BMS Media Center News

APS Introduces Beanstack!

APS RACE TO READ

Atlanta Public Schools will soon raise the bar for reading with the launch of our

District-wide APS Race2Read: The 2 Million Minutes Challenge, encouraging students, teachers, CLL staff, parents and community partners to read daily with a goal to collectively reach 2 million minutes of reading by the end of the school year.

Readers will track their minutes through Beanstack, available via mobile app and websites customized for each school.

Superintendent Meria Carstarphen will sound the starting pistol for Race2Read during her Nov. 6 #MeriaMeetup on APS XChange - our new digital platform powered by Facebook Workplace. If you haven't already done so, please be sure to claim your account.

What is the goal for BMS?

50,000 minutes

How can I use it?

Visit: https://apsbrown.beanstack.org/reader365or use the Beanstack app

Every child is already in the system - it is easy!

• Username: student number
  
• Password: six digit birthday (mmddyy)

**As of 1/ 8/19 we have a collectively recorded 24,520 reading minutes.

Accelerated Reader Stats for October

Congratulations to the following classes for earning at least 15 points during Accelerated Reader for the month of December:

6th grade

Mr. Carr

Ms. Ross

Dr. Bailey

Highest Reader for December

6th grader, Yesenia Lantigua with 88.9 points!!!!!

* 2nd semester, there are new guidelines for AR. An email was sent out concerning this. If you didn't receive it, please let me know.

Way to GO!

That’s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all…

Well, no, actually, a lady tripping over Rashad at the store, making him drop a bag of chips, was what started it all. Because it didn’t matter what Rashad said next—that it was an accident, that he wasn’t stealing—the cop just kept pounding him. Over and over, pummeling him into the pavement. So then Rashad, an ROTC kid with mad art skills, was absent again…and again…stuck in a hospital room. Why? Because it looked like he was stealing. And he was a black kid in baggy clothes. So he must have been stealing.

And that’s how it started.

And that’s what Quinn, a white kid, saw. He saw his best friend’s older brother beating the daylights out of a classmate. At first Quinn doesn’t tell a soul…He’s not even sure he understands it. And does it matter? The whole thing was caught on camera, anyway. But when the school—and nation—start to divide on what happens, blame spreads like wildfire fed by ugly words like “racism” and “police brutality.” Quinn realizes he’s got to understand it, because, bystander or not, he’s a part of history. He just has to figure out what side of history that will be.

Rashad and Quinn—one black, one white, both American—face the unspeakable truth that racism and prejudice didn’t die after the civil rights movement. There’s a future at stake, a future where no one else will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything to change the world.

Need to know if a book is an AR Title?

AR Solutions for you!

Searching for books with a corresponding Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360® quiz is easy with Accelerated Reader Bookfinder®. Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can search in English or Spanish using criteria such as ATOS book level or a Lexile™ measure, interest level, title, author, fiction/nonfiction, subject, award-winners, state lists, CCSS Exemplars, and more.

Need to know if a book is an AR title? No problem just go to AR Book Finder

Type in your title to do a quick search and wella! You have all the information about your AR book!

http://www.arbookfind.com/ or click on the title above

Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl- January 26, 2019 Therell HS

Volunteers are needed for the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl competition. Volunteers will receive $300 worth of books for their classroom. If interested, please see Ms. Bivins in the Media Center.

AFPLS Class Pass

Class Pass @ APS

Did you know you can access all resources (including books) from the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System?

APS now has a unique partnership with AFPLS that eliminates all barriers so our students and staff have access toall that is available through the public library.

· Teachers/staff/students are able to access AFPLS through My Backpack.

· Students will need their APS network log in credentials.

· Staff will need their lawson number and the temporary password is CHANGEME.

Take some time to explore all resources available to enhance your lessons and for your own reading/learning pleasure.

How many items may I check out at one time with my CLASS PASS @ APS?

Print Materials: 50 books, 10 CDs, 5 DVDs at a time

eResources: Hoopla digital - 10 downloads/month, Overdrive - 10 items every 30 days, Axis 360 - 3 titles at a time

FREE Office 365 Package

Did you know that APS employees receive 5 free downloads of Microsoft Office? Here's how:

Log into MyBackPack

Click on Office 365

Look in the top right corner and click on the drop down menu where it says "Install Office"

It's that easy! :)