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Hicksville Public Schools

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Mission

Our mission is to help every student become a confident reader, writer, critical thinker, speaker, and learner in a supportive and engaging environment. Guided by the New York State Education Department Next Generation Learning Standards and the New York State Education Department Science of Reading Literacy Initiative, we are committed to using highly effective teaching practices that help all students build strong literacy skills and develop a lifelong love of learning.

Goals

  1. Strengthen literacy instruction across all grade levels by using engaging, research-based practices that support the growth and success of every student as readers, writers, and communicators.
  2. Foster supportive and inclusive learning environments that encourage students to become confident, critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and active participants in their school communities.
  3. Promote a culture of reading, inquiry, and digital literacy by providing students and staff with access to high-quality library resources, collaborative learning opportunities, and meaningful experiences that inspire curiosity and independent learning.
  4. Create welcoming and engaging library learning environments that inspire curiosity, foster a love of reading, strengthen research and critical thinking skills, and support student learning across all subject areas.
     

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  • Hicksville Public Schools demonstrates its strong commitment to literacy by maintaining a vibrant library in every school. Each library is staffed by a certified school library media specialist who helps students develop a lifelong love of reading while teaching essential research and information literacy skills. Students learn how to locate, evaluate, and use information responsibly while becoming confident and thoughtful library users.
    Our libraries feature an ever-growing collection of high-quality books, print resources, and digital materials that reflect a wide range of interests and reading levels. Librarians thoughtfully curate robust collections to ensure every student can discover engaging titles that inspire curiosity, imagination, and a love of learning. 

    Throughout the school year, librarians bring literature to life through engaging book talks that introduce students to exciting new authors, genres, and series. Library lessons extend beyond selecting books and include meaningful instruction in literary concepts such as characterization, plot, theme, setting, and point of view. These experiences help students deepen their understanding of texts while strengthening the critical thinking and comprehension skills they use across all subject areas.

    Each year, librarians collaborate with teachers to develop and update summer reading lists that encourage students to continue reading during the summer months. Summer reading incentive programs at the elementary and middle school levels help keep students engaged with books while fostering a lifelong appreciation for reading. Throughout the year, students also have opportunities to participate in book clubs, author studies, reading celebrations, and other special library programs that promote literacy and build a vibrant community of readers. Please be sure to reference the summer reading lists on our Hicksville Public Schools District website.

  • At the elementary level, the standards focus on building strong foundational literacy skills, including phonics, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, speaking, listening, and writing. Students develop confidence as readers and writers through engaging instruction that encourages curiosity, communication, and a love of learning. 

    New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards 

  • In middle school, students strengthen their ability to think critically, analyze texts, communicate ideas clearly, and support their thinking with evidence. Instruction emphasizes deeper reading, purposeful writing, collaboration, and the development of independent learning habits across all subject areas.

    New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards 

  • At the high school level, students refine advanced literacy and communication skills that prepare them for college, careers, and lifelong learning. The standards encourage students to evaluate complex texts, conduct research, engage in thoughtful discussion, and produce clear, evidence-based writing across a variety of disciplines. 

    New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards 

  • Wide Array of e-Books Now Available to Hicksville Students

    A new partnership between the Hicksville Public Schools and the Hicksville Public Library has been launched. This collaboration will be a welcome resource for our students to easily access books electronically through the use of electronic library cards that will give them the ability to borrow books and use resources from the Hicksville Public Library, as well as all of the public libraries in Nassau County. In addition, students will also be able to borrow books from the over 300 e-books that are part of the Hicksville Public School District’s collection of e-books.

    In all elementary schools, the school librarian will distribute an electronic library card, an e-card, with a unique ID number for each student. School librarians in all elementary schools will be providing lessons to all classes, in all grades, on how students can use his/her e-card to borrow books through the Hicksville Public Library. These lessons already began in all grade 5 classes during the week of January 11-15, and will be followed by lessons in all K-4 classes during the week of January 19-22. Once completed, students will be able to borrow books from the Hicksville Public Library, as well as our Hicksville Public School District collection of over 300 Juvenile e-books. For students who attend school remotely, his/her e-card information has been mailed to homes.

    Our librarians are excited to offer this opportunity to students. The feedback from our librarians and students has been overwhelmingly positive. As of this date, students in the elementary schools have borrowed 257 books from our District's collection of e-books as well as from the Hicksville Public Library. In addition, middle school students have borrowed 160 books. The enthusiasm of students has been noteworthy with librarians reporting as follows:

    "The students at Lee Avenue are really excited that they will be able to check out e-books and utilize the Hicksville Public Library from their devices." - Lee Avenue

    "Many of the students were excited to know that they could use this outside of school hours." - Woodland

    "I introduced ‘Sora’ to our fifth graders, and they were immediately engaged and excited to discover new titles to read independently. They were instantly able to navigate the app to successfully search for and borrow books - some students even placed titles "on hold" and are eager to begin their next new "read." The following day, I was elated to discover that many of the students were reading independently on their Chromebooks during their indoor recess time."  - Jen Coady, Librarian at Dutch Lane.

    From three students at Dutch:

    "Sora is very good, I really like that we get to take out books because we can't do it in our regular school library since it's a classroom this year. I like the books and I get to take out a couple at a time and I can search any book I want. I can even go on it after school hours. Sora lets us read any time we want - it is also very easy to learn how to use it."

    "It is a good website, it has almost all the books you can imagine. I recommend it. It also has all sorts of non-fiction books about history and it has a bunch of fiction books like one of my favorites- the ''Dog Man'' series."

    "I like Sora because it has a lot more books than other websites. Also unlike in-person websites you don't have to worry about returning books late. The website automatically returns it for you in 14 days."

    The Sora app logo, featuring a blue cartoon character, is shown above the text 'Sora The student reading app'.

    In addition to our elementary school students having access to e-books, the same opportunities are available in the middle school where this week over 150 books were borrowed from our middle school collection of e-books.

    Fostering a love of reading is a worthy mission and this new initiative combining the resources of the Hicksville Public Schools with the Hicksville Public Library will surely result in fostering a new generation of readers and writers. We look forward to the growth of this initiative.