Summer often means vacations, road trips, concerts, and fun by the pool. It also means Professional Development (PD) season. This is always a time to which I look forward. It means that I get to spend time with “my people.”… Read More ›
collaborative culture
Team up – Build a bridge to summer reading with your local public children’s librarian
While school librarians are busy winding down and wrapping up before they head out on vacation, public children’s and teen librarians are ramping up their summer reading programs. We all know research has demonstrated the importance of reading over the… Read More ›
Social Media Collaboration
With so many social media sites open and available, the collaboration possibilities are endless. Before the dawn of the technology age, collaboration was done in person as time became available, often after school hours or on weekends. Now, with the… Read More ›
Heifer International: A Global Collaboration
Collaboration: col·lab·o·ra·tion kəˌlabəˈrāSH(ə)n/ noun 1. the action of working with someone to produce or create something. Most teachers can collaborate with their eyes shut. We do it all day every day. There is rarely a day that goes by in which… Read More ›
February’s Featured Learning Commons – Allison Rothman at Hoover Middle School in San Francisco
This month I wanted to highlight a public school Learning Commons in a district near and dear to my heart, San Francisco Unified. I was able to visit Allison Rothman in person in the midst of a renovation of her… Read More ›
What Do They Want? An Open Discussion with Colleagues
In an informal, open discussion I have begun with educational friends and colleagues, I posed these questions: What do you want from your School Library Media Specialist? What skills do your students need? I was surprised that their responses all bordered around… Read More ›
Maker Stations in Early Childhood
When I listened to others talk about their makerspaces they were always so enthusiastic about what they were doing. All I kept thinking was where is the curriculum connection and how am I going to convince my stakeholders that this… Read More ›
Where is my Screwdriver?
I keep a running list of things I never thought I’d say as a Library Media Specialist: quit eating the grass in your pocket; why are you smelling the book; no you can’t read better hanging your head upside down… Read More ›
Are You An Opportunity Maker?: Professional Development for January 2016
Here are the professional development opportunities for January 2016. I have provided partial descriptions of the webinars from each website. Please view each link for complete details. I hope you enjoy them. In the meantime, if you are hosting a… Read More ›
Moving from Old School to New: How Making Connections has Changed the Library
You are a connected educator; you would not be reading this if you weren’t. I do not need to tell you all the benefits of being connected to your students, colleagues, and the outside world. You know! Yet, I wonder… Read More ›