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Elmhurst Elementary Library, home of Reading Eagles and Eagles Robotics! 

If you are new to Elmhurst and our Library Community, welcome. If you are a long time Eagle, welcome back!

 

The Elmhurst Library is a learning space shared by all- students, staff, and community. Students engage in learning projects, implemented by a certificated teacher, based on the Washington State Technology Standards and planned around the Future Ready Librarians Framework. Lessons are taught through access to online programming, a variety of research tools, and Microsoft Office programs. Staff and community members utilize the space for meetings and presentations, it is a space used for teacher training and professional development, and it is home to our multiple Scholastic Book Fairs run by our PTA.

 

Our library consists of over 10,000 titles for students to choose from. We are midway through a renewal project- getting rid of battered and seriously out of date books (many from the 1950s and 60s!) and updating our collection with new, up to date titles for our students. See below for our Collection Management & Analysis Plan.

 

Follow Elmhurst Tech News and student activities such as the Eagles Robotics Club here or on social media:

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Three Pillars of Our Library

Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors

Find the Information You Need, Use the Information to Grow

Making Your Voice Heard by Your Community and The World

New Foreign Language Books!

We received a grant allowing us to purchase authentic publications in Spanish, Cambodian, and Ukrainian and Russian. They have been placed on their own shelves in the library and are ready to for students to check out!

Collection Management & Analysis

About Mr. Hinds

I have been the librarian at Elmhurst Elementary (Go EAGLES!) since the 2018/19 school year. Prior to teaching in the library I taught at a Montessori school, and my first job was as a Middle School Drama Teacher- trying to teach the students to use those big emotions for good!

One of my favorite parts of being a librarian is when students surprise themselves and become fascinated with something they thought they would dislike. This happens with reading, coding, robotics... sometimes having the courage to try something they might be bad at is exactly what opens the door to a wider world for kids. Many students insist they hate reading, or are bad at math, so they decide reading for fun or coding and robotics are too hard. But with the right support, student choice of books or activities, and working at their own pace, students often surprise themselves with what they can accomplish and learn to love.

We have a family of students and educators in our home. My wife teaches at a K-8 public Montessori school, my oldest son is in high school, and my youngest son is in second grade at his mom's school. My mother was  an educator, my grandmother, my mother-in-law... there is a lot of teacher talk around our supper table! Pictures on the library projector screen feature images from places we have traveled over the years- spending time as a family is definitely important to us all, and travel always inspires me to remember how how beautiful Washington State is, how important public education is, and how truly interconnected our world has become.