When collaborating with teachers, we typically have the end goal in mind. Will this be a Google Slides project, a video using iMovie, a research paper? Students typically ask, “How long does this need to be? How many slides do… Read More ›
Research
Equity, Access, and Individualization: 16 Ideas
Please see the professional development opportunities for January 2017 below Figure 1. While I was thinking about what to write this week, I came across the Scholastic (2016) Teacher and Principal School Report: Equity in Education, which synthesized survey responses… Read More ›
CLASS II: Looking for Evidence
CLASS II is an IMLS-sponsored project engaged in the first phase of a research agenda proposed in the white paper, Causality: School Libraries and Student Success. The project’s ultimate goal is to explore possible causal relationships between the work of effective… Read More ›
Information Literacy Lessons Crucial in a Post-Truth World
Why Librarians Are More Crucial Than Ever In the aftermath of the US presidential election, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to live in a post-truth world. I was shocked to read several accounts explaining that a majority of… Read More ›
Curation and Pathfinders
The Back-to-School Goal and the Conversation That Ensued At my school, we are having a long overdue conversation about types of library materials and the organization of library materials (print versus electronic… Dewey or Don’t we, etc.). This conversation began… Read More ›
Working Together as AASL
What an honor and privilege it is to have been elected to serve as your president for 2016-2017. Thank you for your confidence in me as we work together to further the mission of AASL, “to empower leaders to transform… Read More ›
It Came Full Circle: Connecting with an Author Changed Everything
Have you ever had a lesson that just worked! A lesson that truly left its mark. I would like to say this happens all the time, but if I am honest with myself I think those really “special” lessons are… Read More ›
Pull Up Some Rug…It’s Plagiarism Storytime
Forget the groundhog. At my school we have our own harbinger of spring. It happens during a Community Meeting – our morning, all-school gathering where announcements for the day are made. She puts up her hand and waits to be… Read More ›
What Do They Want? An Open Discussion with Colleagues
In an informal, open discussion I have begun with educational friends and colleagues, I posed these questions: What do you want from your School Library Media Specialist? What skills do your students need? I was surprised that their responses all bordered around… Read More ›
There’s no such thing as a library without a librarian soooo….#SaveOurLibrary
I was about to be another lost librarian in the Chicago Public Schools system when I got my dismissal letter a month ago. But my students surprised me with a “read in” protest at DuSable (three small high schools in… Read More ›