MOB – CIS & SLS

Grants 2011-12

COLLABORATIONS

Adaptive Toys – Community Foundation of Oneida & Herkimer Counties Foundation = $4,114

Adaptive Toys – New York Library Association Robert Barron Award = $500

Teaching with Primary Sources – Library of Congress grant = $20,000

Teen Book Festival Field Trip – Walmart Foundation = $500

New Adaptive Toys from the Oneida/Herkimer Community Foundation & the New York Library Association

CIS & Special Education

Sound file – Molly Creedon, MOB Special Ed Occupation Therapist – Summer School - 2012

Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the Library of Congress

SLS & CTE

Primary source examples

The Madison-Oneida BOCES School Library System received a $20,000 grant to support its “Ignite the Common Core with Library of Congress Primary Resource Documents” project. The grant is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg (Pa.) University.The project will allow teams of school librarians and teachers to receive training and hands-on experience in developing lesson plans that incorporate the inquiry process, the Common Core Learning Standards and primary sources. Participants will pilot these lessons in the classroom to determine their effectiveness, and successful lessons will be shared regionally through ongoing professional development at BOCES and through a Moodle learning management system.In addition, teams of pre-service teachers from Syracuse University and Utica College will participate in the project.Participants will have access to all Library of Congress primary sources and will also be connected to local resources housing primary sources.

Teen Book Festival – Walmart Foundation grant

SLS & CTE

Student comments:

3. Are you glad that you came on the TBF fieldtrip?Yesit was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am surely going again next year.4. What was the best part of the day?best part was when the authors came out and we got to meet them all at once.4. What was the best part of the day?meeting new friend and meet real author!7. Name one of the authors whose session you attended, and comment on how they made you think differently about their books, characters or some subject?i went to see Laurie Halse Anderson and she made me think of things differently and that for bad problems there is always a cause underneath it.8. In what ways will your writing improve because of the comments and advice you received from the authors that spoke at TBF?i learned new ways to get over writers block and thought of new subjects to write about9. Did attending TBF give you any ideas about your own future career?YesSeeing all of these authors, getting to meet them, and getting to hear them speak and talk with them, gives me a deeper incentive to write. I want to be standing where they are someday, speaking to kids about reading and writing and helping them to succeed in life.9. Did attending TBF give you any ideas about your own future career?YesMrs. Crewe had wanted to be a veterinarian like I thought I did, but just like how she realized that it wasn't for her, im realizing that I would rather write too.11. After attending TBF, what authors/books are you now interested in reading or following that you didn't know about before?im now interested in reading bullying books and holocaust books.12. What could be done to improve the day?Can you really make the day any better than it was? :)13. Any other things you would like to tell us about the day?Definitely keep the idea for next year. Everybody enjoys it so much, and it is a wonderful opportunity! Thanks so much!13. Any other things you would like to tell us about the day?It was one of the best days of my life