During the summer, teachers and volunteers have been repainting the lockers to look like book spines. The book selections reflect a wide variety of reading levels and interests. Their hope is that this project will inspire students to read more. WLOX quotes teacher Elizabeth Williams:
We want students to come back to school in August and walk on the hallway and be absolutely amazed with what we've done and be curious. We want that to be the driving spark for reading in our classrooms," said Williams. "Seeing it in person is a completely different experience, and that's what we're hoping for the students. We're hoping the students come and they become completely immersed in a collection that we feel is the best of the best of every genre."
The
natural world has long enchanted Faust. In college, she majored in
forensic anthropology and minored in forestry. In her twenties, she
circumnavigated the globe for three years, visiting islands you could
only get to by boat, learning about cultures before they disappeared,
pursuing underwater photography. Today, at 60, she’s a naturalist who
writes scientific papers and field guides about fireflies. But she
wasn’t always obsessed with the insect. In fact, her academic interest
began only in the ’90s, when she read an article by Steven Strogatz, a
Cornell mathematician, in which he marveled at a species of Southeast
Asian firefly that synchronized its flashes. Highlighting how rare this
phenomenon was, Strogatz noted that there were no synchronous fireflies
in the Western Hemisphere.
