Beatrice+Gerrish


 * || [[image:coloradoschoollibrarycohort/me.jpg]] ||

**Beatrice Gerrish, M.Ed., M.L.S**
 * 2012-13 Colorado Librarian of the Year **
 * Sponsor of the World's Largest **** Student Book Club **


 * EMAIL: beatrice.gerrish@bvsd.org **
 * SCHOOL: Monarch High School, Louisville, CO **
 * SCHOOL DISTRICT: Boulder Valley **
 * LIBRARY WEB SITE: **[]
 * 21st Century Cohort 1.0 site: **[]

@http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_16486911 @http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-schools/ci_19785187 @http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-schools/ci_21604257/monarch-high-librarian-beatrice-gerrish-named-state-librarian-year [|librarian of the year] @http://www.dailycamera.com/News/ci_25831339/Monarch-High-students-top-one-million
 * ARTICLES: **

**PRESENTATIONS:**
__ [|Reject the Fears] __ presentation (with Phil Goerner) CAL conference October 2014

__ Dewey or Don't We __ (going with book store model with Becky Russell, Holli Buchter & Logan MacDonald) presentation CAL conference October 2014

[|Monarch HS Reading Challeng]e (with Deann Bucher and Mystayn Barnes) CTLC April 2014

"Changing the Reading Culture in Your Building." Colorado Association of School Libraries workshop on September 28, 2013. Denver, CO.

"Supercharge Your Library!" (presentation with Phil Georner) Colorado Teen Literature Conference on April 6, 2013. Denver, CO.

St.Vrain Teacher Librarian Panel on February 19, 2013. Silver Creek, HS, Longmont, CO.

 " Amazing Book Clubs" (presentation with Phil Georner). Colorado Association of Libraries Conference on October 18, 2012. Keystone, CO.

"Digital Resources for School Libraries" (presentation with Laura Summers). Technology in Education Conference, June 20, 2012. Copper Mountain, CO.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt;"> "Change the Reading Climate in Your School- Issue a Challenge!" (presentation with M. Barnes & D. Bucher). High Schools That Work Regional Conference on

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt;"> July 14, 2012. New Orleans, LA.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt;"> " <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Teen Book Clubs". Youth Library Staff Training Day for Colorado <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt;">Department of Education/ Division of Corrections on October 26, 2012. Castle

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Rock, CO.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt;"> " **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Book Clubs for the 21 <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif;">st <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;"> Century". Colorado Teen <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Literature Conference on March 31, 2012. Denver, CO.


 * OTHER: **

= **[|Monarch Reading Challenge (overview)]** =

= Video created by some of my students: __World's Largest Student Book Club__ =

The two projects that I spend the most time on are: the __Monarch Method__ (a new classification system that has taken us three years to create and fully implement) and the __Monarch HS Reading Challenge__ which is celebrating its fourth year. At the end of last school year, the roughly 450 kids who had participated in the program over the three years had read more than 1,200,000 pages of outside reading- in addition to required reading, homework, sports, activities and jobs. During this journey, we've seen amazing transformations such as a student who went from an IEP in 9th grade to taking the AP Literature exam and getting a 5. We find that all students across the board (regardless of race, gender, etc) have higher scores in the reading section of the ACT test- especially the kids who have two of the RC teachers during the same year. But, what I'm most proud about are the 20-30 kids each year who had classified themselves as "haters" of reading, yet by the end of the year they (re)discovered reading and for the first time since elementary school are experiencing success in their English and/or social studies classes.
 * NARRATIVE FOR CONTINUED HESL STATUS **


 * GROWTH PLAN: **


 * GROWTH PLAN EVIDENCE: **

April 2014 Colorado Teen Literature Conference, Denver, Colorado June 2014 ALA annual conference in Las Vegas, NV October 2014 SLJ virtual conference: "Digital Shift: Libraries @ the Center" October 2014 CAL annual conference in Loveland, CO October 2014 Gale's webinar: Preparing High School Students for College Level Research January 2015 ALA mid-winter conference in Chicago
 * __ON-GOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:__**

MHS GOVERNANCE AND DEPARTMENT CHAIR MEETINGS
Book Study: __Mindsets in the Classroom__ by Mary Cay Ricci

MEETINGS WITH BVSD HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARIANS:
PLC dates : 9/17, 10/15, 11/19, 12/17, 1/21, 2/18, 3/18, 4/15 10/1/14 School Library Journal Virtual Conference "Digitial Shift: Libraries @ the Center" (Monarch High School Library)

Book Study: __The Indespensable Librarian: Surviving and Thriving in School Libraries in the Information Age__ by Doug Johnson

__** 2013-14 **__
 * MEETINGS WITH HESL COHORT: **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif;">
 * Wednesday, November 13, 2013 **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif;">MEETINGS WITH FACILITATORS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif;"> = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">My mission is to create a welcoming and supportive = = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">environment which responds to the = = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">needs of all our learners regardless of gender, = = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">race or reading level. = = = = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Beatrice Gerrish =
 * [[image:maya.jpg]] ||

||

[|HESL Table of Contents]