Making Standards Anything but Standard

Check out this article demonstrating how Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District is leveraging digital resources and teacher librarian expertise to ensure students and staff have equitable access to information:

Learn how the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District followed California’s K-12 History‒Social Science Framework to go from pilot program to success with Gale eBooks alignments

| By Jenn Roush, Asst. Director of Curriculum and Instruction, District Librarian, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District |

In 2016, the State Board of Education in California adopted a new History–Social Science Framework (CA HSS Framework) for California Public Schools K-12. The framework doesn’t replace the existing CA HSS standards adopted in 1998, but instead is a “road map as to how districts, schools, and teachers can better meet the diverse needs of students.” It emphasizes four key instructional shifts: the development of student content knowledge, discipline inquiry, student literacy, and citizenship.1

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Making Standards Anything but Standard

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Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Hosts Digital Bookmobile National Tour Event for their Students

Click HERE to read the article published in The Vacaville Reporter. The Digital Bookmobile visited Fairview Elementary on February 5, 2020. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Hosts Digital Bookmobile National Tour Event for their Students Event shows students how to easily borrow ebooks and audiobooks from the school’s digital library Traveling coast to coast, the Digital Bookmobile National Tour made a stop in Fairfield, California at Fairview Elementary on February 5, 2020. Fairview Elementary students learned about and accessed their school’s unique collection of ebooks and audiobooks through their classroom reading app, Sora . All students in Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District are able to use the Sora app to access ebooks and audiobooks. Fairview Elementary was selected for a visit because their brand new library space is under construction, thanks to funds from Measure J. Fairview staff and eReading experts on the Digital Bookmobile helped students thro

FSUSD Students Are Amazing Readers

Congratulations Fairfield-Suisun community! We heard that you have AMAZING READERS ! Students in our community are working hard to learn foundational reading skills that will serve as the building blocks for a lifelong love of reading and give them the ability to read to learn ! FSUSD Libraries is on a mission to promote literacy and help each student see themselves as a reader! We distributed 30 signs to our 1st and 2nd grade teachers and asked them to use the Amazing Reader sign as a way to promote literacy, celebrate accomplishments, and let students SEE THEMSELVES AS A READER . We are excited to see the signs starting to pop up in neighborhoods as a way to promote literacy and celebrate a love of reading. Be sure to tweet the information and tag us in it! #FSUSDReads @FSUSDLibraries Here is some more information from a report prepared by the Solano County Library around 3rd grade literacy: A study prepared in 2011 by Donald J. Hernandez, a sociology professor at

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