2013-2014 Annual Library Report

Could you be Clear Brook's first Mr. Celebro?

Are you a senior guy?  Have you always wanted to strut your stuff across the Clear Brook stage?  Do you support the Celebrities and think they are fabulous?  Well if you answered yes to all 3 of those questions then you might want to apply to participate in the first annual Mr. Celebro competition!  To apply is easy, to represent is difficult. 

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Digital Textbooks Add Up to Huge Savings for CCISD

League City, TX – By the fall of 2015, every student in the Clear Creek Independent School District in grades 3 – 12 will have their own tablet computer. This 1:1 initiative called “Latitude 2 Learn” opens a new world of learning opportunities for students.

It also enables CCISD to move towards digital textbooks, at a savings for the 2014-2015 school year of $4 Million. The District adopted textbooks and online subscriptions for elementary math and science for grades 6-12. Online subscriptions were also purchased for elementary science. If a textbook was purchased for every student the total cost would have been $6.6 Million. By purchasing digital textbooks and classroom sets of textbooks, the cost was $2.6 Million.

“The instructional resource adoption committee felt it was important to select resources that worked well with our tablets,” explained Debbie Phillips, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction. “Fortunately, publishers are recognizing this need and we are very pleased with the quality of the materials we selected. We promised parents that we would lighten the load of our students’ backpacks and going digital when possible will help accomplish that.”

Next fall, CCISD will deploy 11,000 more tablets bringing the total number of devices at work with students and staff to 23,000. The District is also planning more textbook adoptions next year for high school math, K-12 social studies as well as resources for languages other than English. With the ability to buy fewer textbooks and invest in online subscriptions to access the same materials, the savings could add up to millions more. Students can easily access digital textbooks through the CCISD4ME portal created by the CCISD Technology Department.

The initial purchase of the tablet computers was funded through the passage of the May 2013 Bond which totaled $367 Million and included $17 for tablet computers. Teachers are taking advantage of professional learning opportunities during the summer and throughout the school year to learn how to best integrate technology into the classroom.

The Fault in our Stars - An interview with John Green

Summertime Song Lyric Contest

Congratulations Coach Broussard

Coach Broussard you will be greatly missed, but we are very proud of you & wish you the best of luck in your new position!

Starry Night is FINALLY complete!!!!

This puzzle took what seemed like an eternity compared to the others we've put together this year, but the end result is truly a masterpiece.  :)  Way to go Wolverines, another one bites the dust!!!

For all the "mathaphobic" students out there (including myself)

Teen Tech Day in the library

The American Library Association hosts a Teen Tech Week each year, but this year Teen Tech Week occurred during our spring break, so what's a librarian to do?????  Host a Teen Tech Friday before you leave for spring break of course!!!!  Check out our completely cool video highlighting some of the cool things that we had in the library on Teen Tech Friday 2014.