Academics
Library
Grier’s Library is an information center that houses a high quality educational and recreational collection of physical and online resources freely available to students and teachers.
The library is conducive to individual or group reading, researching, and studying. Students may use the library during free periods, non-academic times, in the company of their teachers, and during evening study hall Sundays-Thursdays. In addition to daytime hours, the library is open most evenings and weekends.
Literacy Promotion
- Borrow - Students may borrow books, magazines, audiobooks, eReaders, and DVDs from the Student Film Collection
- Displays & Contests – the library features themed displays and contests throughout the year, sometimes linked to a teacher’s curriculum
- Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Awards (PAYRCA) program – As part of this statewide program, students read nominated books and vote for their favorite. The library offers prizes and other incentives for participation.
- One Book, One School - We invite everybody in the Grier Community to read the same book during the course of the school year and celebrate with discussions and other related events.
- Author Visits
- Scholastic Book Fair
Library & Information Skills Instruction
Librarian, Rebecca Woolfrey, partners with teachers to offer annual library orientation and other research and information literacy instruction to students through their assigned classes. Instruction is based on the standards from the American Association of School Librarians for 21st Century Learners and helps prepare students for college-level research and become savvy information consumers.
Introduces students to the library staff, space, and services. The main focus is the library’s software Destiny, which allows users to create their own logins, search for print and digital materials, access digital content, and manage accounts.
Other instruction topics:
Library Orientation
Introduces students to the library staff, space, and services. The main focus is the library’s software Destiny, which allows users to create their own logins, search for print and digital materials, access digital content, and manage accounts.
Other instruction topics:
- Evaluating Web Sites for Credibility
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Using Online Databases
- Paraphrasing
- Introduction to the Research Assignment
- Citation Using NoodleTools
- Note-taking and Outlines with NoodleTools
- eBooks and eReaders
Meet the Staff
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Recognizing Indigenous Peoples' Day
Many at Grier observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day this Monday, October 12, 2020. This day is a holiday to celebrate and honor histories, cultures, and people indigenous to America. Grier’s History and English curricula create opportunities for students to celebrate and learn about Native Americans.Read More -
Young Readers' Choice Award Program!
Read MoreThe Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Awards Program is an annual statewide program that gives students the opportunity to vote for their favorite authors.
To participate, email Mrs. Woolfrey between September and February. Then, read three titles from the list of fifteen nominees. Copies of the books are available through the library, online through MackinVia, or through your local public library or any book retailer. Grier students vote before Spring Break and the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association declares winners in May.Many titles are available in physical or ebook form through Grier Library. See our collection! -
Black Lives Matter Booklist
Recognizing the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and efforts for social justice, Grier's library has created a booklist that supports the Black Lives Matter movement. Within the list are books that have appeal to younger readers and some that will appeal to more mature readers. Among the selections are works of fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, and poetry. Many of the titles included on the list have been recognized with awards and critical praise.Read More -
We Want Your Photos
Our Grier photographers can't be everywhere you are, so we need your help collecting photos and videos to share and we have made this easier than ever! Now, members of the Grier Community can click a button to a site that allows you to quickly upload your files right into our Grier Community Submissions Dropbox. Chances are you have a photo or a video clip that we'd love to use the school yearbook and online. Share with us today!Read More -
Crochet Pattern Dedicated to Class of 2020
While working from home, Grier’s Mrs. Woolfrey was inspired to create a crochet pattern in honor of the Grier students. Like their mascot, the students of Grier are fast, graceful, and agile athletes, riders, and dancers. They are clever and highly intelligent problem solvers. Foxes, like Grier students and alumnae, are found worldwide, on six continents.Read More -
Novel "Love, Hate, and Other Filters" Is Student Favorite
Read MoreGrier students participated in the statewide reading program by reading books from a list of 15 nominees, and then voting for their favorite. The results of the student vote show that Grier students have wonderful and diverse tastes! Favorites included fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels that reflected a variety of cultural experiences and genres.
Students voted for ten out of the 15 nominees as their favorites, with the book Love, Hate, and Other Filters taking the first place spot by earning the most votes. Love, Hate and Other Filters is the contemporary novel by Samira Ahmed. In the Ahmed’s book, high school senior Maya Aziz is caught between her Indian-born parents’ world of college and finding a suitable Muslim husband and her own dream to pursue film school and date classmate Phil when a terrorist attack upends her life. -
A Message of Hope from Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman
The Academy of American Poets celebrates National Poetry Month each April, and this year, US Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recites a poem of hope from the Los Angeles Public Library in a video from television’s CBS This Morning.Read More -
Celebrate School Library Month Online
April is School Library Month, the American Association of School Librarians' celebration of school librarians and school libraries. Grier’s Library would normally mark the occasion with some extra contests, displays, prizes, and activities. This year, when we are distant from each other, Mrs. Woolfrey would like to remind students of the great Grier Library resources they can access online.Read More -
Reading Program Voting Now Open!
The Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards (PAYRCA) Program is an annual statewide program that gives students the opportunity to vote for their favorite authors. At Grier, students who participate in the program receive Grier Bucks and chances to win prizes throughout the school year. Grier students who have read titles from the nominees list are eligible to cast a vote for their favorite.Read More -
Students Stick Together to complete Sticker Mosaic
Students enjoyed working together to complete a mystery sticker mosaic. As they stopped by the library, the students could adhere a few color-coded stickers to the grid, revealing the image piece-by-piece. Carolyn and Ashley were proud to have placed the very last stickers on this brightly colored unicorn mosaic. Stop by the library to see the result of the result of their collaborative effort for yourself!Read More -
Wolfpack Unites Grier in a Thoughtful Discussion
Earlier this year, the Library launched the 2019-2020 One School, One Story school-wide read. This program challenges everyone in the Grier community to read the same book as a shared experience. This year’s book selection was Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by soccer legend Abby Wambach.Read More -
Research Skills Essential for College and Beyond
Research papers are a regular part of each English and ESL courses at Grier. Knowing this, many teachers opt to partner with Grier’s librarian to give their students specialized lessons in accessing, finding, evaluating, organizing, and citing information.Read More
These skills are essential for college-level work, and, as the decision-makers of tomorrow, today’s students must be able to critically evaluate sources of information for authority and bias. Grier’s Library continues to provide materials in the traditional format of printed books alongside online access to a multitude of searchable eBooks and databases of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals.
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Lifelong Learning & Literacy
The library is conducive to individual or group reading, researching, and studying. -
21st Century Learners
Instruction helps prepare students for college-level research and become savvy information consumers. -
Love to Read
Colorful displays, reading programs, and events foster a love of reading..
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