How to stay YOUNG

How to stay YOUNG?

Sometimes I think I am to old for this, but it all just too much fun! Kids seem to keep me young. They bring out the silliness and child's play in my being. I love seeing the library full of active elementary kids being kids and being noisy. Sometimes I think the PEL Library sounds like Grand Central Station at rush hour. I just sit back and enjoy all the activity and soak in the youth.
Like this super hero librarian say, "Do the DEED, READ!

Dear Parents

NEWS FROM THE PEL LIBRARY:

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to another exciting year in the PEL Library! We have loads of new books and items for your family’s’ reading pleasure.

New books for parents are listed below.

A message to all JIS parents: Please remember that the JIS Library Catalog is available to you all on the Parentnet. On the catalog you can access books from all the JIS Libraries (PEL, PIE, Middle School and High School). Make JIS Libraries your family’s resource for books and information. If you are interested in getting a book from one of the other JIS Libraries, please let me know (email: rpolonsky@jisedu.or.id ) and we can have it delivered to PEL. If you need any help finding this information, please stop in the library.

You are all patron of the JIS Library system and may use your parent id as your library card. Father’s too!! Please stop by the PEL Library and model reading and library usage for your children.

Thanks,

Rhona Polonsky,

PEL Teacher Librarian

New Books for Parents:

HOMEWORK WITHOUT TEARS: This is a parent’s guide for motivating children to do homework and to succeed in school.

REVIVING OPHELIA: Saving the selves of adolescent girls: What is happening to the selves of adolescent girls? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorder, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with therapist, Mary Pipher. Crashing and burning in a “developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty, a culture rife with addictions. This book is told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence.

SOLVE YOU CHILD’S SLEEP PROBLEMS: Incorporating new research, Dr. Ferber provides important basic information that all parents should know regarding the nature of sleep and the development of normal sleep and body rhythms throughout childhood. He discusses the cause of most sleep problems from birth to adolescence and recommends an array of proven solutions for each so that parents can choose the strategy that works best for them.

WHAT’S INSIDE YOUR TUMMY, MOMMY? This the only book you’ll need to explain exactly what goes on inside a pregnant mommy’s tummy. Month by month, spread by spread, the stages of pregnancy develop. Mothers-to-be can hold up the pages and use the life-size illustrations to show how the baby grows.

Many more books and topics are available to parents.

We also carry these magazines for your reading pleasures: Find them on a book shelf behind our couches.

Parenting Early Years

Additude: For People with Attention Deficit

Readers Digest

Mother Earth News: The Original Guide to Living Wisely

Jakarta Now

ENJOY!

TEACHER AND LEARNER

Dear JIS Community,
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Leadership is about what Peter Senge calls, "learning organizations". What that must boil down to in education is that anyone who is creating more learning for students is a leader. The idea that this week JIS is implementing, Professional Learning Communities (PLC) is a move towards a learning organization where the focus in on learning and not on teaching. Within these PLC's, teachers emerge as leaders. The big picture has to include inquiry, collaboration, and reflective practice. We are over 100 teachers in the PLC workshop out of a total teaching faculty of 250. That is what I call distributed leadership. It is all very exciting. Here is a quote from the workshop today: Collective Commitments of Administrator: "IF we are to be a school with widely dispersed leadership, THEN we must create structures to promote multiple leadership opportunities and define our job, in part, as developing the leadership potential of OTHERS at our school. If you want to know more about PLC's have a look at this website:
http://www.allthingsplc.info/