Library Media Specialists

of West Orange Public Schools

Presented to the West Orange Board of Education January 7, 2021

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Introduction by Nancy Mullin

Introduction by Nancy Mullin

Supervisor of Career Education & Library Science

nmullin@westorangeschools.org

Introduction by Nancy Mullin
Beverly Tindall

Beverly Tindall

Library Media Specialist, WOHS

btindall@westorangeschools.org

Beverly Tindall
Julie Matz

Julie Matz

Library Media Specialist, WOHS

jmatz@westorangeschools.org

Julie Matz
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The Cs of the LMC

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Schools may be closed, but the LMCs are open 24/7!

Here is your open invitation to visit our district's Library Media Center webpages by clicking on their images. Once there, take your time looking around. You will discover many current ebooks & audiobooks, videos featuring authors & illustrators, and digital resources for research. Don't miss real links to virtual adventures, such as field trips, book displays, games, activities, and ways to stay in touch.


The sites are created and maintained by the school librarians. The sites are as unique as each school's character and the community they serve.


We are so glad you found your way to our libraries, the heart of our schools.

Our LMC Websites are CONDUITS

Our LMC Websites are CONDUITS

Connecting us to our Communities
Our LMC Websites are CONDUITS

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Our LMC Newsletters Open Lines of COMMUNICATION

Our LMC Newsletters Open Lines of COMMUNICATION

Librarians publish newsletters designed to reach all members of their school community -- students, faculty, and families. Just like the websites, newsletters are produced digitally and as such, can take full advantage of presenting content in multi-media formats.


You may find yourself tapping your toes to lively music, grabbing a piece of paper to make an origami star, chuckling at a joke, or filling out an online form to get a West Orange Public Library Card.

Our LMC Newsletters Open Lines of COMMUNICATION
We are CHANGE AGENTS for Remote Learning!

We are CHANGE AGENTS for Remote Learning!

We are CHANGE AGENTS for Remote Learning!
Fall Book Display Edison 2020
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"Real" book display created by Sara Dowd, Library Intern and Gregory Kindergarten teacher, in collaboration with Edison's LMS and Sara's former mentor, Sandy Bochese.
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Virtual Displays

Banned Book Week at WOHS LMC
Virtual Coding Lab at Washington Elementary
Celebrating Veteran's Day at Mt. Pleasant Elementary
Transgender Awareness Week Virtual Book Display at WOHS LMC
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Social Emotional Learning Fiction & Non-Fiction Titles Available at Edison MS
Celebrating Winter Holidays Around the World at Gregory Elementary

In our Virtual LMCs we have Book Fairs

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We COLLABORATE! - Lesson Design & Delivery

We COLLABORATE! - Lesson Design & Delivery

Library lessons have the tall task of introducing and fine-tuning 21st Century Skills, creating lifelong learners and lovers of literature, as well as building strong relationships with each student.


Virtual lessons reflect everything we do on-site: provide time for social interaction using the chat, breakout rooms, and interactive games like Breakout.edu, creating collaborative stories, and sharing “something good” at the start of every class.


District librarians always look to collaborate with teachers and departments when designing and delivering lessons.

We COLLABORATE! - Lesson Design & Delivery

Students at St. Cloud Decorate LMC Google Classrooms!

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"My first project this year was to invite students to "make their mark" for International Dot Day, September 15th. After reading Peter Reynold's book, "The Dot", I asked every student to create a digital dot in google slides and then I used the dots to decorate the Google Classroom headers for each grade. In that way, the students had the chance to decorate their classrooms. I was really impressed with their creations. Even kinders made digital dots!


Kim Pallant, St. Cloud Elementary

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*Welcoming Kindergartners to Washington School Library!

Synchronous & Asynchronous Learning at Kelly

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Virtual Field Trip for Hazel Third Graders

"When we started remote learning in March, I participated in a webinar where Capstone presented how shared how students could their Pebble-Go online database research facts about the animals they will visit virtually at the San Diego Zoo. I was so excited to offer this online learning experience to Hazel's third graders. After adding in some cartographic skills to the lesson, we were off on a virtual airplane ride from Newark International Airport to San Diego International Airport. We explored some of the links as a class and the students were provided the slides to select one animal to explore on their own.


This field trip was a success and as a result, I created a virtual field trip to The Great Wall of China for one of our second-grade classes."


Joyce Soto, LMS

Hazel Elementary

Indigenous People's Week Literature Exploration for Redwood's 3rd, 4th & 5th graders

"Many different people from many parts of the United States comprise the group of people called Native American. The lore is rich and diverse; some tales are humorous, others are serious. Some stories are about people who lived — or might have lived — long ago; others are about real children who you may know as a friend or neighbor today. Meet them all between the pages of the books recommended here."


Lori Boyd, LMS

Redwood Elementary

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LMC Orientations for Incoming Students


"You will find Bitmoji slides with interactive links to youtube videos of authors reading books, videos of actors creating audiobooks, Screencastify tours of webpages, and links to all ebook resources, including an original SORA video."


Sandy Bochese, LMS

Edison Middle School

Touring the Edison LMC & its resources through Google Slides & Xander
LMS students tour the LMC through the use of a Google Site and the help of Charlotte & Rosie
Roosevelt students take a Virtual Scavenger Hunt using Google Forms to explore the LMC
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Freshmen participate in a Google Slide virtual introduction to all things digital at WOHS
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Digital Literacy Lesson

Always looking for new ways to present lessons, Liberty's Lisa Touzeau used Book Creator to present how to determine what is real and what is not on the web.
Using Friendly Bitmoji Classrooms to Welcome Preschoolers to WOHS
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Classic and Seasonal Lesson Offerings at West Orange High School
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We Celebrate Diversity

We Celebrate Diversity

We Celebrate Diversity
Windows, Sliding Doors, and Mirrors

Windows, Sliding Doors, and Mirrors

“Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection, we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.”


― Rudine Sims Bishop


Rudine Sims Bishop, professor emerita of education at The Ohio State University, has been called the “mother of multicultural literature”. She was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame and received the International Reading Association’s Arbuthnot Award. In 2017, she received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Windows, Sliding Doors, and Mirrors
Redwood celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Marking Transgender Awareness Week at WOHS 's Virtual LMC
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Black Lives Matter Resources curated and shared District-wide
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We CULTIVATE Literacy and Lifelong Learners

We CULTIVATE Literacy and Lifelong Learners

We CULTIVATE Literacy and Lifelong Learners
It all starts here . . .
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Students can apply for a West Orange Public Library Card ONLINE!
Sandy Bochese, Edison's LMS, writes, films, and produces a video tutorial for students and staff so they can access ebooks and audiobooks on SORA, an online reading application.
West Orange Schools SoraApp Directions
Bev Tindall, LMS at WOHS, writes, designs, and publishes an ebook tutorial for students and staff so they can access audiobooks utilizing MackinVIA, an online reading platform.
Where there is a will, there is a way! WOHS students and staff have the opportunity to "order" books for curb-side pick-up before Winter Break and into the New Year.
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Students and Staff learn how to use new technology tools

"Students would normally learn to navigate these sites by watching me model how to do so in class. This is my virtual version of modeling, which also assists students who miss class or need a refresher."



Jenna Bleeke, Mt. Pleasant Elementary

"This site has been created to house video and slide tutorials on different aspects of systems provided by our district to assist you in educating our students via distance learning (or even in the regular classroom!). If you don't see something that you need, please scroll to the bottom and fill out the form to inform me of what would be helpful to you."


Meara Franowicz, LMS, Roosevelt Middle School

We CURATE Resources

We CURATE Resources

Career and College Readiness
We CURATE Resources

Historical Election Resources- Peaceful Transition of Power Wakelet - Thanks to Social Studies Supervisor, Michael Figueiredo and Lisa Touzeau

Created through Collaboration with WOHS Staff
CREATIVITY is Alive & Well in Our Makerspaces!

CREATIVITY is Alive & Well in Our Makerspaces!

CREATIVITY is Alive & Well in Our Makerspaces!
Kelly Elementary "Makers" have virtual access to real projects
"Take and Make Projects" for Roosevelt Middle School "Makers"

3D Printing & Design for K - 12 in every LMC

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Cameras -- In front and behind!

Goodnight Lab

Lights, Camera, Action!

West Orange LMC 42020 What are you reading?
WO LMC Pets Get Caught Reading
WO Librarians Spell it Out!
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"Cs of the LMC" graphic created by Bev Tindall 12.2020

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CONTACT Information

Ms. Julie Matz, jmatz@westorangeschools.org, @jmatz_matz


Mrs. Beverly Tindall, btindall@westorangeschools.org, @bevtindall


https://tinyurl.com/WOHSLMC

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