Learning about School Librarianship This fall, I was privileged to be able to work with amazing students at the University of Maryland’s iSchool as an adjunct professor in their college of information science. I taught one of my favorite courses,… Read More ›
Happy New Year Hello from the library at the Highland School of Technology in Gastonia, NC. January provides us with a wonderful opportunity to take stock of library services and evaluate their effectiveness. As with personal goals for a new… Read More ›
Wake up! If you have not heard about Wakelet, it’s time to learn. There has been a lot of buzz generated recently about Wakelet. If you are like me, you find all kinds of amazing resources, articles, and ideas floating… Read More ›
It’s true. I’m obsessed. My students are obsessed. My teachers are obsessed. We can’t get enough of BreakoutEDU in the library! We only have one BreakoutEDU box, and we’ve only had it for about a month, but we’re officially hooked…. Read More ›
Lunch in the library? Kids eating at the computers? Students hanging out while I’m teaching? Of course! Thinking back on all the big and small changes I made as the new teacher librarian at my middle school three years ago,… Read More ›
Access is definitely a universal priority among teacher librarians. Technology has definitely made meeting patrons’ needs quicker in some ways, but there are many other things that school librarians do to make patrons’ library experiences better. Creating more access for my… Read More ›
The middle school curriculum at my school includes one period that we refer to as “Specials.” During this period, the 5th, 6th, and 8th grade students have two days of visual arts, two days of information skills (our fancy term… Read More ›
Active Learning Spaces In the book Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success, the authors identify six types of active learning spaces that are essential for creating an engaging learning environment for students. While this research (and this book)… Read More ›
“Make it new – look at your space with 21st century eyes: Does it work for what we know about learning today, or just for what we knew about learning in the past?” – The Third Teacher, p 57… Read More ›
As either a seasoned regular to the educational field or a budding new rookie, we have all come to familiarize ourselves with the latest fads and buzzwords in education. Recently, common core, applied rigor, and a few others come to… Read More ›