Unbound
2017 Readathon
Read, Read, Read...this Unbound story in the Seattle Times.
Wrapping Up!
We will be wrapping up Unbound Thursday night. Please send all your submissions in by midnight. All Unbound forms will go offline.
Friday we will post all the winners on the S'more.
Click here to turn in your tallies!!
Nominate a student for a Most Inspired Student Award! Click here to submit a student.
Are you the largest school participating? The largest team will win t-shirts! Click here to submit your school to win!!
Book reviews are closing soon...get those reviews in by Thursday
Last Day!!!
We will announce the winners on Friday!
Trivia Winner and Tally Sheets
We just did our fourth LIVE drawing! Click here to watch!
Don't forget to turn in your tally sheets!!!
Podcast Week 4
To participate in the trivia you can click here to submit your answers.
Tune in Thursday at 10am (CST) to watch the trivia winner picked LIVE.
Can't use Soundcloud? Click here to download the podcast .wav file.
Nominate a student for a Most Inspired Student Award! Click here to submit a student.
Are you the largest school participating? The largest team will win t-shirts! Click here to submit your school to win!!
Book Reviews
I changed the team points to accumulative so that we could add bonus points.
Please turn in your tally sheets for Week 2...Week 3 due tomorrow! :)
I will post tomorrow's podcast later today.
Trivia Winner and Tally Sheets Week 3
Don't forget to turn in your tally sheets!!!
The Call of the Wild takes the LEAD!
Leaderboard is LIVE
Congrats to Delmina Woods!!! They won yesterday's trivia drawing and will be having a pizza party to celebrate.
PLEASE turn in your weekly tallies (on Wednesday) every week! I will start sending reminder emails on Monday. Don't forget that you can always update a weekly score by noting it in your form the following week. Click here to download a tally form (File- download as- Microsoft Excel) and click here to submit it.
The Call in the Wild is in the lead by 20 average minutes!!! Go The Call of the Wild!
Trivia Winners and Tally Sheets!
Don't forget to turn in your tally sheets!!! We will be posting scores tomorrow. The Call of the Wild is in the lead with most tally sheet turned in. Woot Woot!
February 7th!
To participate in the trivia you can click here to submit your answers.
**I added a field in the survey to add a class name. A few teachers have reached out and said different classes want to submit answers. This will help you submit for each class period that wants to participate.
Tune in Thursday at 10am (CST) to watch the trivia winner picked LIVE in Baltimore, MD.
Cool Stuff!! Joey Nice sent me a certificate that her Vocational Case Manager, Chief Rachael Woods, designed for Unbound. This certificate will incentive kids to hit those milestones! Click here to download it.
Can't use Soundcloud? Click here to download the podcast .wav file.
Unbound Photo Contest!!!
1st Place: Foothill High School- Southwest Utah Youth Center
2nd Place: Owensboro Treatment Center, KY
3rd Place: Wyoming Boys' School, WY
4th Place: Travis Hills School, NOLA
A little airplane reading of next week's featured book!
February 6th!
*Congrats to Mat-Su Secondary for winning last week's trivia! They are receiving a book series of their choice.
*Unbound Week 1 Tally sheets are due this Wednesday! Click here to download a tally form and click here to submit it.
*New this year, we will award 50 minutes to the team of each student whose Book Review is published on our website.
*We will announce our picture contest winner on Wednesday. Thank you to the twenty-two schools that submitted an entry.
*I am traveling this week and may have a slight delay when answering your emails.
February 2nd
Did you miss the drawing? Click here to watch it!
I have two amazing resources to share with you. The first is a Book Bingo game that was created by Joey Nice. I love how this resource pushes your readers to expand their book palate. The second is lesson written by teacher Sarah Moilanen. Sarah has created a hyperdoc that has a book survey, do now activity, and then a review of the Unbound program. We hope you find these resources useful! Thank you all so much for sharing!
Bulletin Board By: Virginia Beach J.D.C. Team: War and Peace
Unbound Launch!
To listen to the podcast for week one click here or you can scroll down and play it below.
To submit a trivia answer sheet click here.
Thank you for sharing all your pictures and stories from your book arrivals. We will be announcing the winner next week. I will continue to accept submission by email until the end of the day Friday.
**Can't play the podcast! Click here to download the file.
January 30th
The books are on their way! I have heard from a few schools that have not gotten their books. Please do not worry. I emailed Scholastic this morning to get the tracking document but a lot of schools have already reached out to say their books have arrived.
A huge shoutout to the five schools: Breathitt, North Dakota YCC, CES- Gandara Alternative Options, Owensboro Day Treatment, and McCracken who have submitted pictures for our Best Picture Contest! Keep 'em coming!
Below you will find the teams for Unbound. One team will win a prize for having the highest accumulative score. The schools on that team will get an Unbound trophy! I have seen a lot of excitement around the teams...teachers including their team in their signature line, I love it! Keep rocking that team spirit!
Shout Outs: This year we want to hear from you! Share with us stories about students who deserves a shoutout for their participation, enthusiasm, creativity, engagement, team spirit, etc. We will add your shoutout to the podcast and recognize them. Click here to submit a shout out.
I will send an email Wednesday morning with the podcast link. Don't forget to tune in on Thursday for our LIVE drawing for our quiz winner from the podcast. Click here to tune in!
January 24th
One more week until we start! Here are some updates based on questions you have been emailing me.
- Yes, your students can read anything! Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Graphic Novels...they do NOT need to stick to the bundle of books that we are sending you.
- Tomorrow we will pick teams...click here to watch the team selection LIVE (you can watch it LIVE at 10am (CST) or view anytime after 10am (CST)).
- Books should arrive by the end of the day Friday January 27th...email me (kcrawford@ceeas.org) if you have not received your books Friday.
- If you are using the Firefox Browser you may have a hard time downloading files. If this happens, you can email me and I will send them to you or use Chrome or Internet Explorer instead.
- We do start on Wednesday, February 1st and we will be running Wednesday-Wednesday this year instead of on Mondays. Click here to download the calendar.
Check out our Team Names below...
January 19th
We will be using this S'more for our email updates this year. The great thing about the S'more is that it will keep all the past information on the same page. If you forget something you just come back here and scroll down! I have updated the teacher video for 2017. We have a lot of new features and I would really encourage you to watch it prior to starting Unbound. The website has been updated for this year, too! The books are shipping RIGHT NOW! Don't forget to email me a picture of your school receiving the books. Be creative! One school will be featured on Scholastic's website!!!
Kat Crawford
Email: kcrawford@ceeas.org
Website: www.ceeas.org
Location: Austin, TX, United States
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