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Denver, CO

About Me:

MY GOAL with Teacher Librarian Ning:

My hope here is to make connections with librarians that care about getting boys to read. My blog, GettingBoystoRead.com, is dedicated to helping parents, teachers, and librarians learn how to get boys to read. I have spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars launching and running it, all without a plan to make any money. I'm a good guy with good intentions :-)

MY CAREER:

I taught sixth grade for the first 4 years of my career, followed by another 6 years as an elementary librarian. I switched to the high school level and am currently in my 4th year as the teacher-librarian at McLain Community HS. It's an alternative high school which means that 95% of our 700+ students are labeled at risk, all of which have dropped out of their previous school. When I first arrived in 2004 we did an extreme library makeover and made the library a great place to visit. We encourage food and drinks, have a library cafe, 4 huge Luv Sacs, offer free monthly pancakes, and do a ton of other fun things. We also have a "No Shushing" policy.

MY HOBBIES:

My favorite hobby is spending time my family. I have 13 and 9 year old kids and just celebrated 15 years of marriage. I also like technology, 4-wheeling, Sat. Morning Basketball, Hiking, and
RV-ing

ODD TIDBITS:

I have been cutting my own hair for 18 years, My high school buddies call me E.T. because I have hammer toes, I Lived in Nome, Alaska for 8 months, I hated to Read as a kid and now I'm a librarian.

MY WEBSITE:

http://GettingBoysToRead.com. We are a community based blog for parents, librarians, and teachers. We provide information and support through articles, videos, interviews, and our forum.

LET'S NETWORK: (request me as a friend)

Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1524240073
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http://GettingBoysToRead.com

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At 2:46am on October 8, 2009, Tara Ethridge said…: thanks for the link! great site that i'll pass on to teachers here. :)

At 7:24pm on August 13, 2009, Laura Brooks said…: Great idea for a website! Thanks for the add.

At 9:33am on August 7, 2009, Josie Whitehead said…: Hello Mike. Have you tried using rhyming and metered poetry for helping with reading. There is a big connection between this type of poetry and phonemic awareness. See my website. Your boys will love my poems. Well done!! You are doing an excellent job. I hope I can help.

At 2:48pm on July 28, 2009, Katharine C. Adams said…: Hi, Mike!
You'll probably love to connect with a friend of mine (Deb Hanson) who shares your passion for getting boys to read. This is a great video she made about her club at school.
http://vpaamedia.edublogs.org/2009/06/18/new-video-about-guys-read/
Enjoy!

At 3:48pm on July 22, 2009, Terry Lai said…: Hi Mike! Wow! great website. I will have to read the book "Reading...fix Chevys". Do you think it applies for MS as well as HS? There is so much out there for librarians and educators as far as social/professional networking. How do you keep up with email, twitter, facebook, etc? I am trying again this year to get the ENTIRE staff onto using email!!! Also a school portal program called School Loop. I worked with my Library TAs last year to work through a kids Web 2.0 tutorial. (http://mslearning2.blogspot.com/) A library colleague who developed School Library learning for school librarians (http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/) and Classroom Learning for teachers (http://classroomlearning2.blogspot.com/) rebranded and reworked the idea for students. I would be interested in your comments. I am going to have my TAs this semester work on it, and I am also presenting the program at my library conference in November. You live in a very beautiful state. My nephew and his family live in Monument; previously in Colorado Springs when I visited him. Now that I have spent two hours on email and the NING I guess I should work on the re-organizing my Library office project!

At 12:12pm on July 11, 2009, Stephanie Brooks said…: Hey Mike. What a fantastic website. I have joined and will send the website information to the other school librarians in my town. Great job! Keep up the good work! Sorry it took so long to get back - I don't keep up here as often as I should.

At 9:14pm on June 28, 2009, susan mowery said…: Hey, Mike. I now follow you on twitter and facebook. I'm also a HS teacher-librarian very interested in getting boys to read.

At 11:19pm on June 18, 2009, Tricia Hayenga said…: Hi Mike-
You left a comment on my wall, oh... about three weeks ago. Sadly, I haven't been keeping up with my email or this Ning as well as I should have been. However, I am very interested in getting boys to read and in making the library a great place to visit. In fact, I'm in the middle of overhauling our library and adding a cafe. I will add you as a friend and look forward to sharing ideas.
Thanks,
Tricia Hayenga Mueller

At 11:25am on June 17, 2009, Scott P. Eder said…: Mike,

Still the B-ball stud!? I have moved on to Hong Kong but still stay in touch with my library network. I'm still doing the librarian job but now have added some humanities teaching and school wide resourcing management to my plate. Oh yeah....I'm a yogi now...

At 8:51pm on June 16, 2009, Linda Denty said…: Hi Mike,
Thanks for the link to the boys reading blog. It's great. I am still getting used to all the new Web 2.0 tools available and forget sometimes which ones I've joined. Need to be younger I think to link all the synapses!