1. MOB – CIS & SLS
Grants 2011-12
COLLABORATIONS

2. Adaptive Toys – Community Adaptive Toys – New
Foundation of Oneida & York Library
Herkimer Counties Foundation Association Robert
= $4,114 Barron Award = $500
Teaching with Primary
Teen Book Festival
Sources – Library of
Field Trip – Walmart
Congress grant = $20,000
Foundation = $500

3. New Adaptive Toys from the Oneida/Herkimer Community
Foundation & the New York Library Association
CIS & Special Education

6. Sound file – Molly Creedon,
MOB Special Ed Occupation
Therapist – Summer School -
2012

15. Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the
Library of Congress
SLS & CTE

19. Primary source examples

25. The Madison-Oneida BOCES School Library System
received a $20,000 grant to support its “Ignite the
Common Core with Library of Congress Primary
Resource Documents” project. The grant is sponsored
in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with
Primary Sources Eastern Region Program,
coordinated by Waynesburg (Pa.) University.
The project will allow teams of school librarians and
teachers to receive training and hands-on experience
in developing lesson plans that incorporate the inquiry
process, the Common Core Learning Standards and
primary sources. Participants will pilot these lessons in
the classroom to determine their effectiveness, and
successful lessons will be shared regionally through
ongoing professional development at BOCES and
through a Moodle learning management system.
In addition, teams of pre-service teachers from
Syracuse University and Utica College will participate
in the project.
Participants will have access to all Library of Congress
primary sources and will also be connected to local
resources housing primary sources.

27. Teen Book Festival – Walmart Foundation grant
SLS & CTE

29. Student comments:
3. Are you glad that you came on the TBF fieldtrip?
Yesit was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am surely going again next year.4. What was the best part of the day?
best part was when the authors came out and we got to meet them all at once.4. What was the best part
of the day?meeting new friend and meet real author!
7. Name one of the authors whose session you attended, and comment on how they made you think
differently about their books, characters or some subject?
i went to see Laurie Halse Anderson and she made me think of things differently and that for bad
problems there is always a cause underneath it.8. In what ways will your writing improve because of the
comments and advice you received from the authors that spoke at TBF?
i learned new ways to get over writers block and thought of new subjects to write about
9. Did attending TBF give you any ideas about your own future career?
YesSeeing all of these authors, getting to meet them, and getting to hear them speak and talk with them,
gives me a deeper incentive to write. I want to be standing where they are someday, speaking to kids
about reading and writing and helping them to succeed in life.
9. Did attending TBF give you any ideas about your own future career?
YesMrs. Crewe had wanted to be a veterinarian like I thought I did, but just like how she realized that it
wasn't for her, im realizing that I would rather write too.
11. After attending TBF, what authors/books are you now interested in reading or following that you didn't
know about before?
im now interested in reading bullying books and holocaust books.
12. What could be done to improve the day?
Can you really make the day any better than it was? :)13. Any other things you would like to tell us about
the day?
Definitely keep the idea for next year. Everybody enjoys it so much, and it is a wonderful opportunity!
Thanks so much!13. Any other things you would like to tell us about the day?It was one of the best days of
my life