I hope you are enjoying your summer. Before you know it, it will be time to start a new school year. I’m back again with updates to add to my summertime planning guide. Here are a few things that you… Read More ›
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Empathy: Can you walk in another person’s shoes?
Have you ever had a hard time with a situation and had someone ask you what is wrong? Then after you tell them what is wrong, they tell you the “silver lining” for your cloud. A “silver lining” is a… Read More ›
Getting Started with Design Thinking
Introduction Last month, you may remember that a term that was discussed in my blog post about Ready To Code was design thinking. Design thinking is a problem-solving process. It includes five-steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test (Hasso Plattner… Read More ›
The Mifflin’s Feather Friends Program: A Libraries Ready to Code Project
This month’s blog post features guest blogger Kristin Brumbach. Kristin helped to curate resources, developed content, and piloted strategies for coding as part of the Ready to Code (RTC) project. Kristin is the librarian at the Governor Mifflin High school… Read More ›
Personalized Book Talks with YouTube
In an educational climate where English teachers are feeling overwhelmed by the mounting expectations from state and district administration, reading for enjoyment can be one of the first things to get the curriculum ax. Research time and again has shown… Read More ›
SMART Goal Setting Opportunity
What if I said that I look forward to the yearly professional SMART goal setting or review? Each year the administrator assigned to my educator evaluation sends me a “welcome” email to begin the evaluation process. Depending on if… Read More ›
Make It Meaningful to Me: Authentic Learning for Students
Over the course of many years, I have learned that there are no two schools that are the same. Even within a city, you will find that there are significant differences between the resources that schools have and their cultures…. Read More ›
Reddit: A “Lost” Technology Resource
Despite all of the social media platforms out there, it seems like I never hear school librarians talking about Reddit. This site, which bills itself as “the front page of the internet,” has tons of information, features an easy-to-use interface,… Read More ›
Who are you?
Last summer, I decided that I wanted to know more about my personality in relation to my leadership skills. Part of my search for knowledge included taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory. I did it because I needed… Read More ›
Summer Time Prep
Yes! Summer is here and it is time for a break. You have the entire summer to relax, right? Wrong! The beginning of the school year is right around the corner and you know what that means. You will be… Read More ›