Athletes as Readers and Leaders is the brainchild of a librarian, a varsity football coach, and an elementary school principal. The program was created in response to the Stanford Study, Team sports for overweight children: the Stanford Sports to Prevent… Read More ›
School archives are important and useful for many schools Information professionals everywhere are focusing on 21st-century skills. We are developing new uses for our library facilities like makerspaces and learning commons. It is not surprising that the idea of giving… Read More ›
I imagine you have started the school year now. I am just going to pick up where I left off last month. Here is part two of my thoughts for the beginning of the school year. I realize that it… Read More ›
Click here if you want to skip to the professional development opportunities. Preparation is the Key When I was in librarianship school, one of the most important pieces of advice that I received was to be prepared. I learned… Read More ›
Recently I was writing a paper to share at the Causality: School Libraries and Student Success (CLASS) Research Summit II. Here is the white paper from the first CLASS Summit. Needless to say, I am excited about participating. Writing the paper… Read More ›
By Schenell Agee This is the final post of the series. Part 4 – Confirmation Before they arrive To track your progress consider preparing a checklist of jobs for individuals or groups to complete with timestamps. Use a checklist to… Read More ›
Part 3 – Partnerships & Making Contact Author/Illustrator suggestions on school visits: “It’s most helpful when students have read the book and have thought about what questions they would like to ask in advance.” “Get the students excited prior to… Read More ›
What is it about teaching adults that strikes fear in the hearts of people who teach kids all day? As we strive to be seen as leaders among our peers at our campuses, we are very often called to do… Read More ›
Looking at the school library as a third place for students, parents, and faculty For over eight years we have developed a Learning Commons environment for our library. One of the big things that we investigated in the planning stages,… Read More ›
The American Library Association defines intellectual freedom as “the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all… Read More ›