{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Book Love Foundation Podcast","title":"Kennett Reads! - Season 1, Episode 12","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1796,"description":"Welcome to Season 1, Episode 12 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.Subscribe in iTunesDonate to the Book Love FoundationEpisode 12 Show NotesIn this episode, the topic is reading break at Kennett High School. Four days a week, at 9am, for 20 minutes, the school becomes nearly silent.  Students gather in groups of 10-15 students all over the school to read with teachers.  Almost all of these reading breaks hum with engaged reading.  Engaged readers are not hard to spot.  They ignore distractions.  They continue reading through the morning announcements.  They settle into a peace and contentment we so rarely see in high schools today.  The enthusiasm for reading in students and in teachers is easy to see as well–they finish one book and have plans for the next, they bring in books to read and to share with each other.  They continually invite, rather than police, kids into reading, simply because they know how important it is.  Our school is committed to developing a community of readers.  I believe it happened because we hired a principal who used to own a bookstore.  Neal Moylan responded to growing apathy about reading with time for pleasure reading.  And, he tripled the English teachers library budget for them all to start classroom libraries, then also allocated money for any teacher in any content area to personalize their classroom library.  That with a shrinking budget. The teachers you ll meet today are not English teachers.   But they are passionate about reading, and they are advocates for individual kids.And, to recognize Memorial Day, we conclude this episode with a story of a legacy, a woman who left her mark on everyone who knew her.  Thanks so much for joining us today.  - PennyCONVERSATION SEGMENTThank you to Neal Moylan, Peter Innes, Kate Sargent, Cheryl Furtado, Joe Riddensdale, Lindsay Cole, Melissa Cyr, and Jason Cicero.(Kennett reads.  And it rocks, too....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tIs0J9SYP9dhn1JlleKvXwE8KQZ8FeZJbyNYRnvZ8J0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMGQ0/ZTVlMDAxZDdmZjNl/NTQ4ODNlYTYxM2Mx/ZDY1Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}