Proceeds from this shirt support independent booksellers [This is the concluding post in a three-part series. Click here for parts one and two.] At first, there was collective exhaustion and the hope that we would return to normal after April… Read More ›
Librarian Leadership
COVID-19 School Librarianship – Part 2
[This is a three-part series. Read part 1 here.] Sunday March 15 When I left our MASL virtual meet-up, I felt inspired and energized by my professional community. I was still processing the message from our central office that I’d… Read More ›
COVID-19 School Librarianship – Part 1
[Note: This is the first in a series.] MASL Leads As rumors of school closures and transition to remote learning began to circulate in Maine, my Voxer chat started blowing up with voice and text messages from my fellow MASL… Read More ›
Collaboration with Choice Novel Studies
English Class: Choose Your Own Book Really? In English class?! We get to choose? Choice Novel Studies (CNS) are beginning to ripple into our high school English department, with great benefits. Our circulation numbers in the library increased by over… Read More ›
Lead Like a Librarian
School librarians are uniquely positioned to be leaders. We see all of our students. (And — shh, don’t say this too loudly to our classroom teacher friends — but nothing that we teach is on a standardized test, so our… Read More ›