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TITLE: // Lunch Bunch Book Club // (Grades 6, 7, & 8) DATE: once a month on the last Friday of the month during grade level lunches (since January 2010)

// MSDE Technology Standards for School Administrators: // Teaching & Learning: A school administrator ensures the integration of appropriate technologies in instruction and learning environments to maximize student achievement.

DESCRIPTION of PROJECT: The school library media center is a hub for the school. Teachers collaborate with each other within curricular areas, across curricular areas, and across grade levels. As the media specialist I collaborate with each curricular team to plan ahead for upcoming units of study.

Working with the reading language arts team, we decided to start "lunch bunch" groups to give students an opportunity to read & discuss books that other students also enjoy. We figured this would also extend to the type of genre that certain students enjoyed reading. Additionally, teachers felt this to be another way to encourage more reading overall by students. These reading club groups are student facilitated, with a teacher/administrator in the room for purely supervision purposes and to operate the technology piece of the recording for the students as unobstrusively as possible.

REFLECTION of the PROJECT EXPERIENCE: The idea for the //Lunch Bunch Book Club// was a natural extension for some of the students who are ravenous about reading. In particular, the vampire genre inspires & consumes many of my young female readers. This was the most natural of the book club discussions to plan for & execute in terms of the technology integration. There was great excitement & enthusiasm by the participants to be part of the video recording for this grant project.

PROJECT: //Lunch Bunch Book Club//, Grade 8 -- Friday, April 16th