Beebe Badger Bookmobile…Blazing a Reading Trail

Autor/in	Calvert, Kay
Titel	Beebe Badger Bookmobile…Blazing a Reading Trail
Quelle	In: Knowledge Quest, 47 (2019) 4, S.8-14 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1094-9046
Schlagwörter	School Districts; Libraries; Motor Vehicles; Books; Summer Programs; Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Lunch Programs; Arkansas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; Library; Bibliothek; Motor vehicle; Kraftwagen; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Sommerkurs; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Mittagessen
Abstract	The Beebe (AR) Public School District is committed to the mission of utilizing all resources to provide learning opportunities, tools, progressive technology, and guidance to enable all students to become productive citizens and lifelong learners. Each school year, upon returning from summer vacation, a noticeable decline in student reading levels from the end of the previous school year is evident. The research is clear that children who do not read during the summer can lose up to three months of reading progress and that loss has a cumulative, long-term effect. This article describes a project taken on by the Beebe School District to combat summer reading loss. A retired 1994 sixty-six-passenger school bus from the fleet was retrofitted into the Beebe Badger Bookmobile. The intentional focus of the bookmobile project was to get books into the hands of students in this community. The maintenance, technology, and carpentry crews at Beebe Public Schools completed most of the retrofitting on site, resulting in substantial savings to the district in comparison to the cost of conversion by a specialty company. The Beebe Badger Bookmobile joins the school lunch summer meal program (supported by a federal grant) on planned stops Monday through Thursday of each week during the summer. Students, ages eighteen and under, are invited to enjoy a healthy sack lunch and beverage prepared by food service employees in an effort to meet young learners' physiological needs. The food service employees (who have their own van) encourage all students to visit the bookmobile after they finish their lunch. Likewise, bookmobile employees encourage all patrons to enjoy a healthy school lunch after they choose their books. Feeding both the bodies and minds of students during the summer is an action step toward fulfilling the mission to use all resources to guide students to becoming lifelong learners. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Association of School Librarians. Available from: American Library Association. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 1-800-545-2433; Web site: http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2021/2/06