To capitalize on the popularity of the Netflix Series Stranger Things during the Halloween season, I created a Stranger Library Reading Challenge. A fun and festive way to get students involved in reading at the school library. This challenge asks… Read More ›
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New Year: New You Book Challenge 2022
Start the year and new semester with a fun and easy reading challenge! Students of all ages get excited about completing tasks. Gamification across content areas has helped encourage student participation for years. Bring the fun into the school library… Read More ›
New Communication Habits
I almost dropped my phone when our district’s chief communications officer started a phone message with, “Welcome to week four of e-learning.” Week four! How in the world did that happen? What a shock! Where does the time go? And… Read More ›
Building Cultural Competence through Reading Diverse Books
A few years ago a conversation started in my library that was prompted by a student reading Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. The student in question identified as a person of color, but in our extremely homogeneous community she… Read More ›