Embedded Librarian? The first thought that comes to my mind when I hear the word embedded is about a tick I found behind my dog’s left ear. When I asked a friend their first impression, they said a wartime journalist. … Read More ›
collaborative partnerships
It Is All about Relationships
Relationships Matter This year I had a fantastic time at the 2019 AASL National Conference. Conference sessions centered on the National School Library Standards. The general sessions noticeably covered the Include Shared Foundation, and typically, I gravitate toward concurrent sessions… Read More ›
Build Your Own Professional Learning Journey
“We’re all learners, and we should be growing ourselves every day. We ask our students to show up every day ready to learn… Yet as adults, how committed are we to that same learning adventure?” – From Sparks in… Read More ›
Help the Teachers Teach
How to help the willing co-teachers There are many ways to help classroom teachers, but the ultimate has to be a co-teaching situation. In my experience, teaching research and library skills in a vacuum is not effective. Students may learn… Read More ›
We won the grant–yay!…now what?
So many of us have been hearing the same litany of woes in the school library world that we are mostly numb and deaf to it at this point: there is no money, people think libraries are dinosaurs, everything is… Read More ›