AP teachers, do you have summer reading you want your incoming students to do but cannot require it? How about incentivizing it through a library reading challenge? If interested read this news item for more information and send your reading list to Ms. Stambaugh by May 23.
CVUSD Librarians are currently setting up the Beanstack reading challenge system to begin to boost reading and student learning outcomes across the district. We could set up your high school summer reading lists for AP courses as reading challenges. Students log their reading during the summer and earn badges.
If interested in experimenting with summer AP reading and Beanstack student reading logs, send your reading list to Ms. Stambaugh. She will set up a reading challenge for your incoming students to use over the summer.
Castro Valley High School teachers, students and staff now have access to JSTOR Secondary Schools Collection through the library. Check it out on the Library Database A-Z list. The database landing page has access information and more.
The JSTOR Collection contains over 2,600 journal titles from the major academic societies, associations and industry publishers worldwide.
Subject areas: Arts & Sciences, Life Sciences, Business, Jewish Studies, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, and Primary Source collections. Images can be searched by many facets (e.g. “graphic design”)
Journal title list and holdings.
JSTOR is a premier e-Resource for students in Advanced Placement and Honors courses. Please use it in AP and Honors courses to prepare CVHS students for college-level research. CVHS students will gain access to the full research version of JSTOR in their future college and university libraries.
Teachers, please register for a lunchtime PD session in Fall 2025-2026 if you would like a hands on walk through or if you would like to learn from your fellow teachers, workshop style.