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• Changing Reading Mindsets for the New Year

  By Jennisen Lucas on 01/18/2022 • ( 0 )

  Happy New Year! It is funny how we all think differently about New Year’s traditions. I am always interested to hear how different people celebrate: special traditions, parties, foods to eat, and resolutions. Every New Year’s Day, I make two… Read More ›

• Sock Moments

  By Jennisen Lucas on 12/22/2021 • ( 0 )

  Have you ever pulled a freshly dried pair of socks straight from the dryer and put them on your feet? If you haven’t, try to imagine that feeling of warm dryer heat covering your cold feet and then drifting up… Read More ›

• Thank You for Your Leadership

  By Jennisen Lucas on 11/18/2021 • ( 0 )

  Every year my husband makes a Thanksgiving dinner for the students in his life skills class. He leads the students in making a menu, discussing their favorite dishes, and learning about the holiday. In the twenty-two years he has been… Read More ›

• Welcome to AASL21!

  By Jennisen Lucas on 10/19/2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Dear AASL National Conference Attendees, Welcome, friends, and gather ‘round It’s to the Beehive State we’re bound. In the City of the Great Salt Lake, The AASL National Conference takes the cake! It seems fitting that this year the only… Read More ›

• Preparing for Bumpy Roads Ahead

  By Jennisen Lucas on 09/21/2021 • ( 1 )

  This weekend, while camping with my family, my husband decided to take a drive on a little-traveled “road.” I put “road” in quotes because for all real purposes, it was barely a path. With more rocks than smooth parts, it… Read More ›

• Sharing Back-to-School School Library Stories

  By Jennisen Lucas on 08/16/2021 • ( 0 )

  Whoo-hoo! It is time for back to school! Are you excited? My birthday is in the middle of the summer, and I was always excited to get birthday money because I could use it to buy school supplies. There was… Read More ›

• Celebrating the School Library Story

  By Jennisen Lucas on 07/15/2021 • ( 1 )

  I am both humbled and honored to introduce myself as the new president of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). As president, I would like to focus my year on how we weave the stories of our school libraries… Read More ›

• Coddiwomple with the AASL Standards in the May/June 2019 Issue

  By Jennisen Lucas on 05/01/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  So often in education, we focus on the end-game: summative assessments, finals, standardized tests, graduation. We’re always asking ourselves, “Did they learn it?” However, learning is never really finished; it’s a journey that continues regardless of what milestones we pass…. Read More ›

• Collecting Feedback: Learning from and with Our Learners

  By Jennisen Lucas on 04/17/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Hello, my fellow school library colleagues! You know that moment when you give an assignment and then let the learners loose to work on it? Remember that feeling of wondering how they are going to create and learn? That excitement… Read More ›