The School Librarian Roles I am Most Passionate About I began as a student in the online school library media program at the University of West Georgia in 2015. I was working part-time as a school library paraprofessional at the… Read More ›
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2020 Vision – Goals for My School Library
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 ›
Community — Our Libraries Feel Like Home
How Libraries Make Us Feel On a memorable day a few years ago, a precious fifth grader named Joseph visited the library. I heard him breathe deeply and say, “I just love the smell of the library on a Monday… Read More ›
Unpacking Standards: A Way to Collaborate with Educators While Supporting Learning
Recently, I was asked to consider information literacy teaching and learning from the perspective of educational standards. I offered that standards are the one resource that all educators use to ensure objectives are set for student grade-level mastery. School librarians… Read More ›
Stuck on Standards? The School Librarian’s Role
In last month’s post “Stuck on Standards?” I highlighted two examples of how to implement the AASL Standard Framework for Learners. In both examples, I utilized the same lesson and standard frameworks, scaffolding each for different grade levels. Scaffolding is… Read More ›
Keep Kids Creative Week: 6 Lesson Ideas that Support the Standards
Did you know that the last week in September is National Keep Kids Creative Week? Bruce Van Patter, an illustrator and an author, started this holiday in 2003. He wanted to encourage children to imagine and create. Let’s celebrate creativity… Read More ›
For the Record | AASL Treasurer’s Report – ALA Annual 2018
At the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, the AASL Board met and spent considerable time reviewing the finances of our organization. The board reviewed the projected FY 2019 budget, the state of our financial summary for this fiscal year,… Read More ›
Curate, Curating, Curation
In case you didn’t make it to AASL 2017 An acronym to help you remember the new standards shared foundations is IICCEE. Inquire, Include, Collaborate, Curate, Explore, Engage Or you could hum the Vanilla Ice song “Ice Ice Baby” if… Read More ›
AASL Friday General Session – New Standards
Greetings! The Friday opening session of the 2017 AASL National Conference, in Phoenix, Arizona, was a formal unveiling and introduction of the new AASL National School Library Standards! I was so honored to be able to sit in on one… Read More ›
Using 2D Printers for STEAM Education
Not Just for Pretty Things This month, there is a rather long list of professional development for October 2017 at the end of this post. Before I get to the professional development, I want to spend some time writing about 2D… Read More ›