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= Thanks for Attending Our Presentation = We're happy that you found our presentation interesting enough to visit our website! Below you'll find links to information we referenced in our presentation for the National Council of Teachers of English Conference in November 2010. If you have any questions about any of the information, please don't hesitate to email us. We look forward to hearing from you!

Presentation
For a copy of the presentation we gave at NCTE, please click on this link. We were unable to post all of the photos in the presentation,as the file became too large:.

Grant Resources

 * =====Follett Library Resources updates grant information each month. For free access to this information, click [|here].=====
 * For good educational articles as well as funding opportunities (scroll to the bottom of the page) visit [|eSchoolNews]
 * For a good searchable grant database of not only public funds but also private foundations (this one is not free, but one grant will pay for the subscription), try [|Granstation]

Videos
Here are video trailers we use with our young adults to introduce books for summer reading and for independent reading projects:

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To see more videos created by students from our Youth Advisory Board, please click here.

Research Links
Link to //School Libraries Work// which details the research surrounding the effectiveness of quality library programs and certified school librarians in 19 states and one province: [|School Libraries Work!]

Link to NCTE Guideline //A Call To Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs: [|A Call to Action]//

Link to ACT Reading Distracters:

** Contact Us **
Tim Duggan, Northeastern Illinois University, T-Duggan@neiu.edu Deborah Will, Zion-Benton Township H.S., willd@zbths.org