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Rich literature with windows, mirrors and doors for our students would support text to self & text to world connections.

Building family and community relationships & capacity is important.

There is another team working with parents (Family Leadership Institute) and we would like to provide them with home reading materials (aspirational texts that support a variety of levels/ages - ES, MS, HS) between now and May. It would be great if they could choose the books that they want for their families.

A family survey could be shared with the families to engage in conversation with their children to support book selection.

There is compelling evidence that home libraries help to accomplish all of the above.

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Home Libraries align with many graduate portrait and adult elements, but they also align with the system element: Open District: Family, Community and City Collaboration as you strive to work in partnership with your families to support student goals and learning.

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It's important to shift the reading journey and foster joy through reading for your students.

It's important for us to help students to build 'forward thinking vision' and get them to talk about their future plans. Anything that gets them reflecting is essential. "What do you want for yourself, how do you see yourself?"

There was a strong connection made between the 'Blueprint/Biography' book theme and an experience while attending a National Equity Foundation workshop. This theme would help students lean into envisioning and empowering ideas; help them to deal with the realities that pull them back while thinking about what could be. These books could support conversations about a world without violence, food insecurity, poverty, etc.

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The 'Blueprint' biography text set recommendation aligns with the LBUSD Vision 2035 Roadmap/Graduate Portrait element: Future-Ready Adult

Students are prepared for their futures with essential life skills, are connected to a network of allies and have a direction and plan for life after the completion of high school.

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To help envision a plan for using the biography text sets for your grade level book reads, a recommended list of Scholastic resources is included for consideration below.

Multicultural Biographies (curated book pack of 15 titles)

Customized biography book list (a sample of titles to consider)

Free 'Blueprint' resources to use for launching the text set, MLK's speech (text & video), essential questions to support reading discussions, and an extension activity. We're here as thought partners to help with planning!

Questions to Consider: Would you like a book per week? Chapter books to read over time? Additional books for independent reading?

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The idea of mentoring is connected to the village elders and oral traditions of communicating love, community, and relationship building.

You would like students to participate in grand conversations with mentors.

Due to time, we should set up a meeting to discuss the REAL mentors program.

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The R.E.A.L. Mentors program aligns with the LBUSD Vision 2035 Roadmap/Graduate Portrait element: Adaptable Lifelong Scholar

Students see learning as a lifelong endeavor that enables them to pursue their passions and interests. They know how to apply foundational academic knowledge integrated across various disciplines to develop new understandings.

It also aligns with the LBUSD Vision 2035 Roadmap/Adult Portrait element: Champion for Students

Adults support and encourage students in their goals, empowering them to take prudent risks and grow.

Adults are motivators, coaches and mentors. They understand the unique issues for students and their generation, and are able to empathize with students’ perspectives and experiences. They help and empower students to navigate complex systems (e.g., career paths, college admissions).

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Support a culture of literacy with easy-to-use resources for PreK-8th grade

(We look forward to providing a walk-thru of the program components and discussing the successful impact that this REAL Mentoring program has made in our partnering districts!)

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Multicultural Biographies ('Blueprint' text sets for middle school - High interest/Low level options)

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Multicultural Biographies ('Blueprint' text sets for middle school - High interest/Low level options)

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Click this link to for the multicultural biographies book pack description (and to view a title list)

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Click here for more information

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We can also create a customized list of biographies. A sample list of titles to consider are below (click the titles to view the book descriptions):

Hidden Figures

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Justice Ketanji: The Story of US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

On the Tip of a Wave: How Ai Weiwei's Art Is Changing the Tide

Game Changers

Her Own Two Feet

Holding Her Own

Akim Aliu: Dreamer (Original Graphic Memoir)

Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game (Graphic Novel Memoir)

Shirley Chisholm Dared

Ruth Objects

Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code

Starstruck

Heroes of the Environment

Because of You, John Lewis

Stand Up!

When the Beat Was Born

Super SHEroes of History: Global Activists

Super SHEroes of History: Civil Rights

Super SHEroes of History: Indigenous Peoples

Super SHEroes of History: Ancient Civilizations

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*Free* Resources and Reflection questions to use with the Scholastic  'Blueprint' Text Set 

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*Free* Resources and Reflection questions to use with the Scholastic  'Blueprint' Text Set 

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Reflection Questions

Why does a blueprint have value?

How have you seen planning, determination, and perseverance lead to success? Give a specific example.

What doors are open to you that may not have been open to your ancestors?

Why might it be difficult to face these doors?

What doors will your life open for future generations?

Extension Activity: Create a blueprint for your life.

This blueprint may be in the form of a written response, vlog, blog, diagram, image, song, or some other physical product. Consider more than just career and/or education as you consider the steps needed to achieve "what your life's work will be!"

Link to Dr. King's 'Blueprint' speech on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZmtOGXreTOU?si=7B8CMWHEOGGxWHIZ&t=198

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Six months before he was assassinated, King spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967.
I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?

Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.

Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you fell that you're nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Secondly, in your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life - what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well.

And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you-doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers - and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, "If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

This hasn't always been true - but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil; I would say to you, don't drop out of school. I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you that in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you're forced to live in - stay in school.

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.

Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
- From the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr: An extraordinary life

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Six months before he was assassinated, King spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967. I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?

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I know you loved the first video shared during our mtg. Here's another one that was created by our partners in Fayette County Public Schools. Enjoy!

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"REALRead" Scholastics: Volunteers Change Lives