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Jennifer LaBoon is the Coordinator of Library Technology in Fort Worth ISD. She serves on the AASL Blog Committee, on the Executive Board of the Texas Library Association, volunteers with a local children's musical theater group, and is an avid TCU fan.
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Building a Balanced Program
It’s a new year–time to reflect on the past year and plan for improvement! Taking this opportunity to see how your program fits in the culture of your campus is a very valuable exercise. Where do you fall in meeting… Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Becoming Part of the Campus Leadership Team
Often, when we talk about building collaborative cultures for school librarians, we talk about the importance of being seen as a teacher peer. But this week, let’s talk about being seen as a collaborative member of a campus leadership team…. Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Working with Parent Groups
Does your campus have an active parent organization? Parent organizations are great ways to leverage the manpower of volunteers, grow advocates for your programs, and build stronger programs through collaborative partnerships. There are a variety of ways to develop that… Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Grab a Partner and Get Kids Coding with an “Hour of Code”
Next week, December 8-14th, is the Hour of Code. http://hourofcode.com/us Billed as the largest educational event in the world, it’s a week dedicated to introducing our students to learning to code, basically how to write simple computer programs or algorithms…. Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Supporting Teachers in Taking Risks
So, we’ve completed a collaboration activity. Now what do we do? Recruit our next customer? Not yet! One of the most important things we can do as educators is stop and reflect. School librarians, we may be master teachers, but… Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Friends of School Libraries Groups
Did you know it’s National Friends of Libraries Week? While we often think of these groups as the ones who run the book sales for our public library counterparts, schools can take advantage of friends groups as well! ALA’s United… Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Keys to Collaboration, Part Five – Reflect, Rinse, Repeat
So, we’ve completed a collaboration activity. Now what do we do? Recruit our next customer? Not yet! One of the most important things we can do as educators is stop and reflect. School librarians, we may be master teachers, but… Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Keys to Collaboration, Part Four: Promote Yourself
Ever have a student say, “You used to be a teacher? I thought you were a librarian!” It might be the quickest gauge of whether we are telling our story–that we are teacher- librarians, able to shelve books, run circulation,… Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Keys to Collaboration Part Three: Choosing a Collaboration Partner
There are many schools of thought about picking a collaboration partner. There is the appeal of being associated with a successful teacher, someone who already has clout among his or her peers on the campus, and that is respected by… Read More ›
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Let’s Get Together Thursday – Five Keys to Collaboration Part Two: Be Collaboration Worthy!
I will never forget the time when, as a new librarian, I had that veteran 3rd grade teacher with all of the GT kids ask to collaborate with me on a unit over holidays! One of the most respected teachers… Read More ›