I love School Library Month! School Library Month is a wonderful opportunity to focus on all the great things going on in my school library and all the school libraries across the nation and CELEBRATE! Including stakeholders in this celebration… Read More ›
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Books Matter
On February 1, I attended the webinar hosted by AASL Partner organization, ADL Education, titled “Books Matter: Using Children’s Literature to Invite Conversations about Identity, Bias and Social Justice.” Attending this webinar, emphasized to me that during this time, when… Read More ›
New Years’ Resolution: Advocacy for Effective School Libraries!
Let’s shout it together! All students deserve equitable access to a school library staffed by a certified school librarian. This is AASL’s vision: “Every school librarian is a leader; every learner has a school librarian” and is something that drives… Read More ›
AASL Leadership Travel and FAME
AASL highly respects and values its relationship with the AASL Chapter organizations. In order to stay connected with the chapters, AASL is committed to its policy of leadership travel to the AASL Chapter organizations’ conferences. AASL Chapters are visited in… Read More ›
Gratitude and Positive Narratives
In 2020, I wrote a KQ Blog post entitled “Grateful for My Professional Organizations” https://knowledgequest.aasl.org/grateful-for-my-professional-organizations/. In that post, I described how reviewing all of the things that I am grateful for has become a yearly tradition. This year, with the… Read More ›
Right To Read Act: Join AASL in Thanking Sponsors
Please join AASL and ALA in thanking Senator Jack Reed and Representative Raúl Grijalva for introducing the Right to Read Act (S. 5064 and H.R. 9056) on 10/6/2022! The ALA/AASL goal is to reach 5000 ‘thank you’ signatures and we… Read More ›
Hallway Conversations as Book Challenge Repellent, Part 1
Laying the Groundwork Ahead of Book Challenges There is a lot of information about book challenges out there. I’m just one of several folks who have written about this in Knowledge Quest previously. Out in the wider world, there are… Read More ›
Use your Voice! We Need Accurate Narratives of the School Library
We need to celebrate school libraries all year long. School Library Month should not be the only time school libraries and school librarians are celebrated. School libraries and school librarians take center stage in April, but we should celebrate and… Read More ›
End of the Year Reports 2022 Edition
Before I begin to think about summer vacation, I finalize our end-of-the-year school library report. This report highlights the school library usage, online resources, and other library services. It is a chance to celebrate our impact on student learning and… Read More ›
If My Administrators Only Knew
School librarian Kristina Holzweiss recently posted on social media wondering what school librarians wished their administrators knew about their jobs. Admittedly, I have an administration that offers overwhelming support to our school library programming, and it is due to the… Read More ›