Emerson Charter Library & Media Lab
"Write it in your heart that every day is the best day....."
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2019 Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners, Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books, Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present, and more...
THANK YOU SCOTT MARCANO FOR VISITING MRS. FUKUJI'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CLASS!
Comic Book Publisher, Filmmaker, Professional Writer, Educator
THANK YOU EMI KUSAYANAGI AND MARIA ADAME FOR VISITING MRS. FUKUJI'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CLASS!
Meet our amazing Tree People Community Partners
Emi Kusayanagi and Maria Adame
Youth Leadership Coordinators
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a promoter of nature at a California land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
A spark of kindness made a light.
The light made an opening
in the darkness.
~ Joy Harjo
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely,
with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
California School Library Association
The California School Library Association (CSLA) stands with Black Lives Matter and supports all efforts to end institutional, structural, and systemic racism and inequity in both our organization and in California’s school libraries. As a part of this, we are examining our history as a predominantly White organization, identifying and removing racism where it exists in our organization, and centering our work on equitable access for students and staff in California.
Teen Dance Empowerment Program!
Dance, Relax, and Connect with yourself and community! Critical Mass Dance Company's Teen Dance Empowerment Program helps to build self-confidence, reduce stress, and create community through our creative movement classes called Dance from the Heart. No dance training or experience is necessary!
Patille Violeta, Teaching Artist/Teen Empowerment Program
Patille discovered the healing power of dance when she joined Critical Mass Dance Company in 2016. As CMDC's Teen Empowerment Program Facilitator, Patille has been teaching Dance from the Heart classes to youth since 2017 at nonprofits and schools across Los Angeles. She is passionate about creating brave and safe spaces for youth to ground, de-stress, explore their identity and discover their passions. Patille brings ten years of Youth Wellness Advocacy to her work. She is a trauma-informed Yoga teacher, Reiki Master Practitioner, Meditation Teacher, and Painter. Patille's mission is to support the community with tools that promote wellbeing, emotional resilience, inner peace, and positive self-esteem.
Integrity.
Humility.
Leadership.
Respect.
Service.
Adapted-Updated December 6, 2017 © National Speech & Debate Association
CARPE DIEM
“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day--that is the highest of arts.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
EMERSON SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM ROCKIN' IT AGAIN!
On 12/12 Emerson’s Speech and Debate Team competed in the second Southern California Junior Forensics Tournament. They were once again victorious! Placing in the final round were Kaelyn Simon, Layla Sadrieh, and Gigi Merz with their Dramatic Interpretation pieces, Merrick Cheung and Sophie Soltis in
Poetry, Mieko Poindexter in Storytelling, Danial Farzinpour, Drew Stern, and Diana Barksdale in Improptu and finally Daniel Farzinpour also placed in Spar! All of the team members that competed this Saturday worked hard and we are so excited for our next competition in February. Go panthers!
Superintendent Beutner
December 7, 2020
Dear Colleague,
I hope this finds you and your family safe and well. My commitment remains the same as I made when we were forced to close schools in March – we will do all we can to protect the health and safety of all in the school community.
This commitment also means we must respond to current conditions in the community. Because of the dangerously high level of COVID-19 in the Los Angeles area, it is no longer safe and appropriate to have any students on campus. We will also be asking those who are currently working at schools to work from home if at all possible for the rest of the semester.
This is greatly disappointing to all who have been working so hard to build a proper foundation for students’ return to campus. Clean schools, proper health protocols and COVID-19 testing for all at schools make a difference but they don’t provide immunity to the virus. We can’t create a bubble for the school community. When things are so dangerous in the communities we serve it has implications for schools as well.
A Stay at Home Order means what it says. While our practices and protocols are working, the level of risk is too high and it is growing.
These changes at schools will remain in effect until the next school semester begins on January 11. We’ll continue to evaluate the situation and provide updated information along the way.
Our food relief efforts at schools will remain open because the need continues – we provided almost ¾ million meals to hungry children and adults just this past Friday alone.
We will also continue providing free COVID-19 testing at schools because it is keeping our school community safer and it provides us with important information we will need to reopen schools in the safest way possible.
Our goal remains the same – to return students to schools as soon as possible in the safest way possible. Local conditions matter – COVID-19 case levels in Los Angeles are almost 3 times higher than those in San Francisco and twice those in New York. If the level of COVID-19 in Los Angeles was like that in San Francisco or New York, we would not be taking these steps.
My hope is this action today will not only protect the health and safety of all in the school community but will keep the focus where it needs to be – getting the spread of COVID-19 down to levels where schools can safely reopen.
Thank you for your continued patience and support.
Austin
YOU ARE WONDER FULL
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very minute. ~ DEEPAK CHOPRA
Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful "yes" at every knot of the great network in which everything is connected to everything. ~ BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST
@RootsandShoots #GOODFORALLCHALLENGE
"For us to transform as a society, we have to allow ourselves to be transformed as individuals. And for us to be transformed…we have to allow for the incompleteness of any of our truths and a real forgiveness for the complexity of human beings."
~ ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS
DIGITAL COMPASS GAME
Sharpen your mad digital citizenship skills through a choose-your-own-path interactive game available free online here and below in English and Spanish.
MS. Stuback's EMERSON SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM
CONGRATULATIONS PANTHERS!
Open SPAR - Daniel Farzinpour 10th, 4th Jesse Abrams, 3rd Aaron Eliassian, 1st Elijah Chen
Novice SPAR - Diana Barksdale 6th, Estella Briones 2nd, Sophie Soltis 1st
Storytelling - Drew Stern 6th
Declamation - Kaelyn Simon 3rd
Emerson STEM Academy ExoLab-8
ExoLab-8/Magnitude.io/Ms. Barbeau's DonorsChoose STEM Project
*If you have a www.donorschoose.org account - Please consider REACTIVATING it. If you REFER a new teacher to try www.donorschoose.org YOU get $25.00 to any proposal you post.
*If you don't have a www.donorschoose.org account - Please use the names of the teachers already using www.donorschoose.org. YOU will earn $50.00 towards your new proposal. (I'll even help you write it.) The teacher that referred you will earn $25.00.
email Ms. Barbeau at tbb9893@lausd.net
VOTE
"The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy." ~ John Lewis
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Email Mrs. Scatolini at avs7077@lausd.net and your library books will be placed in the Main Office for pick up between 8 AM - 12 PM. ENJOY READING YOUR BOOKS!
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be yourself in a world that is trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Homework Help
Joy Harjo is the nation's first ever native American Poet Laureate. She reads a poem from her new book "An American Sunrise".
CONGRATULATIONS LAKERS 2019/2020 CHAMPIONS!
POETRY IN ANIMATION
READERS ARE LEADERS
Hello Panthers! Sign in to the Emerson Destiny Library link below to search for books we have available on the shelves in the library. You may also email me directly at avs7077@lausd.net with the Book/Author you are searching for in the catalogue. Please include your first and last name and student ID number to check out books from the library. I will place all books downstairs for pickup. Thank you, kindly.
Mrs. Scatolini, Librarian
POETRY IN NATURE
POETRY IN ART
POETRY IN SPORT
POETRY IN PHOTGRAPHY
POETRY IN MUSIC
BAILAMOS!
"A good deed doesn’t just evaporate and disappear. Its consequences saturate the universe and the goodness that happens somewhere, anywhere, helps in the transfiguration of the ugliness." ~ Desmond Tutu
"SUCCESS IS HAPPINESS IN YOUR HEART BECAUSE YOU MADE THE EFFORT TO DO YOUR BEST"
How To Place Library Books On Hold Through Your Schoology Account
RIP RBG
“It takes not only talent, but willingness to work hard, to make dreams come true.”
~ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community."
~ bell hooks
CHAMPION
READERS ARE LEADERS
NICE TO MEET YOU!
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Welcome Back to School!
More Online Distance Learning Resource Links
LAUSD Textbook Website Excel Sheet
LAUSD ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database
https://search.proquest.com/coronavirus/index?accountid=617
Accessing LAUSD Digital Textbooks
Up For Debate
https://cavendishsquaredigital.com/subject/25
Columbia Grangers Online Collection
http://www.columbiagrangers.org/Home.html
American Library Association
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/librariestransform/
California School Library Association
American Library Association
American Association of School Librarians
LAUSD WEEK ONE RESOURCES
https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/17056
LAUSD Beyond the Bell
LAUSD Students Health and Human Services
https://achieve.lausd.net/shhs
WEST LA COMMUNITY OF SCHOOLS WELCOME BACK 2020/2021
https://sites.google.com/lausd.net/west-la-community-of-schools/home
Los Angeles Unified School District Family-Student Handbook
HOW TO ACCESS YOUR LIBRARY ACCOUNT THROUGH SCHOOLOGY VIDEO
(Thank you Mrs. Carroll, Teacher Librarian @ Millikan Middle School)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LDOvy5nneXrYfayLWXXas_wKuXVllKd4/view
EARTH FOCUS/KCET
https://www.kcet.org/shows/earth-focus
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
https://www.youtube.com/user/lapublichealth
UCLA ARTS & HEALING HOPE COMMUNITY SERIES
https://uclartsandhealing.org/services/community-services/hope-series/
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide."
JOHN LEWIS
LAUSD A World of Learning YOUTUBE.
https://www.youtube.com/c/worldoflearning/featured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FWAUncAvv4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TvKH-qEJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrAKuOBWzw
Email: avs7077@lausd.net
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Phone: 310-234-3100