April is...

National Poetry Month!

• K-12 Poems for National Poetry Month from ReadWorks. Improve reading comprehension and inspire creativity (remember that?). Each leveled poem comes with a text-based question set! What's not to love?
• Young People's Poet Laureate - Jacqueline Woodson "I used to be afraid of poetry. I thought it was some secret code only certain people were supposed to understand… But I know now that poetry belongs to all of us."
• Teach This Poem Produced for K-12 educators, Teach This Poem features one poem a week from our online poetry collection, accompanied by interdisciplinary resources and activities designed to help teachers quickly and easily bring poetry into the classroom.
• Poems for Children by Famous Poets Many poems for children that are theme based and inspiring.

National Library Week, April 9-15

Thank a librarian and visit your library soon!

That's the Difference

From Diane Albanese, Cape Henlopen Literacy Specialist

At the CHAT meeting this month, teams from each school in the Cape Henlopen School District stood up and shared some ideas and resources they used to implement the CHAT goals for this year. There was no fanfare, no banners and no special awards. Just teachers and administrators doing the work that we do every single day.

The difference was that the teams were willingly sharing stories of success, classroom ideas that helped our students and ways to make learning work a little better in our district. Across the district, teachers and staff work every day to make learning better: that's the difference that I see as giving us the edge toward excellence.