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Delve into School Librarians’ Takeaways from Virtual and Hybrid Learning in the Jan/Feb Issue
When we were approached as content experts for this issue of Knowledge Quest, we wanted to frame the issue around a growth mindset for what school librarians wanted to take forward from a stressful pandemic experience. What emerges from this… Read More ›
Fighting the Good Fight: I See You, School Librarians!
In case you haven’t noticed, school librarians are going through a lot right now in the United States. It seems like something new every day is under attack: our impact on student learning, our budget for providing print and electronic… Read More ›
Explore How to Reach for Better in the Sept/Oct Issue
As educators, school librarians, and professionals we have all had the training necessary to properly do our jobs. Training for classroom management. Training for library best practices. Training on new and emerging technologies. Those professional development and learning opportunities came… Read More ›
Meeting Our Students’ Reading Needs in the Midst of a Pandemic
There is nothing more satisfying than reaching my goal for how many books I can read in a summer. In fact, I pride myself on how many books I can get through in a summer, setting the goal realistically but… Read More ›
Count Your Blessings
Happy New Year! Many of us sit down in December at year’s and send messages to friends and relatives reporting what happened over the past year. To make them more interesting, many add pictures of the various events in our… Read More ›
Lessons from COVID: Making Time for Nature and Self-Contemplation
The world is a noisy place. Everyone is talking and few are listening. We are becoming increasingly active as the world reopens. As we close out this school year and look to the future, we all have to be cognizant… Read More ›
Read Across America: Promoting Reading in a K-8 School
Read Across America Week began in 1988 by the National Education Association and is the “nation’s largest celebration of reading” (NEA n.d.). It is always celebrated the week of March 2 to correspond with Dr. Seuss’ birthday, which is who… Read More ›
New 2020-2021 Practices to Keep in the School Library
“What are some new things that you have done this year that you will continue in the future?” This a question that the middle school librarians in my district were asked at our May professional learning community (PLC) meeting. This… Read More ›
News, Be My Muse, and What Do You Have to Lose? A Librarian’s Potpourri Post
Friends, colleagues, librarians, lend me your ears! My writing usually takes a rather reflective bent. However, this go ‘round, my intents and purposes are of a different nature, and are threefold. First of all, I have an update and some… Read More ›