On Friday, April 25^th at Manhattanville College, the School Library Systems of Southern Westchester and Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES and Yonkers City present Celebrate Learning and Literacy: Web Curriculum Models for Student Achievement. This half-day workshop will showcase the active learning environments that have been created by classroom teachers, school librarians, reading teachers and computer teachers to motivate students and enhance learning. Twenty-six districts involving forty-four schools participated in these projects. Learn how this model of curriculum development and technology integration can be replicated in your school at this culminating event for our Improving Literacy Through School Libraries federal grant and our New Century Learning: A Collaborative Approach state grant. The latter was supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Dr. Gary Hartzell, Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha will give the keynote address focusing on the role of collaborative relationships and the underlying role of administrative support to achieve this goal. Dr Hartzell, a nationally known speaker, educator, and former principal is author of numerous articles on school administration practices, school libraries and workplace relationships and an advisor to the Laura Bush Foundation on Reading.

Grant participants will discuss the processes involved in this collaboration and demonstrate the results when literacy and technology are combined in a meaningful way to improve student performance. As a result of these grant projects over forty interactive curriculum-based websites, district literacy websites and project websites were developed. Publishing to the web allows these instructional strategies and related information to be shared with other educators.