Tales from a Loud Librarian

Open here for the Follett Challenge website I worked so hard on the application and getting votes. I am really sad that we did not win, but I always knew that it was a possibility. Congrats to the six schools who won the Challenge. They seemed to have some awesome programs at their schools. 

a happy student votes for the very last time the whole school voted together on the very last day to watch our numbers go UP a parent created these posters to promote the Follett Challenge Last night the voting portion of the Follett Challenge ended. Whew! It could not come soon enough. When I left school yesterday, we were in the 6th spot, but only a handful of votes away from 5th. I kept thinking that I could get us more votes. So when I got home, I put on my exercise clothes, leashed up the dog and hit the streets of my neighborhood. I only encountered one person who was ugly to me. I talked to a lot of people that I know, but many that I did not know. Almost everyone was pleased that they could help a school library. I really have no clue how many votes my canvassing did, but I felt better about it. By the time that I went to sleep last night, we had moved back to the 5th spot with a little over 50 votes ahead of 6th. I was exhausted and could not stay up until midnigh...

Only two more days to vote for the Follett Challenge . PFTSTA is holding steady in the 6th spot. Here are pics showing our votes so far as of early Saturday evening.  16,168 Votes as of Friday the 15th for PFTSTA Click the above picture to enlarge Please keep voting to support PFTSTA and help us be one of the winners of the Follett Challenge! Click here to vote and show your support for innovation in education. As you can see below, we received over 600 votes in less than 24 hours. Whoo hoo!!!!!  16,769 votes as of Saturday afternoon Click the above picture to enlarge

PFTSTA still in 6th place with 15,298 votes Click the image above to enlarge We are almost done with the voting portion of the Follett Challenge. Once complete, we wait to hear if we win. The weekend could slow us down with students not voting. Please make sure you vote every day. On Monday, the whole school is going to vote at the same time for the last time. Remember, every vote counts:  http://bit.ly/Ya3Pyv

PFTSTA has 14,354 votes in 6th place Click on the picture above to enlarge I am ecstatic there are less than six days left to vote in the Follett Challenge. Six weeks of voting has been exhausting. I thought that we would lose momentum at the end, but today we gathered steam and moved into the 6th position. It is really true that every vote counts. Please keep supporting Patrick Taylor Academy and vote for us here:  http://bit.ly/Ya3Pyv . We can win this thing!!!!

The end of voting for the Follett Challenge is coming soon. Six weeks of voting has been very challenging. I feel that I have been very pushy with people to remind them to vote. However, it is easy to get single votes, but much harder to get people to remember to vote daily. It is the daily votes that will keep us in the top ten. This morning we moved into the 7th position. I hope that we can keep up our numbers until Monday the 18th when voting is over. Please start voting for us or keep voting, the students at PFTSTA want the new library filled with books when we move next year. Vote here:  http://bit.ly/Ya3Pyv . PFTSTA has 13,338 in 7th place Click on this picture to make it bigger

The Follett Challenge continues, and you can vote daily until March 18th. Today we moved from 8th place to 7th, but as you can see below, early this evening we moved back to 8th. We are less than a hundred votes away from 7th place. PLEASE help us out and vote for Patrick Taylor in the Follett Challenge every day for the next week. Every vote counts! Click here to vote . PFTSTA has 12,024 in 8th place Click on this picture to make it bigger

Vote here:  http://bit.ly/Ya3Pyv We are counting down the last week of voting in the annual Follett Challenge. Follett, a leading educational company, has challenged schools and school libraries to illustrate how they are integrating 21st Century Skills into their programs.  Patrick Taylor has applied to the Follett Challenge , a program run by Follett to recognize and reward schools for their work applying technology, content and creativity in ways that engage students, foster literacy and promote critical thinking.    PFTSTA has 11,574 votes in 8th place Click on this picture to make it bigger To enter this challenge we had to write a very intense application of 5,500 words describing our program. Then a group of students created a 5 minute video showing how the library encourages collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking at our school. This is the last week of a 6 week run asking the community to vote for their favorite video....

The PFTSTA Library needs your help to win the Follett Challenge and $60,000 in resources for our library. You can help by casting your vote everyday until March 15th. Don't worry, I will remind you again if you forget. We are moving to a new building, and we need the resources to complete our new space. Click here to open the link to vote .