more research . . . .

This weeks research and reading really helped me to emphasize the importance of having a media center program that opens the doors not only to the students but to the parents as well. I really appreciated the chapter in school reform that focused on family literacy. This also ties into my ALAR strategy "Communication with the family members and the community memebers". I thought the definition of what family literacy was very beneficial to both communicate with family members and friends of the library. It states - to make sustainable changes in a family by integrating activities and training parents to teach literacy at home. Some of the ideas that were suggestesd were open houses, poetry night, field trips to the poublic library and,literacy nights. These were all great ways for the Media Center to be a pertinant place in the schools community. Also these events allowed for everyone to become involved. All of these topics were easily incorporated into the plan of my strategy.