Little Free Libraries at SRCSA

Our ever-generous parent-volunteers recently installed a couple of Little Free Libraries at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts.
https://youtu.be/dcV9VY6AtmE

SRCSA library : End of school year, 2024-2025

At Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, we’ve reached the end of the school year for 2024-2025. I hope that everyone has a restful summer with their loved ones.
https://youtu.be/QPsyNuK-RII

Classified Employee of the Month, September 2023

At its regular meeting on Sept. 13, the Santa Rosa School Board honored me as Classified Employee of the Month for September 2023.

Book-giveaway resources

Video: Last school year, our school families and staff donated books for teachers to give to students who have few or even no books at home. There are still books available for teachers to select from, to give as gifts to their students.

Return-to-school for 2021-2022

Video: Classes begin Aug. 12, 2021 in Santa Rosa City Schools.

End-of-school-year, 2020-2021

Congratulations to our departing eighth-graders; it was great to be able to see you receive your certificates with an in-person promotion ceremony. Best wishes for next school year, everybody, at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. And whatever else you do this summer, be sure to log the time you spend reading for our public library’s Summer Reading Challenge.

Scholastic Book Fair at SRCSA

Our socially distanced, in-person Scholastic Book Fair takes place from May 12 to 14, 2021. You can also purchase books online.

Classified Employee of the Month

Exciting news: I was honored at a recent board meeting for Santa Rosa City Schools as its Classified Staff Member of the Month for March 2021. Here I am in our school library with the official certificate.

Rotary ‘Dictionaries for Kids’

The Rotary Club of Santa Rosa is giving a brand new dictionary to every third-grade student in Santa Rosa City Schools. This gift to our families is part of a distribution of more than 30,000 dictionaries from Sonoma County to the Oregon border — more than 2,000 dictionaries in Santa Rosa alone.

SRCSA library : Welcome to 2021

It’s a brand-new year, and there’s a lot going on in SRCSA library. Here’s a review of recent highlights, including my read-alouds. The charter school lottery application window is open, if you’ve thought about attending our school.

New school year in SRCSA library

New video on YouTube : We’re getting ready for a new school year at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. I know that there is some uncertainty as we begin the year in distance learning — but I hope that, through my read-aloud videos, I can help keep things as normal as possible for our SRCSA community.

Narwhal statue at SRCSA

Check out this Narwhal statue, created for Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts by Patrick Amiot and Brigitte Laurent of Patrick Amiot Junk Art. Made from repurposed materials, the statue depicts a Narwhal (the school mascot) juggling various objects related to education and the arts. The title of the book being juggled by the narwhal, All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold, was the winner among several nominated titles that were put to a vote.

End-of-school-year, 2019-2020

This has been a school-year like no other. Congratulations to our departing eighth-graders, and best wishes for next school-year at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts.

Read-aloud videos to be disabled after May 29

May 29 is official end-of-school-year for Santa Rosa City Schools, so if you want to view my read-aloud videos, be sure to do so by then.

Six Flags Read to Succeed: certificates are here

Today, I notified families of my school community that students’ certificates for Six Flags Read to Succeed had posted in my Coordinator’s account. This year, 34 students at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts earned a free ticket to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom by completing six hours of reading for fun.

Six Flags Read to Succeed : Wrap-up video

Here is a short video wrap-up for Six Flags Read to Succeed at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. I counted 28 students who have earned a free ticket to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, by logging six hours of reading for fun. Be  sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you are enjoying my videos.

Story-time videos during shelter-in-place

To support my site’s families while Santa Rosa City Schools​ observes a shelter-in-place, I’m recording story-time videos. Here’s my introductory video about the read-alouds.

‘Educational care packages’ for SRCSA students

My top priority during the past couple of days was helping to assemble what I like to think of as “educational care packages” for SRCSA students. I pulled sets of books out of storage and made them available for educators to send home with students along with work-packets that they can complete if necessary.

Scholastic Book Fair needs volunteers

The banners are up, promoting Scholastic Book Fair and Literacy Week, Feb. 21 to 28 at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts! Parents, if you're looking for ways to volunteer, this is a great time to do it. Set-up, tear-down, book fair shifts, raffle support, and more! Look for the SignUpGenius link in the parents' community group on Facebook.

‘Currently reading’ flyers promote reading among school staff

Along with the book-review “Recommendations” display inside SRCSA library, I’ve created flyers that can showcase a staff-member’s reading. The idea is that our students — many of whom are asked to read a certain number of hours and to complete reading logs — will see these flyers and learn this about school staff: that we read, we value reading, and we make reading a part of our lives. I got the idea from a Twitter-chat among school-library personnel, and I used the Canva graphic-design app to create the flyer. My personal flyer includes my name (being the designer had its perks) but I also created a generic version that other staff who want to, can attach their own names to.