethnic Children’s Literature in the U.S. (Scarecrow Press, Inc.) can be purchased from Amazon.com as well as the publisher. History and controversies of ethnic groups (including emerging groups and ethnic Europeans) and characteristics of the… Read More New book on multicultural children’s lit
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), will hold its first biennial Young Adult Literature Symposium at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., November 7 – 9, 2008. YALSA will accept proposals for programs and unpublished, scholarly papers through its Web site through October… Read More YALSA seeking proposals
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