Who are your reading peers at school and how can you utilize them more?
W1-Q8: Who are your reading peers at school and how can you utilize them more?
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W1-Q8: Who are your reading peers at school and how can you utilize them more?
Our Liberian @Wendy!She is amazing! Our Kindergarten tranches @Tonya, we talk books a lot,what we are reading and what we think of the book.
My teaching partner. I need to talk with my librarian more. She has good recommendations I’m just not sure everything she has read. I need to see what she is reading too.
I am trying to get better at this
Our book club made up of teachers at SWE and my friends Julie Cleghorn and Tammy Brocker. We recommend and share books with each other all the time.
I need to find them!
I have a few – we just never have time to book talk!😫
I need to find one or two. As a literacy consultant I’m thinking of hosting a couple Book Tastings at lunch this year to find my tribe.
@Debbie is my reading peer!!! We have the same taste in books and a similar philosophy on reading! We just have to get together to talk this summer!! 🙂
There is this math teacher who loves MG reads like I do. She has the entire collection of Newbery’s at her house!
No one reads very much at my school. 😞 The librarian and my teaching partner might read 5-6 books a year, but I’m the only one who reads 100+ books every year.
Shannon DeSantis yep. In our district, we’re luck that we still have librarians. We’re a middle school campus. She does not have an aide, still has to do everything librarians do with books, organizes book fairs, and teaches many, many classes on technology, etc. every year. She is one extremely busy woman!
No one on my team are big pleasure readers, and 2 are working on doctorates so they don’t have much time anyway. Need to keep looking.
My fellow English teachers. I’d love to do book talks for each others classrooms a few times a year
Any suggestions on how to cultivate a reading group during the school year?
I’m hoping that my school starting Battle of the Books this year will encourage more of my coworkers to read and share their reading lives. Right now, the rest of my department is not on board with choice/independent reading (aside from one who requires independent reading as homework) so it’s a struggle finding like-minded reading peers.
Our teacher librarian
There are reading/ English teachers, a couple teaching assistants. These are the folks I often will get reading ideas from and talk about books together. We need to show this to students more. I feel a little guilty to say that we don’t talk about books and reading enough with each other. This is something I can be sure to improve upon next year.
We have academic coaches and a media specialist. Hoping to get them involved in getting up displays around the campus of what teachers are reading.
My librarian and one other ELA teacher who is new to my building this year. No other ELA Teachers read to the extent I do, and they are not as well-versed in current books. I am trying to change the reading culture in the building and it is challenging and exhausting, but I will continue.
I have a former teammate who teaches in the grade younger than me who is just as book crazy as I am. I love the idea someone posted about getting our classes together for book talks. I also read in another thread about using Google Slides to create “My 4th Grade Reading Life” slides (sorry, I can’t remember who posted that amazing idea!)… I’d love to keep all of them in a folder and share them with grades 3-5 and our admin as peer recommendations!
I need to get a group together. Currently my reading peers are friends and fellow educators, just not on my campus.
We just started a faculty/staff book club at our school in May. We choose 4 books and meet every other month outside of school. People can read 1 book or multiple. I’m finding my reading people this way.
As I’m the new 6-8 reading teacher, I’ll be seeking out our School Support Teacher (literacy coach with different title every few years😉), the English teacher, lower grades teachers and anyone that will tell books and readers!
I’m ashamed to say that this question made me realize I don’t really have any at school. All of my reading peers are online in other places. Maybe I need to change that this year.
I have very few reading peers in my school. But those teachers that I do count as my peers, we share picture books, offer suggestions for read alouds and share ideas in professional development. I use Twitter as my reading peers!
I love social media for book recommendations that I am unfamiliar with. It builds my classroom library. I also talk to my friend/fellow teacher, @Jennifer, about what she’s reading. I am looking forward to new relationships in a new district next year, too.
Social media has been amazing for book recommendations!!
One of my closest friends is also the Title One teacher at our school, and we recommend books to each other all of the time. This coming year, I would like to organize a book club.
I need more reading peers!
My reading peer is a 3rd grade teacher. I teach 5th. We talked about doing a book tasting with our classes but didn’t. Maybe next year.
I don’t have a reading peer at school 🙁 This summer, our curriculum supervisor is running a book club for staff. We’re reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I’ve convinced one of the math teachers I work with to join, so hopefully, I’ve just found a reading peer.
Ooh…loved that book!
@Jenny, It’s been on my nook for over a year. I’ve wanted to read it. Now I have to 🙂
Because of my role as literacy coordinator I’m in 5 different schools – right now I would say I have at least one teacher in each school that I would consider my reading peers – we chat about books and exchange books and ideas every time I’m in the building. I am also part of a book club that our Teachers Association runs – so that includes around 12 teachers from our division that talk books. It’s awesome 🙂
My special education teachers and the 7-8 reading teacher, elementary teacherz, as well as instructional coach, online groups, principal, etc. I am blessed!
I have a few….. I have added a share box/free adult library in the copy room… I put up a poster to see who follows whom on social media- (no responses)….I really want to tap into my colleagues more…..
The kids are, our faculty does not read. I read books they recommend, and when they ask me for a rec I share books on my TBR pile that I think might interest them and ask “Why don’t you read it first and tell me if I should move it up to read next in my pile?” That communicates to them that I see them as equals, we are readers and grow and learn from each other, I am not the keeper of all of the good stuff.
I will need to take time to really find and engage with reading peers.
I have two teachers who read for personal enjoyment and professional development. There maybe others reading for both, but they are currently not using the library.
I work at the admin building. My reading peers are my ELA Coordinators and Facilitators. I also connect with Instructional Coaches, sharing what I read and helping build connections by showing them how books can be used in the classroom.
My assistant principal, for professional reading and two other primary teachers for pleasure reading. Again, I am challenged to dig deeper and make this a more visible reality with my peers.